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Ebonique

**Ebonique** é a paper queen de Pedro Paulo e uma das participantes da 1ª temporada do *Ink Models*.

## Competição

Ebonique foi a 5ª participante a ser revelada antes da estreia da temporada, no primeiro episódio apresentou um desafio baseado no movimento artístico do *Dadaísmo* e uma runway inspirada em um dos quadros do pintor *Matthias Grünewald* . Foi uma das participantes declaradas como salvas antes das críticas e então avançou para a próxima semana.

Já no segundo episódio *"Ink World Tour",* teve o seu look inspirado na cidade de Toronto no Canadá para o desafio principal muito elogiado, porém sua runway no tema cut-out não foi bem recebida pela extrema simplicidade e falta de empenho técnico no resultado final, ficando assim entre as piores do episódio junto de PPJ, porém graças a desistência de Aristotella não houve eliminação pela segunda semana consecutiva.

Na semana seguinte no terceiro episódio *"Kawaiink"*, Ebonique ficou no time de Milas Key, porém no dia do episódio ir ao ar foi revelado que não pôde cumprir o desafio principal em grupo por motivos pessoais, no entanto conseguiu entregar sua runway Yuru-chara, inspirada no mascote *Gudetama*, cujo recebeu muitos elogios por parte das juradas, no final, foi anunciado que estava no bottom junto de Milas, porém o desafio de eliminação não chegou a realmente ocorrer, com Ebonique decidindo não continuar na competição, sendo assim a terceira eliminada.

## Season 1 Looks

Look PromoLook PremiereLook Quadros FamososLook World Tour: TorontoLook Paper Cut-OutLook Yuru-chara: Gudetama
Chapter 95

**Kris Rutherford** (クリス・ラザフォード *Kurisu Razafōdo*) is the 95th chapter of Hiro Mashima's *Edens Zero*.

Rebecca's group faces Jinn, who Amira informs him the truth of the device that he is protecting; that it steals the life force of the people around it. Hearing that this has been with Drakken since Norma, Weisz runs off in anger. Elsewhere, Shiki and Drakken continue their battle.

## Summary

Jinn does not care for what they say, making Weisz and Rebecca ready to fight. Amira stops them, calling Jinn by his real name, Kris Rutherford. Jinn wonders where she got this information, which she explains that investigating everything about Drakken's Organization is her job. She then gets to her point, she asks where the life support device get the energy to keep Drakken young, making everyone wonder. She then answers that it absorbs the life force of the people living around it, shocking everyone. She goes on and states that the Element 4 are no exception, including Kleene. Weisz asks what happens if their life force was drained over a long period, which Amira answers a shorter life span and has heard that the unlucky ones die. Weisz is furious and goes off without a word. Rebecca and Happy goes after him.

Pino wonders why they can not just stop the device, which Amira answers that they have to put it in reverse to give everyone their life force back. Hermit calls through Pino, having overheard everything, and states that she could change the device from the ship, but that she needs them to do destroy the security device. Sister joins in the call and asks Jinn to help them, where in return she will heal Kleene. Jinn ultimately decides to help them, having sworn to protect his sister, and Hermit proceeds to hack into the device. Meanwhile in the execution site, Shiki and Drakken continue their battle. Drakken compliments him for still standing, which Shiki proclaims that he will beat him to protect his friends. Shiki gains Ether lines, and tries to punch Drakken, who stops it. Shiki tries another punch but Drakken stops it once more, who tells him to take a good look as his Ether Gear reaches its critical point. He transforms and call this Overdrive. Drakken starts turning Shiki to stone, but is kicked in the head from above by Weisz in his Arsenal Suit. Weisz exclaims that he is the one who killed the person most important to him.

## Characters In Order of Appearance

1. Kris Rutherford
2. E.M. Pino
3. Rebecca Bluegarden
4. Happy
5. Weisz Steiner (X442)
6. Amira
7. Sibir (X492)
8. Mosco Versa-0
9. Hermit Mio
10. Sister Ivry
11. Shiki Granbell
12. Drakken Joe

## Appearances

	+ Belial Gore

**Powers and Abilities*** Master Code
* Ether Gear
	+ Satan Gravity
	+ Alchemist
* Overdrive

**Items*** Belial Gore
* Life Support Device
* Arsenal Suit

**Battles and Events*** Shiki Granbell & Weisz Steiner (X442) vs. Drakken Joe
Bulgaria

**Bulgaria** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 20 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 1.**

