Kuwaiti Sound

Kuwaiti Sound (Arabic: الصوت الكويتي / Alsawt Alkuaytiu) is the national selection process for Kuwait in the Own Asiavision Song Contest. The first edition took place on 5 March 2020 to select the Kuwaiti entry for Own Asiavision Song Contest 23.

Location
Kuwaiti Sound is hosted at the Jaber al-Ahmad International Stadium (Arabic: ملعب جابر الأحمد الدولي‎) is a multi-purpose stadium in the Ardhiyah area of Kuwait City, Kuwait. Completed in 2009, it is used mostly for football matches and athletics. The stadium has a capacity of 60,001 seated spectators, the building is constructed in 4 levels, with 54 corporate boxes and parking lot with a 6,000 car capacity. It was expected to open in second quarter of 2010, but the building failed structural-integrity testing and remained closed due to a miscalculation by structural engineers for nearly half a decade. However it was finally opened on 18 December 2015. Jaber Al-Ahmad stadium is currently the new home of the Kuwait national football team.The stadium was named after late Amir of Kuwait Shaikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Kuwait celebrated their winning of Gulf Cup 20 in the stadium.

Format
Kuwaiti Sound consists of 1 final with 8 songs. After all songs have performed the voting commences, all participating nations in the edition of OASC that the Kuwaiti entry would be participating in are invited to vote in the contest by sending a professional jury to cast their votes. Non-participating nations are invited to vote as part of the Rest of the World. Votes are given to 5 songs with the voting set being: 1, 2, 3, 5 and 7 points. After all votes have been cast they are counted and the song with the most votes wins and gets the opportunity to represent Kuwait at the upcoming edition of Own Asiavision Song Contest.

Editions
There has been 1 edition of the contest, but a 2nd edition has been confirmed to take place to select the Kuwaiti entry for Own Asiavision Song Contest 24 after the success of the first edition which saw Kuwait achieve their best result in OASC, 14th.

Kuwaiti Sound #1
This edition took place on 5 March 2020. 6 juries voted, the number was believed to be small due to the technical issues experienced during the voting. New Caledonia were unable to submit their votes and had to send them a different way. After 5 juries had voted, the voting system crashed and the remaining jury of Taiwan sent their votes via a different method. As a result of the issues ScoreWiz, the voting operator that was used, was banned from Kuwaiti Sound.

Kuwaiti Sound #2
The dates and acts for this edition have not yet been confirmed. Several artists have expressed interest in participating, including Shams who represented Kuwait in the 18th edition. It is rumoured that a member of a local band will participate in the selection as a solo artist, though the band itself is not known. The voting provider was changed, with a detailed voting form being used instead of ScoreWiz.