Alaxian Melody Festival 2

"Alaxian Melody Festival 2451" redirects here. For the Alaxian Melody Festival held on 21 December 2451, see 2nd Alaxian Melody Festival.

Alaxian Melody Festival 2
Dates
Final	21 December 2451
Host
Venue	Vreimer Stadie de Melodi, Vreimer, Empherias
Presenter(s)	Fraser Clayst Elise Waltz Edwin Likks
Host broadcaster	International Broadcasting Agency (IBA) High Kingdoms Broadcasting Company (HKBC)
Participants
Number of entries	7
Debuting countries	Palakkinen
Vote
Voting system	Each country distributes 30 points according to the jury's favourite entries, and another 30 points according to the public's favourite entries, in any weight they like.
Winning song	Ahitereira Çoto Diega, "Kracén Una da Letaş wa"

The Alaxian Melody Festival – Summer of Empherias, retroactively known as the 2nd Alaxian Melody Festival, was the second edition of the annual Alaxian Melody Festival. It took place in Vreimer, Empherias in the High Kingdoms of Alaxia. Organised by the International Broadcasting Agency (IBA) and the High Kingdoms Broadcasting Company (HKBC), the contest was held at the Vreimer Stadie de Melodi venue on 21 December 2451. The main presenters were Empheri television presenters Fraser Clayst and Elise Waltz.

Seven countries participated in the competition: The five constituent countries of the High Kingdoms of Alaxia, alongside Grensalbourg and debutant Palakkinen. Each country would give two sets of points– one from a professional jury of musical professionals, and one from an amalgamation of surveys from the public. Musical professionals being used helped steer the contest towards focusing on good vocals, while an element from the public allowed for interaction with the audience at home. Juries would evaluate and judge performances during rehearsals the week prior to the show filming, and the public were able to vote by writing to their local broadcasting system with their favourites over a two month period prior to the show, in which the eligible songs would play on the radio and television.

Each country had a total of 30 points to give out from both the jury and public vote for a total of 60. They could allocate these points according to the weight they saw fit and had no restrictions of minimum or maximum points they could spend on any entry. Countries could not vote for themselves however. Rules for the songs were that they must be completely originally, with songs having to be released after 1 September 2450. Only a maximum of eight people were allowed on stage (although no performance had more than 3), and the song must be between 2 minutes 45 seconds and 4 minutes long, and must fit the orchestra provided. The programme would last an hour and a half with an interval act by Zwartious, the winner of the previous year.

Production

The great success of the first show prompted the format to return. For national day 2451, not much material was created and so in September, they decided to do a second Alaxian Melody Festival to fill air time and celebrate Empheri, and Alaxian, culture more. Flynn Metz remained as producer for the second edition.

Location

Because Empherias had won the previous contest, and Metz was an Empheri producer, and because the edition was to celebrate Empherias' national day, a venue in Empherias was to be chosen. Vreimer was eventually chosen to host due to its Koresan and Vreit cultural ties and closeness to other Alaxian nations.

Fraser Clayst and Elise Waltz were chosen to present again, just like the previous edition. Edwin Likks joined them for some of the show, being a member of the previous edition's winning band Zwartious.

Participating countries

See also: Alaxian Melody Festival § List of countries

Six countries participated in the contest. These were the High Kingdoms of Alaxia constituent countries of Ahitereira, Empherias, Kiavalar, Koresa, Peryzium; and Grensalbourg.

The winner was Empherias represented by the song "Red Lights", composed by Edwin Likks and Mars Freun, two out of three of the Zwartious band members, who performed the song.

