Mysterious Song Contest 28

Mysterious Song Contest 28 Breaking Boundaries
Dates
Semi-finals dates	22nd April 2016
Final dates	19th May 2016
Host
Venue	Central Concert Hall
Presenter(s)	Aliona Vilani Kairat Nurtas Roza Rymbaeva
Director	Llemian Faregoer
Executive supervisor	Llemian Faregoer Misterili Eurogod99
Host	KTK Kazakhstan
Opening act	Ayumi ft Batyr "Hey-La"
Participants
Number of entries	41 Countries
Debuting countries	Kenya Sierra Leone
Returning countries	Australia Austria Canada India Ireland Japan Libya Luxembourg Malta Monaco New Zealand Uganda
Withdrawing countries	Antigua and Barbuda Belarus Croatia Egypt Ghana Greece Haiti Iran Israel Kosovo Liechtenstein Morocco Poland San Marino Slovenia Switzerland
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Winning song	Uganda
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Mysterious Song Contest welcomes the world to Kazakhstan for the 28th Edition.

The Mysterious Song Contest #28 will be the 28th edition of the annual Mysterious Song Contest Wikia. It will take place in the Central Concert Hall, located in Astana, Kazakhstan, following the country's victory at the 27th edition with Ayumi ft Batyr performing "Hey-La". This will be the first time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 3 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being 22nd April 2016 and the grand final being the 18th April 2016. As of 20th April 2016, 41 countries have announced their participation in the contest.

Location

KTK Kazakhstan, announced on 10th April 2016 that their first choice as host arena for the Contest was the New Ice Palace in Astana. However other cities and arenas were still able to apply. After Kazakhstan win in Kallang, those making a bid had approximately three days to submit their offer to KTK.

The Central Concert Hall in Astana, which has a capacity of approximately 3,500 attendees, was announced as the host venue on 16th April 2016. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

Presenters

On 17th April 2016, KTK announced that Aliona Vilani and Kairat Nurtas will be the hosts of the 28th contest. Roza Rymbaeva will host in the Green Room.

Aliona Vilani (Left), Roza Rymbaeva (centre) and Kairat Nurtas (right)

Format

The competition will consist of three semi-finals and a final, a format which has been used more regularly in the contest. The 07 countries with the highest scores in each semi-final will qualify to the grand final where they will join the top 3 countries from the previous edition Germany, Italy and the host nation Kazakhstan. Once the 21 qualifiers have been announced there will be a 24 hour vote for the wildcard which will join the finalists to create a grand final of 25 countries.

Each participating country had their own national jury/HoD. Each member of a respective nation's jury is required to rank every song, except that of their own country, to produce an overall ranking from first to last place. The song which scored the highest overall rank received 12 points, while the tenth-best ranked song received 1 point.

Participants

The following countries have confirmed their participation into the contest.

Table key

     Participating Countries

     Withdrawing Countries

Returning Artists

We welcome back some artists who have previous joined us in MSC.

• Australia Sia {Prev. #11, #19}
• Finland Sanni {Prev. #08}
• North Macedonia Nicki Minaj {Prev. Trinidad and Tobago #12}
• Singapore The Sam Willows {Prev. #27}
• Spain Sweet California {Prev. #05}

Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on TBA. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists Kazakhstan, Italy and Germany. The countries were split into three pots which would either be semi final 1, semi final 2 or semi final 3. Then a random generator was used to allocate countries into the running order. The results were as follows:

It was decided that Italy would vote in semi final #01, Kazakhstan would vote in semi final #02 and Germany to vote in semi final #03. This was to assure to make the results fair and even for all participants in the edition.

Once the qualifiers have been announced the finalists have 48 hours to vote for the country they want to see as their wild card from the non-qualifiers. That country would then join the finalist into the grand final.

Semi Final 1

13 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with Italy voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

     Wildcard Qualifier

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Uganda	Sabina Ddumba	Not Too Young	01	093
02	Monaco	Imany	Don't Be So Shy	10	049
03	Albania	Ardit Cuni	Me Zemer	07	061
04	Czech Republic	Lenny	Bones	03	076
05	Denmark	Anja Nissen	Never Alone	12	041
06	Kenya	Trinity ft. Neema Ntalel, Astar & Zoe	Freedom I Want	09	051
07	Dominican Republic	Kat DeLuna	Wanna See You Dance	06	070
08	Japan	Anna Tsuchiya	Lucifer	13	041
09	Venezuela	Simoney	Te Toca Song	11	042
10	Singapore	The Sam Willows	Take Heart	02	082
11	Ukraine[1]	The Hardkiss	Helpless	05	072
12	France	Hyphen Hyphen	Just Need Your Love	08	058
13	Australia	Sia	Cheap Thrills	04	076

[1] Due to,, lack of voting, Ukraine was disqualified from semi final and therefore could not qualify to the grand final.

Semi Final 2

13 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with Kazakhstan voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

     Wildcard Qualifier

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Spain	Sweet California	Good Lovin'	12	044
02	Belgium	Selah Sue	Alone	07	057
03	New Zealand	Gin Wigmore	Black Sheep	06	063
04	Luxembourg	Delain	Stardust	01	105
05	Canada	Taya Marquis	Obsession	09	053
06	Finland	Sanni	Me Ei Olla Enää Me	02	088
07	Serbia	Tanja Savic	Svaler	10	053
08	Russia	Vladislav Kurasov	I'm Sick Of You	08	054
09	Libya	Asma Salim	Ghariba	13	024
10	Sierra Leone	A*M*E	Play The Game Boy	11	051
11	South Korea	4 Minutes	Hate	05	070
12	Malta	Sophie Debattista	Beer Goggles	04	071
13	The Netherlands	Maan	Ride It	03	079

Semi Final 3

12 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with Germany voting as 1 of the 3 automatic qualifiers of this edition. The top 07 countries that score the highest number of points will qualify to the grand final.

