The New Eurovision Song Contest 10

## The New Eurovision Song Contest

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**The New Eurovision Song Contest 10**was the tenth edition of The New Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Dublin, Ireland. It is the first time the contest will take place in the Ireland after Kodaline won the ninth edition with their song "Follow Your Fire".
67 countries participated in this edition.

Iran was the winner of the edition with the song "Elysium" performed by Mahan Moin which scored 225 points, just only 17 points ahead the runner-up United Kingdom. This marked the second time that the country won the contest following their win at the seventh edition . South Korea finished in third place. Belgium, Spain and Norway were on fourth, fifth and sixth places, which they achieved their best result since their debut.

## Bidding phase and host city selection

After Ireland's win in the ninth edition, Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) Director General Dee Forbes stated that the first organisational meeting for the contest would take place in order to go through the technical requirements for the contest, as well as any training required for the contest to take place in Ireland.

RTÉ formally opened the bidding process for cities interested in hosting the 2019 contest on 24 July 2018.

The basic requirements to select a host city were set out in a document presented by the TNEBU to RTÉ following their win in Thessaloniki:

* A suitable venue that can accommodate around 10,000 spectators.
* An international press centre for 1,500 journalists with adequate facilities for all the delegates.
* A good distribution of hotel rooms, at different price categories, able to accommodate at least 2,000 delegates, accredited journalists and spectators.
* An efficient transport infrastructure, including a nearby international airport with readily available connections with the city, venue, and hotels.

An announcement regarding the venue was expected from RTÉ by August, with the 3Arena announced as the venue on 11 August 2018.

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## Host Venue

The 3Arena (originally The O2) is an indoor amphitheatre located at North Wall Quay in the Dublin Docklands in Dublin, Ireland. The venue opened on 16 December 2008. It was built on the site of the former Point Theatre, a smaller music venue which operated from 1988 to 2007, retaining only some of the outer facade. The Point Theatre was branded as "The Point Depot", in recognition of its original role as a railway goods handling station. The venue was re-branded on 4 September 2014 due to the takeover of O2 Ireland by Three Ireland.

The venue is owned by Apollo Leisure Group Ltd. The venue is among the top ten busiest music arenas in the world.

Following its closure in 2007, the site underwent major redevelopment and was renamed The O2 after the telecommunication brand, O2, similar to The O2 in London. In 2008, O2 paid €25 million for the naming rights for 10 years. Following the sale of mobile network operator O2 Ireland to rival 3 Ireland in June 2014, the venue was renamed as the 3Arena on 4 September 2014.

The furthest seat is 60 metres from the stage, 20 metres closer than in The Point. This was achieved by arranging the seats around the stage in a gigantic "fan" formation which the architects likened to the Colosseum of Rome. There are no corporate boxes inside the venue. The backstage area has a "substantial" loading bay for trucks. Alcohol is available in a high-security area of the venue in an effort to curb under-age drinking. Prior to re-development, the seating capacity was 6,300 or 8,500 standing.

U2 were the first band to play in the venue, when Bono and The Edge performed "Van Diemen's Land" and "Desire" to a private audience. The first event to take place at the arena was the ChildLine Concert on 16 December 2008. There was a controversial Guns N' Roses show in September 2010 during which the band had arrived a substantial amount of time late then had bottles hurled at them and stopped performing. Most of the audience then left the building in disgust, but the band later returned to finish the show. The band returned in 2012 and only achieved 47% capacity at the show.

Rammstein performed their first ever show in Ireland at the arena on 27 February 2012 as part of their Made in Germany 1995-2011 Tour. U2 performed four homecoming concerts in November 2015, as part of their Innocence + Experience Tour. The full U2 stage setup could not be brought to the 3Arena due the venue's configuration as an amphitheatre. The U2 stage was designed for a full indoor arena, but was reconfigured for the concerts in the 3Arena

## Location

Dublin is the capital and largest city in Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on the east coast of Ireland, at the mouth of the River Liffey and bordered on the south by the Wicklow Mountains. The city has an urban area population of 1,173,179. The population of the Dublin Region, as of 2016, was 1,347,359 and the population of the Greater Dublin area was 1,904,806.

