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AINVision Song Contest
Cattala 2013
For Joy
Dates
Final date 01 June 2013
Result date 09 June 2013
Host
Host Venue Jennai Arena
Host City Jennai, Cattala
Broadcaster RMI
Participants
Number of Participants 22 [1]
Debuting Countries
6
  • - Asgard
    - Costa Palma
    - Mirani
    - Histalpol
    - New Holland
    - Soviyya
Returning Countries
3
  • - Calaré
    - Kamchatka
    - Melanesia (formerly Fornax)
Withdrawing Countries
4
  • - Ascadylea
    - Atarashima
    - Riyadh
    - Shihaisha
Winner
Winning Country Kingston and Boyce
Winning Song Little Numbers
Winning Artist BOY
AINVision
AINVision Ascadylea 2012 | | AINVision Winter 2013


The AINVision Song Contest Cattala 2013 was the 7th semiannual AINVision Song Contest. The contest took place in Jennai, Cattala, following Celeste Buckingham's victory in AINVision Ascadylea 2012 with the song Run Run Run [2]. It was the first time Cattala had hosted the contest and the largest AINVision in history, with 22 participating countries and 24 voting nations.

This Song Contest brought many changes to the series, such as the return of pre-finals and the broadcasting rights being held for the first time by the public broadcaster of the host nation, as well as other aspects. It was declared by RMI, the host broadcaster, to be a return to the "Petrovar system" of 2010, which was highly successful but expensive. The voting format was in keeping with the past format of 0-7 points and 8, 10 and 12 for the most popular.

The winner was Kingston and Boyce with the song "Little Numbers" by BOY, which scored 131 points, the highest in AINVision history, beating Corraile's Sara Bareilles, a past winner, by 22 points. Hosts Cattala finished in third place, with Calaré in fourth and Asgard in fifth place.

Location[edit | edit source]

A map showing the cities of Jennai and Celeste in Cattala

For the first time since the start of the competition the host city has been selected, and only the second time that a bidding system has been used in the contest since it began with Petrova being the only host bidder[3] and then winning the contest. For this contest, multiple major towns were up for the bid to host the prestigious and lucrative music festival. The final two were narrowed down to Jennai and Celeste. On the 17th of March, the bidding from each city started with Jennai and Celeste.

Celeste bid[edit | edit source]

Celeste's bid focused on the Aziens district of Celeste with the potential of winning being described as a positive for the Amosseri Governor, Jeremia Swarn, who is hoping for this to draw in more tourists to the city[4]. The stadium that was proposed to host it would have been the Dionysus Arena, which would need regeneration to get it to international event hosting standards. An alternative proposed would be the Lady Eliza Stadium in the same district, which if selected, would been the second venue in AINVision history to be open air, after Illu'a in 2010 [5].

Celeste's drawback was it's lack of infrastructure compared to it's rival Jennai, where the arenas have enjoyed strong public transport and rail access for years. But the bid was backed by the Celestine Chambers of Culture, local radio and government [6].

Jennai bid[edit | edit source]

Jennai, which is the home of the winner Celeste Buckingham, was also in the running. Before RMI announced a bidding process, public opinion swayed to Jennai to host the contest. The city's infrastructure is better than Celeste's with the country's main airport, Jennai International, on the edge of the city and the best rail, metro and bus services in Cattala. The stadium was not been released publicly during bidding but has been hinted that it's infrastructure is "second-to-none", with some suggesting the Jennai Arena was most likely to host the contest. [7].

Jennai Arena was the venue for the contest

Jennai was criticized that the contest would not be put on the map because its infrastructure which is already in place and it's image as a tourist destination is already renowned, unlike Celeste.

Winning venue[edit | edit source]

On the 2nd of April, the winning bid was revealed[8] to be Jennai with the selected venue being the Jennai Arena in the Harbour district of the city. The RMI Events selection committee chose Jennai and "hailed the metropolitan council and arts boards for their "drive and passion" to put on the "best AINVision in history"." Celeste were revealed to have insufficient infrastructure capacity despite the private backing of the capital's bid from senior RMI executives.

