AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001
Dates
Final	16th of May 2001
Host
Venue	Lemur Hall, Victoria of Bristol, BR
Presenter(s)	Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison
Musical director	James Lawyer
Directed by	Maria Cortanavais
Executive supervisor	Ishaq Nurqifli
Executive producer	Ellie Sal
Host broadcaster	Royal Bristolian Radio
Participants
Number of entries	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends five-member juries where each votes 1,3,5,7, and 10 for the best 5 songs, added with online vote using Propotional Vote.
Winning song	"Mijn hart is gemaakt van diamanten" by Ozhlana

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001 is the fourty-fourth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 2001 by the authorities of Royal Bristolian Radio (BR). This is the fourth time that Bristol hosted the competition after previously hosting in 1960, 1976, and 1997 after the victory of "The Night" sung by the trio of Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison. They also presented the festival, where they continued a random occurence of last year's winner presenting the present year's festival after Mika'il Sanjaya presented the 1996 competition together with Arinika Yanni.

The competition was won by Ozeul Marie-Anne Ancic or more known as Ozhlana with the song "Mijn hart is gemaakt van diamanten". Her victory marks the first time a song sung in Dutch won the competition and the first time Pantabang Islands won the competition after previously earning three second places and one third place. Pantabang Islands thus become the second territory to win the festival after Daya Island. Her song is also the first song to earn and win the festival with over 300 points. Another thing to note is that the song didn't won neither the Jury or Public vote, earning second place on each.

Zafizamarrah and Bristol concludes the top three in this year's festival, with Zafizamarrah earning its' fifteenth second place and fourty-third title, and Bristol earning its' fourth third place and eleventh title. On the other side, Mosin-Nagan earned last place again. Pantabang Islands' victory left Mosin-Nagan as the sole holder of the longest non-winning region to participate since 1966.

This is the second time that Victoria which is the capital of Bristol, hosted the festival. Victoria was surprisingly selected after a bidding process hold by BR. For the first time, the competition to the rights of the festival were held using a two-round system. In the first round, Victoria, Breganny, Aubergine, Port Cherry, and Saintwells bid for the festival. On the second round, Victoria won over last Bristolian host city Breganny.

Victoria, or also known as Victoria of Bristol or Victoria of Alezian Bristol in order to avoid confusion. The 2000 Alezian Census showed that as of 2000, around 1,002,383 people called VoB (as its coloquially known) their home. As a territory of the United Kingdom with high supervision from North Alezia (until 2021 where the territory was given back to the Alezian Union), the region operated differently from other regions in North Alezia in many aspects, such as law, economy, and many more.

Due to the complications of hosting the competition again in the Royal Theatre (which hosted the festival back in 1976) with its obsolete design especially with its small seating size, BR decided to host the festival in the still-being-built at the time Grand Theatre Complex (GT Complex). located 3 kilometers from the old border of Victoria, it has 5 theatres (Beaver, Platypus, Penguin, Tarsius, and Lemur) arranged in a circular shape.

For the competition only, the five theatres were combined into one MegaTheatre able to host 20,000 people. Initially, only one was going to be used (Lemur Theatre, hence why it was "technically" hosted in the Lemur Theatre), with Lemur Theatre being temporarily turned into a stage, orchestra pit, scrutineer box, commentary room, and green room. After the competition concluded, the walls of each theatre were closed again and Lemur Theatre was turned into another theatre.

The voting system was updated once again, giving all regions five juries with the right to vote in ARFOS jury votes. This year also combines phone and internet votes into one Proportional System voting.

The year was met with a solemn situation as Soeradi who was supposed to conduct the Basnaharian entries for that year's festival passed away suddenly on 17th of January 2001 due to an unknown complication. Soeradi was given a moment of silence for contributing to ARFOS' success where he has conducted all Basnaharian entries for 12 years from 1987 to 2000 (except for 1996 where he didn't conduct due to overexhaustion), making him one of the longest-serving conductors at the festival. Soeradi himself was substituted by Ali Hisaraudin.

