Special Melody Q3-2023

Special Melody Q3-2023
Geographical Names
Dates
Final	7 August 2023
Host
Venue	Impact Arena Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
Executive supervisor	Denis Vorobyov
Executive producer	Maksim Bogomolov
Host broadcaster	Channel 3
Participants
Number of entries	16
Debuting countries	Australia Canada Cyprus Denmark Germany Greece Hungary Japan Kazakhstan Lebanon Netherlands Norway Portugal South Korea Thailand United Kingdom
Returning Countries	None
Non-returning Countries	None
Participation map
Vote
Winning song	Canada "Antarctica"

The Special Melody Contest Q3-2023 - was the 1st edition of the Special Melody Contest that has been ever made. It is set to take place in Bangkok, Thailand.

Location

The venue for the first season was selected from among the countries that confirmed their participation in the season. Of the 16 participating countries, Australia, Portugal, Germany and Japan initially withdrew from the bid. Of the remaining 12 countries, 6 candidates were approved by the IECO Council: Denmark, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Norway and Thailand. During the discussions and voting, the right to host the first season went to Thailand. The host city was Bangkok - the capital of the chosen country.The venue for the competition was the Impact Arena Bangkok

Production

Visual Design

It was decided by the IECO that the contest shall follow a simple style with no theme and a permanent logo. Permanent logo was designed and presented to the IECO prior to the contest and got instantly approved. It comprises with the cursive wording of the wordmark "Special" where letter S shapes a heart and a music treble clef, followed by a country flag inside the heart and sans-serif geometric writing "Melody". Each year the heart changes flag to the host nation

An official logo for Special Melody

Format

Rules of season

For Q3-2023, the main entry requirement will be the name of the geographic feature in the song title. Also, additional conditions are restrictions on the use of the same geographical object twice, however, it should be noted that the restriction will not affect other geographical objects located in the same country or continent with which there is already an application. For example: An application with the name "Portugal", applications with this name cannot be used, but other objects such as "Lisbon", "Porto", "Azores", "Pena Palace" and other geographical objects in the country can be used.
Also, the name of the song should include only a geographical object in the face of the subject and should not include the definition.
There are no restrictions on the year of release of the song in Q3-2023.
There are no language restrictions in Q3-2023.
There is no restrictions on the number of views and listening to songs in Q3-2023.

Participating Countries

Below are the countries that have declared their intention to conduct an internal or open selection of a representative for participation.16 countries have participate in the Q3-2023 season.

Final

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Denmark	Joan Thiele	Armenia	English	3	102
02	Portugal	Tungevaag	Peru	English	7	62
03	Greece	Nothing But Thieves	Amsterdam	English	12	42
04	Australia	Jess & Matt	Sydney to Me	English	4	82
05	Kazakhstan	Sting	Englishman in New York	English	15	34
06	Lebanon	Gia Gunn & Alaska Thunderfuck	La China Mas Latina	English,Spanish	14	35
07	Canada	The Hardkiss	Antarctica	Ukrainian	1	120
08	Germany	Zivert	Beverly Hills	English,Russian	9	57
09	United Kingdom	Lecomte de Bregeot	Paris 1985	English,French	10	46
10	Japan	Fergie	London Bridge	English	5	71
11	Norway	Katy Perry	Harleys In Hawaii	English	8	57
12	Cyprus	Marina And The Diamonds	Hollywood	English	11	46
13	Netherlands	Bastille	Pompeii	English	6	65
14	Hungary	George Ezra	Budapest	English	13	40
15	Thailand	Carabao	Unity Thailand	Thai	16	22
16	South Korea	MIREI	Lonely in Tokyo	English	2	105

Voting

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8-1 point(s) to their top ten songs.

Grand Final voting results

		Total score	Denmark	Portugal	Greece	Australia	Kazahstan	Lebanon	Canada	Germany	United kingdom	Japan	Norway	Cyprys	Netherlands	Hungary	Thailand	South Korea	Rest of the World
Contestants	Denmark			8	8	5	2	10	8	10	10	10		7	4	6	7		7
	Portugal		3		1	2		12	3	8	4		8		2	10	4	5
	Greece		8	6							5	5			8	3	1	6
	Australia		7	10	5			4	10	3	8	7	5	1	6	8	3		5
	Kazahstan			1		4					6		3		7		6	7
	Lebanon		2	7					1	7	2	1	6	6				1	2
	Canada			12		1	10	8		2	12	2	12	8	5	12	12	12	12
	Germany						8		12		3		1	5		5	10	3	10
	United Kingdom		4			7	4	5	5	5			2	2		1		10	1
	Japan		6		4	6	6	6		12			4	12	1		8		6
	Norway		5		3	3	3	2	7	1		4		10	3	4		8	4
	Cyprus		1		12		12	3		4		3	7					4
	Netherlands		12	5	10	10	7	1	2			8				2			8
	Hungary			2	2	8	1		4		1	6			12		2	2
	Thailand			3	6									3	10
	South Korea		10	4	7	12	5	7	6	6	7	12	10	4		7	5		3

The Rest Of THe World Voting

Detailed vote from the rest of the world
Place	Country	Points		ESP	SWE	SMR
1	Canada	12	4.3	4	6	3
2	Germany	10	5.3	1	9	6
3	Netherlands	8	6.0	9	7	2
4	Denmark	7	6.0	3	3	12
5	Japan	6	6.6	11	8	1
6	Australia	5	6.6	2	13	5
7	Norway	4	7.3	8	4	10
8	South Korea	3	7.6	5	2	16
9	Lebanon	2	8.3	6	11	8
10	United Kingdom	1	9	13	5	9
11	Greece		9.3	16	1	11
12	Cyprus		9.6	12	10	7
13	Kazakhstan		10	14	12	4
14	Portugal		11.6	7	14	14
15	Hungary		12.6	10	15	13
16	Thailand		15.3	15	16	15

12 Points

12 points awarded by the countries

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
7	Canada	Hungary, Norway, Portugal, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom, Rest of the World
2	South Korea	Australia, Japan
	Japan	Cyprus, Germany
	Cyprus	Greece, Kazakhstan
1	Netherlands	Denmark
	Portugal	Lebanon
	Germany	Canada
	Hungary	Netherlands