Bulgaria got their best result when they first qualified in the 4th edition, when Gery-Nikol got 2nd with her song "I'm the Queen" only behind Denmark. The country has qualified 6 more times but hasn't made it to the top 10 since then.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Algeria

**Algeria** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 17 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 6.**

Algeria has, since their debut in the 6th edition, qualified most of the times. The country's best result is a second place achieved by Chimene Badi and her song "Les Retardataires" in the 11th edition. The country also reached the top 10 in 5 more occations, with YADi in the 6th, Leila Lanova in the 9th, Cheb Khaled in the 12th, Zaho & Florent Mothe in the 14th and Indila in the 19th editon.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Kazakh

**Kazakh** (also Qazaq, Qazaqşa and variants, natively Қазақ тілі, Qazaq tili, قازاق ٴتىلى‎; pronounced [qɑˈzɑq tɘˈlɘ]) is a Turkic language which belongs to the Kipchak (or Western Turkic) branch of the Turkic languages, closely related to Nogai and Karakalpak.

Kazakh is an agglutinative language, and it employs vowel harmony.
European Singing Competition 5

## Vote

### Voting system

Each country awards 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favorite songs. An online preference vote is also counted as a televote, due to not having any amount of points the points are given based on a Eurovision event.

### Winning Song

 Finland
 "Circle of Light"

## European Singing Competition

Previous: 4
Next: 6

**European Singing Competition 5**, often referred to as ESC #05, is the fifth edition of European Singing Competition. The contest took place in Copenhagen, Denmark. This is the first time that Denmark hosted the contest. The event was hosted by Ida Corr & Emmelie De Forest. The event was hosted in the Parken Stadium with a capacity of 50.000. The host broadcaster was DR.

Forty-three countries participated in the fifth edition. The participating countries, except of the host Denmark, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Greece, Ukraine and Cyprus (The latter two replaced Italy and Poland that withdrew), competed in two semi-finals.

The new voting system process was kept. Now the juries from each nation voted, while an online televoting poll was introduced, due to not having real points for the televoting, amounts of the real Eurovision Song Contest were used.

The winner was Finland with the song "Circle of Light" by Emma which scored 356 points, winning by a margin of 26 points in front of Greece. The podium was completed by Morocco, which finished on the third place. The host country, Denmark ended 14th. The guest nation for this edition was the United States, that ended 4th. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia qualified for the first time after failing to do so in the previous editions.

## Location

The contest took place for the first time in Denmark.

### Bidding phase and host city selection

Only Copenhagen wanted to host the competition.
**Key**:
     Host venue

## Participating countries

### **Semi-final 1**

Eighteen countries participated in the first semi-final. The ten highlighted ones qualified for the final. Every country in this semifinal voted alongside  Bulgaria, the host country  Denmark and  Greece.

### **Semi-final 2**

Nineteen countries participated in the second semi-final. The ten highlighted nations reached the final. All the participants voted, alongside  Cyprus,  Lithuania and  Ukraine.

### **Grand Final**

Twenty-six countries participated in the final, with all 43 participating countries eligible to vote.
Tatar

The **Tatar language** (Tatar: татар теле; татарча) is a Turkic language spoken by Tatars mainly located in modern Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and Siberia. It should not be confused with the Crimean Tatar language, to which it is closely related and with which it is partially mutually intelligible.
Serbian

**Serbian** is a standardized register of the Serbo-Croatian language used by Serbs, mainly in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina (mostly Republika Srpska), Montenegro, Croatia, and Macedonia. It is official in Serbia and one of the official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is the principal language of the Serbs.

Standard Serbian is based on the most widespread dialect of Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian, more specifically on the Eastern Herzegovinian, which is also the basis of Standard Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin, and Šumadija-Vojvodina subdialects. The other Serbo-Croatian dialect spoken by Serbs is Torlakian, which is spoken in southeast Serbia and transitional to Macedonian and Bulgarian.
European Singing Competition 17

## European Singing Competition

Previous: 16
Next: 18

**European Singing Competition 17**, often referred to as ESC #17, is the sixteenth edition of European Singing Competition. The contest took place in Turin, Italy. This is the third time that Italy hosted the contest. The event was hosted by Annalisa & Marco Mengoni. The event was hosted in Pala Alpitur with a capacity of 18.000. The host broadcaster was RAI.

As in the previous editions every nation was obliged to send a staging proposal alongside the song. It was announced that juries and televoters would give two separate scores in the semifinals as well.

