EuroMusic Song Contest 33

The EuroMusic Song Contest 33 was the thirty third edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Malta, that won the previous edition, with the song Je me casse. This was the second time that Malta hosted this contest. Ta' Qali was selected to host this edition.

Lesley Roy won this edition for Ireland with the song "Maps". She received 170 points. It was the third Irish victory in the contest. Albania achieved ther best result ever in this edition by finishing at the second place. Sweden finished at the third place.

Location
Straight after the Maltese victory in the previous edition, TVM announced that they were planning to host this edition. At the official press conference after their victory, the Maltese broadcaster said to be proud that the EuroMusic was again comming to Malta. They directly announced that they selected the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre as venue, in Ta' Qali. This venue has a capacity of 13.000 seats.

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. Because of the limited number of participants, there was no semi final.

From the 27th edition unitil the 30th edition, the last three countries have to withdraw from the competition. This is to give other countries the possibility to return to the contest because of the limited spots. Since the 31st edition there is one semi-final, with a maximum of 20 countries.

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 one representative who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same country.

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

Grand Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/494891/euromusic-song-contest-33---grand-final

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

Returning countries

 * Georgia.jpg Georgia

Withdrawing countries

 * North Macedonia.jpg North Macedonia