WorldMusic Song Contest 3

The WorldMusic Song Contest 3 was the third edition of the WorldMusic Song Contest. The host country was Australia, because they won the previous edition, with the song You ruin me. This was the first time that Australia hosted this contest. This edition took place in Sydney.

A total of twenty-one countries will take part in the contest, the most number of participating nations in the history of this contest. Five countries took part for the very first time in the contest.

Australia won this edition with Mitch Tambo with his song "Together" in both the English and the Gamilaraay language. Russia and Brazil finished at the second and third place. It was South Africa's first time that they didn't finish at the last place.

Location
Straight after the victory of Australia in the previous edition, at the official press conference, the broadcaster said to be proud that the WorldMusic Song Contest was comming to Australia.

Australia chose the iconic Sydney Opera House. It only can host 2.679 people and will be the smallest venue so far for this contest.

Format
In the first edition, 13 countries were invited to participate in the contest. Afterwords, it was clear that all countries over the whole world could sign up to participate. To date, there is a limit of 21 participating countries.

After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that got the highest point will rank higher.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/496239/worldmusic-song-contest-3---sydney

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Debuting countries

 * Colombia.jpg Colombia - This country was at the official list of participating countries.
 * Egypt.jpg Egypt - This country was at the official list of participating countries.
 * Fiji.jpg Fiji - The Fijian broadcaster announced that they were invited to take part by the Australian broadcaster to debut in this edition. The Australian broadcaster wanted to see more countries from Oceania in this contest.
 * Iceland.jpg Iceland - The Icelandic television broadcasted the previous edition and reached high viewing numbers. Because of this, they decided to take part.
 * Morocco.jpg Morocco - This country was at the official list of participating countries.