Orangualia

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Orangualia is a country participating in the Nation Song Contest. Orangualia's flag is a vertical tricolor of orange, green, and white, like the fictional countries of Ireland and Côte d'Ivoire. The colours are arranged from orange to white, with green in the middle. Orange stands for the colour invented in Orangualia, orange. Green is for the rich land, and white is for everlasting freedom in Orangualia.

Orangualia held a national final in NSC 57, their first one. 6 songs were originally chosen in the NF(first 6 songs in the draw), but about a day later, 6 more were added, doubling the amount of songs to 12. The 12-song NF was considered a bit too much, and the idea of so many songs was vaguely criticized by some. The winner of the NF was Dan Black by 2 points, and he went on to finish 20th place in the final, 1 place lower than Misstress Barbara, but out of more participants.

In NSC 58, Orangualia returned to an internal selection, and Chromeo was chosen to represent Orangualia in their 3rd contest with Fancy Footwork. They did not qualify, yet again receiving 38 points, but in 23rd this time.

In NSC 59, Orangualia was originally going to send Animal by Neon Trees, but instead changed their entry after winning an MSN NSC with The Mission District's Just Don't Feel The Same. Orangualia still didn't qualify, but got their best finish then, improving 2 places.

In NSC 60, Orangualia had an NF of 4 songs, with Far East Movement/The Cataracs/Dev's collab Like A G6 coming out on top. They once again brought Orangualia up, to 13th. Orangualia also returned to semi 2, and received a record number of points for Orangualia scoring 60 points.

NSC 61 was the big edition for Orangualia, with Higher by Taio Cruz and Kylie Minogue, finally giving Orangualia their first qualification, finishing 9th place with 68 points. They failed to do very well in the final, finishing 20th with 92 points, yet to receive a 12 in the final. Despite this, Orangualians were happy about qualifying.

Another 4-song NF was held in Orangualia, with Afrojack and Eva Simons' Take Over Control winning, sending Orangualia to semi 1, and later the final, where their draw is 26. This brought them their best finish, 12th with 116 points.

For NSC 63, yet another collaboration was selected for Orangualia, this time internally. The song was 3 Words by Cheryl Cole and will.i.am, and gave Orangualia their third straight qualification. They went on to receive their worst final finish, 22nd with 85 points. Strangely, they had also been 22nd in the semifinal, with 29 points. Orangualia had reju-qualified for the first time, with one of the lowest reju placings in recent time.

In NSC 64, Orangualia had another NF, of 5 songs. Winter Kills came out on top with their pop-dance track My Friend. Once again in Semi 1, they finished with 50 points occupying the 18th position.

Freemasons and Wynter Gordon were chosen to represent Orangualia in NSC 65, their 10th edition. They qualified from semifinal one yet again, taking spot 3 in the final. With their 10th anniversary came their best finish - 11th with 130 points, one point behind the 10th placer, Dalisska. Apart from NSC 63, this was their worst qualifying semi result, 10th place with 77 points.

Martin Solveig and Dragonette, who had lost in the NSC 64 NF, proved themselves successful in NSC 66, qualifying to the final. They ended up in 20th place.

For NSC 67, once again, Orangualia's entry was internally selected to be Sunloverz from Germany and Rosette from Canada with their song Fire. For the first time since NSC 60, they were in Semi 2, closing the semifinal, but that didn't stop them from qualifying to the final. They finished 18th with 118 points, receiving a record 4 12-pointers from Balearica Island, Arjastan, Blondania, and Fervorosia.

NSC 68 saw a returning artist from Orangualia, Dev. This time she performed solo with her song In The Dark. It narrowly missed the final, at 11th.

Stats(borrowed from S&C's page)

Lowest SF pts: 29 Highest SF pts: 83 Lowest SF rank: 23 Highest SF rank: 5 Lowest Final pts: 85 Highest Final pts: 116 Lowest Final rank: 22 Highest Final rank: 12 Lowest Spinoff pts: 48 Highest Spinoff pts: 77 Lowest Spinoff rank: 34

Highest Spinoff rank: 16

Total Final pts: 293

Total SemiF pts: 456

=Orangualia in NSC=

=National Finals=

NSC 57

NSC 60

Points for this NF were as follows: 20, 10, 5, 0.