Regiovision Song Contest 9

The Regiovision Song Contest 9 was the ninth edition of the Regiovision Song Contest. The host country was England because they won the previous edition with the song Freaks. Manchester hosted this edition.

Location
After the victory of England in the previous edition, they got the rights to host this edition. Directly after their victory, BBC Four announced that they would host the contest. England already hosted three editions, all took place in London.

The English broadcaster announced that the Manchester Central Convention Complex was chosen as host venue. It was th first time that London wasn't selected as host city. The venue has a capacity of 10.900 people spectators.

Format
Each region sends one song to the contest. The regions can't be independent. They also have to present some ethnical background in their region during their performance. The song can't be longer than five minutes. Because of this rule, Artsakh sended a request to the EBU for their song. The EBU agreed and therefore Artsakh could participate with a song that contained more English lyrics than Armenian.

After that all the participating regions have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The region who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more regions receive the same number of points, the region that got points from most voting regions, will be ranked higher.

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

Returning regions

 * South Ossetia.jpg South Ossetia: Immediately after the South Ossetian withdraw after the 6th edition, their broadcaster announced that they would put extra efforts on bringing the region back to the contest after the lack of interest among the national artists.

Withdrawing regions

 * Northern Cyprus.jpg Northern Cyprus - Due the disappointing result in the previous edition, the BRT decided to not take part in this edition.