My Eurovision Second Chance Contest Wiki

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# **My Eurovision Second Chance Contest**

## Spin-Offs

My Eurovision Last Chance Contest

**My Eurovision Second Chance Contest**, often shortened to **MESCC**, is a song contest held among the members of the Fantasyland Company since 2006. The competition was based upon the existing Eurovision Song Contest held among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. The current and official executive supervisor is Woody Williams.

Traditionally the Winner of an edition reserves the rights for first refusal to host the contest the previous year. To date there have only ever been two times where the Winning country did not accept the hosting duties, those being Spain, who withdrew from the 10th Edition of the contest in 2015 after Winning the 9th Edition in 2014, giving the rights to Sweden who placed 3rd (due to 2nd place Ukraine also withdrawing for the 10th edition), and San Marino, who withdrew from the 14th Edition in 2019 after Winning the 13th Edition in 2018, giving the rights to Lithuania who placed 2nd.

## Format

### Song Selection

* **2006-2008:** The selected song for a participating country in MESCC from 2006-2008 was chosen based on the Highest Televote placed entry from that country's National Final of the same year.
* **2009-2010:** The selected song for a participating country in MESCC from 2009-2010 was chosen based on the entry that placed either 2nd or 3rd in that country's National Final of the same year.
* **2011-2013 / 2015-2016 / 2019:** The selected song for a participating country in MESCC for the 2011-2013 was chosen internally from the Finalists from that country's National Final of the same year. This process returned again for the 2015-2016 editions, and once again for the 2019 edition.
* **2014:** The selected song for a participating country in MESCC 2014 was chosen based on the entry that placed 2nd in that country's National Final of the same year.
* **2017-2018:** The selected song for a participating country in MESCC from 2017-2018 was chosen internally from the Semi-Finalists from that country's National Final of the same year.
* **2020-Present:** The selected song for a participating country in MESCC from 2020 onwards is chosen via the MESCC National Final which coincides with the actual national finals for the competing countries of the same year, 50% of the result coming from Woody Williams and 50% coming from the My Eurovision Scoreboard App.

#### Exceptions

> Previously, MESCC rules stated that should a country competing in ESC not have a National Final that year, they will also not be eligible to participate in MESCC that same year, however there have been exceptions to this rule made in recent years.
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> * An exception to still compete was made for Hungary in 2020 and is still currently in effect, regarding their Eurovision Song Contest Non-Participation, allowing them to still compete in MESCC due to their regular Eurovision National Final "A Dal" still taking place outside of the ESC competition. Should they win, however, the first refusal for hosting rights will be given to the 2nd place country of that year.
> * For MESCC:16, due to the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020/21 countries participating in ESC 2021 that did not host a National Final could still participate in MESCC if their ESC 2021 representative had released a different solo song; or a song be directly related to the contest with public knowledge; within the Eurovision song release time frame outside of the contest.
> * It was announced by the FLCo prior to MESCC 2022 that all further edition of the contest would be permanently implementing a portion of The 2021 Coronavirus Pandemic rule, allowing any Artist's song that is taking part in an internal selection process for a country directly associated with the Eurovision Song Contest with public knowledge; that is released within the Eurovision song release time frame outside of the contest, to be able to compete for their country in MESCC regardless of having no National Final.
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### The Contest

The contest's format has remained the same since its inception, with two semi-finals and a final being held. The previous year's winner still takes part in one of the two semi-finals, but will qualify for the grand final regardless of their semi-final position, meaning that the ten highest scoring countries from one semi-final and the nine highest scoring from the other semi-final plus the winner of the previous year advance to the grand final, totalling twenty finalists for an MESCC grand final.

#### Voting

Each participating country's "Jury" is represented by a single Individual who will vote for their top ten songs of the contest, giving their points in the Eurovision style of 12 points to their first place, 10 points to their second place, and 8-1 points to their third to tenth place. Their points make up 50% of a singly country's points. The other 50% comes from Woody Williams, giving the same amount of points from the total "Jury" score for all countries being spread out between all songs in their respective semi-final's and the grand final, with Woody's most favourable song receiving the most points, and their least favourable song receiving the least points.

## Host Logo and Slogan

For each contest it is required by the hosting country to provide a logo for that year's contest, including the MESCC Logo within it and are also encouraged to include their country's flag colours within the logo. Additionally the host country is asked to provide a slogan for that year.

## Participants

Since the inception of My Eurovision Second Chance Contest in 2006 there have been a total of forty-six countries that have participated in at least one edition of the competition with the highest amount of participation countries in a single edition being MESCC03: 2008 where thirty-six countries were present, the lowest amount in a single edition was in both MESCC09: 2014 and MESCC12: 2017 where only twenty-five countries were present

The first contest took place in April 2006 in the Boris Trajkovski Sports Center in Skopje, Macedonia, with thirty countries participating in the debut year. The contest was won by Gunesh with the song "Connect The Hearts" from Belarus with 272 points. The runner-up was Sweden with 259 points, and third place went to Portugal with 231 points.

The most recent contest took place in April 2023 in the Selman Stërmasi Stadium in Tirana, Albania with twenty-nine countries participating. The contest was won by Benjamin with the song "Hoida Mut" from Finland with 274 points. The runner-up was Serbia with 236 points, and third place went to Albania with 227 points.

## Winners

So far, 14 different countries have won the competition throughout the 18 editions. Belarus, Serbia, Norway, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Romania, San Marino, and Albania have all been winners. Sweden has won the contest 3 times, while Finland and Ukraine have won the contest twice each, with Sweden being the first to win two times in a row. The highest scoring winner is Norway's King of Trolls who won the 3rd edition of MESCC with their song "Far Away" which received 342 points. The highest percentage winner is Germany's Laing who won the 10th edition of MESCC with their song "Zeig Deine Muskeln" winning with 8.4% of the overall points. The highest marginal winner is Finland's Benjamin who won the 18th edition of MESCC with his song "Hoida Mut" winning with a 38 point margin.