EuroMusic Song Contest 23

The EuroMusic Song Contest 23 was the twenty third edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Romania, that won the previous edition, with the song Playing with fire. This was the second time that Romania hosted this contest. They choosed Bucharest as host city like in the eigteenth edition.

Poland won this edition. It was their first victory in this contest. Germany ended at the second place, with a margin of only two points. Malta completed the top three.

Location
Straight after the Romanian victory in the previous edition, TVR announced that they would host this edition. They said to choose a host venue, through a selection. Cities was able to select multiple venues.

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

Host venue

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.

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 or for another country.

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

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

Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/350986/euromusic-song-contest-23--grand-final

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

Returning countries

 * Poland.jpg Poland - The Polish broadcaster announced that they were considering a return. Later on, when the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that they would return.
 * Spain.jpg Spain - The Spanish broadcaster announced during the final of the 22nd edition, that the nation would make their return in this edition.

Withdrawing countries

 * Greece.jpg Greece - This coutnry did not appear on the list of participants published by the EBU.
 * Ireland.jpg Ireland - This coutnry did not appear on the list of participants published by the EBU.
 * Monaco.jpg Monaco - After the non-qualification in the previous edition, the broadcaster announced that they would doubt a following participation for the nation. Monaco did not appear on the list of participants published by the EBU.
 * Portugal.jpg Portugal - This coutnry did not appear on the list of participants published by the EBU.