OMSC 2

Online Music Song Contest 2, often referred to as OMSC 2, was the second edition of Online Music Song Contest, held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

The Final of OMSC 2 occured on the 27ᵗʰ September 2020. Seventeen* countries participated in the second contest, under the slogan “Be Ready To Fight!”. TBD from TBD won the contest with the song TBD receving a total of TBD points. TBD finished in second place, with TBD finishing in third place. They were followed by TBD, which reached the fourth place and TBD which reached the fifth place.

Location
The broadcaster KTRK chose to host the contest in the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek. Bishkek is the most populated city in Kyrgyzstan having a population of 1,012,500. It situated at an altitude of about 800 meters, just off the northern fringe of the Kyrgyz Ala-Too range, an extension of the Tian Shan mountain range, which rises to a height of 4,895 meters. North of the city, a fertile and gently undulating steppe extends far north into neighboring Kazakhstan and the Chui River drains most of the area.

In 1825, the Khanate of Kokand established the fortress of "Pishpek" to control local caravan routes and to collect tribute from Kyrgyz tribes. On the 4ᵗʰ September 1860, with the approval of the Kyrgyz, Russian forces led by Colonel Apollon Zimmermann destroyed the fortress. In 1868, a Russian settlement was established on the site of the fortress under its original name, "Pishpek". It lay within the General Governorship of Russian Turkestan and its Semirechye Oblast.

In 1925, the Kara-Kirghiz Autonomous Oblast was established in Russian Turkestan, promoting Pishpek to its capital. In 1926, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union renamed the city as Frunze, after the Bolshevik military leader Mikhail Frunze, who was born there. In 1936, the city of Frunze became the capital of the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic, during the final stages of the national delimitation in the Soviet Union. In 1991, the Kyrgyz parliament changed the capital's name to "Bishkek".

Nowadays Bishkek is a city of wide boulevards and marble-faced public buildings combined with numerous Soviet-style apartment blocks surrounding interior courtyards. There are also thousands of smaller privately built houses, mostly outside the city centre. Streets follow a grid pattern, with most flanked on both sides by narrow irrigation channels, watering innumerable trees to provide shade in the hot summers.

Participants
Seventeen* countries participated in the second edition of the contest: eight European countries (Åland Islands, Faroe Islands, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine), three Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), four American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Canada, United States of America) and two African countries (Algeria, Morocco). It was the first edition in which not even an Oceanian country participated.

It's the smallest number of participants since the start of the contest, with the Åland Islands, Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Morocco, the Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland and Tajikistan participating for the first time.

Returning Artists
This edition featured one representative who had performed previously as lead vocalists for the same country. Fallulah represented the Faroe Islands in the very first edition of the contest with her song "Give Us A Little Love" sung in English, which placed 5ᵗʰ out of 18 participating countries with 62 points. This time Fallulah will perform her song "Out Of It", again in English, trying to get an even better result!

Other Countries
These countries haven't still confirmed their participation in the second edition of the contest:

• Australia

• Belgium

• Chad

• Crimea

• Denmark

• France

• Japan

• Luxembourg

• Slovenia

• South Korea

• United States' Virgin Islands

• Uruguay