Daya Islander Maria Naavasulainen returned to the festival after earning fourth for her region last year.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Basna	Ali Hisauradin
Zafizamarrah	Andi Mizannur Ahzanaruddin
Pyalivostok	Maria Nairadiva
Tel Hadiv	Hayel Sharonov
Mosin-Nagan	Isa Nagavishan
Bristol	Dawn Rickison
Aramna	Chicherina Mariabella
Pantabang Islands	Cherea Alisaunitaian
Daya Island	Amilea Samidana

Commentators

Region	Radio Broadcaster	Commentators
NATIONWIDE	ABA	English: Azza Ruzindari (AR-P1), Anria Marindaruddin (ABA Channel One) Arabic : Farah Al Fattaharin (AR-P2), Nur Hasan Yusril (ABA Channel One, broadcasted a day after the live competition)
Zafizamarrah	Radio Zafizamarrah	Arabic: Mafzali Amiruddin (RZ-P1) Buginese: Andi Zahranita Narinda (RZ-PB)
Pantabang Islands	Radio Zafizamarrah / Pa'ana'taba'angi	Alezian : Ya'en Rama'i Dadon (RZ/P A) Dutch : Aalsterijk Sa'i'ue'i Salem (RZ/P Nederlandse)
Tel Hadiv	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu	Hebrew : Sheila Rayeshmaim (RTH-Y-P1)
Bristol	Royal Radio of Bristol	English : Michael Carl (RRB) French : Alfonso Roubin (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Yovleyin Dabarnova (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Nissa Roukindayan (RBR)
Mosin-Nagan	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan	Georgian : Berlyan Madanoshvili (RTH-Y / MN)
Daya Island	Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari	Finnish : Lisa Koorvinen (RP / DS) Swedish : Endive (RP / DS / Svensk)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Ennie Loulavais (ARR)

Spokepersons

Region	Domicile	Spokespersons
Basna	Basna Kota	Fitri Kurniawanti Almariah Hazar Alwadi
Pyalivostok	Pyalivostokgrad	Danijel Kalovich Ibel Souzielyova
Zafizamarrah	Metropolitan Zafizamarrah	Andi Hazul Azulaini Islan Hafizzi
Bristol	Victoria	Jane Ruth Elliot Macquerel
Pantabang Islands	Bucinnois	Kalinda Da'udanda Salem Irolene Davelijk Dadon
Tel Hadiv	Tel Hadiv	Meshrina Aveshner Abi-Razak Mahlarzaynuddin
Daya Island	Aaren	Arina Kaasulainen Amelia Smedlund
Mosin-Nagan	Trishi	Sinnadi Rabanshvili Helga Abishkenaidze
Aramna	Las Araminhaes	Irline Ablavinais Madina Kellie

Participating Entries and Results

• "*" = the singer won the Independence Award which was held the day before the competition.
• The song for the Independence Award for the year was "What To Do, What To Do" sung by Ilmada Nadira on 1943

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Bristol	ERIN	So What?	-none-	English	3	282
02	Pyalivostok	Merlikanova Yasiliyeva*	Даx-Даx	(Goodbye in Indonesian)	Russian	9	135
03	Zafizamarrah	Adlan and Imria Alisanuddin	سينتهي قريبًا	It'll End Soon	Arabic	2	290
04	Daya Island	Maria Naavasulainen	Muista Vanhoja Aikoja	Remember the Old Times	Finnish	17	2
05	Tel Hadiv	Luzhniki	Agħti Tel Hadiv Tiegħi Lura Lili	Give My Tel Hadiv Back to Me	Maltese	14	44
06	Aramna	Islan Ben Dari	Dounat	Donut	Aramnan	16	3
07	Daya Island	Ika Herinilund	Gråt inte, min älskade	Don't Cry, My Love	Swedish	11	99
08	Zafizamarrah	Sasha Rika	سنتان ضوئية	Two Light Years	Arabic	5	179
09	Basna	Mizlinda	Cemburu	Jealous	Indonesian	4	254
10	Bristol	Jane and The Crossers	Bleak Times	-none-	English	10	121
11	Pyalivostok	Olga Mariniveyan	Показать мою любовь?	Show My Love?	Russian	8	142
12	Basna	Perlis, Kedah, Trengganu	Melawan	Fighting	Indonesian	15	30
13	Mosin-Nagan	Beli Bang!	არასოდეს კარგი	Never Okay	Georgian	7	149
14	Pantabang Islands	Ozhlana	Mijn hart is gemaakt van diamanten	My Heart is Made of Diamonds	Dutch	1	319
15	Pantabang Islands	Hulahoop	Haat me zoveel je wilt	Hate Me All You Want	Dutch	6	174
16	Aramna	Lidle	Idle	-none-	Aramnan	13	54
17	Tel Hadiv	Maria Cortis	Meta Kollox Jieqaf	When Everything Stops	Maltese	12	61
18	Mosin-Nagan	Anita Lilishnadze	სად არის ჩემი სივრცე?	Where Is My Space?	Georgian	18	2