Jennai Arena hosted both the pre-final and the grand final, with other sporting and musical fixtures moved during the month of June to other venues in the city. The stadium has hosted performers including Kylie Minogue, Queen and U2 in the past, and is the home of indoor sports such as hockey, basketball and wrestling. It was built in the 1980s as part of the redevelopment of the harbour front and has extensive facilities for music contests. The city's metropolitan council, owners of the arena, took on a leading role in the coordination of hosting the contest, as well as security, transport and global branding alongside RMI.

Controversy[edit | edit source]

AINTV vs RMI Events case[edit | edit source]

After Celeste Buckingham won the 2012 competition, RMI, the state broadcaster, announced its intentions to independently sell off the global rights to the 2013 Contest, which they would be hosting. The profits from the sale, expected to be around $120 million, would go towards paying for the costs of the contest being held in Cattala.[9]

AINTV, the production company and rights owner of all previous Contests, took RMI Events to the High Court in Cattala in February 2013. On the 2nd March, the judge ruled in favour of the defendant, after AINTV presented what was described as a "weak, profit-hunting case with almost predatory undertones". RMI Director General Andrew Dasnell welcomed the announcement after leaving court, criticising AINTV's approach to negotations and argued that "RMI Events is a highly experienced media entertainment group and we know that they will host the best AINVision in history in three months time, with or without the support of AINTV".

The 2013 AINVision Song Contest became the first independently-produced broadcast of the concert, with the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sport acting in an advisory and managerial capacity alongside RMI. AINTV had no role in the contest.

Riyadh Islamic Federation[edit | edit source]

On the 29th April, it was revealed that RMI and Cattalian delegates had met with Riyadhi officials in Al Maysah to discuss Riyadh's participation in the music contest. In the past, RMI has refused to confirm whether or not Riyadh would be allowed to field a representative after tensions between the two nations grew following the 2013 Nuclear Sanctions Crisis. Riyadh is still heavily sanctioned by Cattala.

Human rights groups and global republican movements threatened to protest at the Jennai Arena if Riyadh was allowed to participate, with Amnesty International urging the government to ban Riyadh from taking part. The Parliamentary Select Committee on the Riyadh Federation declared that the country must improve its human rights record before relations should be normalised.

Secret meetings continued between delegates from Cattala and Riyadh until the 4th of May, when Amnesty International protesters stormed the building. The event was filmed and streamed live onto the internet as officials were pelted with eggs and flour before security evacuated them from the building, bringing the meeting to an impromptu end.

On the 18th May, Riyadh officially declined to participate in the Song Contest.

Grand Final interval performances[edit | edit source]

During the interval of the Grand Final, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea and Albanian-British singer Rita Ora performed songs including explicit lyrics, sexualised dance routines and provocative costumes. Azalea provoked the most controversy with her performance of "Bounce", her new song that will not be made available in Cattala.

Leading conservative politicians, including senior government ministers, led condemnation of the performance as viewers also took to social media to express their shock at the contents of the contest. By midnight local time, just three hours after the contest, #iggyscandal was the highest trending hash-tag and is believed to have become the fastest trending phrase in the history of social media in Cattala.

Amongst the criticism of the performance by Azalea, RMI and the Public Decency Authority were also criticised, most notably by an editorial in the Daily Telegraph, which accused both organisations of gross misconduct and a failure to serve those who pay for their services.

Confusion about the selection of these two singers continued long after the Grand Final was over. Neither artist has ever performed or charted in Cattala before, and the day after the final, RMI Radio 1 refused to play their songs due to fears of retaliation from listeners and the media watchdog, which had no role in AINVision. Commercial radio stations do not even have their songs available. It also emerged that Cattala's contestant, Nina Nesbitt, was reportedly advised not to associate with the scandalous interval acts by her management, who said it could severely damage her domestic career.

