EuroMusic Song Contest 29

The EuroMusic Song Contest 29 was the twenty ninth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Switzerland, that won the previous edition, with the song You and me. This was the second time that Switzerland hosted this contest. Geneva was announced as host city.

Iceland won this edition with the song "Mama said". It was the first time that Iceland won this contest. Belarus finished at the second place and Netherlands, who returned, completed the top three.

Location
Straight after the Swiss victory in the previous edition, SRG SSR 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.

Here are the cities and venues who where intrested to host the contest.

Host venu Shortlisted

When the Swiss broadcaster announced the official logo for this contest, it was clear that Geneva would host this edition.

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.

Since the 27th 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.

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 seven representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same or for another country.

Scoreboard
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/370866/euromusic-song-contest-29---geneva

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

Returning countries

 * Finland.jpg Finland
 * Israel.jpg Israel
 * Netherlands.jpg Netherlands

Withdrawing countries

 * Norway.jpg Norway - Because they finished at one of the last three possitions in the previous contest, they had to withdraw.
 * Russia.jpg Russia - Because they finished at one of the last three possitions in the previous contest, they had to withdraw.
 * Spain.jpg Spain - Because they finished at one of the last three possitions in the previous contest, they had to withdraw.