Thirty-nine countries participated in the sixteenth edition. The participating countries, except of the host Italy, Ukraine, Portugal, Morocco, Denmark and Serbia (The latter four replaced Canada, France, Andorra and Armenia that withdrew), competed in two semi-finals. The way of replacing the withdrawing DQ changed. Instead of selecting the countries that got 7th, 8th etc. now the most successful countries of the previous 5 editions were DQ.

The winner was Luxembourg with the song "Fall In Love" by GEZZA which scored 353 points, winning by a margin of 51 points in front of the United Kingdom. The podium was completed by the host country Italy, which finished on the third place.

## Location

The contest took place for the third time in Italy.

### Bidding phase and host city selection

**Key**:
     Host venue

 Rome
 Turin
 Florence

## Returning Artists

This edition saw the return of Anabela who previously represented her homeland, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Loic Nottet also came back for the third time with Belgium. Luca Haani returned for Switzerland after coming last in the semifinal in his first attempt. MO returned for Denmark.

## Participating countries

### **Semi-final 1**

Seventeen countries participated in the first semi-final. The ten highlighted ones qualified for the final. Every country in this semifinal voted alongside  Morocco,  Portugal and  Ukraine.

### **Semi-final 2**

Seventeen countries participated in the first semi-final. The ten highlighted ones qualified for the final. Every country in this semifinal voted alongside  Denmark, the host country  Italy and  Serbia.

### **Grand Final**

Twenty-six countries participated in the final, with all 37 participating countries eligible to vote.

## Scoreboard

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final
Yoruba

Yoruba (English: /ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. *èdè Yorùbá*) is a language spoken in West Africa. The number of speakers of Yoruba is approaching 30 million. It is a pluricentric language spoken principally in Benin and Nigeria, with communities in other parts of Africa, the Americas, and Europe. The non-vernacular remains of the language, Lucumi, is the liturgical language of the Santería religion of the Caribbean. Many Yoruba words are used in the Afro-Brazilian religion known as Candomblé. Yoruba is also used in many other Afro-American religions in the Americas and the Caribbean. Yoruba is most closely related to the Itsekiri language (spoken in the Niger Delta) and to Igala (spoken in central Nigeria).
European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 2

## European Singing Competition

Previous:1Next: 3

**European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 2**, often referred to as ESC-2nd Chance #02, is the second edition of European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest, an event similar to the European Singing Competition but with songs that failed to win the National Selections of their respective countries. The contest took place in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the first time that Sweden hosted the contest. The event was hosted by Petra Mede. The event was hosted in the Friends Arena with a capacity of 20.000. The host broadcaster was SVT.

Twenty-two countries participated in the first edition.

## Location

The contest took place for the first time in Sweden.

## Participating countries

This is a preview of the 22 countries that held a NS for the 31st edition of the European Singing Competition.
Japanese

Japanese (日本語 Nihongo, [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo] ) is an East Asian language spoken by about 125 million speakers, primarily in Japan, where it is the national language. It is a member of the Japonic (or Japanese-Ryukyuan) language family, whose relation to other language groups, particularly to Korean and the suggested Altaic language family, is debated.

Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial texts did not appear until the 8th century. During the Heian period (794–1185), Chinese had a considerable influence on the vocabulary and phonology of Old Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw changes in features that brought it closer to the modern language, as well the first appearance of European loanwords. The standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo (modern Tokyo) region in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century–mid-19th century). Following the end in 1853 of Japan's self-imposed isolation, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly. English loanwords in particular have become frequent, and Japanese words from English roots have proliferated.

Japanese is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment. Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or make questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender, and there are no articles. Verbs are conjugated, primarily for tense and voice, but not person. Japanese equivalents of adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has a complex system of honorifics with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned.

Japanese has no genealogical relationship with Chinese, but it makes extensive use of Chinese characters, or kanji (漢字?), in its writing system, and a large portion of its vocabulary is borrowed from Chinese. Along with kanji, the Japanese writing system primarily uses two syllabic (or moraic) scripts, hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名?) and katakana (カタカナ or 片仮名?). Latin script is used in a limited way, such as for imported acronyms, and the numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals, alongside traditional Chinese numerals. Japanese was little studied by non-Japanese before the Japanese economic bubble of the 1980s. Since then, along with the spread of Japanese popular culture, the number of students of Japanese has reached the millions.
Romanian

