Polynesian Song Festival

The Polynesian Song Festival, often shortened to PSF is a song contest as well as national selection on Youtube held, primarily, among the member countries of the Polynesian region within the Own Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union since February 2022. The competition is based upon the existing Own Asiavision Song Contest held among the member countries of the OABU since 2015. The current and official executive supervisor are Lewis, Holiday and Uhsting.

Each country's head of delegation gets to select a various amounts of entries for each edition to compete in the competition. Then the countries get to vote for each show (or final) to determine the the winner of the edition, and most importantly, which song will be represented by the competing countries for the following Own Asiavision Song Contest.

Origins
The first ever Polynesian Song Festival started in February 2022. It was held in the capital cities of Niue, Samoa and Tonga which also were the first ever countries to host the Polynesian Song Festival, and OABU event in general. 3 nations took part in the first edition, which were also the host nations only, with Samoa and Tonga submitting 4 songs into the selection and Niue submitting 2. Each country in the OABU is invited to vote in the contest, awarding 12 points to their favorite, 10 points to their second favourite and then 8 points to 1 point for the rest.

The first contest was won by TBA.

Participation
Any full member of the Own Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, that comes under the region of Polynesia, is allowed to send songs for the Polynesian Song Festival. Each full member has got a certain broadcaster that is responsible for the choice of the artists and songs the country is sending for each edition, and is also responsible for sending their highest scoring entry in the PSF, to the next OASC.

3 countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

Rules
There are several rules of the contest in order to enter, these rules are exactly the same as the parent competition, the Own Asiavision Song Contest since the winning entries of PSF need to meet the standards of OASC in order for them to compete in OASC after the national selection. Main rule of the contest is that the country has to officially join the Own Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union with a certain broadcaster before applying to enter the contest. Regarding the broadcaster, any broadcaster can be accepted by the OABU. The head of delegation of the certain country must be at the position for at least three editions. If the head of delegation is not satisfied with the country, one can swap the countries with other users. There are also rules regarding the entries, such as that Eurovision Song Contest songs are not allowed to compete in the contest or that the singer must be over the age of 16.

Voting
The voting for the inaugural Polynesian Song Festival is relatively straightforward in terms of points. All nations in the Own Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union are invited to cast their votes in order to create a result for the artists who are in contention to represent the respective competing nations in the Own Asiavision Song Contest. Depending on the number of participants each edition, the scores will change slightly - but the main principles remain the same. Likewise to OASC, the 12 points from the jury will go to the juries favourite act of the night, followed by 10 for 2nd place, 8 for 3rd and so on until there is no points left to give. After the votes have been given, the council will add the scores up in the form of a scoreboard and this shall decide the winner of the contest. Moreover, the best scoring songs on the scoreboard from each of the countries participating will be the chosen songs that will represent them at the Own Asiavision Song Contest.

Entries
For the first edition, the PBU announced that 10 songs will be competing in the first edition. These were assumed to be divided up between the three nations so that they all have an qual amount of participants. However, it was revealed afterwards that there would be 4 songs from both Tonga and Samoa, and 2 songs from Niue. The songs and their respective running order positions were to be revealed in due course. Each countries entries could change per edition.