LumpyFEST #02

LumpyFEST 02 was the 2nd Edition of the contest, which took place on Saturday the 2nd of December 2023 in Nokia Arena, where 14 Artists from around the globe competed.

Location

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City

Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population of 341,696; and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, has a population of 393,941 The country was announced as a host on the 2nd of August.

Venue

Nokia Arena (originally Tampere Deck Arena) is an indoor arena in Tampere, Finland. It hosts ice hockey games, including the 2022 Men's World Championship, and large cultural events.

Host Selection

Due to LumpyFEST's Rules, Saryotte (who won the previous edition) had the honour of selecting the country the competition would take place in. Coincidently, he also chose the venue, in which the Organising Committee approved the decision.

Format

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Presenters

Eurovision_lover15 (otherwise known as Lumpy in the community) began his journey within the community in 2018 when he was searching for Eurovision games to play on Roblox. While doing this, he stumbled upon a contest called Blazivision Song Contest (BSC for short), who were in the middle of a rehearsal. Since then, he's been involved in many competitions as a dancer and Head of Delegation.

In 2021, he formed what would be known as LumpyFEST (but was formerly known as Lumpy's Earthvision Song Contest), organising 2 editions before the competition's reformatting. He currently still is the Executive Supervisor of LumpyFEST, but also gives his time to other contests as well (notably in Quackvision Song Contest, and Oxyo's Eurovision Song Contest).

To this day, he has rarely placed outside of Grand Final placings, even going as far as placing inside the Top 10 more than 5 times in his history participating. His recent achievement was winning (the now dismantled) Cyan's Globalvision Song Contest in Reykjavík, Iceland representing Japan with MIYAVI's "New Gravity"; Earning 98 points from the Jury, and 121 points from the public, thus winning the televote, public vote AND the competition overall. He received 219 points in total.

Lumpy presented the show on Discord after complications rendered the possibility to host the show on Roblox impossible.

The Theme

The competition's Slogan, "ECCENTRIC", was revealed as part of the LumpyFEST Direct event on the contest's Discord server along with the theme. Designed by Lumpy, the theme consisted of a neon circle, calling on the contest's unusual nature. The theme called on viewers to live their authentic selves.

Entries

According to the LumpyFEST Rulebook:

• The Artist must not have been in the Eurovision Song Contest or any of its affiliates.
• The Song length was to be 2 minutes in length at a minimum
• Mainstream songs were not permitted to take part, and a Top 15 cap was set on the Billboard charts.

More on the Rules of LumpyFEST can be found here

Grand Final Allocation

All 14 artists were drawn at random in each half to prevent any sort of bias in the sorting of artists. The result of the draw were as follows:

The Results

Ayla D'lyla won the edition with 227 Points, with Donna Missal finishing in 2nd Place with 195 Points. Slayyyter finished in 3rd Place with 193 Points. Ayla D'lya also broke LumpyFEST's point record, beating CHAMELEO's winning total of 131 Points.