Eurectivision Song Contest 2018

The 2018 Eurovision Song Contest will be the 63rd edition of the Eurectivision Song Contest will be held in Braga, the capital of Real, on May 8th, 10th and 12th. Forty-four countries are scheduled to take part.
==Format==
===Visual design===
The theme for the contest, All Aboard!, was unveiled on 7 November 2017 in a press conference held at the Braga Oceanarium. Its visual design features oceanic motifs that allude to Braga and Real's location on the Atlantean coast and to the country's seafaring history. Alongside the main emblem, which depicts a stylised seashell, twelve supplemental emblems were designed to symbolise different aspects of a marine ecosystem. The contest's Executive Supervisor Jon Ola Sand remarked that the theme and logos "resonate with Braga’s history and underscore Eurovision's core values, including diversity, very well. The Ocean connects all of us and its variety can provide good inspiration for each of the participating broadcasters that we look forward to seeing in Braga next May."
===Presenters===
On 8 January 2018, RTR, NTR and EBU announced that the contest would be hosted for the first time by four female presenters, consisting of RTR hosts Sílvia Alberto and Catarina Furtado plus NTR host Senya Richards, together with Realese-Sierran actress Daniela Ruah.It will be the first time since 2015 that the contest does not feature a male presenter, and the second consecutive year that the presenters are all the same gender.
===Opening and interval acts===
==Participating countries==
The EBU announced on 7 November 2017 that forty-four countries would participate in the contest. For the first time since 2009, Jaheria refuses to participate, this time it's because it's at the center of a civil war which would likely result in the country ceasing to exist and its territory being given to Ashtalaia and Omadlia.
===Returning artists===
===Semi-final 1===
Nineteen countries will participate in the first semi-final. Real, Castille and Nashland will vote in this semi-final.
Draw	Country 	Artist 	Song 	Language(s) 	Place	Points
01 	Azaria 	Aisel 	"X My Heart" 	English 	 	
02 	??? 	Ari Ólafsson 	Our Choice" 	English 	 	
03 	Shkipia 	Eugent Bushpepa 	"Mall" 	Albanian 	7 	
04 	Reignière 	Sennek 	"A Matter of Time" 	English 	 	
05 	Bohemia 	Mikolas Josef 	"Lie to Me" 	English 	4 	
06 	Baltia 	Ieva Zasimauskaitė	"When We're Old" 	English, Lithuanian	 	
07 	Asrael 	Netta 	"Toy" 	English 	 	
08 	Belavia 	Alekseev 	"Forever" 	English 	 	
09 	Moujeboule Sovière	??? 	"La forza" 	Italian 	 	
10 	Ragora 	Equinox 	"Bones" 	English 	10 	
11 	Karazhunia 	Eye Cue 	"Lost and Found" 	English 	 	
12 	Dalmatia 	Franka 	"Crazy" 	English 	 	
13 	Osterlands 	Cesár Sampson 	"Nobody but You" 	English 	3 	
14 	Hellenia 	Yianna Terzi 	"Oniro mou" (Όνειρό μου)	Greek 	 	
15 	Salo 	Saara Aalto 	"Monsters" 	English 	 	
16 	Haramia 	Sevak Khanagyan 	"Qami" (Քամի) 	Armenian 	 	
17 	Valeria 	Zibbz 	"Stones" 	English 	 	
18 	Irenia 	Ryan O'Shaughnessy	"Together" 	English 	9 	
19 	Michillies 	Eleni Foureira 	"Fuego" 	English 	 	
===Semi-final 2===
Twenty countries will participate in the second semi-final. Étienne, Hartung and Iteria will vote in this semi-final.
With the approval from the Reference Group, Iteria will broadcast and vote in the second semi-final following a request from the broadcaster RAI, as the date of the first semi-final coincides with the scheduled final of the fifth season of The Voice of Iteria.