Format[edit | edit source]

Branding[edit | edit source]

RMI Events, co-ordinating the contest, have greater freedom over the branding than in previous competitions. The AINVision logo was initially kept the same, with the simple addition of the Cattalian flag into the heart as in the past. However in March, RMI unveiled a new brand for this contest and re-introduced the individual themes of the 2009 and 2010 song contests.

The AINVision symbol has been altered, with the crest of the second "i" in AINvision replaced by the official symbol of the union, the dove of peace. This was done in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and AINTV. For this contest only, the logo has been recoloured to Cattalian Blue.

A unique logo following the branding theme of "Four Joy" was created by RMI's internal creative division, a play on the motto of "For Joy". It contains 2 separate chevrons, one pointing left which is purple along with a chevron pointing to the right which is gold, and layered beneath the purple one. It is believed that these may alternate during the contest, as gold and purple is a general colour scheme. The diamond shape created is also a continuing theme, with the "Four" in the title created by the four corners. The AINVision Song Contest logo remains prominent over the diamond throughout initial branding.

RMI has announced a separate rebrand of all of its channels, programming and corporate branding for the AINVision period, with the RMI logo incorporated into the gold-and-purple diamond. The only department unchanged by the temporary rebrand is News, which will continue with its current style and will not advertise the song contest.

Corporate sponsorship[edit | edit source]

During the contest, multiple companies had chance to sponsor[10] the contest while offering services to Jennai Arena, the participants, the viewers and others. Applications for corporate sponsors started on April 28th. This included travel arrangements with different companies and accommodation, to stadium furniture, to food and drink products. In total 18 companies agreed to sponsor the event in some manner. During the contest the sponsors who got their companies aired in adverts included; Bank of Veratlantea[11], New Holland Airways[12], Fontane[13], Nashi Electronics[14], Maple Crown[15], NEG Shemya[16] and HSBC[17]

Presenters[edit | edit source]

Along with other significant changes in the contest, the presenters line-up has also been reverted back to a Petrovar system. In previous contests, there was one host, usually the representative to the hosting country in AIN, whereas in the first few contests there were multiple co-hosts and the representative to the AIN for the country was not involved. In 2013, this format has been confirmed to return by RMI.

Initial speculation that the contest would return to a three-presenter line up was proven wrong when on the 19th May, "Dancing with the Stars" Cattala presenters Teresa Demalla and Victoria Cabello were confirmed as the presenters for both the Song Contest and the Grand Finale. [18]

Participating countries[edit | edit source]

Official released participation has not been spoken of yet, with the participation application beginning in May. But some leaks have revealed in interest, including Kingston and Boyce returning for a second year, and new member Histalpol taking interest in joining with rumours of internal song selection in the local broadcasting union of the artist and the song.

The confirmation of acts started with media reports; first being on the 15th of April announcing Kingston and Boyce's entry, closely followed by Histalpol and Cattala, 2 days apart, with their entries, without revealing the song names. Official entries opened on the 28th April.

During the applications of the entries, many new countries approached to perform in AINVision including; Antarida, Asgard, Costa Palma, Histalpol, Llithustania, Melanesia, Mirani and New Holland. Kamchatka also returned after not participating in AINVision Ascadylea 2012. The entrants also saw the return of Sara Bareilles representing Corraile. On the 25th of May with exception from Calaré who applied on the 26th. The final count of countries participating came to 23, the highest reached in AINVision at that point.

