AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2006

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2006
Dates
Final	16th of May 2006
Host
Venue	Summer Artistic Auditorium (Mikhali Arena), Pyalivostokgrad, PY
Presenter(s)	Polina Taryalyeva
Musical director	Tinashdarika Aliyeva
Directed by	Alma Royan
Executive supervisor	Ishaq Nurqifli
Executive producer	Damian Novorivich
Host broadcaster	PyaliRadio (PR)
Participants
Number of entries	20
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	"Antessilos" by Tamar Lilnavais

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2006 is the fourty-ninth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 2006 by the authorities of PyaliRadio (PR). This is the tenth time that Pyalivostok hosted the competition, and the sixth time that the festival was held in the region's capital, Pyalivostokgrad. The 2006 Festival marked Pyalivostokgrad as tied second most hosting together with Basna with six hostings in their city, only behind Metropolitan Zafizamarrah who has hosted thirteen times.

Tamar Lilnavais from Aramna won the festival with the song "Antessilos". Her victory gave Aramna its' fourth victory after previously doing so in 1973, 1981, and 1990. Basna and Mosin-Nagan concluded the top three, with Basna earning it's seventh second place position, and Mosin-Nagan earning it's fifth third place position. It is also the first time since the introduction of the online voting that the winner didn't gather enough points to break the previous highest scoring winner record. The victory itself was already expected due to it being a record-breaking victory back when the song competed for the Aramnan regional final.

Pyalivostok was granted the hosting rights immediately after the 2005 festival was won by Pyalivostokian women trio "The Narianovas" who sung "Поезд № 39". After the victory was announced, the regional government and PyaliRadio opened submissions for cities who were interested on hosting the festival. It was then announced later that Pyalivostokgrad, Badnavi, Yovonyyk, and Talyaga were interested on hosting the festival. The bidding process brought Pyalivostokgrad to the hosting rights.

The City Government of Pyalivostokgrad chose a venue on their own without the usual protocol of opening the process to interested venue owners. This is a very unorthodox selection method, where the city government reasoned that "they already have their own choice of venue due to its' location, facilities, and technology suitable to host the festival". The venue selected end up being the Summer Artistic Auditorium or known to the locals as "Mikhaili Arena". The name came from the fact that the Summer Artistic Auditorium is part of a two-building complex, where one is opened and one is closed depending on the weather. For ARFOS, the venue used would be the building open at summers only. The reason for the limited opening time is due to the separate and different technology implemented on each venue. The colloquial name "Mikhaili Arena" was due to the fact that the arena was opened in 1999 by Mayor of Pyalivostokgrad at the time, Mikhaili Rizelyov.

The Summer Artistic Arena (Russian: Летняя художественная аудитория, Letnyaya khudozhestvennaya auditoriya) has a capacity of 35,000 and has an orchestra pit installed. The Arena had been previously used to host the Summer Artistic Festival which were held annually in Pyalivostokgrad since 1989 where the festival hosted summer-themed spectacle of dance and music. Observed from space, the arena would be shaped like a sun with the main auditorium in the center. Before the festival, some upgrades and redesigns were made to the venue, with the most important being the upgrading of the sound system from ARICO Mus.sys 2930-S made in 1995 to a much more modern ARICO Mus.sys 3128 made in 2006, added with borrowed ARICO Mus.sys-mini 83 used for the 2005 festival previously. The result was a sound system met with positive acclaim with some saying that it is the "best sound system used in the festival in the 2000s".

The amount of songs this year returned to the all-time high of 20. The last time that 20 songs competed in the competition is back when Carrelie competed in the 1989 festival. This year, AleziRadio invited the foreign country of Waisnor after the country expressed interest of participation back after the 2005 festival ended. The Alezian government welcomed the invitation calling it "the diplomatic start of the cultural exchange between Waisnor and North Alezia". The regional government of Pyalivostok called the invitation "a very welcome exchange between Russian-speaking areas". The debut of Waisnor also introduced the festival to its' first song sung in Belarussian.

