EuroMusic Song Contest 11

The EuroMusic Song Contest 11 was the eleventh edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Germany, that won the last edition, with the song Is it right. Munich was choosen as host city. It was the second time that Germany hosted this contest. In the second edition, Düsseldorf was the host city.

At the end of the final, it was clear that the United States won this edition. It was their first victory in the contest. Hosting country, Germany became second. Austria finished third, what was their first top 3 placing.

Location
After the German victory in the previous edition, the ADR announced that they will host the 11th edition. They said to choose a host venue, through a selection. It will be the second time that Germany will host the contest.

All interested cities could sign up at the ADR. The broadcaster said that the venue has to have at least a capacity of 8.000 people.

Berlin, Dortmund and Munich announced that they would like to host this edition.

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

Host venue

During a press conference, the ADR announced that they selected Muncich as host city for this edition. It will be the second time that Germany didn't choose for their capital city Berlin.

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.

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. After, a team will create a running order.

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.

Semi final allocation draw

 * The United States were drawn in the second semi final.

Returning artists
The contest featured three 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:

Final
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/271778/euromusic-song-contest-11-grand-final--munich

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

Debuting countries

 * Albania.jpg Albania - The Albanian broadcaster show a lot of interst to debuts already for a couple of editions. The EBU announced that Albania would participate, because they were on the official list of participants.
 * Serbia.jpg Serbia - The Serbian broadcaster announced that they would debuts in this edition.
 * Slovakia.jpg Slovakia The Slovakian broadcaster announced that they would debuts in this edition.

Returning countries

 * Israel.jpg Israel - The Israeli broadcaster KAN, anncounced that they would return to the contest, after an absence of three editions.
 * Luxembourg.jpg Luxembourg - The Luxembourgish broadcaster announced that they would return to the contest. The main reason for their return was the fact that ADR, the German broadcaster "invited" Luxembourg to participate in their country. The head of the Luxembourgish delegation said that they have to score well, to stay in the competition for the following editions.
 * United States.jpg United States - The American broadcaster NBC, anncounced that they would return to the contest, after an absence of two editions.

Withrawing countries

 * France.jpg France - The French withrawal came by a lot of people as a suprise. The French broadcaster: France 2, said that they would take a one year break of the contest. They added in their announcement that non qualification for the final in the previous edition was not the reason for this decision.
 * Morocco.jpg Morocco - The Moroccan broadcaster SNRT, anncounced that they are withrawing from the contest, due the bad results, and the losing interest. They also said that a return in the near future, was very unlikely.