EuroMusic Song Contest 18

The EuroMusic Song Contest 18 was the eigteenth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Romania, that won the previous edition, with the song On a Sunday. This was the first time that Romania hosted this contest. Bucharest was choosen as host city.

At the end of the grand final, it was clear that Sweden won this edition. It was the third Swedish victory. Bulgaria followed as second place. Host country Romania finished at the third place.

Location
Straight after the Romanian victory in the previous edition, TVR announced that they would host this edition. They said they would select a host venue and city. The EBU and TVR published the conditions for the city and venue. One of the terms was that the venue needs to have a capacity of at least 8.000 seats.

The Romanian broadcaster announced that only the city of Bucharest applied to become the host city. Later on, TVR said that they confirmed that Bucharest would be the host city. Later on, it was clear that the Romexpo was choosen as the venue. This has a capacity of 14.000 people.

Number of participants
Since the seventh edition the EBU announced to put a maximum at the number of participants. In the seventh and eighth edition, eighteen countries were able to participate.

Because the introduction of the semi finals, there is no maximum of participating countries. However, since the seventeenth edition the EBU announced that they would put a new maximum of countries. This meant that 41 countries were able to sign for a participation. This means that each semi final would have 20 countries, plus the host nation (who qualify automatically). Until now, they never reached this limit.

Running order
There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The host country will have a random number. The rest of the countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. Later on, a team will create a running order to make the show as interesting as possible.

Song
Each country sends one song to the contest. There are no rules about the language of the song, but the song can't be longer than five minutes.

Voting rules
After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the most countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

Returning artists
The contest featured three representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same countries.

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Grand Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/309369/euromusic-song-contest-18--grand-final

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Retuning countries

 * Denmark.jpg Denmark - DR, the Danish broadcaster, announced that Denmark would retrun to the contest.

Withdrawing countries

 * Andorra.jpg Andorra - The RTVA announced that Andorra would not take part in this edition. The bad results in the past editions were the main reason for their decision.
 * Austria.jpg Austria - After their return in the previous edition, Austria announced to withdraw again.
 * Spain.jpg Spain - However since now, Spain participated in all the previous editions of the contest, the Spanish broadcaster announced that Spain was not gonne take part in Romania. They gave as reason the financial problems of the broadcaster.