Czech Republic

The Czech Republic has participated in the GreatVision Song Contest fifteen times, debuting in the first edition. So far their best result was scored by Mikolas Josef in 15th edition in Busan, South Korea. He placed 3rd in the semifinal scoring 200 points. In the final he reached 2nd place and scored 309 points and made new record for Czech republic. Czech worst result was reached by Richard Reynolds in Seoul (5th edition). He reached last place in the semifinal scoring 66 points.
== Participants ==
Czech Republic took part 17 times and so far 15 artists competed in the contest in colours of our flag. Kristian, Lenny, Mikolas Josef have represented Czech Republic two times in the contest while Zella Day represented country three times. The best result was reached by Mikolas Josef. He placed in the final on the 2nd place scoring the highest score for Czech Republic - 309 points. Second best place was reached by Zella Day. She placed 5th in the final scoring 275 points. And Czech 3rd best placing is 12th place reached by Lenny. She scored 168 points.
== Internal Selection ==
Internal selection. Internal selection passes off in czech national broadcaster ČT. The special jury receives songs from signed artists, choose the best 10 songs. With each artist from the top 10 have the special jury talk. From the top 10 they choose best 5 songs. After that, they have another talk with them. The jury wants to know, how much do they want to represent country, what will they do for it, what is their opinion about GVSC. After these talks, jury choose TOP 3. In the last part of the internal selection, they give them 1 song, all 3 finalists sing the song and special jury and professionals will choose the winner. The winner is announced to GBU and then they work on the song (but if the song, which they sang in the final sounds good with them, the winner will sing that song).
== National finals ==
Here are pages to Czech national finals:
Who will be next? (Edition 7)
Who will be next? (Edition 8)
Who will be next? (Edition 12)
==Contestants==
===Table key===
: Winner
: Second place
: Third place
: Automatically qualified to the final
: Did not qualify for the final or disqualified
: Last place
: Did not compete
Edt 	Host city 	Artist 	Song 	Language 	Final 	Points 	Semi 	Points
#01 	Los Angeles 	Annet Charitonová feat. Ben Cristovao	"TAKTOMABYT" 	Czech/English 	25 	91 	Member of the "Big 6" 	Member of the "Big 6"
#02 	Lviv 	Kristian 	"Blázni století" 	Czech 	24 	114 	10 	148
#03 	Athens 	Matt Pardus 	"Leave All Behind" 	English 	23 	151 	7 	149
#04 	Barcelona 	Monika Bagárová 	"Little piece of heaven" 	English 	25 	120 	5 	166
#05 	Seoul 	Richard Reynolds 	"Chasing the love" 	English 	Failed to qualify 	Failed to qualify 	21 	66
#06 	Tirana 	Lenny ft. Marpo 	"Kruh" 	Czech/English 	22 	143 	11 	140
#07 	Sofia 	Zella Day 	"Hypnotic" 	English 	5 	275 	1 	246
#08 	Helsinki 	Kristian 	"Vždyť víš" 	Czech 	25 	65 	Member of the "Big 6" 	Member of the "Big 6"
#09 	Pyongyang 	Diana Kalashová 	"Bez pravidel" 	Czech 	Failed to qualify 	Failed to qualify 	11 	124
#10 	Los Angeles 	Zella Day 	"Sweet Ophelia" 	English 	25 	123 	7 	157
#11 	Sydney 	Lenny 	"Enemy" 	English 	12 	168 	9 	141
#12 	Andorra la Vella 	LinaKaro 	"Cool me down" 	English 	Failed to qualify 	Failed to qualify 	18 	85
#13 	Seoul 	Manene ft. Veronika Stýblová 	"Fly out" 	English 	21 	165 	3 	168
#14 	Kazan 	Mark Dann ft. Lucius Szikora 	"Sunflowers" 	English 	15 	186 	5 	172
#15 	Busan 	Mikolas Josef 	"Me gusta" 	English 	2 	309 	3 	200
#16 	Belgrade 	Nykki 	"Lost my mind" 	English 	16 	195 	Member of the "Big 6" 	Member of the "Big 6"
#17 	Jakarta 	Zella Day ft. Baby E 	"Mustang Kids" 	English 	Failed to qualify 	Failed to qualify 	16 	90
#18 	Berlin 	Elis Mraz ft. Čis T 	"Wanna be like" 	English/Spanish 	19 	188 	8 	170
#19 	Bucharest 	Mikolas Josef 	"Colorado" 	English 	Failed to qualify 	Failed to qualify 	13 	73
#20 	Seoul 	Katie Kei 	"Alien, Baby" 	English 	9 	256 	2 	193
Did not participate in #21 & #22	Did not participate in #21 & #22	Did not participate in #21 & #22 	Did not participate in #21 & #22	Did not participate in #21 & #22	Did not participate in #21 & #22	Did not participate in #21 & #22	Did not participate in #21 & #22	Did not participate in #21 & #22
#23 	TBA 	Klára Vytisková 	"Just be you" 	English 	 	 	 	
== Commentators and Spokespersons ==
Edt	Commentator 	Spokeperson 	Channel
#01	Lucie Borhyová 	Mikolas Josef 	ČT 1 + 2
#02	Lucie Borhyová 	Ben Cristovao 	ČT 2
#03	Lucie Borhyová 	Mikolas Josef 	ČT 1
#04	Lucie Borhyová 	Mikolas Josef 	ČT 1 + 2
#05	Libor Bouček 	Lucie Bílá 	ČT 1 + 2
#06	Libor Bouček 	Markéta Konvičková 	ČT 2
#07	Libor Bouček 	Monika Bagárová 	ČT 2
#08	Rey Koranteng 	Zella Day 	ČT 1 + 2
#09	Rey Koranteng 	Mikolas Josef 	ČT 1
#10	Rey Koranteng 	Diana Kalashová 	ČT 1 + 2
#11	Libor Bouček 	Adam Mišík 	ČT 1
#12	Mikolas Josef 	Ester Ledecká 	ČT 1
#13	Mikolas Josef 	Lenny 	ČT 2
#14	Mikolas Josef 	Annet Chari 	ČT 2
#15	Rey Koranteng 	Lenny 	ČT 2
#16	Rey Koranteng 	Mikolas Josef 	ČT 2
#17	Rey Koranteng 	Nykki 	ČT 2
#18	Rey Koranteng 	Zella Day 	ČT 2
#19	Rey Koranteng 	Elis Mraz 	ČT 1
#20	Rey Koranteng 	Mikolas Josef 	ČT 1
#21	Did not participate	Did not participate	Did not participate
#22	Did not participate	Did not participate	Did not participate
#23	Mikolas Josef 	Katie Kei 	ČT 1