Eurovision Song Contest Tengaged 23

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**Eurovision Song Contest Tengaged 23**, also known as **ESCT #23**, was the twenty-third edition of Eurovision Song Contest Tengaged, which was held in the city of Limassol, Cyprus at the SpyrosKyprianou Athletic Center, for the second time in the country when it won in the 11th edition. Cyprus reached the gold medal last edition in Norrköping when Christiana Loizu won the contest with the song "Phoenix", with **182** points.

For the first time in the contest, all the countries that have the privilegde to take part in it, participated breaking a brand new record of forty-nine countries participating, seven more than the previous edition, whereas obviously any country withdrew. So the seven countries who returned to the contest were Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro whose last participation was in the 16th edition, Morocco, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia, most of them with a break of two editions. There were some issues refering to Azerbaijan and Belarus with their Heads of Delegations as they were not sure to take part in the contest or not and it was put in doubt until the very last moment.

This edition, because of the huge amount of participant countries, a Pre-qualification round was introduced, where the bottom 4 from each semifinal from last edition will compete to win a spot in the Semifinals. The voting countries will be the own participating countries and a jury voting based in the votes from the **Big 5**. The 4 countries with most votes will go through the Semifinals.

**Loïc Nottet** from Belgium was the twenty-third winner of the Eurovision Song Contest Tengaged with the song *Million Eyes* with a total of **230** points. United Kingdom finishing in second place and Spain finishing in third place.

## Logo and theme

The twenty-third edition of the Eurovision Song Contest Tengaged had a logo designed by Alex Ramírez, the main producer of Eurovision Song Contest Tengaged. The logo had a geometric figure made with a kaleidoscope style trying to make understand the ease and complexity of life, with a warm background simulating the fields of Cyprus. Along with the logo, the slogan of this edition is **Be Fearless**, created by the Head of Delegation Iván Rubio who stated "We all must be brave, be fearless in live and we should not be afraid of anything".

## Participants

For the first time in the contest, all the countries that have the privilegde to take part in it, participated breaking a brand new record of forty-nine countries participating, seven more than the previous edition, whereas obviously any country withdrew. So the seven countries who returned to the contest were Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro whose last participation was in the 16th edition, Morocco, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia, most of them with a break of two editions. There were some issues refering to Azerbaijan and Belarus with their Heads of Delegations as they were not sure to take part in the contest or not and it was put in doubt until the very last moment.

### **Debuting countries**

Below is a list of all debuting countries :

None debuting countries

### **Returning countries**

Below is a list of all Returning countries :

1. Azerbaijan
2. Bosnia & Herzegovina
3. Montenegro
4. Morocco
5. Poland
6. Serbia
7. Slovenia

### **Withdrawing countries**

Below is a list of all withdrawing countries which appeared in previous editions:

None withdrawing countries

## Results

### **Quarterfinal**

* 8 countries will participate in the quarter-final.
* The four countries in the quarter-final with the highest scores according to the voting from each voting country, qualify to the Semifinals.

### **Semifinal 1**

#### **Jury**

* Albania (Finalist)
* Netherlands (Finalist)
* Slovakia (Finalist)

### **Semifinal 2**

#### **Jury**

* Cyprus (Host)
* Norway (Finalist)

## Score sheet

### **12 points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the Pre-Semifinal Round.

### **12 points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the first semifinal.

### **12 points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the second semifinal.

### **12 points**

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the final.

## International broadcasts and voting

### Voting and spokespersons

2. Carmen Kass
3. Margaret(Polish representative in the fifteenth, eighteenth and twentieth edition)
4. Gylfi Sigurðsson
5. Eleni Foureira(Greek representative in the seventh, nineth, fifteenth and twenty first and Cypriot representative in the nineteenth edition)
6. Stéphanie of Monaco
7. Gabriela Gunčíková
8. Fehér Balázs
9. Jordi Sánchez
10. King Shaolin
11. Ivi Amadou(Cypriot representative in the fifth edition)
12. XOV(Austrian representative in the fifteenth edition)
13. O'G3NE
14. Granit Xhaka
15. Toni Kroos
16. Yannick Carrasco
17. Ester Rada(Israeli representative in the twenty second edition)

19. Xhensila Myrtezaj(Albanian representative in the nineteenth edition)
20. Mihaela Fileva
21. Natalie Dormer
22. Nora Jabri
23. Joan Thiele(Italian representative in the twenty-first and twenty-second edition)
24. Bibi Bourelly(Louxembourgish representative in the nineteenth edition)
25. MØ(Danish representative in the sixth, tenth and twenty-first edition)
26. Krista Seigfrids(Finnish representative in the thirteenth and seventeenth edition)
27. Antonio Banderas
28. Sofia Essaidi
29. Ivan Rakitić
30. Valentina Monetta(Sanmmarinese representative in the eighteenth and host of the seventeenth edition)
31. Atiye(Turkish representative in the nineteenth edition)
32. David Carreira(Portuguese representative in the twelfth edition)
33. Michael Fassbander
34. Sofi Mkheyan(Armenian representative in the eighteenth edition)

36. Nina Stanišić
37. Sanja Vučić
38. Paula Seling
39. Rati
40. Elena Risteska
41. Polina Gagarina(Russia representative in the eleventh and eighteenth edition)
42. Zara Larsson(Icelandic representative in the second and Swedish representative in the fourteenth and twenty-first edition)
43. Emji(French representative in the seventeenth edition)
44. Eglė Jezepčikaitė
45. Samanta Tina(Latvian representative in the nineteenth edition)
46. Fabrizio Faniello(Maltese representative in the sixth edition)
47. Ivan
48. Maya Sar
49. Tinkara Kovač