Season 1

The inaugural season of Zandoli Song Contest took place in York, England. The semi finals took place on 11 November 2020, and the final was 7 days later, on the 18 November 2020.

41 countries took part in the contest. This season had no special theme. The format was 12 songs qualifying from each semi final with no wildcard.

Due to personal reasons, Indonesia withdrew from the contest while the semi-final was ongoing.

The winning song this season came from Nepal. Nepal were represented by HOLYCHILD and their song "Raining Romance", and they scored 177 points. Nepal finished 8 points ahead of the runner up: Guam. Guam were represented by Elegant Slims and their song "Not Human", receiving 169 points. The winning jury was Maki, while the 2nd place jury was Vlad.

The voting system was a 50-50 split between the juries and internal televoters (non-juries who are in the server and juries from the opposite semi) and in the final, a 50-50 split between the juries who qualified for the final (finalists' vote) and again internal televoters (non-juries who are in the server and non-qualifying juries).

Semi Final 1
20 countries competed in Semi Final 1, and those countries, all voted in this semi final except for Indonesia, who withdrew for personal reasons

The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

12 points
Here are all the 12 points given by the juries in Semi Final 1.

Semi Final 2
21 countries competed in Semi Final 2, and those countries, all voted in this semi final.

The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

12 points
Here are all the 12 points given by the juries in Semi Final 2.

Grand Final
''24 countries competed in the Grand Final, and all 41 countries were allowed to vote. Nepal won Season 29 by with 177 points.''

The songs which finished 2nd-6th have qualified for the first edition of Zandoli All Stars.

12 points
Here are all the 12 points given by the juries in the Grand Final.

Non Voters
The following countries did not vote in the Final & Semi-Final and were therefore disqualified:


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