EuroRegion Song Contest 9

The EuroRegion Song Contest 9 was the ninth edition of the EuroRegion Song Contest. Lusatia was announced as hosting region. They decided to organise the edition in Cottbus. It was the first time that Lusatia hosted the contest.

15 regions took part in this edition, one participant more as in the previous edition and the highest number of participants so far. Crimea and Ulster debuted while Galicia withdrew. The Isle of Man showed interests to take part but did not submitted an entry.

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 Lusatia was selected. According to some rumors, Friesland and Scotland were interested to host this edition.

The largest city of Lusatia, Cottbus, was selected as host city. The venue was the Lausitz Arena, with a capacity of 2.000 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.

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

Debuting regions

 * Crimea.jpg Crimea
 * Ulster.jpg Ulster

Withdrawing regions

 * Galicia.jpg Galicia