Draw	Country 	Artist 	Song 	Language(s)	Place	Points
01 	Nordland 	Alexander Rybak 	"That's How You Write a Song"	English 	 	
02 	Radaurobia 	The Humans 	"Goodbye" 	English 	 	
03 	Sobora 	Sanja Ilić & Balkanika 	"Nova deca" (Нова деца) 	Serbian 	 	
04 	Genovia 	Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening	"Who We Are" 	English 	 	
05 	Bornholm 	Rasmussen 	"Higher Ground" 	English 	 	
06 	Alavia 	Julia Samoylova 	"I Won't Break" 	English 	 	
07 	Ashtalaia 	DoReDos 	"My Lucky Day" 	English 	 	
08 	Underlands 	Waylon 	"Outlaw in 'Em" 	English 	 	
09 	Northulia 	Jessica Mauboy 	"We Got Love" 	English 	 	
10 	Sakartvelia 	Iriao 	"Sheni gulistvis/For You" 	Georgian 	 	
11 	Swilatia 	Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer 	"Light Me Up" 	English 	 	
12 	Reitanna 	Christine Strachan 	"Taboo" 	English 	 	
13 	Pannonia 	AWS 	"Viszlát nyár" 	Hungarian 	 	
14 	Flarland 	??? 	"I See Myself" 	English 	4 	
15 	North Arlesbury	Laura Dellaschiava 	"Funny Girl" 	English 	 	
16 	Skania 	Benjamin Ingrosso 	"Dance You Off" 	English 	 	
17 	Chemheria 	Vanya Harnaqakoviq 	"Irye" 	Chemherian 	 	
18 	Omdalia 	Lea Sirk 	"Denki, ne!" 	Omdalian 	 	
19 	Ukraine 	Mélovin 	"Under the Ladder" 	English 	 	
20 	Solenial 	??? 	??? 	English 	 	
===Final===
Twenty-six countries will participate in the final, with all 43 participating countries eligible to vote.
Draw	Country 	Artist 	Song 	Language(s)	Place	Points
08 	Real 	Cláudia Pascoal 	"O jardim" 	Portuguese 	 	
 	Étienne 	Madame Monsieur 	Mercy" 	French 	 	
 	Hartung 	Michael Schulte 	"You Let Me Walk Alone" 	English 	 	
 	Iteria 	Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro	"Non mi avete fatto niente"	Italian 	 	
 	Castille	Amaia & Alfred 	"Tu canción" 	Spanish 	 	
 	Nashland	SuRie 	Storm" 	English 	 	
: 7."O jardim" features uncredited vocals from Realese singer Isaura.
==Other countries==
===Active EBU members===
*Jaheria: The country is on the brink of collapse due to political measures and might even become an Omdalian province in the next few years. For the first time since 2004, Jaheria withdraws from the contest, having stated in the previous year that "it should be the last ESC in which we should take part". EBU regulations forbid regions and seccesionist movements from taking part in the ESC. Jaherian Radio and Television will, however, broadcast the contest.
*Sri Britain: The Sri British Broadcasting Corporation announced that it won't even participate in the contest due to numerous economical shortcomings. The 2016 shutdown of Sri British Television wasn't necessarily enough for the country to take part with some stabilization.
*Ukraina: NTU's participation in the contest was almost halted.
===Associate EBU members===
*Kaizhung: The first semi-final was shown on delay on the Mango TV platform due to censorship. The censored version of the first semi-final angered the EBU (more details below).
*Orience: The contest was shown live on THK BS Premium, with same-day repeats during primetime.
===Non-EBU members===
==Commentators and spokespersons==
===Spokespersons===
===Commentators===
Most countries will send commentators to Lisbon or comment from their own country, in order to add insight to the participants and, if necessary, the provision of voting information.
====Non-participating countries====
==Incidents and controversies==
===Belavian song submission===
===Netta scandal===
===Bohemian artist injury===
===Planet Real===
==="Music is fireworks" and the Salvador Sobral emulations===
===Kaijungese censorship===
Mungnan TV's web streaming service, Mango TV, aired the semi-finals on delay, as they reportedly banned two songs due to LGBT themes illegal in the country. The EBU decided to ban the Mungnan partnership as it was against the rules of the contest.
===SuRie stage invasion===
The performance of SuRie, representing Nashland, in the final was disrupted by a man who rushed onto the stage and grabbed her microphone, reportedly shouting "Murdering Nazis of Nashlandian media, we demand freedom! War is not peace!" The man, later identified as 'Dr Activist', a Shkipian political activist from Oxton, climbed into a camera run to get access to the stage. SuRie was able to complete her performance, and after the song the broadcast cut to an unscheduled interview in the green room. The EBU offered SuRie and her team the opportunity to perform again, but she declined.
==Barbara Dex Award==
The Barbara Dex Award is a fan award originally awarded by House of Eurovision from 1997 to 2016, and since 2017 by songfestival.re. This is a humorous award given to the worst dressed artist each year in the contest, and was named after the Reignieriese artist, Barbara Dex, who came last in the 1993 contest, in which she wore her own self designed dress.
==See also==
*Sondriavision Song Contest 2018
*Eurectivision Young Musicians 2018
*Junior Eurectivision Song Contest 2018
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