EuroMusic Song Celebration 1

The EuroMusic Song Celebration 1 was the first edition of the EuroMusic Song Celebration. This edition took place in Vienna, Austria. The EBU selected the counry through a selction.

Sweden won this first edition. Ace Wilder finished at the first place at both the jury vote and the televoting. Poland finished at the second place followed by Norway.

15 countries took part in this first edition. There was a limited number of participants. The EBU announced that all interested countries were able to apply to take part. The first 15 nations could send an entry to Vienna. Both Belgium and France announced to be interested to take part, but were to late to apply.

Location
Different as in the EuroMusic Song Contest, the previous winners isn't automatically the next hosting country. In this edition the EBU selected one country through an selection. All particpating countries were able to send a bid to host the contest. Only Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the UK announced to be interested to host. At the end however, Germany didn't selected a potential host city, so they ruled out.

Host city

The EBU announced that Vienna was choosen as host city. This was the first time that Austria hosted a EuroMusic event.

Format
Countries could apply to participate. There is a maximum of 15 countries. Each country sends one song to the contest. Every country have to sing in their own national language. The song can't be longer than five minutes.

After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards two sets 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 got the highest rank from the televoting will be ranked higher.

There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order. The first, last place and the spot of the host country are drawn. The rest of the running order will be created by the producers of the show.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/549821/euromusic-song-celebration-1---vienna

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

Debuting countries

 * Australia.jpg Australia
 * Austria.jpg Austria
 * Germany.jpg Germany
 * Greece.jpg Greece
 * Ireland.jpg Ireland
 * Latvia.jpg Latvia
 * Malta.jpg Malta
 * Netherlands.jpg Netherlands
 * Norway.jpg Norway
 * Poland.jpg Poland
 * Portugal.jpg Portugal
 * Spain.jpg Spain
 * Sweden.jpg Sweden
 * Switzerland.jpg Switzerland
 * United Kingdom.jpg United Kingdom