World Hit Festival 40

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World Hit Festival 40

Let's Make Music in Mousiki!
Dates
Date	8th August 2018
Host
Location	Mousiki, Izmedu
Venue	The Majcena Foruma
Presenter	Petra Krznar
Executive Supervisor	Ivan Sandic
Executive Producer	Dora Vidakovic
Host Broadcaster	Radio-Televizija Izmedu (RTI)
Opening Act	Final:
Interval Act	Final:
Participants
Number of Entries	30
Returning Countries	Estogium
Withdrawing Countries	Nightom
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards a set of points ranging from 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 to their five favorite songs.
Nul points	None
Winner	TBA "TBA"
Winner's Margin	0
Runner Up	TBA
Last Place	TBA
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The World Hit Festival 40 was the 40th edition of the World Hit Festival.

Location

Mousiki (population: ~143,000) is Izmedu's fourth largest city and rests on Izmedu's most southern tip as the district seat for the District of Ivica. Existing as Izmedu's most 'exposed' city as the city closest to both Izmedu's political, land, and maritime borders, this led to Mousiki developing a strong regional identity that is still Izmeduan and yet distinct from its parent country. Most recently, Mousiki has gained greater international prominence by playing host to the World Hit Festival 31. Additionally, a city associated with Izmedu and Todlichebujoku (Dreiichibu-u-Mousiki, officially also connected to the city of Mousiki) played host to the 55th WorldVision under a joint TOBUK, RTVK, and RTI production. All in all, Mousiki's name has been circulating around the hosting reaches. Despite economic difficulties after WHF31, the city has swung around and is now taking the responsibility of hosting WHF's ruby anniversary.

Mousiki in the 31st festival was largely defined by its contributions to culture and how it is almost similar to the Izmeduan capital, Vodiznad, in some respects. In the ensuing time since then, Mousiki has pivoted its identity to becoming Izmedu's prime source of music, both in the traditional and modern sense of the form. In trying to remain competitive with Gralicna's rise and Posony's monopolization of the culture game, Mousiki offers World Hit Festival goers an experience of music that does not stop in the moment they touch down to the city. As you step foot onto the streets, the amount of mandolins and klapa singers will overwhelm you as it is a common sight to often see public performers from block to block. On top of a multitude of street performers, another common sight in Mousiki (especially in its nighttime scene), is the prolific amount of bars, nightclubs, and live performances of orchestras and classic music. These kinds of occurrences do tend to be in season, but there will confluence around the World Hit Festival season; offering World Hit Festival visitors a chance to experience all spectrums of music in Mousiki.

Remaining from the World Hit Festival 31 are the vast amounts of hotels and lodging available to people visiting Izmedu in time for the 40th festival. While Mousiki was somewhat well-prepared for the 40th contest, the city's resources and lodgings were well overstrapped by the greater amount of resources anticipated. This time around, there are more accommodation options available in Mousiki more than ever, with the city council coordinating with local minor and major cities around to help make sure that visitors are well-rested and enjoying their Mousiki experience prior to the big show.

Additionally, there are a vast array of things for you to see, experience, and do in Mousiki. The music scene has already been described in the second paragraph, and visitors are absolutely free to peruse and experience them as they see fit. Performances will be held locally by the Mousiki Symphony Orchestra in various concert halls near the WHF40 venue. Additionally, there will be daily discounts to music bars and nightclubs up until the week of the contest itself, were entrance to the clubs will become free. However, if you want to save your music experience for the night itself? Mousiki has you covered. The city has various amounts of museums, eateries, and nature walks in the surrounding mountains if you're more of a person that wants to experience mid-city life.

All in all, if you want something to do, Mousiki is more better-equipped than ever to serve your needs as a city. Whether you are a young WHF fan that wants a taste of the nightclub life in a more traditional and smaller setting, or someone who simply wants a relaxing city setting to wander in before the show, Mousiki has precisely what you need.