There is archaeological debate regarding precisely where Dublin was established by Celtic-speaking people in the 7th century AD. Later expanded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Ireland's principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Acts of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.

As of 2010, Dublin was listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha-", which places it amongst the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.

The name Dublin comes from the Irish word Dubhlinn, early Classical Irish Dubhlind/Duibhlind, from dubh meaning "black, dark", and lind "pool", referring to a dark tidal pool. This tidal pool was located where the River Poddle entered the Liffey, on the site of the castle gardens at the rear of Dublin Castle. In Modern Irish the name is Duibhlinn, and Irish rhymes from Dublin County show that in Dublin Leinster Irish it was pronounced Duílinn (/ˈd̪ˠiːlʲiɲ/). The original pronunciation is preserved in the names for the city in other languages such as Old English Difelin, Old Norse Dyflin, modern Icelandic Dyflinn and modern Manx Divlyn as well as Welsh Dulyn. Other localities in Ireland also bear the name Duibhlinn, variously anglicized as Devlin, Divlin and Difflin. Historically, scribes using the Gaelic script wrote bh with a dot over the b, rendering Duḃlinn or Duiḃlinn. Those without knowledge of Irish omitted the dot, spelling the name as Dublin. Variations on the name are also found in traditionally Gaelic-speaking areas of Scotland (Gàidhealtachd, cognate with Irish Gaeltachta), such as An Linne Dhubh ("the black pool"), which is part of Loch Linnhe.

It is now thought that the Viking settlement was preceded by a Christian ecclesiastical settlement known as Duibhlinn, from which Dyflin took its name. Beginning in the 9th and 10th century, there were two settlements where the modern city stands. The Viking settlement of about 841, Dyflin, and a Gaelic settlement, Áth Cliath ("ford of hurdles") further up river, at the present day Father Mathew Bridge (also known as Dublin Bridge), at the bottom of Church Street. Baile Átha Cliath, meaning "town of the hurdled ford", is the common name for the city in modern Irish. Áth Cliath is a place name referring to a fording point of the River Liffey near Father Mathew Bridge. Baile Átha Cliath was an early Christian monastery, believed to have been in the area of Aungier Street, currently occupied by Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church. There are other towns of the same name, such as Àth Cliath in East Ayrshire, Scotland, which is Anglicised as Hurlford.

## Results

#### **Semi-final 1**

* The ten countries in this semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to the votes from each voting country will qualify for the Grand Final.

#### **Semi-final 2**

* The ten countries in this semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to the votes from each voting country will qualify for the Grand Final.

#### **Semi-final 3**

* The ten countries in this semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to the votes from each voting country will qualify for the Grand Final.

#### **Grand Final**

* Thirty-one countries participated in the final, with all countries participating in the contest eligible to vote.
* Non-qualifying countries will be counted as televoting.

## Scoreboard

**Semi-final 1**

**Semi-final 2**

**Semi-final 3**

**Grand Final**

## Other Countries

* Croatia Croatia had originally confirmed their participation in the contest with the song "Love Story", performed by 2CELLOS, and was allocated to perform first in the running order of the second semi-final. However, the TNEBU announced that Hrvatska radiotelevizija (HRT) had failed to submit their votes to the TNEBU, resulting in their disqualification, and consequently Croatias's withdrawal from the contest.
* Armenia Armenia had originally confirmed their participation in the contest with the song "Amar a", performed by Christina Yeghoyan ft. Gor Hakobyan, and was allocated to perform third in the running order of the second semi-final. However, the TNEBU announced that Public Television of Armenia (AMPTV) had failed to submit their votes to the TNEBU, resulting in their disqualification, and consequently Armenia's withdrawal from the contest.