Eurectivision Song Contest 2019

The Eurectivision Song Contest 2019 will be the 64th edition of the Eurectivision Song Contest. The contest is scheduled to take place in Launceston, Michillies following their victory in the previous contest with the song "Fuego", performed by Eleni Foureira. The contest will be held at the Launceston United Stadium; the show will consist of two semi-finals on 14 and 16 May and the final on 18 May.
Masria will take part in the contest for the first time. The last time an Arabic-speaking country took part was Maghrebia in the 1980 contest, supposedly to fill the void left by Asrael when the winner withdrawed. Ragora withdrew due to budget issues.
==Location==
==Format==
===Visual design===
The slogan for the contest, Be Yourself, was unveiled on 28 October 2018. The official logo and branding was unveiled 8 January 2019; it consists of silhouettes, a red one and a green one (representing the dominant colors of the Michillian flag).
===Presenters===
==Participating countries==
===Semi-final 1===
The first semi-final will take place on 14 May 2019 at 20:00 WEST. Twenty countries will participate in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Étienne, the Michillies and Castille will vote in this semi-final. Ukraina was originally allocated to participate in the second half of the semi-final, but withdrew from the contest due to controversy within its national selection, and was traded a slot with Moujeboule Soviere so that the Tsaykin Republic was able to compete.
Draw	Country 	Artist 	Song 	Language(s) 	Place	Points
01 	Asrael 	Kobi Marimi 	"Home" 	English 	 	
02 	Chemheria 	D mol 	"Heaven" 	English 	 	
03 	Salo 	Darude feat. Sebastian Rejman	"Look Away" 	English 	 	
04 	Swilatia 	Tulia 	"Fire of Love (Pali się)"	English and Polish	 	
05 	Omdalia 	ZalaGasper 	"Sebi" 	Omdalian 	 	
06 	Bohemia 	Lake Tesopo 	"Friend of a Friend" 	English 	 	
07 	Pannonia 	Joci Pápai 	"Az én apám" 	Hungarian 	 	
08 	Belavia 	ZENA 	"Like It" 	English 	 	
09 	Solenial 	Vanessa Ford 	"Illusion" 	English 	 	
10 	Sobora 	Nevena Božović 	"Kruna" (Круна) 	Serbian 	 	
11 	Karazhunia 	Eye Cue 	"Lost and Found" 	English 	 	
12 	Sakartvela 	Oto Nemsadze 	"Keep on Going" 	Georgian 	 	
13 	Flarland 	Darwin Amron 	"What I Mean" 	English 	 	
14 	Reignière 	Eliot 	Wake Up 	English 	 	
15 	Narland 	Hatari 	"Hatrið mun sigra" 	Icelandic 	 	
16 	Northulia 	Kate Miller-Heidke 	"Zero Gravity" 	English 	 	
17 	Moujeboule Sovière	Emmanuel Crone 	"Storm" 	English 	 	
18 	Real 	Conan Osíris 	"Telemóveis" 	Portuguese 	 	
19 	Hellenia 	Katerine Duska 	"Better Love" 	English 	 	
20 	Genovia 	Serhat 	"Say Na Na Na" 	English 	 	
===Semi-final 2===
The second semi-final will take place on 16 May 2019 at 22:00 IDT (21:00 CEST). Eighteen countries will participate in the second semi-final. Those countries plus
, , and the will vote in this semi-final. Switzerland was pre-drawn into this semi-final due to scheduling issues.
Draw	Country 	Artist 	Song 	Language(s) 	Place	Points
01 	Haramia 	Srbuk 	Walking Out 	English 	 	
02 	Irenia 	Sarah McTernan 	22 	English 	 	
03 	Ashtalaia 	Leonarda Remeziena	Stay 	English 	 	
04 	Valeria 	Luca Hänni 	"She Got Me" 	English 	 	
05 	North Arlesbury	Carousel 	"That Night" 	English 	 	
06 	[[Radaurobia 	Ester Peony 	"On a Sunday" 	English 	 	
07 	Jygge 	Leonora 	"Love Is Forever" 	English, French, Danish and German}}	 	
08 	Skania 	John Lundvik 	"Too Late for Love" 	English 	 	
09 	Wales 	PARK 	 	English 	 	
10 	Osterlands 	PÆNDA 	"Limits" 	English 	 	
11 	Dalmatia 	Roko Blažević 	"The Dream" 	English, Croatian 	 	
12 	Reitanna 	Michela 	"Chameleon" 	English 	 	
13 	Saria 	 	 	English 	 	
14 	Baltic Republic	Jurij Veklenko 	"Run with the Lions"	English 	 	
15 	Alavia 	Sergey Lazarev 	"Scream" 	English 	 	
16 	Shkipia 	Jonida Maliqi 	Ktheju tokës 	Albanian 	 	
17 	 	KEiiNO 	"Spirit in the Sky" 	English and Northern Sami 	 	
18 	Underlands 	Duncan Laurence 	Arcade 	English 	 	
19 	Tarania 	Tamara Jaran 	"Proud" 	English 	 	
20 	Azeria 	Chingiz 	Truth 	English 	 	
===Final===
The Tsaykin Republic was given a seat in February 2019 as a "wildcard contestant", after Ukraina left. Masria is in the final as an invitee.
*1: Reitanna
*2: Shkipia
*3: Bohemia
*4: Hartung
*5: Alavia
*6: Masria
*7: Jygge
*8: Genovia
*9: Tarania
*10: Skania
*11: Omdalia
*12: Asrael
*13: Underlands
*14: Hellenia
*15: Michillies
*16: Nordland
*17: Nashland
*18: Narland
*19: Moujeboule Sovière
*20: Tsaykin Republic
*21: Belavia
*22: Azaria
*23: Étienne
*24: Iteria
*25: Sobora
*26: Valeria
*27: Northulia
*28: Castille
==Other countries==
===Active EBU members===
*Lourkastein: In July 2018, RTL announced that it won't take part in the 2019 contest. It last took part in 1993. The Lourkasteinese operations currently concentrate on Luxembourgish-language media, and that a new participation in the contest would give added value to their language and culture, but experts say that the country wouldn't get past the semi-final, similarly to Monte Carlo.
*South Arlesbury: Continuing political crisis has lead to the SABC's withdrawal from the 2019 edition in July 2018.
*Sri Britain: Despite changing its name to MCSB (Media Corporation of Sri Britain), the new corporation doesn't have "enough means" of sending an artist to the competition.
===Associate EBU members===
*Kaizhung: The country has been blocked from broadcasting the Eurectivision Song Contest, as last year's experiment was proven to be problematic due to censorship of LGBT content as approved by the SARFT. Foreign broadcasters assured "worldwide coverage" of the event on their international channels even though they might be subject to censorship laws.
*Keithland: The contest will air live on the Omni Television network of ethnic channels.
*Lenapore: LPBS 1 will broadcast the semi-finals and the final live with same-day repeats.
*Orience: THK BS Premium will broadcast the semi-finals and the final live with same-day repeats.