AwlaVision Song Contest

AwlaVision Song Contest (abbreviated ASC), is a song contest on Wikia inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest and among the members of the Awla Broadcasting Union. The current and official ASC developer is the Finnish Jooseppi Gabriel Rautio.

Each country's head of delegation has to select an entry for each edition either by internal or national selection. Then the countries have to vote for each show (pre-qualifying round, semi-final or final) to determine the qualifiers and the winner of the edition.

About the contest
AwlaVision Song Contest 's name comes from the name of Awla Broadcasting Union, organisation that created and developes the contest. The first edition started at the end of 2015. The current supervisor is Jooseppi Gabriel Rautio. The contest is created for European countries inside the Awla Broadcasting Area. The winner chooses the host city of the next edition. Each member country submits a song to be performed and then casts votes for the other countries songs to determine the most popular song in the competition.

The first edition was held in Helsinki, Finland. It took from 06/12/2015 to 23/12/2015.

Main Rules

 * 1) Any country part of the ABU can take part in the competition.
 * 2) The artists may only represent one country at the same time.
 * 3) The participants must send a song from any singer and sang in any language.
 * 4) The singer has to be older than 16 years old.
 * 5) The songs that appeared in previous editions can not be selected.
 * 6) (Junior) Eurovision songs are not allowed to participate.
 * 7) The same singer can represent any country unlimited times.
 * 8) Covers songs from amateurs singers can not participate in the competition.
 * 9) Voting takes place in the system of the Eurovision Song Contest. (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point.)
 * 10) Voting for the own country is not allowed.
 * 11) If a country does not't send its jury and televoting results within the allowed time, it will be disqualified.
 * 12) The winner will be the one who achieve the most points received from other countries.
 * 13) The country winner can host the next edition and decide the host city. If it does not want, any country can present its application.
 * 14) Present a singer that was born or live in any of the countries of his/her group.

All rules
https://awlavision.miraheze.org/wiki/Rules

Debuting
Any full member of the ABU is allowed to send a song for the AwlaVision Song Contest. Each full member has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition. Lot of countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

Withdrawing
This is the list with the editions in which some countries withdrew from the contest:

Returning
This is the list with the editions in which some countries returned to the contest:

Slogans
Since the first edition already, slogans were used for the contest. In each edition, the host broadcaster is in charge to decide the slogan of the edition and based on it, develope the contest's theme and visual design.

Winners
Sweden was the first country that won the competition, and also the first one in repeating a victory, doing it also in the third edition. Poland was the second winner. Every winner was a woman, except Kadebostany, that won for Switzerland in ASC4, and Walking On Cars, that won for Ireland in ASC5. In ASC6, Finland won with a singer featuring a duo. In ASC9 and ASC10 the first men won the competition. In ASC12, Netherlands won for the first time. In ASC13, Algeria gave the victory to the first non-European country. In ASC14, after several second places, England won breaking a new points record, broken again in next edition by Kosovo's first victory. In ASC16, England won for the second time in three editions, same as Sweden did in the first and third editions. After several third places, Scotland broke the points record again in ASC17 thanks to the victory of Hurts and their song "Beautiful ones", but this record was broken again by Spain in next edition. In ASC21, Sweden became the first country in winning three times. In ASC28, Iceland broke the points record with 392 points. Ukraine became the first country winning four editions, making it in ASC37. Ten editions after, in ASC38, Georgia broke again the points record winning with 410 points. In ASC45, Sweden won for the fourth time breaking a points margin record with 152 of distance between the first and second place. In ASC47, Lithuania became the first country in winning twice in a row, also Gabrielius Vagelis became the only singer that has won the contest more than once. In ASC53 won again for the fifth time.

Awlavision Winners Edition
Every fifteen editions, ABU organizes a contest where every winner participates and fights to be the winner of the winners. The host city is chosen between the second and third places of last fifteen editions that have not won the contest. The first edition was held in Barcelona, Spain, due to the touristic importance of the city that can make the competition more known.