BalkanVision Song Contest 11

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The **BalkanVision Song Contest 11** was the eleventh edition of the BalkanVision Song Contest. The contest took place in Kharkiv, Ukraine, following Ukraine's victory at the BalkanVision Song Contest 10 in Bucharest, with the song "Fly Like An Eagle" (Igeulgeolyeo), performed by TigerJK featuring Yoon Mirae and Bizzy. 19 countries participated. Moldova, Montenegro and Northern Cyprus made their return after a one edition absence. Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia withdrew.

The winner was Romania with the song "Safari" performed by Serena. This was Romania's fourth victory, following their wins in the first, fourth and ninth editions. Kosovo came 2nd and host country Ukraine came 3rd.

## Location

**Kharkiv**

The contest took place in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

### Venue

**Palace of Sports "Lokomotiv"** (Ukrainian: Палац спорту «Локомотив») is an indoor arena in the eastern Ukrainian city Kharkiv. Rebuilt in 2004, it has a seating capacity for 4,000 people.

It is the home for the matches of the Ukrainian Fed Cup team, volleyball and it is also used for boxing matches. The arena is the regular home venue of the futsal team MFK Lokomotiv Kharkiv and the Lokomotiv Kharkiv volleyball team.

### About the host city

**Kharkiv** (Ukrainian: Ха́рків, romanized: Chárkiv), also known as **Kharkov** (Russian: Ха́рьков) is the second-largest city in Ukraine. In the northeast of the country, it is the largest city of the Slobozhanshchyna historical region. Kharkiv is the administrative centre of Kharkiv Oblast and of the surrounding Kharkiv Raion, though administratively it is incorporated as a city of oblast significance and does not belong to the raion.

The city was founded in 1654 and after a humble beginning as a small fortress grew to be a major centre of Ukrainian industry, trade and culture in the Russian Empire.

Kharkiv was the first capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, from December 1919 to January 1934, after which the capital relocated to Kiev.

Presently, Kharkiv is a major cultural, scientific, educational, transport and industrial centre of Ukraine, with numerous museums, theatres and libraries.

Its industry specializes primarily in machinery and in electronics. There are hundreds of industrial companies in the city, including the Morozov Design Bureau and the Malyshev Tank Factory (leaders in world tank production from the 1930s to the 1980s); Khartron (aerospace and nuclear power plants automation electronics); the Turboatom (turbines for hydro-, thermal- and nuclear-power plants), and Antonov (the multipurpose aircraft manufacturing plant).

## Format

### Visual design

The theme for the edition "*Giving Chances*", was unveiled on the contest's Google+ community on the 12 March 2018.

### Presenter(s)

Sonya Kay and Yoon Mirae were selected to host on the 12 March 2018.

### Running order

The running order was made by randomly splitting the participating countries into 2 halves.

## Incidents

### Albanian entry

* Albania - Albanian broadcaster RTSH selected German-Kosovar singer Dhurata Dora as their entrant, which was accidentally allowed.

## Other countries

Further information: List of countries in the BalkanVision Song Contest
Eligibility for potential participation in the BalkanVision Song Contest requires a national broadcaster with active BBU membership that will be able to broadcast the contest. The BBU had issued an invitation of participation in the contest to all active members.

### Active BBU members

* Croatia - HRT gave no reasons as to why they did not participate.

* Hungary - Duna TV withdrew without giving any reasons. They did state that a return in the twelfth edition was not ruled out.

* Slovakia - RTVS was barred from participating after failing to give an accurate vote in the previous edition. Slovakia did not return until the 16th edition, despite only being barred for one edition.