The Song for Trimute

It is a future Trimute national selection for the eleventh edition of the Sentile Song Contest. 16 singers compete to become Mahan Moin's successor in becoming the next Trimute entrant for the said contest.

The national selection was first announced after the live telecast of Sentile's seventh edition, where TRTN had plans to amp up their appearance, especially noting their non-qualification on its debut. Open auditions were held last October 2019, where thousands of applicants from across cities of the nation sent their entries to TRTN's headquarters. Online auditions were also held a month later, much to a lesser extent, but still leaving a hundred more entries counted for the selection.

Both mediums of auditions ended by mid-December, where an expert panel of judges listened through snippets of all sent entries, and by the 28th of December, three days after Christmas, the final 16 songs have been announced through TRTN's online post in Twitter.

There were plans of having 18 spots in the final national selection, however, due to the rowdy behavior two certain past finalists portrayed right before the final announcement, their entries, not named for disclosure, had been revoked from the final line-up.

History
Knowing their performance in the main contest, Lumina Tryangel, the CEO of TRTN, decided to create a "song search" to find the next representative and represent and the nation in the contest. As that decision was made, a song was already selected for the tenth edition, thus, decided to use the idea for the eleventh edition, which seemed odd according to Trimute citizens as first announced on social media.

Auditions
Last October, after the finale of the seventh edition, Tryangel announced that auditions for a national selection were up, in order to find who be Trimute's next representative for the contest. Certain mobile in-person auditions were held in Zesho, Haikagon, Sechtricidad, Sessturia, and Thexa, in a total of two thousand successful entries who managed to impress the staff of TRTN.

Online auditions were also open to those who want to participate but don't have the money to travel to the mobile audition areas. Those interested are needed to send a song that is original, not a cover of a song done before in previous editions of the contest, and one with high-quality production. Hundreds more were able to successfully apply, but only a few of those entries actually made it through the main line-up of competitors (Lito Perezitos, siromaru and cranky).

Semi-Finals
After the completion of all auditions, all sent entries were then given to a five-membered panel of musical experts to examine and select the top sixteen (originally eighteen) songs for the main competition. These songs were then randomly placed in order of performance, which is when they will perform their song. In each semi-final, eight songs performed in order to impress the different juries of Trimute Lands, as well as those invited from the Sentile family. Once all performers finished, an interval act was done to give the viewer some time to rest in anticipation of the results.

After all breaks, the results will then be announced. The top four of each semi-final will qualify immediately to the finals, with the fifth placer having one more chance to qualify through the Second Chance round, and leaving the sixth to last placer eliminated from the competition.

Second Chance
The fifth placer of each semi-final will compete against each other to attain the ninth and final spot for the grand finale of the Song for Trimute. Interval acts will perform in a break for voting to complete without concern. After voting closes, the song with the higher point percentage will move on.

Finals
The nine finalists will perform one more time to show if they are worthy in becoming Trimute Lands' representative for SSC 11. Unlike the semi-finals and the Second Chance round, votes given to the participants will be converted to points, which will reach to a maximum of 2,000,000.

Three sections of voting are counted: the national juries, the international juries, and online voting. Once all votes are counted, the song and participant with the most points will become the nation's representative for SSC 11.

Songs
If you want to listen to all the songs, check out the full playlist of all the songs that will compete in this edition's national selection: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqkPJhZBetyHkTqnaSURVryG6tIYypsoj

Semi-Final 1

Semi-Final 2

Second Chance

Finals

Controversies
Lito Perezito was supposed to send his debut song "A Chance" to the national selection, however, he disclosed that the singer who "sung" in that has, unfortunately "left the Earth too soon", and decided to send his Spanish B-side, "¿Qué Pasa Conmigo?", instead, where the singer who participated in recording, ANI, was thrilled to hear, knowing it will be his first gig outside the stray city of his hometown, Semashko.