Plastics song contest 1

The Plastics song Contest 1 was the inaugural edition of the monthly Plastics Song Contest. It took place in Cleveland, the United States, and was held at the Quicken Loans Arena.

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History
During a meeting in South Africa in 2019, members of the International Radio and Television Organisation discussed ideas to organise a world music competition, taking inspiration from the Eurovision Song Contest. From that meeting, the concept of the Plastics song Contest was born. A decision was reached to hold the first ever contest the following year in Cleveland.

Hosting Information
On 9 July it was announced that Cleveland will serve as the host city of the Plastics song Contest 1.

Bidding phase

 * The host city had to be near a major airport.
 * The venue must be available for at least six weeks before the contest and one week after the conclusion of the contest
 * The venue must not be open-air, but an air-conditioned building with a capacity of at least 10,000 and a minimum ceiling height of 15 metres (49 ft), insulated for sound and light.
 * The green room must be located as close to the arena as possible (or within it), with a capacity of 300

The Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland is a multi-purpose indoor arena is the home of the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA), the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League, and the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League. It has a capacity of 20,000 attendees. It is located in  in the north of Downtown Cleveland.

Besides Cleveland ties signalled their interest in bidding to host the contest: Charleston and Miami. The mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez declared he would not be interested in "spending millions of euros" to host the contest.

On 1 June 2019, NBC representatives met with the Plastics  Song Contest Reference Group at the OIRT headquarters. During the meeting, NBC officials attended a workshop covering several topics related with hosting the Plastics Song Contest. They also had the opportunity to present their first plans for the contest, including multiple proposals for the host city and venue. On 9 July 2019, the OIRTand NBC announced that Cleveland been selected as the host city, overcoming confirmed bids from Charleston and Miami. In addition, NBC indicated the Quicken Loans Arena, as the site for the shows.

Slogan
The slogan is " Be Yourself". The organisation wanted a slogan that isn't political and is really personal that people can connect with. Ofcourse much media says that it's political due the discrimination of black people in America.

National selections
Serbia's broadcaster RTS hosted an national final in their studios. The winner is GASTTOZZ ft. ALEXANDRA with the song " KATAKLIZMA "

They are honoured to represent their country in the first edition of the Plastics Song Contest. The voting method of these NF goes that independent juries vote for their favourite with the same voting system as PSC. Here is the website.

Saudi Arabians participation
Their participation leaded to a mass of discuss. Saudi Arabia is well known as a country where freedom of media and the people isn't accepted. There was much speculation of a participation of Syria. The managment says that every country is welcome. "We celebrate our peace, not getting more drama!"

Cleveland as host city
Many media find it weird that Cleveland is chosen as host city of the US. They say it was more interesting that New York or Washington was one of the cities to chose of, but they were even not in the race of host it. The mayors of these worldcities says that they want to give a chance to regions that haven't much tourists.

International broadcasts and voting
The contest was broadcast in over 22 countries.

Spokespersons

 * 🇦🇺 TBA
 * Flag of Barbados.svg Shontelle
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ed Sheeran
 * 🇫🇮 Jenni Vartainen
 * 🇫🇷 TBA
 * 🇩🇪 TBA
 * 🇮🇪 Ryan O'Shaughnessy
 * 🇮🇹 TBA
 * Flag of Latvia.svg TBA
 * Flag of Mali.svg Aya Nakamura
 * 🇲🇩 Artur Ioniță
 * Flag of Mongolia.svg TBA
 * 🇳🇱 Ilse Delange


 * 🇳🇴 TBA
 * 🇷🇴 The Humans
 * Flag of Saudi Arabia.png Weam Al Dakheel
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Adelaide Kain
 * 🇷🇸 Jovana Joksimovic
 * 🇰🇷 Ong Seongwoo
 * 🇪🇸 Brendan Murray
 * 🇸🇪 Wiktoria
 * 🇺🇸 Bella Thorne
 * Flag of Vietnam.svg Hoàng Thúy Linh
 * Flag of Wales.svg Adele

Broadcasters

 * 🇦🇺 SBS
 * Flag of Barbados.svg CNN
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 BBC
 * 🇫🇮 Yle
 * 🇫🇷 France 2
 * 🇮🇪 RTE
 * 🇮🇹 RAI
 * Flag of Latvia.svg LTV
 * Flag of Mali.svg ORTM Télévision
 * 🇲🇩 TRM
 * Flag of Mongolia.svg World Service
 * 🇳🇱 AVROTROS


 * 🇷🇴 TVR
 * Flag of Saudi Arabia.png MBC
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 BBC Alba
 * 🇷🇸 RTS
 * 🇰🇷 Mnet
 * 🇪🇸 RTE
 * 🇸🇪 SVT
 * 🇺🇸 NBC
 * Flag of Vietnam.svg VTV
 * Flag of Wales.svg BBC Cymru