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 (quarter-final, 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.

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

Participation
Main article: List of countries in the Online Music Song Contest Twenty-seven countries participated in the Online Music Song Contest since it started. Winners of the contest have come from one of these countries (Kyrgyzstan). 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.

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.

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. Some notable ties in the contest were the ties for the tenth place between France and the United States of America in the first edition; both countries had 58 points but due to tie-breaking rules, the United States of America placed a position higher than France. Other notable ties include the one between Chad and South Korea in the first edition, both with 48 points and the one between Luxembourg and Uruguay, both with 46 points.

Winners
Main article: List of Online Music Song Contest winners