33rd edition

The thirty-third edition of WAO Song Contest took place in Liverpool, United Kingdom.

## Countries

### Returning countries

* Chile
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* Georgia
* Ireland
* Kazakhstan
* Kyrgyzstan
* Malaysia
* Malta
* Moldova
* Morocco
* Peru
* Slovenia
* Turkmenistan
* Venezuela

### Non-returning countries

* Azerbaijan
* Bosnia & Herzegovina
* Estonia
* Faroe Islands
* India
* Israel
* Lebanon
* Lithuania
* Turkey

## Winner(s)

### Country, artist(s) and song

 United KingdomPaloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This

## Editions

### Following

34th edition

The venue selected was the Anfield stadium and the presenters were Calum Scott and the two winners of WAO Song Contest for United Kingdom: Birdy and Ellie Goulding. The slogan was "Conquer your Fears" and the song "Stranded" by Ship Wrek & Zookeepers has been selected as theme song of the edition.

62 participants: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, The Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Vatican City and Venezuela.

United Kingdom, because of has won the last edition, passed automatically in the final and also Spain and Portugal, because of be arrived second and third in the last edition, passed automatically in the final. 3 semi-finals took place and 8 countries qualified from each semi-final. The songs that arrived 9th had a "Second Chance". 28 countries qualified for the grand final.

## Semi-final 1

The songs qualified for the final are marked in light orange. The song that has a "Second Chance" is marked in light purple. Also  United Kingdom voted in this semi final.

 Germany and  Austria both ended up 9th with 65 points. The same amount of countries voted for them and they both received one "12 points", but  Germany got two "10 points" and  Austria only one. So the country that went to "Second Chance" was  Germany, and  Austria has been eliminated.

## Semi-final 2

The songs qualified for the final are marked in light orange. The song that has a "Second Chance" is marked in light purple. Also  Spain voted in this semi final.

## Semi-final 3

The songs qualified for the final are marked in light orange. The song that has a "Second Chance" is marked in light purple. Also  Portugal voted in this semi final.

## Second Chance

Every country gave 1 point to his favourite country. Voting is not compulsory.

* Belarus
* Canada
* Chile
* Denmark
* France
* Hungary
* Iceland
* New Zealand
* Slovenia
* South Africa
* South Korea
* Sweden
* Switzerland
 02
* Czech Republic
* Ecuador
* Malta
* San Marino
* Slovakia
* The Netherlands
* United States
 03
* Serbia

## Grand final

 Ireland and United Kingdom both ended up first with 208 points, but United Kingdom received points from 30 countries and  Ireland from 29 countries. So United Kingdom ended up winning.