**Romanian** (or **Daco-Romanian**; obsolete spellings **Rumanian**, **Roumanian**; autonym: *română*, *limba română* ˈlimba roˈmɨnəTemplate:IPA audio link ("the Romanian language") or *românește* (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 million people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million people as a second language. It has official status in Romania, Republic of Moldova, the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia and in the autonomous Mount Athos in Greece. In the Republic of Moldova, besides the term *limba română*, the language is also often called *limba moldovenească* ("Moldovan"); to avoid the political overtones both terms have in that country, a compromise solution has been to call it *limba de stat* ("the state language").
Ukraine

**Ukraine** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 22 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 1.**

Ukraine has recently become more successful than before. Their best result is the 2nd by ONUKA in the 16th edition (which possibly increased the interest among Ukrainians). Their only other top 10 results is Jamala's 7th place in the 4th edition, the 5th place of Odyn v Kanoe in the 32nd edition and the 9th place of The Hardkiss in the 33rd edition, which marked the first time that Ukraine got two consecutive top 10 results.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Last place*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

## Participation Summary

### Debut

European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 3

### Worst Result

15th: 3

 **Ukraine** **has participated in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 2 times since its debut in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 3**

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

 #04 | IGNEA
Malta

**Malta** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 19 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 1.**

Malta's best and only top 10 result is the third place of I.AM.WILLOW in the 15th edition. The islands have qualified 8 times out of their 14 participations

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Norway

**Norway** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 25 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 2.**

Norway is the least successful Nordic state having only qualified 8 times. They first entered the top 10 in the 26th edition when Gate got 4th with their song "Kom No Disjka". In the 28th eidition Norway got its first victory with Mørland and his song "En Livredd Mann". Mr Little Jeans' 6th place with the song "Oh Sailor" in the 30th edition was Norway's third top 10 result. Siri Nilsen gave the country another top 10 result, getting 4th in the 32nd edition with her song "Passasjer". In the exact next edition girl in red ended 5th in the final with her song "Rue" making it the first time the country ended in the top 10 twice in a row.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

## Participation Summary

### Debut

European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1

### Worst Result

16th: 4

 **Norway** **has participated in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 4 times since its debut in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1**

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Episode 50

**Prelude to the Aoi War** is the 50th episode of the *Edens Zero* anime, and the final episode of the second season.

The Crew of Edens and Oasis finish dealing with the imperial army. Meanwhile, Shura gets uninvited guests at Nero 66.

## Characters In Order of Appearance

1. Rebecca Bluegarden
2. Happy
3. Weisz Steiner (X442)
4. Homura Kōgetsu
5. Ibaraki
6. Dylan
7. Furena
8. Russo
9. Shiki Granbell
10. Laguna Husert
11. Goodwin
12. E.M. Pino
13. Jinn
14. Kleene Rutherford
15. Mosco Versa-0
16. Hermit Mio
17. Witch Regret
18. Sister Ivry
19. Orc
20. Lizarre
21. Poseidon Shura
22. Lyra
23. Nasseh
24. Mirrani Lucra
25. Callum Steelford
26. Ijuna
27. Justice
28. Creed
29. Victory
30. Gomakichi
31. Couchpo
32. Xiaomei
33. Eraser

## Appearances

	+ Sandra
	+ Nero 66
	+ Edens Zero
* Mildian
	+ Temple of Knowledge

**Powers and Abilities*** Ether Gear
	+ Machina Maker
	+ Soul Blade
	+ Satan Gravity
	+ Tears Lover
* Marksmanship
* Swordmanship
* Hand-to-Hand Combat

**Items*** Guns
* Sword
* Edens Zero
* Angel Feather
* Blast Man Arm
* Maelstrom *(Debut)*

**Creatures**
**Battles and Events*** Crew of Edens & Oasis vs. Imperial Army *(Concluded)*
* Shiki Granbell vs. Orc Rematch *(Started & Concluded)*

## Manga & Anime Differences

* Certain battle scenes where Shiki and co. participated were not featured in the Manga.
	+ Orc briefly returns and fights Shiki.
	+ An Ether particle bomb called Maelstrom is introduced.
	+ The members onboard the Edens Zero battle alongside Shiki. In the manga, they had already defeated all the enemies in West Ward by the time they contacted Shiki.
* After the anime-exclusive scene where Rebecca uses her pistols to take down a group of enemies, she is seen wearing sandals again when the manga had her remain barefoot until returning to the ship.
Montenegrin

**Montenegrin** ( is an incipient standardized register of the Serbo-Croatian language as spoken by Montenegrins used as the official language of Montenegro. Standard Montenegrin is based on the most widespread dialect of Serbo-Croatian, Shtokavian, more specifically on Eastern Herzegovinian, which is also the basis of Standard Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian.

