Retrica Song Contest 1

The Retrica Song Contest 1 was the first edition of the Retrica Song Contest.
== Format ==
The format remained the same as in the Country Contest. The minimum amount of 11 participants was enough for the system to be used, although a last-minute country had actually saved the contest.
== Location ==
As the founding country, UK hosted the contest. The SSE Arena, Wembley arena in Belfast was announced as the venue.
== Results ==
No.	Country	Artist 	Song 	Place	Points
01 	 	Daze 	"Superhero" 	9 	84
02 	 	Alena Sviridova 	"Rozoviy Flamingo" 	7 	97
03 	 	Gerald Joling 	"Everlasting Love" 	8 	96
04 	 	Carl Carlton 	"Everlasting Love" 	2 	156
05 	 	Steps 	"One For Sorrow" 	3 	146
06 	 	Enya 	"Orinoco Flow" 	4 	144
07 	 	Bobbysocks 	"If I Fall" 	6 	117
08 	 	Roxette 	"Listen To Your Heart" 	1 	204
09 	 	Liliane Saint-Pierre	"Rio" 	10 	74
10 	 	Patricia Kaas 	"Quand J'Ai Peur De Tout"	5 	131
11 	 	Lawrence Gray 	"The Right Time" 	11 	32
Split jury/televote results	Split jury/televote results	Split jury/televote results	Split jury/televote results	Split jury/televote results
Place 	Televoting 	Points 	Jury 	Points
1 	 	107 	 	97
2 	 	90 	 	77
3 	 	85 	 	76
4 	 	68 	 	66
5 	 	56 	 	62
6 	 	55 	 	61
7 	 	54 	 	57
8 	 	53 	 	55
9 	 	41 	 	41
10 	 	17 	 	31
11 	 	15 	 	17
== Incidents ==
=== Dutch draw complaint ===
Following the results of the contest, AVROTROS argued that Netherlands did not achieve its full potential score due to Germany performing afterwards with the same song title. They stated that BBC was "unfair" to draw two songs with the same title after each other, and that Netherlands would have placed at least seventh (seeing the 1 point difference). BBC later stated that "all songs were drawn randomly with no bias towards countries," and that it was a systematical coincidence. As a result of no action done, AVROTROS announced its withdrawal from the competition later stating that "it was not fair."
=== Foreign act ===
When NDR announced that they would opt to send Carl Carlton and "Everlasting Love" for Germany, many had originally thought he was the German singer. However, he was the American singer and the decision received criticism from German press. After the contest, several broadcasters expressed their dismay of Germany sending a singer not from their own country. The CCU stated that "the issue was being discussed," followed by reports of a CCU vote to determine the future of this rule. The CCU confirmed later that this would be the first and only time such event would happen, after an unanimous vote of 18–6 in favor of having countries send national acts only. However, the CCU added that "microstates including Andorra, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Vatican City would be free to send artists from any country", due to their limited population.