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In its originally planned form, the ceremony was to have been held at The Forum in Inglewood, California. Chance the Rapper was originally set to host,[5][6] with Justin Bieber and Quavo performing their song "Intentions" (which they would later perform in the following year's ceremony).[7][8] The ceremony was also originally scheduled to coincide with Nickelodeon's SlimeFest weekend of March 21–22, airing on March 22, which would have been the first time the ceremony had aired on a Sunday instead of its traditional Saturday night berth.[9] On March 7, the outdoor aspects of SlimeFest were postponed to a future date due to public health concerns regarding the COVID-19 pandemic,[10][11] before the network cancelled the event as a whole.[12] The ceremony itself was postponed four days after the SlimeFest postponement.[13] The original timeslot of the ceremony instead contained a "best-of" compilation special.[14][15] Voir plus