Montenegro's language has historically and traditionally been Serbian. The idea of a Montenegrin standard language separate from Serbian appeared in 1990s and gained traction in 2000s via proponents of Montenegrin independence. Montenegrin became the official language of Montenegro with the ratification of a new constitution on 22 October 2007. The Montenegrin standard is still emerging. Its orthography was established 10 July 2009 with the addition of two letters to the alphabet, though grammar and a school curriculum are yet to be approved
Kejsi Tola

Kejsi Tola (born 2 May 1992 in Tirana, Albania) is an Albanian singer. She was the winner of "Ethet" (Albanian Idol 2007). In May 2009 she represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow, Russia with "Carry Me In Your Dreams".

She sang for Albania in the 20th edition with her song "Iceberg" and despite being an early favorite, she stayed out of the final getting 13th in the second semifinal.
Old Norse

**Old Norse** was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid- to late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century.

Old Norse was divided into three dialects: Old West Norse, Old East Norse, and Old Gutnish. Old West and East Norse formed a dialect continuum, with no clear geographical boundary between them. For example, Old East Norse traits were found in eastern Norway, although Old Norwegian is classified as Old West Norse, and Old West Norse traits were found in western Sweden. Most speakers spoke Old East Norse in what is present day Denmark and Sweden. Old Gutnish, the more obscure dialectal branch, is sometimes included in the Old East Norse dialect due to geographical associations. It developed its own unique features and shared in changes to both other branches.
Icelandic

**Icelandic** is a North Germanic language, the main language of Iceland. It is an Indo-European language belonging to the North Germanic or Nordic branch of the Germanic languages. Historically, it was the westernmost of the Indo-European languages prior to the colonisation of the Americas. Icelandic, Faroese, Norn, and Norwegian formerly constituted West Nordic; Danish and Swedish constituted East Nordic. The Nordic languages are now divided into Insular Nordic and mainland Scandinavian languages, as Norwegian Bokmål became influenced by the latter two languages.
Chichewa

**Chewa** (also known as **Nyanja**), is a Bantu language spoken in much of Southern, Southeast and East Africa, namely the countries of Malawi and Zimbabwe, where it is an official language and Mozambique and Zambia where it is a recognised minority language. The noun class prefix *chi-* is used for languages, so the language is usually called ***Chichewa*** and ***Chinyanja*** (spelled *Cinianja* in Mozambique). In Malawi, the name was officially changed from Chinyanja to Chichewa in 1968 at the insistence of President Hastings Kamuzu Banda (himself of the Chewa people), and this is still the name most commonly used in Malawi today. In Zambia, the language is generally known as Nyanja or *Cinyanja/Chinyanja* '(language) of the lake' (referring to Lake Malawi).

Chewa belongs to the same language group (Guthrie Zone N) as Tumbuka, Sena and Nsenga.
Albanian

**Albanian** is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.4 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo, but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western FYR Macedonia, southern Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Italy.
Centuries-old communities speaking Albanian-based dialects can be found scattered in southern Bosnia, southern Italy, Sicily, and Ukraine. As a result of a modern diaspora, there are also Albanian speakers elsewhere in those countries and in other parts of the world, including Scandinavia, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, Netherlands, Singapore, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.
Poland

**Poland** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 19 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 1.**

Poland was the first winner of the event, winning in the first edition with Sylwia Grzeszczak and her song "All for You". Since then the country is quite successful achieving 5 more top ten results. Margaret's 10th place, Ifi Ude's 10th place, Georgina's & Atanas' 9th palce, Natalia Szroeder's 6th place and Lor's 5th place.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

## Participation Summary

### Debut

European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1

### Worst Result

20th: 2

 **Poland** **has participated in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 3 times since its debut in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1**

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

 #02 | Sarsa
 #03 | Mikromusic
Portuguese

**Portuguese** is a Romance language. It is the official language of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese has co-official status in Macau in East Asia, East Timor in Southeast Asia and in Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa. As the result of expansion during colonial times, Portuguese speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India, and in Malacca in Malaysia.

Portuguese is a part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of colloquial Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia. With approximately 210 to 215 million native speakers and 240 million total speakers, Portuguese is usually listed as the seventh most spoken language in the world (or sixth, being very close to Bengali in native speakers), the third most spoken European language in the world, the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere, the second most spoken Romance language in Africa, Mainland Southeast Asia (after French) and the most spoken Romance language in East and South Asia, while in Maritime Southeast Asia, as in South America, the numbers compete with those of Spanish.
Latvian

**Latvian** (latviešu valoda) is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.2 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and 100 thousand abroad. Altogether, 1.9 million, or 79% of the population of Latvia, speak Latvian. Of those, 1.2 million use it as their primary language at home. The use of the Latvian language in various areas of social life in Latvia is increasing.

