Mysterious Song Contest 29

Mysterious Song Contest 29 Living In Harmony
Dates
Semi-finals dates	06th July 2016
Final dates	16th July 2016
Host
Venue	Mandela National Stadium
Presenter(s)	Anne Kansiime Phill Lewis
Director	Llemian Faregoer
Executive supervisor	Llemian Faregoer Misterili Eurogod99
Host	NBS Television
Opening act	Watoto Children's Choir - Be Exhalted
Interval act	Phill Lewis - The Tipton Hotel
Participants
Number of entries	53 Countries.
Debuting countries	Democratic Republic of Congo
Returning countries	Austria Azerbaijan Bulgaria Croatia Georgia Greece Hungary Iceland Indonesia Kosovo Liechtenstein Morocco Nigeria North Korea Pakistan Puerto Rico Romania Slovenia Turkey Vietnam
Withdrawing countries	Czech Republic India Kenya Libya Malta Monaco Sierra Leone Ukraine Venezuela
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs.
Winning song	Australia
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Mysterious Song Contest welcomes the world to Uganda for the 29th Edition.

The Mysterious Song Contest #29 will be the 29th edition of the annual Mysterious Song Contest Wikia. It will take place in the Mandela National Stadium, located in Kampala, Uganda, following the country's victory at the 28th edition with Sabina Ddumba performing "Not Too Young". This will be the first time the country hosts the contest.

The contest is scheduled to consist of 03 semi finals and finally the grand final, with official dates for the semi finals being 06th July 2016 and the grand final being the 16th July 2016. As of 05th July 2016, 53 countries have announced their participation in the contest so far.

Location

NBS Television Uganda, announced on 25th June 2016 that their first choice as host arena for the Contest was the Mandela National Stadium in Kampala. However other cities and arenas were still able to apply. After Uganda win in Astana, those making a bid had approximately three days to submit their offer to NBS Television.

The Mandela National Stadium in Astana, which has a capacity of approximately 45,202 attendees, was announced as the host venue on 01st July 2016. This will be the Arena's first time hosting the contest.

The stadium is located on Namboole Hill, in Bweyogerere Ward, in Kira Municipality, in Wakiso District. This location lies approximately 12 kilometres (7.5 mi), by road, east of the central business district of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest metropolitan area.

Presenters

On 01st July 2016, NBS announced that Anne Kansiime and Phill Lewis will be the hosts of the 29th contest. They host together as main stage and green room hosts.

Anne Is a Comedian from the country and has toured several times with her comic jokes on standby.

Phill is an actor predominantly in the states with his more well known parts being Mr Mosby from 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody'

Anne Kansiime (Left), Phill Lewis (centre) and TBA (right)

Format

The competition will consist of 03 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 Ireland, Australia and the host nation Uganda. Once the 21 qualifiers have been announced there will be a 24 hour vote for the wildcards which will join the finalists to create a grand final of 27 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.

• Austria Conchita Wurst [Prev. #09, #20 & #25]
• Belgium Natalia [Prev. #26]
• France Marina Kaye [Prev. Monaco #21]
• Georgia Tamta [Prev. Greece #16]
• Hungary Cserpes Laura [Prev. #07]
• Italy Francesca Michielin [Prev. #12 & #24]
• North Korea Dami Im [Prev. South Korea #11]
• Puerto Rico Melanie Martinez [Prev. Dominican Republic #25, #26 & #27]
• Romania Inna [Prev. #26]
• Russia Vitas [Prev. #27]
• Singapore Gentle Bones [Prev. #27]
• Taiwan Rainie Yang [Prev. #20]
• Turkey Hadise [Prev. #09]
• Uganda Sabina Ddumba [Prev. #28]
• United States Joe Jonas [Prev. Marshall Islands #14]

Cserpes Laura last competed in edition #07 where she came 2nd place scoring 168 in the grand final. Cserpes, to date, is the highest scoring Hungarian in the contest.

Dami Im last competed in edition #11 where she won the contest for South Korea scoring 151 points in Yerevan. This was South Korea's first win. Gentle Bones last competed in edition #27 where he won the contest scoring 179 points in the grand final. He was the second person to win for Singapore after Daphne Khoo.

Sabina Ddmuba competed last edition in Astana, edition #28, where she won the contest for the first time for Uganda scoring 176 in the grand final. After her incredible win, the HoD of Uganda wanted her to represent the nation once again.

