AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2005

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2005
Dates
Final	16th of May 2005
Host
Venue	Neutron Science Arena, Oldport-Newport, ZF
Presenter(s)	Hanazri Cannes
Musical director	Ulfairah Yazanika
Directed by	Ami Hansari
Executive supervisor	Ishaq Nurqifli
Executive producer	Andi Adiruddin Hasaruddin
Host broadcaster	Radio Zafizamarrah (RZ)
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	"Поезд № 39" by The Narianovas

AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2005 is the fourty-eighth edition of the annual AleziRadio Festival of Songs. The competition was held as usual in 16th of May 2005 by the authorities of Radio Zafizamarrah (RZ). This is the sixteenth time that Zafizamarrah hosted the competition, the third time that the competition was hosted by Zafizamarrah outside of the Metropolitan City, and the second time that Oldport-Newport hosted the competition after last time doing so in 1969.

The year's festival was won by the Pyalivostokian women trio called "The Narianovas" consisting of Elsa Nakalyova, Irina Yalgasevich, and Hanna Novonova. The trio's victory brought Pyalivostok their ninth victory, cementing their record as the second best performing region in the festival as of 2005. It is also Pyalivostok's first victory since 1987. They also broke Andi Tenriatta Namian's record in points where the trio earned 443 points compared to Tenriatta's 416 points. Bristol and Mosin-Nagan earned its' fourth second place and fourth third place placements respectively.

The competition was granted to Zafizamarrah after Andi Tenriatta Namian won the competition for her region with the song "ᨕᨒᨙᨊ ᨌᨋᨁ ᨑᨗᨕᨚᨒᨚᨀᨘ", which was the second song sung in Buginese to do so. The initial decision was to host the 2005 festival in Metropolitan Zafizamarrah with potential venues for the competition including The National Stadium, Oxygen Arena, The Zafizamarranian Clam, and Grand Alezian Theatre (joining the 3 medium-sized out of 5 theatres into one). However, the news was received poorly by the Alezian public demanding Radio Zafizamarrah to "introduce their region outside of the capital since they've been there way too many times previously".

Reacting to the backlash, Radio Zafizamarrah instead decided to give the public the right to list three cities in Zafizamarrah that the public ideally wanted to see host the competition. The result of the polling was Radio Zafizamarrah contacting the three cities of Iskandaruddin, Nashriza, and Oldport-Newport to ask about their interest on hosting the festival. However, only Oldport-Newport expressed interest and as such, the rights to the festival went unanimously to Oldport-Newport.

Oldport-Newport is the third biggest city in Zafizamarrah behind the Metropolitan City and Iskandaruddin and is the prime spot for entry into North Alezia by ship due to the city holding the nation's biggest and oldest seaport, being developed by the Buginese and then by the British. The port has given the country a very considerable contribution to it's GDP, with the city also being the prime spot for trade and Alezian exports of electronics such as computers. Other than as a prime trading spot, the city is also known for being one of the most visited cities for beach tourism, being one of Zafizamarrah's coastal cities.

After Oldport-Newport was announced as the festival's host, the city government of Oldport-Newport held a bidding process for venue owners to earn the rights to host the festival in their venue. Initially, after a bidding process, the venue selected was the Seaside Mega AmpiTheatre which was completed recently in time for the festival. However, the venue owner eventually declined the rights due to a renovation that had to be done last minute which couldn't be completed in time for the festival even in the most optimistic scenario. And thus, the venue who was designated as the back-up venue which was the Neutron Science Arena was selected, with its' mega auditorium able to host 10,000 people.

The decision to host the festival in Neutron Science Arena was considered "weird" and "eccentric" at first. Reasons for these sentiment includes the fact that the arena itself was never used for artistic programmes, instead being used for school field trips, scientific events, and meetings. However, the Science Arena has a pretty advanced audio system making it a prime spot for music festivals. The festival itself proved to be successful organization-wise, and thus proved the ability for the Science Arena to host non-scientific events, even though as of 2022, the 2005 ARFOS remained as the only non-scientific event to be hosted in the venue.

The graphic design for the competition mostly stayed similiar to the previous years. The changes being instead of Mosin-Naganese flowers, the graphic used is a five-pointed star. The star itself representing the Alezian star in the Alezian flag which while usually meant to be free to interpretation, most of the Alezian public perceive the star as a symbol of hope and perfection.

Ari Haudani who represented Basna in the 1994 festival and earned 10th place back then represented his region once again in this edition. Dessi Dora also returned representing Pantabang Islands after earning third place last year.

