Outernatia Song Contest 13

Outernatia Song Contest 13; A New Beginning
Host
Host city	Pomar, RC Laranjeiras
Host broadcaster	EEL
Participants
Number of entries	34
Debuting	Cytrus; Ekotruka; Grolskira (guest); Raingate; Satoriland; Sofós; Zephyrus
Returning	Hanzyuki
Withdrawing	Polland; Zeme Kūku
Vote
Voting system	10 favourites are awarded 12, 10, then 8 through 1 points by all participants.
Outernatia Song Contest
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The Outernatia Song Contest 13 is the thirteenth and current edition of the Outernatia Song Contest. The contest will take place in Pomar, RC Laranjeiras, following Oonagh's win in the 11th edition with the song "Eldamar".

A record breaking thirty-four countries will participate, with seven countries making their first appearance. Alteus and Hanzyuki returns to the competition and, along with Zephyrus will be the first Internatian nations to become in full participants of the contest. Polland and Zeme Kūku, however, decided withdraw of this edition.

This is the first edition that the show will consist in three contests (two semi-finals and the traditional grand final) and the first time that these shows will be held in three differents cities and venues respectively.

Format

The new rules for the contest were released in July 2015, which detailed that thrity-five countries will participate, making it the largest number of participants to take part in the contest up to this point.^[1] On 13 August 2015, the draws for the running order for the semi-finals took place in Porto dos Ventos.^[2] All participating countries, excluding the host, were split into two pots, based on voting patterns from the previous editions. From these pots, 17 were allocated to compete in the first semi-final and 18 were allocated to compete in the second semi-final.

The pots were as follows:

Pot 1	Pot 2
Alteus Kimmystan Gebze DimkaRUS Monteverde Land of Jhe Freeh Dulcet Ebullience Victoria Zeme Kūku Aurävaan Pönö Xara Khanate Gandhara Hanzyuki Republica Libera Grolskira	Easterosia Ekotruka Cytrus Noxus Satoriland Thorway Auspikitan V Lettuce Darkria Zelmerlöwia Waticania Zephyrus Ponásikwa Fierce Raingate Sofós

Withdrawal of Zeme Kūku

During the allocation ceremony, several broadcasters complains about the introduction of semi-finals even this changes was approved by the Executive Comitee and the full members of the Outernatian Broadcasting Union by majority two months ago, after incidents in the voting procedure during the Outernatia Song Contest 9 in Rhea, Gandhara. As a consequence, Kūka Televīzija withdrew Zeme Kūku from the contest on 13 August.^[3] The OBU never made a comment about the country's withdrawal.

Results

First Semifinal

Draw	Country	Artist	Song
01	Hanzyuki	Inna Modja	"Kinks In My Hair"
02	Victoria	Zella Day	"Compass"
03	Pönö	Eiffel 65	"Blue (Da Ba Dee)"
04	Aurävaan	Avicii	"Waiting For Love"
05	Timivar	Mihaela Marinova	"Stapka Napred"
06	Grolskira	Kent	"FF"
07	Gandhara	Zaed Naes	"Shattiet"
08	Monteverde	Beach House	"Lazuli"
09	Gebze	Aynur Aydın	"Günah Sevap"
10	Dulcet Ebullience	JoJo	"Leave (Get Out)"
11	DimkaRUS	Olya Polyakova	"#Shlyopki"
12	Jhe Freeh	Sarah Geels	"Wat Ik Wil"
13	Republica Libera	Mercedes Benson	"Shopping in Lidl"
14	Kimmystan	Khadja Nin	"Mama"
15	Alteus	Phoebe Ryan	"Mine"
16	Xara Khanate	Kerli	"Zero Gravity"

Second Semifinal

Draw	Country	Artist	Song
01	Sofós	Carminho	"As Pedras da Minha Rua"
02	Thorway	Babou	"Supernova"
03	Zephyrus	Mahan Moin	"Azizami"
04	Zelmerlöwia	Galin	"Edin na broy"
05	Cytrus	Golden Earring	"Twilight Zone"
06	Darkria	Yaël Naïm	"Toxic"
07	Fierce	Sarsa	"Naucz Mnie"
08	Noxus	Lily Allen	"URL Badman"
09	V	MOTHXR	"Victim"
10	Easterosia	The Fratellis	"Henrietta"
11	Waticania	The 1975	"Sex"
12	Lettuce	Manzura	"Borsan"
13	Ponásikwa	Cristina Vasiu	"Nu pot uita"
14	Raingate	Koda Kumi	"EX TAPE"
15	Satoriland	Moderat	"Damage Done"
16	Ekotruka	The Chain Gang of 1974	"Sleepwalking (Warriyo Remix)"
17	Auspikitan	Show Ghosts	"And The World Was Gone"