Online Music Song Contest

The Online Music Song Contest, often shortened to OMSC is a song contest on Discord in which every country in the world is eligible to compete. The competition is based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. The current and official executive supervisor is PelotoMagic.

Each country's head of delegation submits an original song to be performed, then the countries get to vote for each show (semi-final or final) to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition.

Origin
The first ever Online Music Song Contest started on 29ᵗʰ August 2020. Italy was the first ever country to host the Online Music Song Contest, in fact it was held in the largest city of Southern Italy, Naples. Eighteen nations took part in the first edition of the contest each submitting one entry to the contest. Each country awarded twelve points to their favorite, ten points to their second favourite and then eight points to one point for the rest.

The first contest was won by Jiydesh Idirisova who sung in Kyrgyz her song "Narinay (Наринай)".

Then, in the second edition which was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan won again with Aidana Deka and her song "Ergüü (Эргүү)" sung in Kyrgyz as well. That made Kyrgyzstan the first country winning twice and two times in a row.

The third edition was held again in Bishkek and was won by Portugal, the first European country to win the contest, while the sixth edition, held in Hastings was won by Kiribati, making it the first Oceanian country to win.

The twelfth edition, held in Kraków, was won by Ukraine by Artem Pivovarov, who became the first male artist to win the competition.

Participation
Main article: List of countries in the Online Music Song Contest 133 countries participated in the Online Music Song Contest since it started. Winners of the contest have come from ten of these countries (France, Greece, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom). The contest is held in the winning country of the previous edition. Broadcasters from different countries submit songs to the event and cast votes to determine the most popular in the competition.

Format
As more countries joined the contest, the more changes were made to the contest. In the third edition semi-finals were added and two semi-finals and a final were held. Seventeen countries in total advance to the final and join the big three, the top three countries from the previous edition. Since the ninth edition, every edition with more than fourty participants would have in total twenty-six countries in the final.

Since the very first edition the winning country of each edition is automatically chosen to be the host of the next edition. As the host broadcaster, the heads of delegation can decide where to host the competition, present the logo and other things. However if a broadcaster cannot afford to host the competition or withdraws, the runner-up will take its place.

Voting
The voting system used in the contest has been in place since the beginning, and is a positional voting system. Each country awards one set of twelve, ten, eight-one points to their ten favourite songs. Any country who failed to vote in any event is punished by having half of their points halved. A notable example of this rule occured in the third edition when China's points were halved.

In case of a tie between two or more countries, the country that received the most twelve points wins the tie. However, if the countries received the same number of twelve points, the number of ten points is counted and if they are still tied it goes on until the tie breaks. A notable tie in the contest was the tie for the second place between Algeria and Ukraine in the second edition; both countries scored 76 points but due to tie-breaking rules, Ukraine placed a position higher than Algeria. Another notable tie include the one between between the Faroe Islands, Germany and Sweden for the eleventh place, in the third edition; the three countries had 53 points but due to tie-breaking rules, Sweden placed a position higher than Germany which in turn placed a position higher than the Faroe Islands.

Winners
Main article: List of Online Music Song Contest winners

Languages
Main article: List of Online Music Song Contest languages