HeartVision Song Contest 13

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HeartVision Song Contest 13, often referred to as HVSC 13, will be the thirteenth edition of the HeartVision Song Contest. The contest will be held in the winning country of the previous edition, which is the United Kingdom.

**Winner** after a big and exciting show was Helena Paparizou from  Greece with her the song "Haide", she reached 230 Points. At the 2nd Place was  Poland represent by Margaret with their song "What You Do" , She reached 229 Points and on 3rd Place was  Ukraine represent by Tayanna with her song "Osen", she reached 219 Points.

## Location

*For further information see United Kingdom*
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands.[11] Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state‍—‌the Republic of Ireland.[note 9] Apart from this land border, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to its east, the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south-south-west, giving it the 12th-longest coastline in the world.

## Venue

From 1 September 2008, the NEC Arena was officially renamed as the LG Arena, following a naming-rights sponsorship deal with global electronics company LG. The arena then underwent a £29 million overhaul of its facilities, paid for by loans from Birmingham City Council and regional development agency Advantage West Midlands.Work on the LG Arena was finished mid October 2009 and the arena hosted its first concert with Tom Jones. Included in the installation were around 1,000 new seats, bringing the capacity to 16,000[2] to compete with venues such as the O2 Arena in London and the Manchester Arena in Manchester, which are amongst the busiest music venues in the world. Also constructed were new hospitality areas and a forum containing new bars, restaurants and other customer facilities. Prior to its first concert, the arena hosted the 2009 Horse of the Year show.In 2011 the venue became the 10th busiest arena in the world and 13th in 2014.It was announced in November 2014 that as part of a sponsorship deal with the casino group, the arena would be renamed the "Genting Arena" from January 2015.

### **Bidding phase**

The bidding phase for the edition kicked off one days after the results of the 13rd Edition.

 **London** | The 02 Arena
 **Manchester** | 02 Apollo Manchester

## Format

The HBU has decided that in the upcoming edition there will be most likely two semi-finals.In each semi-final 10 countries will qualify for the Grand Final to make a line-up of 23 competing countries(20 semi finals qualifers + BIG 3)

### Voting

The HBU has announced that that a new voting system would be also used in this edition as well. Each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Televoting votes from all countries are pooled. After viewers have cast their votes, the results of each professional jury are presented. After the results of the professional juries are presented, the televoting points from all participating countries are combined, providing one score for each song. The results of countries finishing between 11th and 26th in the public vote are automatically added to the scoreboard, with only the results of the top ten countries being announced by the hosts. The new voting system is also used to determine the qualifiers from each semi-final, but as before the qualifiers are announced in a random order.

## Semi final allocation draw

This edition, the countries that are classified from 1st to 3rd place in the Grand Final of the previous edition will be the so-called "Big 3", they will have the privilege of being in the Grand Final automatically as well as voting in the semi-finals without competing in them, this three countries are divided to vote between the two semi-finals:
competing in them, this 3 countries are divided to vote between the two semi-finals:

* United Kingdom
* United Kingdom

The draw to determine the allocation of the participating countries into their respective semi-finals took place at Gending Arena on 6 June 2017 the first part of the draw determined in which semi-final the Big 3 would have   to vote. The second part of the draw decided in which half of the respective semi-finals each country would perform, with the exact running order determined by the producers of the show at a later date. 30 countries will participate in each semi-finals, respectively.

* Faroe Islands
* Finland
* Greenland
* Norway
* Belarus
* Israel
* Russia
* Ukraine
* France
* Luxembourg
* Monaco
 Pot 4
 * Estonia
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Lithuania
* Poland
* Italy
* Romania
* Serbia
* Switzerland
* Greece
* Portugal
* The Netherlands
* Turkey

### Running Orders

The Running order of both Semi-finals will be official announced by BBC at the 8 June  2017, shortly before the semi-finals start. The Running order for Grand Final will official announced in June 2017, on day before the Grand Final will start.

## Results

### Semi-Final 1

Fifteen countries will participate in the first semi-final. Spain and  United Kingdom will also vote in this semi-final.The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

### Semi-Final 2

Fifteen countries will participate in the second semi-final. Sweden and  United Kingdom will also vote in this semi-final.The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

### Final

The following countries either finished in the top 3 of the previous edition and therefore automatically qualify to the final of this edition or qualified from the semi-finals.

## Other countries

*Further information: HeartVision Broadcasting Union*

Countries that are active members of the HeartVision Broadcasting Union (HBU) are also eligible to participate in the HeartVision Song Contest. As in every edition, an invitation to all the members have been sent in order to confirm whether they will participate or not. The following list of countries declined stating their reasons as shown below.