Your Online Song Contest Firsts

• First year I joined a contest:
May 2016 (I didn't really even get into ESC itself until 2015)

• First online song contest:
Actually it was NNMC! At least it was the first I posted an entry for.

• First country:
Canada

• First song I ever sent:
"Push You" - Destineak - youtu.be/9VRV1E1oWMo

• First non-qualification:
I think The Forum Factor 11. I was 'assigned' and had to send a group act. I was still learning how to find songs and insisted on electro music so I sent this. :X Most of the other contests I participated up till then didn't have semifinals

• First I gave:
NNMC #4 - Dan Talevski, "Knock Me Off My Feet" (it got 2nd place)

• First win:
Own Asiavision Song Contest #12 // Clarita de Quinoz - "Addicted"
(it was a bit controversial because it was my first edition as well. It's been downhill ever since )

• First contest I ever organized:
50 States of Song 2016! (now United States of Song)

• First AQ:
I guess it would have been OAsiaSC #13

• First last place:
Africavision Song Contest #49 // Blick Bassy, "Likanda" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSlmt2a7k6I

• Highest points ever received
285 points - NNMC #31 // Betta Lemme, "Give It"
(my highest score in NVSC thus far is 255)


I'll add more if I see any fun ones to look up

• First year I joined a contest:
2015

• First contest I joined in this forum:
Lyrical Song Contest

• First country I had in a SCF forum contest:
well, Luir-Landodios (LySC)
then with real countries: Europa Festival

• First song I sent in a SCF forum contest:
"Ca ira mon amour" by Rod Janois and 1789 - les Amants de la Bastille musical play

• First non-qualification:
Probably my first IMF (Florian's IMF) entry

• First I gave:
honestly, well.

• First win:
NWSC #2

• First contest I ever organized:
(+      ) Europa Festival

• First last place:
Semi Final: "Oublier tes mains" Lili Poe & Slimane (FC #13)
Grand Final: "Es Sirum em Qez" - Narek Baveyan (FoM 15)

• Highest points you have ever received:
Honestly, there's a lot, but I'm fairly sure the top 3 is:
FC #05 - Léa Castel - Abîmée (307 Points // 2nd)
FC #21 - Blanche - Fences (302 Points // 5th)
NVSC #32 - Mika - Dear Jealously (290 Points // 9th)

• Lowest points you have ever received:
dunno, ik I never got a 0pt yet.

• Best position with an European Country :
NWSC #2 - Polia Gargarina - Shagaj
EoF #5 / #8 - two songs listed below
CSC #5 - LEJ - Hanging Tree
MSC (OSC now) #23 - Maraaya - Lovin' me
NNMC #23 - Tsar B - Rattlesnake
NMC #5 Eivor - I Tokuni
GVSC #4 - Francesca Michielin - L'amore esiste

These are all 1st places

• Best position with an Asian Country:
OASC #5, #9 & #17 // 3rd

• Best position with my countries:
France (EoF #05) •  Shy'm - L'effet de serre // (EoF #08) Cheraze ft. Tunisiano - Promets pas la lune
and if my fictionnal countries count:
Luir-Landodios (LySC) #25 • Marina Kaye - Homeless
Lakadamia (FC) #02 • Adele - Hello

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I'll probably go back to it bcs i definitely forgot a lot of stuff, but damn, 5 years I'm taking part on these, that's really a lot.

• First year I joined a contest:
Think it was back in 2013 or something before i even joined the forums actually 

• First online song contest:
Magical Music Contest (#19)

• First country:
Finland

• First song I ever sent:
Mikael Gabriel with "Älä Jätä Mua" for MMC, but my first song in any of the contests since i joined the forums i think was probably either Delain with "April Rain" for Your European Music Contest #1 or Girls' Generation with "Mr Mr" for Festival of Miracles #12 if i am not too mistaken

• First non-qualification:
With Mikael Gabriel in MMC

• First I gave:
Hmm... cannot remember my points for MMC, but i think looking at my PMs it was Russia for Unofficial Eurovision Song Contest #3

• First win:
Tiffany Desrosiers with "Fearless" for Power Song Festival #13

• First contest I ever organized:
Festival of International Music (FoIM)

• First AQ:
Olivier Dion "Si J'étais Son Soleil" for PSF #14 or something for Intercontinental Music Festival i cannot remember atm

• First last place:
Honestly cannot remember so i will skip this

• Best position with an European Country :
1st - Finland x7 (FoM #26, FoM #32, FoM #37, FoM #43, Retro WWWSC #44, Retro WWWSC #57 & FVSC #4), Greece x1 (TVSC #21), Germany x1 (IMF #89) and Sweden x1 (OSC #52)

• Best position with an American Country:
1st -  Canada x6 (PSF #13, PSF #15, PSF #17, FoIM #22, FoIM #28 & FoIM #34)

• Best position with an African Country:
7th - Kenya (Amani with "Heartbreaker" in AfricaVision Song Contest #42)

• Best position with an Oceanian Country:
Cannot remember, but it is probably something in IMF

• Best position with an Asian Country:
3rd - South Korea (Taeyeon ft. Verbal Jint "I" for Festival of Miracles #18)

• Best position with my country:
1st

First song contest entry (Instagram)

Who See - Igranka (May 2018, NQ, this contest died the edition after)



First win (Instagram)

Tarabarova - Tsunami (January 2019, Xurovision, which also died after 4 editions, each once a year)



First non-voting at a contest

Hoang Thuy Linh & Chi Pu - Don Xuan Tuyet Voi (May 2020, the deadline was 8 hours so I slept through the whole thing. This has only happened two more times, once last month as Binational, and once yesterday at crabrave's contest)



First minus points

GOLi - Yuddha (2021 sometime, Aforavision, then I doubled my score from -13 to -25 the next edition with El Salvador, then got -13 again yesterday at crabrave's contest where I didn't vote with Mozambique)







First forum contest entry

DJ Zak - Ribab (OAfSC #12, 11th place)



First forum win

Alok & Bhaskar ft Tom Enzy - Born To Kill (BVSC)



First BIG forum win (i.e: a contest with more than 9 people, sorry trojan)

Precious Pepala - Eve (OAfSC #15)