12 Punkte Für Deutschland

12 Punkte Für Deutschland ("12 Points For Germany") is an annual music competition organised by the German broadcaster NDR. It determines the country's representative for the International Music Festival.
The selection was first hosted on February 23 (2014) in the Lanxess Arena at Cologne.
It shows a lot of different genres, most being pop and ballads.
==Participation==
Many different songs and performers have entered 12 Punkte Für Deutschland since its debut. To be eligible, performers must have any connection to Germany - born there, raised there or have ancestry from Germany.
==Selection of contestants==
===Songs===
NDR begins looking for songs a few weeks before the start of the first semifinal of the attendant show.
The song can be in any language, any length and any music style. NDR prefers a huge variety of music styles to make the show more exciting.
===Artists===
NDR selects all the performers.
====Notable artists====
TBA
==Hosting==
The first host city was Cologne
===Final===
Ten songs participate in the final.
A running order is decided by the competition's supervisors to ensure that similar songs and artists are kept apart in the final.
The winner will represent Germany in the International Music Festival.
==Voting==
The current voting format is a positional voting system similar to that used at the Eurovision Song Contest. XX international juries each award 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,12 to all songs. All broadcasters can vote too in the poll, where they have two votes each.
===Juries===
Juries can send an application to NDR, when it is announced that the lines for this are open.
Edition	Juries (in running order)
#01 	Germany,Ireland,Romania ,Croatia ,Turkey ,Lebanon ,Italy ,FYR Macedonia ,Bulgaria ,Australia ,Mexico ,Finland ,Tuvalu ,Austria
#02 	TBA
#03 	TBA
#04 	TBA
==Winners==
Edition	Artist 	Song 	Translation	Position in IMF
#10 	Madeline Juno 	"Like Lovers Do"	-- 	3rd
#11 	Cascada 	"Blink" 	-- 	7th
#12 	Andreas Bourani	"Auf Uns" 	To Us! 	TBA