Regiovision Song Contest 8

The Regiovision Song Contest 8 was the eighth edition of the Regiovision Song Contest. The host country was the Canary Islands because they won the previous edition with the song La venda.

Location
After the victory of the Canary Islands in the previous edition, they got the rights to host this edition. Directly after their victory, Televisión Canaria announced that they would host the contest.

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/366397/rsc-8

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

Debuting regions

 * Brittany.jpg Brittany - The Breton broadcaster announced at the end of the previous edition that they were considering to participate in this edition. They officially confirmed to participate four hours before the deadline.
 * Madeira.jpg Madeira - After several years of rumours the Madeiran broadcaster decided to participate in the eighth edition of the contest.

Returning regions

 * Northern Cyprus.jpg Northern Cyprus - BRT, who is responsible for the Northern Cypriotic participations announced that they would return to the contest.

Withdrawing regions

 * Catalonia.jpg Catalonia - However the popularity of the contest in Catalonia, TV3 decided not to select an entry for this edition.