AwlaVision Song Contest 1

AwlaVision Song Contest 1, often referred to as ASC#1, was the first edition of AwlaVision Song Contest, held in Helsinki, Finland. The edition started the 6 December 2015, although it was thought that it would begin in January 2016

11 countries participated in this edition, at the beginning, the organisation thought in change the voting system, but finally it stayed the same. Molly Pettersson Hammar from Sweden won the contest with the song "Something right" receiving a total of 84 points, 15 points ahead the runner-up, Andorra. England finishing in third place with 61 points. The host country, Finland achieved a 9th place with 44 points. The last place was for Greece, that got only 18 points. There weren't any tie.

Organisation
Once invented the festival, the organisation had to decide where would the festival be in its first edition. Baku (Azerbaijan) and Helsinki (Finland) presented their applications, but Baku finally retired its own. ABU confirmed the 1st December 2015 that Helsinki will host ASC#1 in Hartwall Areena. At that meeting, the ABU also released the theme and graphic line of this edition, "Start with yourself", relating it with this being the first edition of the contest and encouraging countries to participate in the contest.

Hartwall Areena is a big multifunctional arena at the north of Helsinki, Finland. YLE decided to host ASC#1 there because it's the biggest hall of the country. It can accommodate up to 17.000 spectators. Inside of it, they acted artists such us Lady Gaga, Rihanna, AC/DC, Nightwish, Within Templation, Christina Aguilera, Shakira and Spice Girls among lots of others.

YLE decided to have two presenters, a man and a woman. They believed that they could be young and famous singers, so they thought in Tarja Tutunen, Robin Packalen, Benjamin Peltonen and more, but finally YLE decided to Hanna Pakarinen and Topi Latukka to present ASC#1.

Both made acts in the edition. Topi Latukka, as singer of the group Softengine, made the opening act of the edition. They sing their song "Our new age". On the other side, Hanna Pakarinen sang alone her song "Leave me alone" after the "Hard rock hallelujah" of Lordi, that also performed.

Hartwall Areena
Hartwall Areena is a large multifunctional indoor arena located in Helsinki, Finland. The arena gets its name from its largest sponsor, the beverage company Hartwall, also based in Helsinki. The idea of building the arena came from Harry "Hjallis" Harkimo in 1994. It was built to be ready for the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1997 and was delivered by the constructor on April 11, 1997. The building is elliptical, 153 metres long and 123 metres wide. 37 meters under ground there is a practice arena which is used by many hockey teams.Total capacity in ice hockey games is 13,506 (all seats). The arena is convertible for various events. For sport events, the capacity is about 10,000, about 14,000 for basketball, for concerts about 13,000, and as an amphitheatre, 3,000-5,000. It is connected to a multi-storey carpark, which has a total capacity of 1,421 vehicles.

Hartwall Arena has been used on several occasions for NHL premiere games. The Carolina Hurricanes and the Minnesota Wild opened the 2010–11 NHL season season here between October 7–8, 2010, as part of the 2010 Compuware NHL Premiere Games. The venue once again played host to one NHL premiere game for the 2011–12 NHL season as the Anaheim Ducks faced the Buffalo Sabres on October 7, 2011. Before that match, Anaheim Ducks played a friendly match against Jokerit in the same arena on October 4, which ended 4-3 in the Ducks' favour on overtime.

During May 4–20 Hartwall Arena served as the main venue of the 2012 IIHF World Championship. It hosted all Group A games and quarterfinals, all semifinals and all medal games. Group B games and quarterfinals were hosted in Ericsson Globe, Stockholm. It also co-hosted the 2013 IIHF World Championship with Ericsson Globe, but in 2013 all games after quarterfinals were played in Stockholm.

Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital, primate and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of 656,229. The city's urban area has a population of 1,268,296, making it by far the most populous urban area in Finland as well as the country's most important center for politics, education, finance, culture, and research; while Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region, located 179 kilometres to the north from Helsinki, is the second largest urban area in Finland. Helsinki is located 80 kilometres north of Tallinn, Estonia, 400 km east of Stockholm, Sweden, and 300 km west of Saint Petersburg, Russia. It has close historical ties with these three cities.

Together with the cities of Espoo, Vantaa, and Kauniainen, and surrounding commuter towns, Helsinki forms the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area, which has a population of over 1.5 million. Often considered to be Finland's only metropolis, it is the world's northernmost metro area with over one million people as well as the northernmost capital of an EU member state. After Stockholm and Oslo, Helsinki is the third largest municipality in the Nordic countries. Finnish and Swedish are both official languages. The city is served by the international Helsinki Airport, located in the neighbouring city of Vantaa, with frequent service to many destinations in Europe and Asia.

Helsinki has a humid continental climate similar to that of Hokkaido or Nova Scotia coastal. Owing to the mitigating influence of the Baltic Sea and North Atlantic Current, temperatures during the winter are higher than the northern location might suggest, with the average in January and February around −5 °C. Winters in Helsinki are notably warmer than in the north of Finland, and the snow season is much shorter in the capital, due to it being in extreme Southern Finland and the urban heat island effect. Temperatures below −20 °C occur a few times a year at most. However, because of the latitude, days last 5 hours and 48 minutes around the winter solstice with very low sun (at noon, the sun is a little bit over 6 degrees in the sky), and the cloudy weather at this time of year exacerbates darkness. Conversely, Helsinki enjoys long daylight during the summer; during the summer solstice, days last 18 hours and 57 minutes.

This is the first time in the history of the AwlaVision Song Contest that the competition is held in Finland.

Participants
11 countries participated in the edition. It was the first edition so all countries were debuting.

Debuting countries
Bellow a list of all debuting countries: