NSC statistics

These are statistics about nations participating in Nation Song Contest, and the NSC self. The contest is now in the 7th edition so the below is a brief overview of the statistics arising from the contests so far.

Participants/voters
In this table you can see how many participants there were per edition, and how many of those participants voted in the semi-final and in the final. The reason why soms editions have fewer voters than participants is that sometimes a nation fails to vote. Microstate Qualification has been introduced in NSC 10, which made it possible to have more participants than 42. Since NSC 14 the microstates who weren't able to qualify were obliged to vote in the semi-final and the final. NSC 13 has been the most crowded edition to date, with 49 participants. In the semi-finals of NSC 13, and in the final of NSC 14, 5 nations failed to vote, which was a record.

Douze points
Up to and including NSC 15 a total of 498 top marks of 12 points have been awarded in the NSC finals. This takes into account entries that have not voted. As you can see by the table below the winner does not always get a lot of top marks. The exception to this is the winner of NSC5, Bokia which is the most successful entry in NSC history. The reason for this seems to be the varied musical tastes of NSC Nations. The list below shows each winner of NSC and the 12 points received versus the 12 points available. The least successful is Arjastan in NSC3 which won the contest only receiving 1 x 12 points.

Most Successful Entries
One way of judging how 'successful' a song is is the percentage of the possible points it could get in total - i.e., if it received 12 points from every voting country other than itself, it would have almost 100%. Applying this formula to all the entries since NSC 5, we see that these are the most succesful songs:

So this makes the oldest entry in this list by far the most successful entry to date.

Overall Standings
The table below gives info on every country entered in Nation Song Contest. The infomation is To sort on a column, just click on the arrows next to the column heading. Under construction (15/05/2008, 12:13 CET)

NSC League
After every editiobn Maomania (Alinta)calculates the NSC League. This table differs with the overall standings: it doesn't calculate the total scores, but the achievements based on the results of a nation.