Ro Eurovision Song Contest 03

Semi-final 1 date
 Semi-final 2 date
 Final date
 Venue
 Presenter(s)
 Host broadcaster
 Opening act
 Number of entries
 Debuting countries
Participation map
* Confirmed countries     Confirmed countries that have selected their song and/or performer     Past participants that did not participate
 Voting system
 Winning song

The **Ro Eurovision Song Contest 03** will be the third edition of the Ro Eurovision Song Contest. It will take place in Stockholm, Sweden following Loreen's win in Stockholm with the song "I'm In It With You". This edition consisted of two semi-finals which took place on the 28st and 29nd July, and the final on 4th August 2018

Thirty-five countries participated in the contest, an increase from the previous edition. With three making their debut and many more returning. Poland, Malta and Cyprus (despite great results) chose to withdraw from this edition.

## Location

On the 18th June 2018, Stockholm was announced as the host city of the contest.

## Rules

Users are able to decide their songs via national finals or internal selections. In either case, songs must follow these rules

* Songs cannot exceed more than 100 million YouTube views
* Songs cannot be from the Eurovision Song Contest (this includes the Junior version)
* Songs that took place in National Finals for either contest in the last two years (2017-18) cannot be used.

## Format

### Voting

Each of the participating nations are required to send votes, and failure to do so will result in a ban in competing in the following edition. In addition, if a nation is found to be tactical voting or voting randomly; the reference team may decide to give them a ban from the following edition.

Each participating nation will award 12, 10 8-1 points to each to their 10 favourite songs. Each country cannot vote for themselves. Any other non-participating country will vote with the same method, but all of the votes of the non-participants will be known as the 'televote' and all of them will be revealed as one.

### Reference Team

In RoEurovision, the reference team help to enforce the rules and help to put together the competition. The winner of this contest will become the 5th member in the subsequent edition only. All members of the reference team are given the benefit to sign up before other members.

The reference team also gave reviews and scores on each of the entries in this edition.

Those in the team for this edition are;

* **Scott** - Owner of RoEsc
* /  **Valyrian**
* **Tom**
* **Vecu**
* **Aidan**
* **Mal**

## Participating countries

### Semi Final 1

* **Semi Final 1** took place on the 28th July 2018
* Click here for a recap of all the entries from **Semi Final 1**
* Lithuania Received the most **televote points across both semis** and qualified to the final as a wildcard
* **As Host Country**,  Sweden voted in this Semi Final

### Semi Final 2

* **Semi Final 2** took place on the 29th July 2018
* Click here for a recap of all the entries from **Semi Final 2**
* **As Host Country**,  Sweden voted in this Semi Final

### Final

* **The Grand Final**took place on the 4th August 2018
* Click here for a recap of all the entries from **the Final**

## Voting Nations

1. Hungary
2. Serbia
3. Belgium
4. Austria
5. Belarus
6. Macedonia
7. Montenegro
8. Romania
9. Russia
10. Iceland
11. Luxembourg
12. Monaco
13. Italy
14. San Marino
15. Germany
16. Norway
17. Lithuania
18. Estonia
19. France
20. Spain
21. Greece
22. Australia
23. Denmark
24. Ireland
25. Turkey
26. United Kingdom
27. Azerbaijan
28. Albania
29. Slovenia
30. Israel
31. Ukraine
32. Finland
33. Latvia
34. Netherlands
35. Sweden