Due to the Waisnorian debut and the requirement for online voting, ARICO worked with the Waisnorian telecommunication provider to provide online voting to the Waisnorian voters which would then be translated to numbers for ARICO to process. And due to Waisnorian and Alezian time differences and the possible difficulty of Waisnorian voters voting in an unsuitable time, a change was required. However, due to the possible protests by Alezians who protested that leniency given to Waisnorians could cause unfairness in the online voting, a compromise was then decided to let both Waisnorian and Alezian voters to start voting at least three days before the festival's live broadcast was on. This was proven successful and helpful for voters that even without any international participants, ARFOS continues to use this method of voting period for future festivals.

Graphical Design

The "main" logo for the 2006 festival

The graphical design for the year's festival was considered a departure by ARFOS fans and graphical observers alike. The team behind the graphical design for the festival decided to ditch the "Alezia Millenium" design language which according to its' leader was considered too "old and overused" for ARFOS. The team designed to move into a more independent design called "Четыре точки" (Four Point in Russian). The design would rely on distorted rectangles that is shaped like a diamond. The diamonds would then stacked and combined together to create a mountainpeak, the river below it, and the night sky above it; representing the nature of Pyalivostok.

The logo is the first time since 1991 that the year of the competition was presented explicitly as part of the logo. Another visible introduction to the festival's logo is the star constellation on top of the "sky"/main portion of the logo. The stars (bar the different-looking star on the center) represent the relative location of each participating region/territory's capital cities.

Pyalivostok is represented with the biggest star, signifying host region. The bigger stars represents other regions of North Alezia (Basna, Tel Hadiv, Bristol, Aramna, Zafizamarrah), the smaller stars represents the territories of North Alezia (Daya Island, Mosin-Nagan, and Northern Pantabang Islands). The final differently shaped star added on the center represented Waisnor as a non-Alezian participant who still is a very integral part of the year's festival constellation.

The 2006 festival is also the first ARFOS ever in its history to introduce a slogan: Гора, Река, Небо, Песня (Gora, Reka, Nebo, Pesnya / Mountain, River, Sky, Song). The slogan ends up also being the first ARFOS common song title, where everyone sung the song together on stage standing as accordingly to their "regional" star in the constellation.

Incidents

"Extended Fall of Zafizamarrah"

The night of the festival concluded with Zafizamarrah earning its' worst result ever once again after the dissapointment of last year's festival. The festival ended with Zafizamarrah earning 11th place and 18th place. The poor result were also met poorly by the Zafizamarranian public which once again sent angry letters to Radio Zafizamarrah. Due to the backlash from previous edition, the viewing of the festival this year was the lowest in percentage in Zafizamarrah ever since the region participated.

The backlash caused rumours circulating that Zafizamarrah would withdraw from the festival next year in order to "recover from the embarrassment". However, this was proven false. However, the backlash did create discussion in Zafizamarrah suggesting that the public tastes in music has changed so much that Zafizamarrah needs to "catch up".

Conductors

The list of conductors can be seen below.

Region	Conductor
Basna	Ali Hisauradin
Zafizamarrah	Andi Harunaddin Dami
Pyalivostok	Lisa Navianova
Tel Hadiv	Dorothy Weiss
Mosin-Nagan	Ami Navidayan
Bristol	Ann-Roberts Hailings
Aramna	Helga Robbine
Pantabang Islands	Cherea Alisaunitaian
Daya Island	Amilea Samidana
Waisnor	Vitaly Vaskovsky

Commentators and Spokepersons

The name written in bold is the jury spokeperson for that region or territory, or in case of Waisnor, nation.

