AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2000

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2000
Dates
Final	16th of May 2000
Host
Venue	Independence Hall, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, ZF
Presenter(s)	Usalyan Amir, Nuralimah, and Andi Ma'ruf Hazari
Musical director	Imruz Dawri
Directed by	Imran Awtal
Executive supervisor	Ishaq Nurqifli
Executive producer	Aldanna Nuharaindah
Host broadcaster	Radio Zafizamarrah
Participants
Number of entries	18
Vote
Voting system	Each region sends two juries and one televote where each votes 1,3,5,7, and 10 for the best 5 songs, added with online vote using Propotional Vote.
Winning song	"The Night" by Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2000 is the fourty-third edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 2000 by the authorities of Radio Zafizamarrah (ZF). This is the fifteenth time that Zafizamarrah hosted the festival and the thirteenth time that the Metropolitan hosted the competition. after the victory of "شيء أريد أن أقول" sung by Andi Ma'ruf Hazari. This is the first festival to be held on the new millenium and in the 21st century.

The festival was won by Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison with the song "The Night" representing Bristol. It is the region's fourth win after previously winning in 1959, 1975, and 1996. It is also the region's tenth top three title. Pyalivostok and Zafizamarrah concluded the top three earning second and third place respectively. It is Pyalivostok's fifth second place and nineteenth top three placing, and Zafizamarrah's thirteenth third place and it's record forty-second top three placing.

Helped by the introduction of online voting, the winning song broke the previous record made by Lalo Interdimensional for the winner with the most points, where the Harrisons won the competition with a record 266 points, breaking the previous record of Lalo's 203 points. The runner-up song also broke the record with 258 points. This is also the first time in ARFOS history that two songs accumulated more than 200 points each.

The festival was held in Metropolitan Zafizamarrah, which was (and still is) the capital and the biggest city in North Alezia, where it was home to 2,198,322 people as of 2000 according to the 2000 population census. As the capital, Metropolitan Zafizamarrah enjoyed a comfortable position as the biggest economic area with them hosting the Zafizamarranian Stock Exchange.

The AleziRadio Festival of Songs was hosted once again in the historical Independence Hall which had been doubled in seat count from 6,000 to 12,000; enough to host ARFOS. The hall has previously hosted AleziRadio Festival of Songs 1958 and 1967, and then hosted its junior contest, Junior AleziRadio Festival of Songs' inagural edition back in 1998. This makes the hall the most used venue for AleziRadio events.

The decision to host the festival in Independence Hall is to give tribute to AleziRadio's vibrant history in the festival, bringing the festival back to its' roots for the twenty-first century. The festival also introduced new technological advances. Streaming from the new internet site arico.net was introduced here. In the stream, users were given the chance to discuss the competition online with fellow users.

Updates to the voting system were also made, where instead of two televoting areas, only one was used per region and in place of the second televoting, ABA, AleziRadio, and ARICO tested an online vote where all the votes that were sent shall be given propotionally to the final result. In order to avoid big regions like Basna and Zafizamarrah taking most of the votes due to its' big population added with the possibility to vote for their own regions, each users are given five votes to send.

Benni Lavanivais returned to the festival after previously representing Aramna and earning 4th place last year. Another returning artist is Misha Kalkov who represented Pyalivostok solo after previously pairing up with Nerinda Yeliyeva in 1990 and earning 10th place. This year also saw the appearance of Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison, who are the children of the Bristolian representative at the first edition of the Festival way back in 1958, Norton Harrison who earned fourth. And more uniquely, Norton conducted the Bristolian entries this year.

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Basna	Soeradi
Zafizamarrah	Andi Mizannur Ahzanaruddin
Pyalivostok	Benzema Lakashivich
Tel Hadiv	Hayel Sharonov
Mosin-Nagan	Isa Nagavishan
Bristol	Norton Harrison
Aramna	Ellayna Carvisleis
Pantabang Islands	Lillea Aurie Dadon
Daya Island	Yalta Naaminen

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 Liliac Arbenkushner
Daya Island	Aaren	Arina Kaasulainen Amelia Smedlund
Mosin-Nagan	Trishi	Sinnadi Rabanshvili Demi Ravaniyan
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 "Hey, Hey, Me" by Alwan Diri on 1943

