Regiovision Song Contest 7

The Regiovision Song Contest 7 was the seventh edition of the Regiovision Song Contest. The host country was England because they won the previous edition with the song Sweet lies.

Location
After the victory of England in the previous edition, they got the rights to host this edition. Directly after their victory, BBC Four announced that they would host the contest.

It was the first time that the contest was organised by the same region in two consecutive editions.

Format
Each region sends one song to the contest. The regions can't be independent. They also have to present some ethnical background in their region during their performance. The song can't be longer than five minutes. Because of this rule, Sicily sended a request to the EBU for their song. The EBU agreed and therefore Sicily could participate with a song that contained more English lyrics than Italian.

After that all the participating regions have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The region who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more regions receive the same number of points, the region that got points from most voting regions, will be ranked higher.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/364622/regiovision-song-contest-07---england

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

Debuting regions

 * Basque Country.jpg Basque Country - Basque Country was the last region to sign up for participation in the seventh edition.


 * Gagauzia.jpg Gagauzia - The region announced that they would take part in England. They already showed some interest to debut in the previous edition.

Withdrawing regions

 * Isle of Man.jpg Isle of Man - The region announced straight after the end of the previous edition that they would not send an act to this edition. The Isle of Man participated twice in the contest, where they finished in both editions at the last place.


 * Lapland.jpg Lapland - Lapland is no longer eligible to participate in the contest, because of some rules. The EBU held a meeting where they made the rules for participation stricter. Lapland isn't a political region, has no state and therefore they can no longer participate.


 * South Ossetia.jpg South Ossetia - GTRK Alania, the Ossetian broadcaster decided not to take part anymore in the contest because of the low results in the last two editions. Another reason was the lack of interest among artists to represent the nation.