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) French : Samuel Na'ikane'i Salem (RZ/P Francais) Dutch : Emilio Saalvendijk (RZ/P Nederlandse)
Tel Hadiv	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu	Hebrew : Sheila Rayeshmaim (RTH-Y-P1)
Bristol	Royal Radio of Bristol	English : Lisa Albertsen (RRB) French : Enis Tauberin (RFrB)
Pyalivostok	Radio Pyalivostok	Russian : Ani Yozyk (RP)
Basna	Radio Basna Raya	Indonesian : Hanzari bin Soeradi (RBR)
Mosin-Nagan	Radio Tel Hadiv - Yezateinu / Mosinannaganyan	Georgian : Ami Riki (RTH-Y / MN)
Daya Island	Radio Pyalivostok / Dayain Saari	Finnish : Denaya Maaristo (RP / DS) Swedish : Lovera (RP / DS / Svensk)
Aramna	Araminhaes Radioues	Aramnan : Anne Lozeinnavais (ARR)
Waisnor	First National Channel	Russian : Antonina Gorskaya and Grigory Vatkeev Belarussian : Alexander Makovetsky and Yulia Martynova
South Alezia	Televisie Alezie-Suid	no commentary and no jury

Participating Entries and Results

According to the rules of the AleziRadio Festival of Songs, any international participant participating in the festival would be automatically have its' two entries run at number ten and twenty in the running order, and as such Waisnor was immediately put accordingly. Due to its' non-Alezian status, Waisnor couldn't participate in the Independence Award. The last time that this happened is when Carrelie participated in 1989.

• "*" = the singer won the Independence Award which was held the day before the competition.
• The song for the Independence Award for the year was "All Hope Was Never Lost" sung by Immada in 1949

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Pyalivostok	Amara Tovylich	Высокий	Tall	Russian	13	83
02	Bristol	Black Bandana	The Hurtful Truth	-none-	English	19	4
03	Mosin-Nagan	Eitan Likana	ვერ ხედავ?	Can't You See?	Georgian	3	271
04	Tel Hadiv	Maria and Iltana	האהבה שלי היא דינמיט	My Love's A Dynamite	Hebrew	8	134
05	Pyalivostok	Kakao	Сладкие деньги	Sweet Money	Russian	16	31
06	Daya Island	Panin Käärinen	Älä. En välitä	Don't. I Don't Care	Finnish	10	94
07	Basna	Yusril Hatta	Badut Publik	Public Clown	Indonesian	2	297
08	Aramna	Tamar Lilnavais	Antessilos	Afterlife	Aramnan	1	400
09	Zafizamarrah	Huzairah	معك	With You	Arabic	11	90
10	Waisnor	Vladislav Gurenkov	Сярод дарог	Among the Roads	Belarussian	7	150
11	Zafizamarrah	Andi Hamiruddin	عزيزي كوة	Dear Skylight	Arabic	18	9
12	Aramna	Edsilia Marrouvanavais	Royaumma	The Kingdom	Aramnan	14	50
13	Pantabang Islands	Imma A'ukane'i Dadon*	Whoa-oa-oa	-none-	Alezian	5	238
14	Daya Island	Ediria Alta	Viattomuus todistettu	Innocence Proven	Finnish	9	104
15	Pantabang Islands	Hanna Rouwejn Ancic	Texas	-none-	Alezian	6	171
16	Basna	REAL	Sedikit Cinta	A Little Bit of Love	Indonesian	17	14
17	Bristol	Denny Call	Ready, Get Set, Lie!	-none-	English	15	33
18	Tel Hadiv	Maria Dziannari	Ċans Wieħed Aktar	One Last Chance	Maltese	12	90
19	Mosin-Nagan	Taslaniri Tamarashvili	თქვი ერთი ბოლო	Say One Last Thing	Georgian	20	0
20	Waisnor	Demi	Ты меня прости	Forgive Me	Russian	4	266

