EuroMusic Song Contest 17

The EuroMusic Song Contest 17 was the seventeenth edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Germany, that won the previous edition, with the song You let me walk alone. This was the fourth time that Germany hosted the contest. The host city was Cologne.

Romania, who returned to the contest, won it for the very first time. Debuting nation: Czech Republic, finished at the second place. Netherlands ended at the third place.

Location
Straight after the German victory in the previous edition, ADR announced that they would host this edition. They said they would select a host venue and city. The EBU and ADR published the conditions for the city and venue. One of the terms was that the venue needs to have a capacity of at least 8.500 seats.

This was the fourth time that Germany hosted this contest.

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

Host venue Shortlisted

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. Now 41 countries were able to sign for a participation. This means that each semi final would have 20 countries. 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 mst 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 four representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same countries.

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

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

Grand Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/305091/euromusic-song-contest-17--grand-final

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

Debuting countries

 * Australia.jpg Australia - However Australia isn't a member of the EBU, they normally can't participate in the EuroMusic Song Contest. However, they got a special status as associate member, because of this they were able to participate in the contest.
 * Czech Republic.jpg Czech Republic - The Czech broadcaster, ČT, decided to debuts in the contest for the seventeenth edition.
 * Montenegro.jpg Montenegro - Montenegro tried to debut in the fourteenth edition. However, they were not on the official list published by the EBU. After the sixteenth edition, it was clear that Montenegro would début.

Returning countries

 * Austria.jpg Austria - Because the fact that the contest took place in Germany, the Austrian broadcaster putted effort to return to the contest.
 * Romania.jpg Romania - This country was on the list of participating countries, published by the EBU.

Withdrawing countries

 * France.jpg France - Because of the disappointing results in the previous editions, the French broadcaster decided to withdraw.
 * Norway.jpg Norway - Norway wasn't on the official of participating countries.
 * Switzerland.jpg Switzerland - After the sixteenth edition (and their last place in the final), the Swiss broadcaster said that they were still discussing or Switzerland would continue to participate. Later on, it was clear that Switzerland would withdraw from the contest.