     Qualified

     Wildcard Qualifier

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	United Kingdom	Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli	Time To Say Goodbye	12	025
02	Mexico	Carlos Rivera	Quedarme Amí	08	057
03	United States	New Years Day	Defame Me	11	035
04	Taiwan	Diana Wang	Home	02	087
05	India	Sonna Rele	Strong	06	061
06	North Macedonia	Bebe Rexha ft Nicki Minaj	No Broken Hearts	07	059
07	Philippines	Sarah Geronimo ft. Hale	The Great Unknown	10	045
08	Norway	Laila Samuels	Afterglow	01	097
09	Armenia	Iskuhi Hovhannisyan	Hima Herte Imna	03	080
10	Sweden	Ida LaFontaine	Go Again	04	079
11	South Africa	Eva Morga	Bly Dat Liefde Jy Is	09	050
12	Ireland	The Corrs	Bring On The Night	05	079

Grand Final

25 Countries will create the grand final. 07 from Semi Final 1, 07 from Semi Final 2, 07 from semi final 3, 1 wildcard and the automatic qualifiers Kazakhstan, Italy and Germany.

The draw on Kazakhstan, Italy and Germany position in the running order was done prior to the Semi Finals.

This was the running order for the Grand Final

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Ireland	The Corrs	Bring On The Night	03	134
02	Germany	Beyond the Black	Lost In Forever	11	099
03	Sweden	Ida LaFontaine	Go Again	19	063
04	Finland	Sanni	Me Ei Olla Enää Me	15	081
05	Uganda	Sabina Ddumba	Not Too Young	01	176
06	Italy	Alessio Bernabei	Noi Siamo Infinito	16	076
07	Belgium	Selah Sue	Alone	24	049
08	New Zealand	Gin Wigmore	Black Sheep	13	097
09	Luxembourg	Delain	Stardust	09	117
10	India	Sonna Rele	Strong	20	063
11	Canada	Taya Marquis	Obsession	21	058
12	France	Hyphen Hyphen	Just Need Your Love	04	133
13	Singapore	The Sam Willows	Take Heart	06	125
14	Armenia	Iskuhi Hovhannisyan	Hima Herte Imna	12	098
15	The Netherlands	Maan	Ride It	14	089
16	Czech Republic	Lenny	Bones	17	071
17	Kazakhstan	Kamila Jumabaeva	Qazaq Batyrlary	08	120
18	Dominican Republic	Kat DeLuna	Wanna See You Dance	10	100
19	Taiwan	Diana Wang	Home	07	121
20	South Korea	4 Minutes	Hate	22	054
21	Australia	Sia	Cheap Thrills	02	174
22	Albania	Ardit Cuni	Me Zemer	18	069
23	North Macedonia	Bebe Rexha ft Nicki Minaj	No Broken Hearts	23	051
24	Malta	Sophie Debattista	Beer Goggles	25	033
25	Norway	Laila Samuels	Afterglow	05	127

12points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final:

N.	Country	Nations Scoring 12 points
7	Australia	Albania Belgium Canada North Macedonia The Netherlands Norway Spain
4	Luxembourg	Japan Libya New Zealand South Korea
	Uganda	Australia Luxembourg Mexico Singapore
3	France	Czech Republic Monaco South Africa
	Germany	Finland France United States
	Kazakhstan	Armenia Denmark Russia
	Norway	Malta Philippines Uganda
2	Ireland	Sierra Leone Venezuela
	Italy	Ireland Ukraine
	New Zealand	Kazakhstan United Kingdom
	Singapore	Kenya Serbia
1	Armenia	India
	Czech Republic	Italy
	Finland	Taiwan
	North Macedonia	Sweden
	Malta	Germany
	Sweden	Dominican Republic

Voting & Spokespeople

This is the order of how the votes were released and the spokesperson from each country

First part of results
01. Spain Maria Isabel and Xuso Jones
02. Armenia Lilit Hovhannisyan
03. North Macedonia Thea
04. Singapore Gentle Bones
05. Kazakhstan Keti Topuria
06. Albania Ronela Hajati
07. Ireland Markus Feehily
08. South Korea Taeyeon
09. Libya Ibrahim Abdeladim
10. Sierra Leone Isha Sesay
11. Denmark Simone Egeriis
12. Taiwan Takeshi Kaneshiro
13. South Africa Elizma Theron
14. Sweden Charlotte Perrelli
15. Monaco Enora Malagré
16. Czech Republic Jakub Dekan
17. Finland Tarja Turunen
18. Philippines Charice
19. Dominican Republic Danilo Medina
20. United States Katy Perry
21. Kenya Stella Mwangi

Second part of results
22. Ukraine Jamala
23. Malta Ira Losco
24. India Priyanka Chopra
25. New Zealand Emma Lahana
26. Uganda Lilian Mbabazi
27. Mexico Paulina Rubio
28. Italy Mario Balotelli
29. The Netherlands Renate Gerschtanowitz
30. Belgium Phillipe Geubels
31. United Kingdom Holly Willoughby
32. Canada Ryan Gosling
33. Russia Anna Kournikova
34. Germany Lena Meyer-Landrut
35. Australia Liam Hemsworth
36. Japan Yuji Naka
37. France Nolwenn Leroy
38. Norway Adelen
39. Luxembourg Désirée Nosbusch
40. Venezuela Omar Acedo
41. Serbia Novak Djokovic

Voting Grid

This is how the votes were scored in each Semi Final.

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     Qualified

This is how the finalists scored in the wildcard battle.

     Qualified

Here is how the world voted in the grand final.

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