Latvian is a Baltic language and is most closely related to Lithuanian, although the two are not mutually intelligible.

Latvian first appeared in Western print in the mid-16th century with the reproduction of the Lord's Prayer in Latvian in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis, in Latin script.
Armenia

**Armenia** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 20 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 2.**

Armenia debuted in the 2nd edition, and got a great result, a 9th place with Iveta Mukuchyan. When she returned, Iveta managed to improve that result getting 6th in the 9th edition with her song "Hayastan Jan". Armenia managed to get 6th once again in the 16th edition with "Hayastani Erge" by Sofi Mkheyan. Their third 6th place came in the 24th edition by Alin, Lazzaro & Aidin and the song "Groong". The country got in the top 10 also with "Jamanakn E" by Sona Rubenyan and with "We Run Out Of Love" by Mariam Araqelyan.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Elvana Gjata

Elvana Gjata (born February 3, 1987), is an Albanian singer and songwriter. She started singing during her young years and began her career in 2001. Today, she is one of the most popular singers in the Balkans. As of 2016, she has resided in the United States where she has worked with producers such as Poo Bear and David Guetta. She represented Albania alongside the latter in the 7th edition with their song "Forever Is Over", which stayed in the first semifinal, after getting 15th.
Kazakhstan

**Kazakhstan** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 21 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 2.**

The Kazakh first top 10 result came with their debut. A 6th place thanks to Ayree's "My Motherland". Since then Kazakhstan only managed to get in the top 15 in the 20th edition when Moldir Aulbekova got 11th. Kazakhstan finally returned in the top 10 in the 23rd edition with Dimash Kudaibergenov and "Screaming". They first got in the top 3 with KeshYou and their song "Rizamyn", thet ended 3rd in the 24th edition

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

## Participation Summary

### Debut

European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 2

### Worst Result

15th: 2

 **Kazakhstan** **has participated in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1 time since its debut in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 2**

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Imaginary

Fictional languages are a subset of constructed languages, and are distinct from the former in that they have been created as part of a fictional setting (i.e. for use in a book, movie, television show, or video game). Typically they are the creation of one individual, while natural languages evolve out of a particular culture or people group. Fictional languages are also distinct from natural languages in that the former do not have native speakers.

Fictional languages are intended to be the languages of a fictional world and are often designed with the intent of giving more depth and an appearance of plausibility to the fictional worlds with which they are associated, and to have their characters communicate in a fashion which is both alien and dislocated. Within their fictional world, these languages do function as natural languages, helping to identify certain races or people groups and set these apart from others.

While some less-formed fictional languages are created as distorted versions or dialects of a pre-existing natural language, many are independently designed conlangs with their own lexicon (some more robust than others) and rules of grammar. Some of the latter are fully formed enough to be learned as a speak-able language, and many subcultures exist of those who are 'fluent' in one or more of these fictional languages. Often after the creator of a fictional language has accomplished their task, the fandom of that fictional universe will pick up where the creator left off and continue to flesh out the language, making it more like a natural language and therefore more usable.
San Marino

**San Marino** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 23 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 3.**

Surprisingly the microstate of San Marino had an 100% qualification record until the 28th edition. Their first two top 10 results were achieved by native singers, a 4th place by Lo Strego and a 10th by Valentina Monetta. They returned to the top 10 in the 25th edition with the Italian singer Elodie and her song "Tutta Colpa Mia" which got 7th. In the 26th edition the country got its first top 3 resultt: a 3rd place achieved by Marco Mengoni and Giorgia with the song "Come Neve". Andrea Di Giovanni was the first Sammarinese entrant to stay in the semifinal in the 28th edition. Fabrizio Cammarata with "La Llorona" gave San Marino its second 3rd place, repeating the country's best result

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Welsh

**Welsh** , pronounced {kəmˈrɑːɨɡ, ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ) is a member of the Brittonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in *Y Wladfa* (the Welsh colony in Chubut Province, Argentina). Historically it has also been known in English as "the British tongue", "Cambrian", and "Cymric".