Semi-final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation was held on 05th July 2016. The participating countries, excluding the automatic finalists Uganda, Australia and Ireland. 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 Uganda would vote in semi final #01, Australia would vote in semi final #02 and Ireland 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 3 countries they want to see as their wild cards from the non-qualifiers. Those countries would then join the finalists into the grand final.

Semi Final 1

17 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with Uganda 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	Kazakhstan	MBand	Day Mne	15	033
02	South Korea	Yezi	Cider	10	049
03	France	Marina Kaye	Freeze You Out	05	092
04	Iceland	Kaleo	Way Down We Go	04	097
05	Serbia	Milica Pavlovic	La Fiesta	07	080
06	Hungary	Cserpes Laura	Úgysincs Más	08	066
07	Albania	Adelina Tahiri & Elgit Doda	Nje Kujtim	17	025
08	Sweden	Dotter	Creatures Of The Sun	09	053
09	South Africa	Burgerd Botha	As Jy Nog Twyfel	06	090
10	United Kingdom	Steps	Chain Reaction	11	041
11	Canada	Cobie Smulders	Sandcastles In The Sand	14	035
12	Georgia	Tamta	Unloved	01	122
13	North Korea	Dami Im	Alive	02	117
14	Russia	Vitas	The 7th Element	12	039
15	Taiwan	Rainie Yang	Love Is On The Way	13	038
16	Nigeria	Kiss Daniel	Mama	16	027
17	Morocco	R3hab & Quintino	Freak	03	098

Semi Final 2

16 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with Australia 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	Italy	Francesca Michielin	Un Cuore In Due	12	047
02	Liechtenstein	WeltenBrand	The End Of The Wizard	16	006
03	Spain	Alvaro Soler	Sofia	01	132
04	Croatia	Franka Batelic	Ruza U Kamenu	15	034
05	Turkey	Hadise	Superman	07	071
06	Finland	Jannika B	Seuraavaan Elämään	04	083
07	Norway [1]	Ina Wroldsen ft Broiler	Lay It On Me	02	098
08	Kosovo	Dua Lipa	Last Dance	05	076
09	Bulgaria	Ilona	Love is Stupid	13	046
10	Armenia	Lucy	Turn Around	08	071
11	Romania	Inna	Heaven	11	048
12	New Zealand	Ginny Blackmore ft Stan Walker	Holding You	06	076
13	Germany	Namika	Na-Mi-Ka	09	068
14	Denmark	Lukas Graham	7 Years	03	097
15	Austria	Conchita Wurst	My Lights	10	049
16	Mexico	Jesse & Joy	Dueles	14	042

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

Semi Final 3

17 Countries are participating in this Semi Final with Ireland 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	Democratic Republic of Congo	Mohombi ft Nicole Scherzinger	Coconut Tree	05	081
02	North Macedonia	Dan Talevski	Knock Me Off My Feet	07	075
03	Singapore	Gentle Bones	Until We Die	09	065
04	Japan	Flumpool	Yoru Wa Nemureru Kai?	06	080
05	United States	DNCE	Cake By The Ocean	01	128
06	Azerbaijan	Safura	March On	04	086
07	Slovenia	Nuša Derenda	Tip Top	10	063
08	Belgium	Lara Fabian & Natalia	Razorblade	16	037
09	Luxembourg [2]	Bettie Serveert	Deny All	17	012
10	Dominican Republic	Alih Jey	Steal Your Boyfriend	11	049
11	Philippines	Nadine Lustre	Me And You	08	066
12	Puerto Rico	Melanie Martinez	Training Wheels	13	042
13	Greece	Despina Vandi	Ti Simasia Exei	14	039
14	The Netherlands	Rochelle Perts	All Night Long	02	102
15	Indonesia	Utpoia	Kenangan Ini	15	038
16	Vietnam	Toc Tien	Tell Me Why	03	090
17	Pakistan	Zain Malik	Like I Would	12	049

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

Grand Final

27 Countries will create the grand final. 07 from Semi Final 1, 07 from Semi Final 2, 07 from semi final 3, 3 wildcards and the automatic qualifiers Uganda, Australia and Ireland.

