EuroMusic Song Contest 27

The EuroMusic Song Contest 27 was the twenty seventh edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest. The host country was Poland, that won the previous edition, with the song I'll be standing. This was the second time that Poland hosted this contest. Warsaw, the Polish capital, was chosen as host city.

Azerbaijan was the winner of this edition. They received 167 points. Sweden finished at the second place. Both received points from every voting country. Germany completed the top three.

Location
Straight after the Polish victory in the previous edition, TVP announced that they would host this edition. They said to choose a host venue, through a selection. Each city was able to select one venue.

This isn't the first time that Poland hosted a EuroMusic-event. They already hosted the fourth edition of the EuroMusic Dance Contest and the 8th edition of the junior contest. Both editions took place in in Gdańsk. Krakow hosted the 24th edition of 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. 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. Because of the limited number of participants, there was no semi final.

Since the 27th edition, the last three countries have to withdraw from the competition. This is to give other countries the possibility to return to the contest because of the limited spots.

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 four representatives who also previously performed as lead vocalists for the same countries.

Scoreboard
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/365198/euromusic-song-contest-27--grand-final

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

Returning countries

 * Portugal.jpg Portugal - The broadcaster from Portugal announced that they would return to the contest. The last Portuguese entry was at the 22nd edition in Glasgow.

Withdrawing countries

 * Moldova.jpg Moldova - This country wasn't named at the official list of participating countries published by the EBU.