The 2011 UK Census counted 3.1 million residents of Wales. Of these, 73% (2.2 million) reported having no Welsh language skills. Of the residents of Wales, 25% of the population are not from the country. Of the residents of Wales aged three and over, 19% (562,000) reported being able to speak Welsh, and 77% of these were able to speak, read, and write the language (making 431,000 - 15% of the total population). This can be compared with the 2001 Census, in which 20.8% of the population (582,000) reported being able to speak Welsh. In surveys carried out between 2004 and 2006, 57% (315,000) of Welsh speakers described themselves as fluent in the written language.

A greeting in Welsh is one of 55 languages included on the Voyager Golden Record chosen to be representative of Earth in NASA's Voyager program launched in 1977. The greetings are unique to each language, with the Welsh greeting being Iechyd da i chwi yn awr ac yn oesoedd, which translates into English as "Good health to you now and forever".

The Welsh Language (Wales) Measure 2011 gave the Welsh language official status in Wales, making it the only language that is de jure official in any part of the United Kingdom, English being de facto official.

Throughout Wales, roadsigns are bilingual with Welsh and English (e.g. Chepstow is the English name, also given as Cas-gwent which is the Welsh name). The language that appears on the signs first is decided by the local government.
German

German is a West Germanic language related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 95–100 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.

Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. A number of words are derived from Latin and Greek, and fewer from French and English.

German is written using the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the letter ß.
Georgia

**Georgia** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 29 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 1.**

Georgia was a powerhouse in this competition until the 6th edition. In that period they got their best result, a 7th place in the 5th edition by Nutsa's "Wild Horses Run" and their only other top 10 result, an 8th place by Tamta's "Unloved". Since the 7th edition the country had only qualified three times. ForceMajeure brought Georgia back to the final in the 23rd edition making it their 4th qualification since the 7th edition.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
European Singing Competition 16

## European Singing Competition

Previous: 15
Next: 17

**European Singing Competition 16**, often referred to as ESC #16, is the sixteenth edition of European Singing Competition. The contest took place in Piraeus, Greece. This is the first time that Greece hosted the contest. The event was hosted by Giorgos Kapoutzidis and Smaragda Karidi. The event was hosted in Peace and Friendship Stadium with a capacity of 14.905 after being enlarged. The host broadcaster was ERT.

As in the previous editions every nation was obliged to send a staging proposal alongside the song. It was announced that juries and televoters would give two separate scores in the semifinals as well.

Thirty-nine countries participated in the sixteenth edition. The participating countries, except of the host Greece, Italy, Israel, Japan, Denmark and Portugal (The latter one replaced Malta that withdrew), competed in two semi-finals.

The winner was Italy with the song "Come In Un Film" by Emma & Moda which scored 307 points, winning by a margin of 20 points in front of Ukraine. The podium was completed by Canada, which finished on the third place. The host country, Greece ended 8th. Andorra qualified for the first time ever.

## Location

The contest took place for the first time in Greece.

### Bidding phase and host city selection

**Key**:
     Host venue

 Piraeus
 Thessaloniki

## Returning Artists

This edition saw the return of Sia, who returned alongside ZAYN, after having performed solo in the past. Greta Svabo Bech returned for the Faroe Islands. Emma & Moda participated after having previously hosted the event.

## Participating countries

### **Semi-final 1**

Sixteen countries participated in the first semi-final. The ten highlighted ones qualified for the final. Every country in this semifinal voted alongside  Denmark,  Italy and  Portugal.

### **Semi-final 2**

Fifteen countries participated in the first semi-final. The ten highlighted ones qualified for the final. Every country in this semifinal voted alongside the host country  Greece,  Israel and  Japan.

### **Grand Final**

Twenty-six countries participated in the final, with all 37 participating countries eligible to vote.

## Scoreboard

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final
Greece

**Greece** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 26 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 2.**

Greece is one of the countries with an 100% qualification record. They have always been in the top 10 with the only exceptions being "Min Anisichis" in the 11th edition, "Tha Rtho Na Se Do" in the 21st edition and "To Pediko Tragoudi" in the 29th edition. The country won once in the 15th edition with Panos Mouzourakis and Mariza Rizou and their song "Monologos Gia Dio". Pantelis Kiramaryios & Plegma gave the country its second victory with the song "Areti" in the 26th edition. They also made the top 3 with Maraveyas and Penny Baltatzi who got 2nd and Natassa Bofiliou, Yota Nega, Crystallia, Dimitra Galani & Drakos and Melina Makri who all got 3rd. Since the 26th they used Thessaloniki Festival in order to select their entrants.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