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Zafizamarrah	Idaria	أوراق النوم	The Sleeping Leaves	Arabic	3	194
02	Basna	Abinkayarun Hasmadi	Puncak	The Peak	Indonesian	9	44
03	Basna	Dawarilis dan Idrani	Hai, Hai, Oi!	Hey, Hey, Oy!	Indonesian	12	37
04	Aramna	Benni Lavanivais	Ou, Monne Mariabella	Oh, My Mariabella	Aramnan	6	84
05	Mosin-Nagan	TREATISE	ლურჯი	Blue	Georgian	18	0
06	Zafizamarrah	Cherry Two	حلوى التفاح بالشوكولاتة	Candy Apple Chocolate	Arabic	8	74
07	Pantabang Islands	Bisria	De duisternis	The Darkness	Dutch	15	20
08	Tel Hadiv	Maria Abishkenaivesh	דבר איתי	Talk To Me	Hebrew	5	92
09	Pyalivostok	Misha Kalkov	Пощечина моему лицу	A Slap to My Face	Russian	11	39
10	Pantabang Islands	Marie Cheluisie Dadon	Problematisch	Problematic	Alezian	14	24
11	Bristol	Jen, Alton, and Michael Harrison	The Night	-none-	English	1	266
12	Mosin-Nagan	InaRunAlya	ცარიელი საფრთხეები	Empty Threats	Georgian	13	32
13	Daya Island	Miso Soup	Ikuisesti yksin, ikuisesti elävä	Forever Alone, Forever Living	Finnish	7	83
14	Daya Island	Maria Naavalasulainen	Vähän enemmän pohdintaa	A Little More Thought	Finnish	4	103
15	Bristol	Elis Ryman	Keepers' Losin' Out On Me	-none-	English	10	43
16	Tel Hadiv	Sharoniel	Dak kollu li qatt xtaqt	Everything I Ever Wanted	Maltese	17	2
17	Aramna	Sherra	Bong!	-none-	Aramnan	16	9
18	Pyalivostok	Plokhiye devochki	Мне все равно (потому что я хочу танцевать)	I don't Care (Because I Wanna Dance)	Russian	2	258

Scoreboard

No.	Song	ZF-1	ZF-2	BN-1	BN-2	AR-1	AR-2	MN-1	MN-2	PI-1	PI-2	TH-1	TH-2	PY-1	PY-2	BR-1	BR-2	DI-1	DI-2		ZF-P	BN-P	AR-P	MN-P	PI-P	TH-P	PY-P	BR-P	DI-P	JURY TOTAL	ONLINE	GRAND TOTAL
01	أوراق النوم	XX	XX	1	10	10	10		7				10		5		10		10		XX	5	5			5	7	7	5	107	87	194
02	Puncak	7		XX	XX						5				3	1						XX	3					5	3	27	17	44
03	Hai, Hai, Oi!			XX	XX	7						10					1				3	XX	1				5	3		30	7	37
04	Ou, Monne Mariabella				5	XX	XX	1					1					5					XX	3						15	69	84
05	ლურჯი							XX	XX															XX						0	0	0
06	حلوى التفاح بالشوكولاتة	XX	XX						3		3	3	3	7		10					XX	7		5	10	7	10		1	69	5	74
07	De Duisternis							3		XX	XX			3	1		5	3	3						XX					18	2	20
08	דבר איתי	1	3	5	7				10		10	XX	XX	1							10					XX	3	1		51	41	92
09	Пощечина моему лицу	3								5				XX	XX	3		1	5		7			10	1	3	XX			38	1	39
10	Problematisch		10							XX	XX										5	1			XX	1				17	7	24
11	The Night	10	5	10		5	1	7	1	7		7	5	10		XX	XX	7	1			10	10		7		1	XX	7	111	155	266
12	ცარიელი საფრთხეები						5	XX	XX			5				5					1			XX	3	10				29	3	32
13	Ikuisesti yksin, ikuisesti elävä			3				10		3					7		3	XX	XX										XX	26	57	83
14	Vähän enemmän pohdintaa		1	7		3	7		5			1		5	10		7	XX	XX					1	5				XX	52	51	103
15	Keepers' Losin' Out On Me															XX	XX											XX		0	43	43
16	Dak kollu li qatt xtaqt											XX	XX													XX				0	2	2
17	Bong!				1	XX	XX	5		1	1												XX							8	1	9
18	Мне все равно	5	7		3	1	3			10	7		7	XX	XX	7		10	7			3	7	7			XX	10	10	104	154	258

Online Voting Results

According to the AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2000 Online Vote Collection Committee, Exactly 266,472,282 votes (including those who voted more than once) were valid which were sent over ARFOS Week.

Song Number 9 earned one vote while Song Number 5 earned no votes, even though they received the same percentages of votes. This is due to a tiebreaker made by the committee considering that Song Number 9 has more votes than Number 5.

No.	Song	Percentage	Votes
01	أوراق النوم	12.52%	87
02	Puncak	2.44%	17
03	Hai, Hai, Oi!	0.96%	7
04	Oh, My Mariabella	9.84%	69
05	ლურჯი	0.08%	0
06	حلوى التفاح بالشوكولاتة	0.75%	5
07	De duisternis	0.22%	2
08	דבר איתי	5.56%	41
09	Пощечина моему лицу	0.08%	1
10	Problematisch	0.95%	7
11	The Night	22.18%	155
12	ცარიელი საფრთხეები	0.45%	3
13	Ikuisesti yksin, ikuisesti elävä	8.21%	57
14	Vähän enemmän pohdintaa	7.27%	51
15	Keepers' Losin' Out On Me	6.18%	43
16	Dak kollu li qatt xtaqt	0.25%	2
17	Bong!	0.12%	1
18	Мне все равно (потому что я хочу танцевать)	21.94%	154