EuroMusic Dance Contest 2

The EuroMusic Dance Contest 2 was the second edition of the EuroMusic Dance Contest. The contest took place in Moscow, Russia.

From the eight participating countries, Poland was choosen as the winner. Portugal bacame second and Sweden completed the top three.

Location
The EBU announced that all the countries who were interested to host, had to send a bid.

The Swedish broadcatser announced that they were trying to bring the contest to Stockholm. A bit later, also Poland announced to send a bid with Gdańsk as potential host city. The last country who selected a candidate was Russia, with Moscow.

The EBU announced that Russia gots the rights to host this edition in Moscow. They selected the Bolshoi Theatre as their venue.

Format
Different a in the previous edition, the countries had to apply to participate. In the first edition, the EBU sended to some countries an invitation to participate.

Each country sends one act to perform at the contest. After that all the participating countries performed, a professional jury decide the top three, the rest of the results will not be announced.

Debuting countries

 * Greece.jpg Greece - The Greek broadcaster announced that they would make their debut at the second edition of the contest.
 * Portugal.jpg Portugal - The Portuguese broadcaster announced after the first edition that they were possibly taking part of the EBU would invited them. Later on, Portugal was on the official list of participants.

Withdrawing countries

 * Ukraine.jpg Ukraine - The broadcaster of Ukraine said that they were not participating if the contest would take place in Russia. When the EBU revealed that Russia became the host, Ukraine announced to withdraw immediately.