On the 28th, all the participants were listed on one graphic that showed participants alphabetically [19]. Along with that release, it was also released that countries can still sign up, but they will become reserves if a country pulls out from the contest or is not able to perform (noted that they will primarily be replacements in case anyone doesn't fill in the voting/broadcast threads.) [20]

Results[edit | edit source]

Final placings[edit | edit source]

Lot order [21] Country Language Artist Song Translation Points Results
1  Asgard 1) Lindsey Stirling & Peter Hollens [22] Game of Thrones 84 5
2  Kamchatka Russian Neangeli ft. a-dressa [23] Sireni 61 10
3  Atlantic Federation English Adventure Club [24] Rise and Fall 45 15
4  Karasem Indonesian JKT48 [25] RIVER 3) 32 19
5  Atlantsia Punjabi and English Labh Janjua [26] Mundian To Bach Ke Beware of the Boys 47 14
6  Kingston and Boyce English BOY [27] Little Numbers 131 1
7  Calaré English Zoe Badwi [28] Torches 88 4
8  Lower Columbia English Armin van Buuren and Sophie Ellis-Bextor [29] Not Giving Up On Love 83 6
9  Cattala English Nina Nesbitt [30] Stay Out [31] 103 3
10  Melanesia English Eric Nam [32] Heaven's Door 81 7
11  Corraile English Sara Bareilles [33] Brave 109 2
12  Mirani English Pieter Tuhoro [34] It Would Be You 62 10
13  Costa Palma Spanish Buena Vista Social Club [35] Candela Candle 39 17
14  New Holland English Steriogram [36] Moving On 71 9
15  Exaletas Spanish Carlos Vives [37] Volví a Nacer I Came to be Born 53 14
16  Okatabawashi Slurian 4) Long Kwok & TinyPagoda [38] Nata Bada Wiiiiiouououoo 23 21
17 Hiigara Hiigara English Hard/Kiss [39] Makeup 34 20
18  Queensland [40] English Kylie Minogue [41] Timebomb 72 8
19  Histalpol English Two Door Cinema Club [42] Sun 59 ~12
20  Soviyya English Sandhy Sondoro [43] End of the Rainbow 35 18
21  Hong Kong Okataian Brown Eyed Girls [44] Abracadabra 2) 59 ~12
22  Takyoto Korean and English Tae Yang[45] Baby I'm Sorry 21 22

1) The Asgard entry is not in any language; it consists of violin with vocal a cappella
2) The title of the Hong Kong entry is entirely in Okataian; the English title does not appear in the song.
3) The title of the Karasem entry is entirely in Indonesian; the English title does not appear in the song.
4) Slurian in the Okatabawashi entry is a fictional language created by the performers of the song.

Voting[edit | edit source]

Orange = Original Entrant
Blue = Other AIN Country 		Voting results
Asgard Atlantic Federation Atlantsia Calaré File:Cattalattl.png File:Corrailettl.png File:Costa Palmattl.png Exaletas File:Hiigarattl.png Histalpol File:Hong Kongttl.png Kamchatka File:Karasemttl.png File:Kingston and Boycettl.png File:Lower Columbiattl.png Marquette Melanesia Mirani New Holland Neu Westfalen File:Okatabawashittl.png File:Queenslandhittl.png Soviyya Takyoto
Asgard 84 8 8 4 1 5 8 6 3 2 7 7 12 4 1 4
Atlantic Federation 45 1 3 3 8 12 10
Atlantsia 47 1 7 6 3 1 5 4 8
Calaré 88 7 7 5 6 12 4 3 2 12 6 3 10 8 3
Cattala 103 8 3 6 12 12 4 1 4 8 2 4 2 4 10 1 10 5
Corraile 109 6 8 10 10 8 1 7 12 6 5 5 8 5
Costa Palma 39 12 2 7 3 5 4 3
Exaletas 4 3 10 6 12 6 6 5 1
Hiigara Confederacy 34 2 2 2 4 2 1 10
Histalpol 59 3 1 2 5 4 5 5 7 5 1 4 1 1 3 6 6
Hong Kong 59 2 5 1 12 12 7 12 1 7
Kamchatka 61 6 8 2 7 3 7 8 6 4 8
Karasem 32 2 8 6 5 8 2
Kingston and Boyce 131 4 10 7 7 10 4 10 10 5 8 1 7 5 12 8 2 12
Lower Columbia 83 5 12 12 2 5 6 2 3 3 3 7 12
Melanesia 81 12 1 12 10 8 7 12 2 2 10 3 2
Mirani 62 10 5 10 1 10 7 7
New Holland 71 6 4 7 3 7 10 8 10 6 4 5
Okatabawashi 23 12 4 4 3
Queensland 72 1 5 4 6 8 8 6 10 2 12
Soviyya 35 3 2 3 10 10
Takyoto 21 1 7 1 6 6

