DinaVision Song Contest 03

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**The Dinavision Song Contest 03**, often referred to as DinaVision 03, was the third edition of The DinaVision Song Contest. It was held in  Dublin, Ireland. It was the first time Ireland hosted the contest. **RTÉ** selected the 3Arena Dublin as venue for the edition, whilst Kehli & Lyra were chosen as hosts. The official pre-party was hosted in  Porto.

The winner of the edition was TBD with the song TBD performed by TBD. The song scored TBD points, only TBD more than the runner up, TBD. TBD finished in third place with TBD points, whilst TBD, TBD and TBD completed the top six of the edition. The host country, Ireland, came TBD.

## Bidding Phase

The third edition of **DinaVision Song Contest** will be hosted in Dublin, Ireland. Millstreet was the other potential bid but it wasn't choose due to the infrastructure arm that the tiny village has.

## Location

### Host City

 **Dublin** is the capital and largest city of Ireland having a population prowling the 1,000,000 inhabitants.

It is actually a city that has enough attractions to keep a visitor entertained for many days without too much exertion. The city is spread over the broad valley of the River Liffey, with the Wicklow Hills sheltering it on the south.

    Modern Dublin is a prosperous city with maddening traffic, busy restaurants and a skyline full of construction cranes. As the location of the busiest airport and hub of Ireland’s transport network, most visitors to Ireland will spend some time here and there is plenty to enjoy.

## Venue

**The 3Arena** is an indoor amphitheatre located in the Dublin Docklands in Dublin, Ireland. The venue opened as The O2 on 16 December 2008. It was built on the site of the former Point Theatre, a smaller music venue which operated from 1988 to 2007, retaining only some of the outer facade. The venue was re-branded on 4 September 2014 due to the takeover of O2 Ireland by Three Ireland.

The 3Arena is owned by a Live Nation subsidiary, Apollo Leisure Group Ltd. The venue is among the top ten busiest music arenas in the world having embrace singers such as Ariana Grande, Britney Spears or Jessie J.

## Format

The **Dina Broadcasting Union** (DBU) has decided that in the upcoming edition there will be 2 Semi-finals. In each semi-final 10 countries will qualify for the Grand Final to make a line-up of 26 competing countries (20 Semi-Final qualifers + The Big 06).

### Voting

The **Dina Broadcasting Union** announced that the voting system would be each country awarding one sets from their professional jury and of points from 1-7,8,10 & 12 + televoting. The voting system is also used to determine the qualifiers from each semi-final, but as before the qualifiers are announced in a random order..

### Semifinal Allocation Draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation will be held on the TBD 2020. The pre-qualified countries will be known TBD 2020.

After that the remaning thirty-four countries were divided into six pots, based on their geographical place. Each time a country will be drawn from the pot, it´s half of the semi-final was determined.

The six pots were the following:

* Israel
* Morocco
* Portugal
* San Marino
* Spain
* Hungary
* Slovenia
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Azerbaijan
* Kazakhstan
* New Zealand
* Russia
* Belarus
* France
* Netherlands
* Switzerland
* United Kingdom
* Georgia
* Lithuania
* Iceland
* Norway
* Ukraine
* Czech Republic
* Moldova
* Romania
* Slovakia

### Running Order

The Running order of both Semi-finals will be official announced by Cthe DBU at the TBD June 2020, shortly before the semi-finals start. The Running order for Grand Final will official announced in TBD July 2020, on day before the Grand Final will start.

## Pre-Qualification Round

The Pre-Qualification Round Is A Classificatory Contest For Participating On The DinaVision Song Contest. Usually In This Contest The Last 7 Placements Overall From The Previous Edition And Only 2 Countries Can Make It Through The Semi-Finals.

All The Countries In The Pre-Qualification Round Must Vote. Also Participants That are Not Competing Here Can Support Their Favourites, But Their Votes Will Be Counted As Televote.

## Other Countries

•  Croatia: HRT The Croatian Broadcaster Announced On The 17th Of May That They Were Not Going To Participate On The Third Edition Of The Contest, Due To The High Debts That Has To Pay To The Dina Broadcasting Union (DBU)