EuroRegion Song Contest 3

The EuroRegion Song Contest 3 was the third edition of the EuroRegion Song Contest. Catalonia was announced as hosting region. They decided to organise the edition in the Catalan capital city: Barcelona. 13 regions took part in this edition.

This edition was won by the Tatar singer Damira Saetova with her song "Jezledem tabalmadym". Sápmi finished for the second edition in a row at the second place. Catalonia completed the top three.

Location
At the end of the previous edition, the EBU announced that they would select a host region internally. Later on, it was clear that Catalonia were selected. According to some rumors, Tatarstan and Sápmi were also contenders to organize this edition.

Barcelona was selected as host city. The venue was the Palau de la Música Catalana, with a capacity of 2.200 seats.

Format
The most important thing was that the entries were peformed to show the ethnical background of the nation or the people groups. The EBU prefered that the songs were sung in a minority language, but this was not obbligaroty.

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

In this contest, also regions from Australia and the United States are able to take part.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/479503/euroregion-song-contest-03---barcelona

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

Withdrawing regions

 * Gamilaraay.jpg Gamilaraay - This Aboriginal Australian people group, decided to withdraw from the competition. Their reason for this decicion was the lack of singers who were interested to take part in this third edition. The head of delegation announced that they were would continue talks with various artist. He also added to his statement that he hoped that they would be represented soon again in the future.