Incidents

The Sinister Six

While the organizational side of the competition was an astounding success, public outcry was visible around the controversy of the fact that 1/3 of the songs selected for the festival have inappropriate content. The Families for Safety (FFS) protested the selection method of regions that picked inappropriate songs for a family show like the AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2005. Songs that were brought into the controversy are Olga Denerez's "Ampere", The Cannon Band's "Explosive", SEKT'EMBERI's "დარეკე ჩემს ნომერზე", The Narianova's "Поезд № 39", Selena Richie's "Captured (Ah!)", and Maria's "Бессонная королева"

Due to this, FFS sued AleziRadio, RA, PR, RRB, RTHY-MN, plus all the artists, composers, lyricists, and parties involved in the making of all six songs. This unprecedented lawsuit is added with FFS suing other parts of media such as MTV Alezia and ARICO. This is considered as the largest lawsuit relating to media in Alezian history and is called FFS vs. The Federation of North Alezia.

The court proceedings have both sides expressing their opinion throughout the issue. FFS demanded that all parties involved remove inappropriate songs from public usage, including in ARFOS. While the defendant party (including the Federation of North Alezia) demanded that FFS respect the freedom of speech and expression in North Alezia. The nation eventually won the proceeding with FFS admitting defeat with one condition, where an age rating must be enforced and ARFOS must have a disclaimer should the songs continue to be "put at this caliber". The resulting product is the Age Rating Board of Alezia (ARBA) and ARFOS being rated for All Ages with Parental Supervision, the first programme to be rated as such.

ARFOS would remain rated for that specific type of range and all songs submitted to AleziRadio now must be adequately "filtered" without changing the meaning of the song. The parties involved in "Sinister Six" also either changed their lyrics entirely or toned down either their lyrics, their performance, or both for the festival, while the original uncensored version remained as physical and online releases.

Public outcry resurfaced after three of the Sinister Six songs reached top five position in the festival with two of them topping the first place and second place of the year's festival. However, the public outcry after the festival remained low compared to the lawsuit that happened previously.

"The Fall of Zafizamarrah"

Zafizamarrah is statistically one of the more successful regions who participated in the AleziRadio Festival of Songs, with sixteen victories, fifteen runner-up placements, and fourteen third places. Even if the region didn't place in the top three, either one or both of the region's songs would end up in the top 5. And such, public expectation were high surrounding Zafizamarrah's hosting of the festival; with initial predictions predicting that both of the region's entries would place in the top 5. However, as the night progressed, both of the entries failed to enter the top 5; the first time since 1964 (where their songs placed 8th and 11th).

According to the public, the most concerning thing is not "Zafizamarrah earning one of its' worst averages"; but "the fact that it happened in Zafizamarrah" which was considered by the Zafizamarranians as "regional embarassment". After the festival concluded, the Alezian Postal Service / Zafizamarrah reported a surge of 200% of letters directed to the office of Radio Zafizamarrah, which reportedly mostly contain angry letters from ARFOS spectators. According to an ARFOSFans article, most of the angry letters call for the radio to act immediately and take the competition seriously again.

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

Commentators and Spokepersons

The name written in bold is the spokeperson for that region or territory.

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)
South Alezia	Televisie Alezie-Suid	no commentary and no jury

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 "All Hope Was Never Lost" sung by Immada in 1949

No.	Region	Singer	Song	Translation	Language	Place	Points
01	Zafizamarrah	Yanna Youra	سوف اراك لاحقا	I'll See You Later	Arabic	9	96
02	Basna	Arin Haudani	Kesempatan Baru	The New Chance	Indonesian	7	109
03	Pantabang Islands	Dessi Dora*	Kom bij me Terug	Come Back to Me	Dutch	14	19
04	Zafizamarrah	Tannariel Hanasirah	قل ماذا تريد	Say What You Want	Arabic	10	92
05	Daya Island	SUSLANA	Salassapito	Secrecy	Finnish	13	34
06	Aramna	Olga Denerez	Ampere	-none-	Aramnan	8	109
07	Mosin-Nagan	Ilta Kakaroshvili	ექვსი წელი დაგჭირდა	Took You Six Years	Georgian	3	316
08	Tel Hadiv	Adna Rottenheimer	עוקב אחריך ממש מאחור	Following You Right Behind	Hebrew	4	245
09	Tel Hadiv	Harry Keshavael	המילה הבטוחה	The Safe Word	Hebrew	17	2
10	Bristol	The Cannon Band	Explosive	-none-	English	16	9
11	Mosin-Nagan	SEKT'EMBERI	დარეკე ჩემს ნომერზე	Call My Number	Georgian	18	1
12	Pyalivostok	The Narianovas	Поезд № 39	Train No. 39	Russian	1	443
13	Daya Island	Maximum	Väärin, väärin, oikein, väärin	Wrong, Wrong, Right, Wrong	Finnish	6	176
14	Bristol	Selena Richie	Captured (Ah!)	-none-	English	2	383
15	Basna	Rahman Atley	Dari Segala Keinginan	From All Wants	Indonesian	15	15
16	Aramna	Sherine Caltahounnaizer	Paraisse q'ais he eincountrandais a' al'gen	Looks Like I've Found Someone	Aramnan	11	48
17	Pantabang Islands	Nimera Rimaira	Tout ce dont tu as besoin	All You Need	French	12	41
18	Pyalivostok	Maria	Бессонная королева	Sleepless Queen	Russian	5	209

