AwlaVision Song Contest 38

AwlaVision Song Contest 38, often referred to as ASC#38, was the thirty-eighth edition of AwlaVision Song Contest, held in Mariupol, Ukraine. The edition started the 04th May 2019, and ended the 25th May 2019.

46 countries took part in this edition. No one debuted in this edition. Lebanon withdrew from ASC. No one returned to the competition. Yonaka from Georgia won the contest with the song "Lose our heads" receiving a total of 410 points, 16 points ahead the runner-up, Ireland. Sweden finished in third place with 242 points. The host country, Ukraine achieved a 15th place with 62 points. The last place was for United Kingdom, that got 0 points.

Organisation
After Ukraine's victory in AwlaVision Song Contest 37, NTU and ABU had to decide where to organise the contest this time. NTU organised a public competition for choosing the host city between all applicant cities. Several cities presented their applications and the organisation had to decide which one was the best. Finally, NTU and ABU chose Mariupol as the host city of ASC38.

NTU decided to use popular and professionals people as presenters. Finally Nadya Dorofeeva and Aleksey Zavgorodniy were selected.

Sport-Complex Illichivets
The Sport-Complex Illichivets (Ukrainian: Спорткомплекс "Іллічівець") is an indoor sporting arena that is located in the Primorsky district of Mariupol, Ukraine, on Nakhimov Avenue. The capacity of the arena is 12,000 and the first stage of the new sports complex was commissioned on May 9th, 2007. It hosts the home games of Azovmash Mariupol of the Ukrainian Basketball Super League. In 2018 the complex hosted a football match in the Ukrainian First League.

The idea of building the complex was from Algimantas Pavilonis, then director of the Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague. Current director of the centre, Ukrainian architect Yanush Wig designed the complex, and Eduard Safronov was the head of its construction. The centre combines in a single architectural ensemble three pavilions with a total area of 13,140 sqm. The complex has a congress hall and fourteen conference rooms with a capacity of 90-600 seats, meeting rooms, rooms for storing valuables and weapons, cafes and fast food restaurants, bathrooms, toilets and air conditioning.

The Sport-Complex Illichivets capacity was of 10,500 people, but there was an increase of more than a thousand seats in September 2018, as the Ukrainian delegation in the AwlaVision Song Contest was preparing itself for another victory. The area also includes a VIP zone for a dozen of people and some offices, restaurants and media-centre inside the SPC.

Mariupol
Mariupol Mariupol is a city of regional significance in south eastern Ukraine, situated on the north coast of the Sea of Azov at the mouth of the Kalmius river, in the Pryazovia region. It is the tenth-largest city in Ukraine, and the second largest in the Donetsk Oblast with a population of 449,498. The city is largely and traditionally Russophone, while ethnically the population is divided about evenly between Russians and Ukrainians. Mariupol has played a key role in the industrialisation of Ukraine.

Due to the Soviet authorities frequently renaming cities after Communist leaders, the city was known as Zhdanov, after the Soviet functionary Andrei Zhdanov, between 1948 and 1989. Today, Mariupol remains a centre for industry, as well as higher education and business.

Mariupol has a humid continental climate with warm summers and cold winters. The average annual precipitation is 511 millimetres. Agroclimatic conditions allow the cultivation in the suburbs of Mariupol thermophilic agricultural crops having long vegetative periods (sunflower, melons, grapes, etc.). However water resources in the region are insufficient, and consequently ponds and water basins are used for the needs of the population and industry.

This is the fourth time in the contest that AwlaVision Song Contest is held in Ukraine but just the first time that it's held in Mariupol.

Participants
46 countries took part in the edition.

Withdrawing countries
Bellow a list of all withdrawing countries:

First Semifinal
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Second Semifinal
Jury
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