Copied from the host information package

Format

Recognizing that the past few World Hit Festivals have conducted a more back-to-basics approach to the voting reveal, Izmedu will retain the style used from the 37th to 39th festival. Thus, Izmedu will for the first time use the classic reveal system that's been utilized for the majority of the World Hit Festival's history. For the 40th edition, there will be no phases or fancy ways to reveal the votes. For those new to the World Hit Festival, your 1 to 5 votes will be revealed all at once, with only your spokesperson saying who the 5 points goes to. The running order of the votes shall be determined when the voting is complete.

Revival of the Semi Final Format

In the handbook for the World Hit Festival, a Semi Final stage would be triggered when 30 nations were confirmed to be going to the World Hit Festival. This happened for the first time since the third World Hit Festival. It was being debated amongst the Ivan Sandic (the current World Hit Festival Overseer as of the 40th World Hit Festival) and former World Hit Festival Overseers, especially the one from Saintrabina as to how this would happen in Izmedu. They decided to go ahead with it after an official message by Mr Sandic.

It was also announced the Semi Finals would be decided using a random draw.

Participating Nations

On the 26th July 2018, RTI announced that 30 nations would participate in the World Hit Festival 40 in Mousiki. This made the contest one of the largest World Hit Festival contests ever. The idea of the Semi-Finals was agreed to by all the broadcasters, though it was suggested that some broadcasters did not like the idea of the Semi-Finals being put in place.

Semi Final 1

The first Semi Final took place 7th August 2018 at 20:00 Izmeduan Time (WEST). A total of 15 nations took part in this Semi Final. Since this was the larger Semi-Final, no other nations apart from the ones in the Semi-Finals took part in the voting. Despite Lochario not voting, they were not disqualified.

The highlighted nations are those who qualified.

Order	Country	Artist(s)	Song Name	Place	Points
01	Lochario	Guy In Jeans Ft Bjirn	I Na Furis
02	Kalosia	Luisa Martineti	Ja
03	Natanya	Urddasol	For Now
04	Estogium	Viv Rumie	Forgotten
05	Llalta	Esther Winterbourne	Free
06	Cleaca	LT	Cosneolta
07	Fromulya	Arum Dawoh	Sakit (Hurts)
08	Normandy & Picardy	L'Etrangere	Le Cadran Casse (The Clock Face Shatters)
09	Rusmailica	Nidija Janka & The Cinnamon Stores	Дождливый Cезон (The Rainy Season)
10	Lactatia	Martinique Von Cooch	That's How You Suck A Dick
11	Darkmania	Torbjørn	En Dag Til? (One More Day?)
12	Todaskakys	Synsekai	Vyyku (Purpose)
13	Ascion	AJAX	행복감 (Euphoria)
14	Adab	Shamsi Ara	I'm On Your Side
15	Euskirribakondara	Alia Monkada	Obi (Better)

Semi Final 2

The first Semi Final took place 9th August 2018 at 20:00 Izmeduan Time (WEST). A total of 14 nations took part in this Semi Final. Since 14 nations participated in this Semi-Final, Izmedu was drawn to vote also.

The highlighted nations are those who qualified.

Order	Country	Artist(s)	Song Name	Place	Points
01	Skanden	Maria Lundberg ft Aleks Södergård	Kung (King)
02	Togonistan	Divina Angeli	Decompiled
03	Polkopia	Molly June	Overload
04	South Batoko	Katy K.	Music ft 3KISS
05	Mercedini	Rachel Nollov	Unbreakable II [Champion's Edit]
06	Christarnea	Lem Olaph	Folie à Deux
07	Britonisea	Axis	Stop
08	Todlichebujoku	VUOKKO	Sweetness-Sadness
09	Ethane	Fola Humphreys	Labelled Emotions
10	Artsakhestan	Razmir Bagratuni	Ա՜խ Իմ Սիրելի (Oh, My Sweetheart!)
11	Antahbrantahstan	Evelina Alakula and The Beauty Queens	Thunderkiss
12	Puerto Candelaria	Karina and Jota	De Na (You're Welcome)
13	Saintrabina	Zenobye	Schere, Stein, Papier (Rock 'Paper', 'Scissors')
14	Raffiah	Sasha Dina	לנשק את עצמי (Kiss Myself)