Participants and results of the 1st Alaxian Melody Festival

R/O	Country	Artist	Song	Language	Points	Place
1	Empherias	Emmy Petris	"Backseat"	Empheri	60	4th
2	Koresa	Vaneça Ema	"Ve Ane Ramo"	Ahitereiran	98	2nd
3	Kiavalar	Melindra Benoine	"The Desert Walk"	Low Valari	29	5th
4	Palakkinen	Tomms Eine	"Mountaintop"	Palak	27	6th
5	Peryzium	JJ Or	"Team"	Low Valari	24	7th
6	Ahitereira	Çoto Diega	"Kracén Una da Letaş wa"	Ahitereiran	110	1st
7	Grensalbourg	Rozie Kleiner	"For One"	Empheri	78	3rd

In depth results

The announcement of the results began with the jury and ended with the public vote. The order of points was opposite to the running order of song performances.

Countries	Jury									Public									Result
								Total									Total		Total	Place
Empherias	//	1	6	10	1	2	10	30		//	1	6	4	3	3	13	30		60	4th
Koresa	1	//	6	8	12	20	6	54		3	//	0	8	8	16	9	44		98	2nd
Kiavalar	1	1	//	2	7	4	1	16		0	2	//	1	8	2	0	13		29	5th
Palakkinen	6	1	3	//	1	2	2	15		0	1	1	//	3	2	5	12		27	6th
Peryzium	2	1	8	2	//	1	1	15		0	0	5	1	//	2	1	9		24	7th
Ahitereira	10	25	5	2	8	//	10	60		6	22	10	6	4	//	2	50		110	1st
Grensalbourg	10	1	2	6	1	1	//	21		21	6	8	10	4	8	//	57		78	3rd

Spokespersons

Some countries nominated a spokesperson to read out the points they distributed. Known spokespersons are listed below.

• Empherias – Elise Waltz
• Ahitereira – Bitraş, Ahitereiran artist from the 1st edition.

Other countries

• Hveden Federation – Was eligible, having broadcast the previous edition. HVF expressed interest but did not debut, potentially because HKBC did not want radical expansion to the contest.
• Illuaq – Was eligible, having broadcast the previous edition. ADB Illuaq expressed interest but did not debut, potentially because HKBC did not want radical expansion to the contest.
• Karkuss – Was eligible, having broadcast the previous edition. KARK expressed interest but did not debut, potentially because HKBC did not want radical expansion to the contest.
• Livyirin – Was eligible, having broadcast the previous edition. VLR1 expressed interest in having Livyirin debut but this did not happen, potentially because HKBC did not want radical expansion to the contest.

Broadcasts

Each participating broadcaster was required to relay the contest via either a television or radio network. The broadcast was sold to other countries to play on demand, but nobody outside of the participating countries relayed the show live. Broadcasters were able to send commentators to provide coverage of the contest in their own native language and to relay information about the artists and songs to their television viewers. Known details on the broadcasts in each country, including the specific broadcasting stations and commentators are shown in the tables below.

Broadcasters and commentators in participating countries

Country	Broadcaster	Channel(s)	Commentator(s)	Language
Live showing
High Kingdoms of Alaxia	HKBC	HKBC	Luca de Grelsig	Exteras
Ahitereira	ADB	ADB1	Jakébe Ŗeşo Mano	Ahitereiran
Empherias	ENTV	ENTV One	Peter Speetsen	Empheri
Grensalbourg	ENTV	ENTV Grensalbourg	Elsie Jacks	Empheri
	GBBP	GBBP One	Montgomery Vetts	Palak
Kiavalar	VLR1	VLR1 Prime	Korban Arrin, Farras Iyestarrin	Low Valari
Koresa	KDB	KDB1	Vaneça Saria	Ahitereiran
Peryzium	PBC	PBC Prime	Duran Karsen	Peryzi
Illuaq	ADB Illuaq		Hera Kalunat	Ahitereiran
Livyirin	VLR1	VLR1 Livyirin	Korban Arrin, Farras Iyestarrin	Low Valari
On demand
Hveden Federation	HVF	HVF III	no commentary	Kusfeldic
Karkuss	KARK	Channel A	TBD	Durbinian