12 points[edit | edit source]

N. Recipient Nation Voting Nation(s)
3 Lower Columbia Atlantic Federation, Cattala, Queensland
Melanesia Atlantsia, Histalpol, Marquette
2 Calaré Hiigara, Lower Columbia
Cattala Corraile, Costa Palma
Corraile Kamchatka, Calaré
Hong Kong Melanesia, Okatabawashi
Kingston and Boyce New Holland, Soviyya
1 Asgard Neu Westfalen
Atlantic Federation Mirani
Atlantsia Exaletas
Costa Palma Asgard
Exaletas Kingston and Boyce
Okatabawashi Hong Kong
Queensland Takyoto

Spokespersons[edit | edit source]

Broadcasting[edit | edit source]

Because of the privatisation of AINVision for summer 2013 to RMI, distribution to an international audience with RMI had to be requested before the contest with multiple broadcasters requestion to air AINVision in their countries. The list below states which countries are having AINVision aired and the company airing it;

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ↑ "Final Score screen of AINVision 2012", AINTV (April 16, 2012)
  3. ↑ "Chihiro 2009 Bid", (April 16, 2009)
  4. ↑ "AINVision Hosting battle begins"The Times of Cattala (March 17, 2013)
  5. ↑ "AINVision Ascadylea 2012 was hosted in an open air arena"
  6. ↑ "AINVision Hosting battle begins"The Times of Cattala (March 17, 2013)
  7. ↑ "AINVision Hosting battle begins"The Times of Cattala (March 17, 2013)
  8. ↑ "Jennai announced as AINVision Host City"The Times of Cattala (April 2, 2013)
  9. ↑ "RMI Events takes High Court victory against AINTV", The Times of Cattala (March 2, 2013)
  10. ↑ "Corporate Sponsorship" (April 28, 2013)
  11. ↑ "Bank of Veratlantia advert" (July 1, 2013)
  12. ↑ "New Holland Airways advert" (July 1, 2013)
  13. ↑ "Fontane advert" (July 1, 2013)
  14. ↑ "Nashi advert" (July 1, 2013)
  15. ↑ "Maple Crown advert" (July 1, 2013)
  16. ↑ "NEG Shemya advert" (July 1, 2013)
  17. ↑ "HSBC advert" (July 1, 2013)
  18. ↑ "AINVision 2013: Presenters announced", Daily Telegraph (May 19, 2013)]
  19. ↑ "A full list of participating countries"]
  20. ↑ [2]
  21. ↑ [3]
  22. ↑ [4]
  23. ↑ [5]
  24. ↑ [6]
  25. ↑ [7]
  26. ↑ [8]
  27. ↑ [9]
  28. ↑ [10]
  29. ↑ [11]
  30. ↑ "AINVision 2013: Cattalian entry leaked", The Times of Cattala (April 27, 2013)
  31. ↑ [12]
  32. ↑ [13]
  33. ↑ [14]
  34. ↑ [15]
  35. ↑ [16]
  36. ↑ [17]
  37. ↑ [18]
  38. ↑ [19]
  39. ↑ [20]
  40. ↑ "24 hours left - Queensland AINvision Board holds secret ballot", The Queenslander (April 28, 2013)
  41. ↑ [21]
  42. ↑ [22]
  43. ↑ [23]
  44. ↑ [24]
  45. ↑ [25]
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