Regarde:Lao 2

Regarde:Lao 2 is the Laotian music festival which has been continued since January 2021, held in Spring 2021. It was used as a selection method to determine the Laotian entry for Own Asiavision Song Contest 26.

Laotian-Quebecois music producer and disc hockey Kin Aesis was selected to present Laos in Own Asiavision Song Contest 25 by the international juries and Laotian public during the show Regarde:Lao.

Format
The competition featured nine songs internally selected from submissions. The artirts were responsible for organizing and directing the performance. In the final, the winning song was determined by the votes from a combination of an international jury panel and for the first time, alongside with public voting via Twitter trending.

The international jury pane accounted for majority parts of voting. The televoting panel which was determined and mathematically calculated, accounted as one set of votes.

Final
The final was taken place on May 3, 2021 at ZZZZ in Pakse, Laos with no audiences due to the coronavirus outbreak. The show was hosted by Bulgarian-Laotian singer and actress Alexandra Bounxouei. It was held by LNTV. On May XX, 2021, Kin Aesis was announced as the second winner of Regarde:Lao with the amount of XX points, scoring 22 more points than the runner-up Sophie-Tith, who will represent the country later in the twenty-seventh edition.

At OASC
Own Asiavision Song Contest 26 had taken place in Kaohsiung, Oman and consisted of two semi-finals and the final on Spring 2021. According to Own contests rules, all nations with the exceptions of the "Big 6" (The host country and the top 5 placed countries of the previous edition) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final.

On 2021, the allocation draw for the semi-finalists took place, where the semi-finalists were drawn into the two semi-finals. Laos was allocated to perform XXth in the first semi-final, before X and after X. Kin Aesis successfully achieved tenth place in the semi and qualified to the grand final. Laos was drawn to perform XXth in the final show, after XX and before XX. However, the country finished 21th place with XX points in the show which was the worst placement achieved by normal qualifiers in the final.