Mystical Song Contest 1

The Mystical Song Contest #1 (also known as MSC 1) was the first edition of the Mystical Song Contest. It took place in Paris, 🇫🇷 France.

It was confirmed that 42 countries participated in the 1st edition. The participants were the 42 founding countries of the Mystical Broadcasting Union (MBU).

The prequalified countries for the first edition were decided by the creator of the contest, ESC Thømås. He decided that the top 6 of the previous edition will be prequalified. For the first edition, 🇧🇪 Belgium, 🇩🇪 Germany, 🇫🇷 France, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇪🇸 Spain and 🇨🇭 Switzerland were chosen as the prequalified countries of the contest.

The running orders were made by the supervisor of the contest ESC Thømås.

Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city in France, with an area of 105 square kilometres (41 square miles) and a population of 2,206,488. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe's major centres of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts. The Paris Region had a GDP of €681 billion (US$850 billion) in 2016, accounting for 31 per cent of the GDP of France. In 2013-14, the Paris Region had the third-highest GDP in the world and the largest regional GDP in the EU.

The City of Paris's administrative limits form an East-West oval centred on the island at its historical heart, the Île de la Cité; this island is near the top of an arc of the river Seine that divides the city into southern Rive Gauche (Left Bank) and northern Rive Droite regions. Paris is the core of a built-up area that extends well beyond its limits: commonly referred to as the agglomération Parisienne, and statistically as a unité urbaine (a measure of urban area), the Paris agglomeration's 2013 population of 10,601,122 made it the largest urban area in the European Union. City-influenced commuter activity reaches well beyond even this in a statistical aire urbaine de Paris (a measure of metropolitan area), that had a 2013 population of 12,405,426, a number one-fifth the population of France, the largest metropolitan area in the Eurozone.

Host of the show
On May 1, 2018 it was announced that Amir will be the host of the Mystical Song Contest 1.

Laurent Amir Khlifa Khedider Haddad (Hebrew: לורן עמיר חליפה חדידר חדד‎, born 20 June 1984 in Paris, France), better known as Amir Haddad (Hebrew: עמיר חדד‎), or simply as Amir, is a French-Israeli singer and songwriter. He took part in 2006 in the Israeli music competition Kokhav Nolad, released his album Vayehi in 2011 and was a finalist in French competition The Voice: la plus belle voix as part of Team Jenifer finishing third in the competition. He represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song "J'ai cherché", which finished in 6th place.

Haddad was born in Paris, France to Maghrebi Jewish parents from Tunisia and Morocco. He grew up in Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise) and immigrated to Israel in 1992 at the age of 8 as part of Aliyah residing in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv district. He sang as a young child in the synagogue and in various social events.

Amir was born with a hearing loss of 50% and only hears the left side.

Semi Finals
On May 1, 2018 the supervisor of the contest ESC Thømås had revealed the running order of both semi finals.

The big 6 members were assigned to a semi final where they had to vote.

A total of 18 countries competed in each semi final and 10 countries qualified in both.

Semi Final 1
In this semi final 🇫🇷 France, 🇩🇪 Germany and 🇨🇭 Switzerland had to vote.

Semi Final 2
In this semi, 🇮🇹 Italy, 🇧🇪 Belgium and 🇪🇸 Spain had to vote.