Voting by Region

	BR1	BR2	BR3	BR4	BR5	PY1	PY2	PY3	PY4	PY5	ZF1	ZF2	ZF3	ZF4	ZF5	DI1	DI2	DI3	DI4	DI5	TH1	TH2	TH3	TH4	TH5	AR1	AR2	AR3	AR4	AR5	BN1	BN2	BN3	BN4	BN5	MN1	MN2	MN3	MN4	MN5	PI1	PI2	PI3	PI4	PI5	JURY TOTAL	PUBLIC TOTAL	GRAND TOTAL
So What?	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	5	7	1		7	5	10		7	7	7	10		10	10	7	7	7	7	7			5	7		7	7		3		1	10				5	10		7		183	99	282
Даx-Даx			1	10	7	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			3			10									1	3								5		7	1	10	10		10		10	10		98	37	135
سينتهي قريبًا			10		10	10		5	10	10	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			10	7		10		10					7	10	5			7	7	5	5			5	7	7				3	160	130	290
Muista Vanhoja Aikoja													1			XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	1																									2	0	2
Agħti Tel Hadiv Tiegħi Lura Lili				3			3		3	3	1				1	3	1			1	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	1	3	1		1	3						5	3		5			1			42	2	44
Dounat																										XX	XX	XX	XX	XX																0	3	3
Gråt inte, min älskade						7		3			7		7			XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			3	5	3		10			7	1		5					5			3	1	3			70	29	99
سنتان ضوئية		5	5					10			XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	5	7	7	1			1					7				10	10			3				1	1			7		10	90	89	179
Cemburu				7			1		7	5									3			10				7			5		XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	3		1	3				5		5	62	192	254
Bleak Times	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX		5										3																	1	1							3				13	108	121
Показать мою любовь?	5		7		3	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX				5	5								1	10	5				3			5					7	7		10		7		3		83	59	142
Melawan	1	3	3	1			10		5			3																			XX	XX	XX	XX	XX											26	4	30
არასოდეს კარგი	3	1			5			7	1			5	5	10	3		5			5	5					5	1	3		3	5	1	1			XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	1	5		5	7	92	57	149
Mijn hart is gemaakt van dimanten	7	10		5		1					10	7	10	3	10			5		7	3	3	5	3	10	10		10		10		3	10	10	10	10			7		XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	179	140	319
Haat me zoveel je wilt	10	7				3				1	3					1		3		3		5					5						3		7		3			3	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	57	117	174
Idle												1							5					1		XX	XX	XX	XX	XX														1	1	9	45	54
Meta Kollox Jieqaf					1									1				1			XX	XX	XX	XX	XX				1																	4	57	61
სად არის ჩემი სივრცე?																																				XX	XX	XX	XX	XX						0	2	2

Online Voting Results

According to the AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2001 Public Vote Collection Committee, Exactly 564,013,769 votes combined from online and televoting (including those who voted more than once) were valid which were sent over ARFOS Week.

No.	Song	Percentage	Votes
01	So What?	8.49%	99
02	Даx-Даx	3.15%	37
03	سينتهي قريبًا	11.13%	130
04	Muista Vanhoja Aikoja	0.04%	0
05	Agħti Tel Hadiv Tiegħi Lura Lili	0.14%	2
06	Dounat	0.26%	3
07	Gråt inte, min älskade	2.46%	29
08	سنتان ضوئية	7.60%	89
09	Cemburu	16.44%	192
10	Bleak Times	9.22%	108
11	Показать мою любовь?	5.05%	59
12	Melawan	0.33%	4
13	არასოდეს კარგი	4.85%	57
14	Mijn hart is gemaakt van dimanten	11.93%	140
15	Haat me zoveel je wilt	10.01%	117
16	Idle	3.86%	45
17	Meta Kollox Jieqaf	4.87%	57
18	სად არის ჩემი სივრცე?	0.16%	2