Pacivision Song Contest 2021 (Pacifica)

Pacivision Song Contest 2021
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Dates
Final	30 January 2021
Host
Venue	Gianniwood Studio 8 Südtor, Gianatla
Presenter(s)	Lisa Steinburg (Actress) Lukas Rahgen
Executive supervisor	Paro Ytti
Host broadcaster	BUS TV
Opening act	"Alles neu" performed by Peter Wolf Flag parade introducing the 9 participants' countries
Interval act	Several Gianlucian DJs and artists performed dance tracks, to which a dance group had prepared a choreography
Participants
Number of entries	9
Debuting countries	Beepee Besern Eareamland Gianatla Izaakia Mauquibie New Itomorii Sedunn Snolland
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards one set of 12, 10, 8-3 points to the other 8 songs through televoting. Juries in each country also rank the other 8 songs in the categories "Best Lyrics", "Best Performance" and "Most Original". Based on the overall score, each country receives an additional 2-8, 10 or 12 points in each category.
Winning song	Sedunn "Never wanted this to end" Illkrom Blenienn & Rila Jok

The Pacivision Song Contest 2021 was the 1st edition of the Pacivision Song Contest. It took place in Südtor, Gianatla as an extension event of the Southern Gate Festival 2021 organised by the Pacivision Executive Board (PEB) together with the host broadcaster BUS TV and sponsored by the Gianlucian government and the music-streaming service Audit. The contest was held in Studio 8 of Gianniwood on 30 January 2021 and presented by actress Lisa Steinburg and journalist Lukas Rahgen.

Nine countries have participated in the debut edition of the contest, with Sedunn winning the contest with the song "Never wanted this to end" by Illkrom Blenienn and Rila Jok. The song has won albeit being tied with the satirist Izaakian entry "Montacia Fall" by Landing Emraldis. Since the Sedunnic entry was able to secure more points from televoting, the victory was given to them.

Location

With the first contest being produced as a pilot for an annual event, Gianlucian public broadcaster BUS TV has chosen one of its Südtor TV studios in Gianniwood for the Pacivision Song Contest debut. The studio was able to accomodate up to 5,000 live viewers and was renamed to Südtor Concert Arena during the event.

Production

The Gianlucian government and music-streaming service Audit have agreed to invest altogether 5 million TSP-$ into the event and forego any participation fees, while reserving the right to raise those in future contest. With a limited budget and the constraints given by hosting the event in a TV studio, it was only possible to provide a simple stage to the participants and deny most extravagant staging, if not paid for by the artists or the participating broadcasters themselves. The presenters, Lisa Steinburg and Lukas Rahgen, were internal selections from within the BUS TV network.

Format

The show started with a video introducing the general idea behind the contest and its logo and featured music composed by symphonic musician and DJ Max Rühl. After that an opening act by Gianlucian artist Peter Wolf played while the flags of the participating countries were presented in a "flag parade". The choreography of the parade was created by Gianlucian designer Karl Mansfeld and included a native welcoming message to each country, swinging light sticks and a projection of each flag as a parallelogram divided into triangles at the ceiling of the studio.

Postcards

While the stage was prepared for each contestant, short videos called "postcards" were shown to the audience in the arena and on TV. Each video showed a 40 second clip of the upcoming contestant having a photo shoot at different special locations all around Gianatla. The following locations were used for each participating country:

1. Besern - Democracy Park, Gianlucastadt
2. Snolland - Old City, Französisch Ort
3. New Itomorii - MS Charlotte, Atlantic Strait
4. Sedunn - Freudstadt Harbour, Freudstadt
5. Gianatla - Neptune's Mountain, Atlantis State
6. Mauquibie - Südtor City Centre, Südtor
7. Beepee - Atlantis Main Station, Atlantis
8. Izaakia - Königspalast, Atlantis
9. Eareamland - Fish Market, Angelhaven

Participating countries

Nine countries participated in the first-ever contest. In a surprising turn of events, 1st place was tied between Sedunn and Izaakia. According to the rules, the tie was resolved by the most televote points which were in favour of Sedunn.

Results

The contest took place on 30 January 2021 at 20:15 (CCT).

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Besern	Spigele	"Light of Hope" (Hofflicht)	Austral	7	69
02	Snolland	Fada Rat and Lika Vahê	"Goodbye to Yesterday"	Austral	5	73
03	New Itomorii	X/DA	"POP/STARS"	Austral, Korean	8	63
04	Sedunn	Illkrom Blenienn and Rila Jok	"Never wanted this to end"	Austral	1	96
05	Gianatla	Hater	"Engin Miskunn" (No Mercy)	Old North Almannic	4	76
06	Mauquibie	Orang-Orang	"Et je pleure" (And I cry)	Austral, Mauquibian	3	82
07	Beepee	Florence Munthly	"Take my Heart with You"	Austral	6	71
08	Izaakia	Landing Emraldis	"Montacia Fall"	Austral	2	96
09	Eareamland	Maple	"Overworld"	-	9	40

Detailed Scoreboard

Split results (Final)
Place	Televoting		Jury		Total
	Country	Points	Country	Points	Country	Points
1	Sedunn	77	Gianatla	25	Sedunn	96
2	Izaakia	74	Besern	22	Izaakia	96
3	Mauquibie	61	Izaakia	22	Mauquibie	82
4	Snolland	58	Mauquibie	21	Gianatla	76
5	Beepee	56	Sedunn	19	Snolland	73
6	Gianatla	51	Eareamland	16	Beepee	71
7	Besern	47	New Itomorii	16	Besern	69
8	New Itomorii	47	Beepee	15	New Itomorii	63
9	Eareamland	24	Snolland	15	Eareamland	40

Broadcasters, commentators and spokespersons

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster(s)	Commentator(s)	Notes
Beepee	BONC	Sam Ping
Besern	BBS	Magda Langer and Korbinian Weimann
Gianatla	BUS TV	Günther Lesch
Izaakia	IBC, CosmosNetwork	Garry Horton
Sedunn	MV	Sedunnic: Ron Oposallu and Paksarr Tromē
Snolland	STV	Evva Zela

External links

• Official website