Scoreboard

	ZF1	ZF2	ZF3	ZF4	ZF5	BN1	BN2	BN3	BN4	BN5	PI1	PI2	PI3	PI4	PI5	DI1	DI2	DI3	DI4	DI5	AR1	AR2	AR3	AR4	AR5	MN1	MN2	MN3	MN4	MN5	TH1	TH2	TH3	TH4	TH5	BR1	BR2	BR3	BR4	BR5	PY1	PY2	PY3	PY4	PY5	JURY TOTAL	PUBLIC TOTAL	GRAND TOTAL
سوف اراك لاحقا	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	7	7	7	10				5	3	7			10								1									7		5					3				72	24	96
Kesempatan Baru	5				5	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX		3		5								7		1	3			7		1		5		3	5	5	7					5		5	7	79	30	109
Kom bij me Terug	1	1		3					3	1	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			1		3															1		1				3					18	1	19
قل ماذا تريد	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	3		10	1			5				1		3		10	7		3										1					5	5							54	38	92
Salassapito	3	10														XX	XX	XX	XX	XX														1		3										17	17	34
Ampere			5		3		1	1			7		1		10			5		1	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			10	1		7	7				7					5		7		1	79	30	109
ექვსი წელი დაგჭირდა	7						10	5				10	10								3	5		10		XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	3		10				3	3	3			1	5	7	5	100	216	316
עוקב אחריך ממש מאחור			10	5	1		3			3	5		7	1	3	10	7		7			10	7	7		5	3	5	3	5	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	1		1		10			1	3	3	126	119	245
המילה הבטוחה			1																												XX	XX	XX	XX	XX											1	1	2
Explosive			3					3															1		1											XX	XX	XX	XX	XX				1		9	0	9
დარეკე ჩემს ნომერზე																										XX	XX	XX	XX	XX																0	1	1
Поезд № 39	10			10	10	5					3	1	3	10		7	1		10	7	10		5	5	10	10	7		10	10	10		5	7	10	10			10	5	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	201	242	443
Väärin, väärin, oikein, väärin			7	1					7	5	1				1	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX			10				10		5	3		3	7	10			10	7			10				10	107	69	176
Captured (Ah!)		7		7			5		5	7				7		3	10	7			5				5	7		3	7	7	5	10		5		XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	7	10	10	10		149	234	383
Dari Segala Keinginan					7	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX							3														1								1							12	3	15
Paraisse q'ais he...		5										7			5	5			5		XX	XX	XX	XX	XX		5	1				1	3							1		7				45	3	48
Tout ce dont tu as besoin		2				10					XX	XX	XX	XX	XX				1		1	3				3													7	3	1		3			34	7	41
Бессонная королева						1				10	10						5		3	5		1	5	3	7		1								3			10		7	XX	XX	XX	XX	XX	71	138	209

Online Vote

According to the AleziRadio Festival of Songs 2005 Public Vote Collection Committee, Exactly 1,698,362,730 votes combined from online and televoting (including those who voted more than once) were valid which were sent over ARFOS Week.

The vote number were also posted as a form of transparency on ARFOS' website two weeks after the festival was concluded. The amount of votes in this year were up by 552,501,106 votes compared to the previous year. This change is due to more voters using their rights to vote more than once.

Song	Votes	Percentage	Points
سوف اراك لاحقا	34,129,233	2,01%	24
Kesempatan Baru	43,229,421	2,55%	30
Kom bij me Terug	1,994,302	0,12%	1
قل ماذا تريد	55,210,029	3,25%	38
Salassapito	24,485,201	1,44%	17
Ampere	42,832,912	2,52%	30
ექვსი წელი დაგჭირდა	312,832,912	18,42%	216
עוקב אחריך ממש מאחור	172,765,832	10,17%	119
המילה הבטוחה	1,842,733	0,11%	1
Explosive	428,392	0,03%	0
დარეკე ჩემს ნომერზე	822,912	0,05%	1
Поезд № 39	350,483,921	20,64%	242
Väärin, väärin, oikein, väärin	99,483,392	5,86%	69
Captured (Ah!)	339,029,584	19,96%	234
Dari Segala Keinginan	4,830,221	0,28%	3
Paraisse q'ais he...	4,282,319	0,25%	3
Tout ce dont tu as besoin	9,483,575	0,56%	7
Бессонная королева	200,195,839	11,79%	138