Scoreboard

	PY1	PY2	PY3	PY4	PY5	BR1	BR2	BR3	BR4	BR5	MN1	MN2	MN3	MN4	MN5	TH1	TH2	TH3	TH4	TH5	DI1	DI2	DI3	DI4	DI5	BN1	BN2	BN3	BN4	BN5	AR1	AR2	AR3	AR4	AR5	ZF1	ZF2	ZF3	ZF4	ZF5	PI1	PI2	PI3	PI4	PI5	WS1	WS2	WS3	WS4	WS5	JURY TOTAL	PUBLIC TOTAL	GRAND TOTAL
Высокий	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	10	3							3		10			5			1		3							7	1		1								1	10	1			5				61	22	83
The Hurtful Truth		1				XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			1	1	1																																				4	0	4
ვერ ხედავ?	10		5	1	3			7		10	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX					5	3	3					3	1	5	10	10	7	10	7	7	5	5	10			5			10	1	7		5	7	3	165	106	271
האהבה שלי היא דינמיט								5				3	10	7		XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	5			7					10	5					5	3				1	3			3		3		1		1	72	62	134
Сладкие деньги	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	7		3			1								1																																12	19	31
Älä. En välitä	3		7		5	5			10	7			3			7				3	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	5	5							5		1	7			3		3		5		1	3				88	6	94
Badut Publik	5			10	10	3		1			5		5								1					XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			1		1				1												43	254	297
Antessilos							7		7	3				10		5	10				7	10	7	10	10					7	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	7	10		7		10	5		7			10	10	10	5	174	226	400
معك										1		7			3	1									5	7	10					10				XX	XX	XX	XX	XX					10	10		3		10	77	13	90
Сярод дарог		10			7							1			10		3		7			7		5		10		5	3			5	7		3		3	7	10				1		5	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	109	41	150
عزيزي كوة			1																							1				1						XX	XX	XX	XX	XX											3	6	9
Royaumma							1		5	5	3			5			1		3				3			3					XX	XX	XX	XX	XX		1	1				10									41	9	50
Whoa-oa-oa			10	3			5					10	7							10	10			1	7			10		3	1	3		10	10					7	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX				1	7	115	123	238
Viattomuus todistettu				5		1		10			7	5					7		10	7	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX				7				3			10			5		1	7	3		3		1	7	3		102	2	104
Texas		3							3																		1														XX	XX	XX	XX	XX						7	164	171
Sedikit Cinta		7	3																							XX	XX	XX	XX	XX																					10	4	14
Ready, Get Set, Lie!	1	5				XX	XX	XX	XX	XX													1		3						3												5		7						25	8	33
Ċans Wieħed Aktar	7				1		10		1						5	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			5				7	7										3	3	5	7					5	7		5		78	12	90
თქვი ერთი ბოლო											XX	XX	XX	XX	XX																																				0	0	0
Ты меня прости				7							10				7	3	5			1		5	10		1			3	1		5		5	3				5					7			XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	78	188	266

Online Vote

According to the AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2006 Public Vote Collection Committee, Exactly 2,954,514,346 votes combined from online and televoting (including those who voted more than once) were valid which were sent over ARFOS Week. The massive amounts of increase in voter amount is due to the additional Waisnorian votes added with the added chances for a voter to vote.

Song	Votes	Percentage	Points
Высокий	51,102,932	1,73%	22
The Hurtful Truth	1,029,444	0,03%	0
ვერ ხედავ?	247,582,933	8,38%	106
האהבה שלי היא דינמיט	144,382,939	4,89%	62
Сладкие деньги	44,392,849	1,50%	19
Älä. En välitä	12,993,829	0,44%	6
Badut Publik	593,002,912	20,07%	254
Antessilos	529,100,482	17,91%	226
معك	29,849,320	1,01%	13
Сярод дарог	94,859,493	3,21%	41
عزيزي كوة	12938290	0,44%	6
Royaumma	20,938,291	0,71%	9
Whoa-oa-oa	288,492,829	9,76%	123
Viattomuus todistettu	3,882,948	0,13%	2
Texas	382,771,829	12,96%	164
Sedikit Cinta	9,488,291	0,32%	4
Ready, Get Set, Lie!	19,048,232	0,64%	8
Ċans Wieħed Aktar	28,928,301	0,98%	12
თქვი ერთი ბოლო	443,281	0,02%	0
Ты меня прости	439,284,921	14,87%	188