EuroMusic Song Contest 24

The EuroMusic Song Contest 24 was the twenty fourth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Poland, that won the previous edition, with the song Empires. This was the first time that Poland hosted this contest.

Slovakia, who qualified for the first time for the final, won the grand final. Bulgaria finished at the second place followed by Azerbaijan who came third. Israel finished at the last place with zerro points.

Location
Straight after the Polish victory in the previous edition, TVP announced that they would host this edition. They said to choose a host venue, through a selection. Each city was able to select one venue.

This isn't the first time that Poland hosted a EuroMusic event. They already hosted the fourth edition of the EuroMusic Dance Contest in Gdańsk.

Here you can see the cities and venues who where intrested to host the contest.

Host venue Shortlisted

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.

For this edition, only 28 countries signed up to participate. This means that there will be only one semi-final. The first eleven countries from the previous edition automatically qualified for the final.

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 six representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same countries.

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

Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/353656/euromusic-song-contest-24--grand-final

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

Returning countries

 * Slovakia.jpg Slovakia - RTVS, the Slovak broadcaster, announced that the country would return to the contest. They said that they had intensive talks with the Polish broadcaster TVP.

Withdrawing countries

 * Belarus.jpg Belarus - This country wasn't at the official list of participating countries.
 * Cyprus.jpg Cyprus - The Cypriotic broadcaster announced to withdraw because of the lack of interests.
 * Denmark.jpg Denmark - This country wasn't at the official list of participating countries.
 * France.jpg France - The French broadcaster announced that the country would not take part in this edition. The broadcaster wanted to focus more on national singing competitions.
 * Italy.jpg Italy - RAI, the Italian broadcaster, said that Italy would withdaw from the contest because of the disappointing results.
 * Turkey.jpg Turkey - The Turkish broadcaster announced that they where not interested to continue their participation in the contest. They said that a return in the near future was very uncertain.