Despite a July 2014 statement by ČT that the Czech Republic would not participate in Eurovision 2015, ČT announced on 19 November 2014 that the Czech Republic would in fact participate at Eurovision 2015 with a song to be chosen by an expert panel from a field of five specially commissioned nominees. The song "Hope Never Dies" performed by Marta Jandová and Václav Noid Bárta failed to qualify from the semi-final. It did, however, give the Czech Republic their best score and placed 13th with 33 points. On 31 August 2015, ČT announced that it would participate in the 2016 edition, in-which the Czech Republic qualified to the final for the first time in the contest's history with "I Stand" performed by Gabriela Gunčíková. The placement in the final was 25 out of 26 countries. The televoting gave the Czech Republic zero points and the juries gave 41 points. The following year, Martina Barta was internally selected to perform "My Turn," and finished thirteenth in her semi-final.