EuroRegion Song Contest 7

The EuroRegion Song Contest 7 was the seventh edition of the EuroRegion Song Contest. Sápmi was announced as hosting region. They decided to organise the edition in Rovaniemi. It was the second time that Sápmi hosted the contest.

The debuting region, Corsica, won this edition with 114 points. It was the first time in the history of any EuroMusic event that a debuting region could win in their first particiption, exept of the first edition. Both the Faroe Islands and Wales finished with 103 points. They received from every voting region points, but because the Faroe Islands received more 12 points, they were ranked as second. Ruthenia finished for the second edition in a row at the last place.

13 regions took part in this edition, one participant lower as in the previous edition. Corsica debuted after a long time of trying to participate. Besides them, West Flanders also debuted. Bashkortostan and Tatarstan were forced to withdraw because Russia and their regions were excluded from participating in future editions by the EBU due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Lusatia wasn't able to find interested singers to particpate. They said that they hoped to return very soon to the contest.

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 Sápmi was selected. According to some rumors, Friesland, Sápmi and Wales were interested to host this edition. Sápmi were able to convince the EBU and were chosen to organize the edition. This was the first time in the history of the contest that a region hosted the festival in two consecutive editions.

Rovaniemi was selected as host city. The venue was the Lappi Areena, with a capacity of 4.780 people.

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.

Returning artists
The contest featured two representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same region.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/554178/euroregion-song-contest-7---sami

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

Debuting regions

 * Corsica.jpg Corsica - This island of France showed already interests to particpate for a long time.
 * West Flanders.jpg West Flanders - This Flemish province decided to send an entry to this seventh edition. This was the first time that an entry from Belgium would participate in the contest.

Withdrawing regions

 * Bashkortostan.jpg Bashkortostan - Russia and their regions were excluded from participating in future editions by the EBU due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
 * Lusatia.jpg Lusatia - This region decided to withdraw because of the low interests of Lusatian singers. The broadcaster announced that they would like to return as soon as possible.
 * Tatarstan.jpg Tatarstan - Russia and their regions were excluded from participating in future editions by the EBU due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.