## Hostings

 #27 | Athens | O.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall | Giorgos Kapoutzidis, Giorgos Lianos, Maria Bekatorou & Smaragda Karidi

## Participation Summary

### Debut

European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1

### Worst Result

8th: 4

 **Greece** **has participated in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 4 times since its debut in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1**

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Serbia

**Serbia** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 21 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 2.**

Serbia was the last Yugoslavian nation to maintain an 100% qualification rate, untill they lost it in the 24th edition when Marija stayed in the first semifinal. Their first top 10 result though is the 4th place that Luke Black and his song "Demons" brought to the country in the 7th edition. Kovic repeated that success ending 4th in the 22nd edition with his song "Give it All". E-Play gave the country its third top 10 result with their song "Mozda Neko" in the 33rd edition, where they came 10th.

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

## Participation Summary

### Debut

European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1

### Worst Result

Last: 4

 **Serbia** **has participated in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 4 times since its debut in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 1**

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*
Romania

**Romania** **has participated in the European Singing Competition 22 times since its debut in European Singing Competition 1.**

Their best and only top 10 result is Brighi's 6th place in the 21st edition with her song "Invizibila".

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

## Participation Summary

### Debut

European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 3

### Worst Result

Last: 3

 **Romania** **has participated in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 2 times since its debut in the European Singing Competition Second Chance Contest 3**

## Contestants

**Table key**

     *Winner*
     *Second place*
     *Third place*
     *Automatically qualified to the final*
     *Did not qualify for the final*
     *Last place*
     *Did not compete*
     *Withdrawn or disqualified*

 #04 | Alma Nicole
European Singing Competition 20

## European Singing Competition

Previous: 19
Next: 21

**European Singing Competition 20**, often referred to as ESC #20, is the twentieth edition of European Singing Competition. The contest took place in Lisbon, Portugal. This is the second time that Portugal hosted the contest. The event was hosted by Daniela Ruah & Luisa Sobral. The event was hosted in the Altice Arena with a capacity of 20.000. The host broadcaster was RTP.

As in the previous editions every nation was obliged to send a staging proposal alongside the song. It was announced that juries and televoters would give two separate scores in the semifinals as well.

Thirty-eight countries participated in the twentieth edition. The participating countries, except of the host Portugal, Italy, France, Belarus, San Marino and the United States (The latter four replaced Sweden, Latvia, Greece and Moldova that withdrew), competed in two semi-finals.

The winner was Liechtenstein with the song "Love & Starve" by Clara Blume which scored 311 points, winning by a margin of 35 points in front of Canada. The podium was completed by Kosovo, which finished on the third place. The host country Portugal ended 20th.

## Location

The contest took place for the second time in Portugal.

### Bidding phase and host city selection

**Key**:
     Host venue

## Returning Artists

This edition saw the return of Sandy who represented Jordan alongside Karl Wolf after previously doing so for her homeland Egypt. Nadia Ali competed again. Lana Jurcevic returned for Croatia. Saara Aalto competed for Finland. Lara Fabian returned for Belgium, this time solo. Evelina Young returned for Lithuania. Loreen participated this time for Morocco. Greta Salome entered for the third time for Iceland. Roby Fayer returned for Israel. Cheraze competed for France this time. Monica Ferraz returned for Portugal.

## Participating countries

### **Semi-final 1**

Sixteen countries participated in the first semi-final. The ten highlighted ones qualified for the final. Every country in this semifinal voted alongside the host country  Portugal,  San Marino and the United States.

### **Semi-final 2**

Sixteen countries participated in the first semi-final. The ten highlighted ones qualified for the final. Every country in this semifinal voted alongside  Belarus,  France and  Italy.

### **Grand Final**

Twenty-six countries participated in the final, with all 38 participating countries eligible to vote.

## Scoreboard

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final
Azerbaijani

**Azerbaijani** or **Azeri** is a language belonging to the Turkic language family, spoken in southwestern Asia by the Azerbaijani people, primarily in the Republic of Azerbaijan (9 million speakers), in northwestern Iran (12 to 15.5 million speakers) and in the Republic of Georgia, Russia, Turkey and in other countries with a presence of Azerbaijani speakers (6 million speakers).

Azerbaijani is member of the Oghuz branch of the Turkic languages and is closely related to Turkish, Qashqai, Turkmen and Crimean Tatar. Turkish and Azerbaijani are known to closely resemble each other, and the native speaker of one language is able to understand the other, though it is easier for a speaker of Azerbaijani to understand Turkish than the other way around