The draw on Uganda, Australia and Ireland 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	Serbia	Milica Pavlovic	La Fiesta	16	098
02	Iceland	Kaleo	Way Down We Go	10	119
03	Denmark	Lukas Graham	7 Years	04	169
04	North Macedonia	Dan Talevski	Knock Me Off My Feet	15	099
05	Morocco	R3hab & Quintino	Freak	07	135
06	Ireland	Jupe	Rocket	09	121
07	New Zealand	Ginny Blackmore ft Stan Walker	Holding You	05	161
08	Pakistan	Zain Malik	Like I Would	22	080
09	Azerbaijan	Safura	March On	13	104
10	Democratic Republic of Congo	Mohombi ft Nicole Scherzinger	Coconut Tree	21	084
11	Japan	Flumpool	Yoru Wa Nemureru Kai?	27	057
12	The Netherlands	Rochelle	All Night Long	17	098
13	Armenia	Lucy	Turn Around	20	093
14	Turkey	Hadise	Superman	19	093
15	Australia	Delta Goodrem	Wings	01	222
16	Kosovo	Dua Lipa	Last Dance	06	136
17	Uganda	Sabina Ddumba	Effortless	08	125
18	North Korea	Dami Im	Alive	11	117
19	Vietnam	Toc Tien	Tell Me Why	24	070
20	Italy	Francesca Michelin	Un Cuore In Due	26	060
21	Georgia	Tamta	Unloved	12	112
22	Spain	Alvaro Soler	Sofia	02	193
23	Romania	Inna	Heaven	23	077
24	Finland	Jannika B	Seuraavaan Elämään	18	097
25	United States	DNCE	Cake By The Ocean	03	186
26	South Africa	Burgerd Botha	As Jy Nog Twyfel	25	064
27	France	Marina Kaye	Freeze You Out	14	103

12points

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

N.	Country	Nations Scoring 12 points
6	Australia	Democratic Republic of Congo Hungary Italy New Zealand Russia United States
	New Zealand	Armenia Austria Bulgaria Mexico Nigeria Philippines
5	Spain	Australia Croatia Kosovo Puerto Rico Sweden
4	Denmark	Finland France Liechtenstein Spain
3	Georgia	Albania Canada Kazakhstan
	Kosovo	Iceland Morocco Turkey
	Romania	Georgia Ireland United Kingdom
	Uganda	Greece South Korea Taiwan
2	Finland	Slovenia South Africa
	Ireland	Germany Pakistan
	The Netherlands	Indonesia Singapore
	Turkey	Dominican Republic Romania
	United States	North Macedonia The Netherlands
1	Armenia	Belgium
	Azerbaijan	North Korea
	France	Vietnam
	North Macedonia	Japan
	Iceland	Denmark
	Japan	Azerbaijan
	North Korea	Luxembourg
	Pakistan	Norway
	Serbia	Uganda
	South Africa	Serbia

Voting & Spokespeople

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

First part of results
01. Dominican Republic Leonel Fernández Reyna
02. Germany Judith Rakers
03. Turkey Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ
04. Canada Celine Dion
05. Italy Donatella Versace
06. North Macedonia Esma Redzepova
07. United States Katy Perry
08. Taiwan Mirza Atif Ali Baig
09. Armenia Iveta Mukuchyan
10. Philippines Sarah Geronimo
11. North Korea Kim Jong Un
12. Azerbaijan Nigar Jamal
13. France Laura Coquerel
14. Pakistan Imran Khan
15. Spain Barei
16. Sweden Lynda Woodruff
17. Democratic Republic of Congo Serge Ibaka
18. Mexico Vicente Fernandez
19. Ireland Andrea Corr
20. Georgia Nina Sublatti
21. Vietnam Huong Tram
22. Nigeria Davido
23. Slovenia Manca Špik
24. Serbia Milica Todorović
25. Greece Maria Elena Kyariou
26. South Africa Karlien van Jaarsveld
27. Finland Johanna Kurkela

Second part of results
28. Australia Chris Hemsworth
29. Hungary Gábor Alfréd Fehérvári
30. The Netherlands Tim Douwsma
31. Uganda Lilian Mbabazi
32. Albania Elhaida Dani
33. Russia Ivan Urgant
34. Belgium Selah Sue
35. Romania Paula Seling
36. Kazakhstan Keti Topuria
37. Iceland María Sigrún Hilmarsdóttir
38. Indonesia Anggun
39. Morocco Samira Said
40. Puerto Rico Don Omar
41. Croatia Severina Vučković
42. New Zealand Lorde
43. Singapore Benjamin Kheng
44. Japan Tao Okamoto
45. Denmark Anja Nissen
46. Bulgaria Poli Genova
47. Liechtenstein Sabine Dunser
48. Luxembourg Fränk Schleck
49. United Kingdom Rachel Stevens
50. Austria Conchita Wurst
51. Norway Margaret Berger
52. South Korea Lee Ji-eun
53. Kosovo Zana Krasniqi