Eurofans Song Contest

*For the previous edition see Eurofans Song Contest 5*
*For the upcoming edition see Eurofans Song Contest 6*

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The **Eurofans Song Contest**, often shortened to **EFSC**, is a song contest on Youtube held among the members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since June 2019. 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 supervisors are Bar & Ofek & Shahar and Yamit.

Each country's head of delegation gets to select an entry for each edition either by internal selection. Then the countries get to vote for each show (semi-final or final) to determine the winner of the edition.

So far, five different countries have won the competition and therefore hosted the contest. Italy, Scotland, Andorra, Germany and Morocco have all been winners and hosts of the contest.
The highest scoring winner, is the German, Nico Santos who won the fourth edition with his song "Play With Fire" which got 826 points, 278 points ahead of the runner-up.

## History

On 30th May 2019, Bar E & Ofek J decided to open an international music contest, every member from Europe (Beside Australia, Israel, and Morocco) can take part by sending artists representing their countries with songs. It was called *Eurofans Song Contest*.

#### **Slogans**

Since the first edition already, slogans were used for the contest. In each edition, the executive supervisors were in charge to decide the slogan of the edition and based on it, develop the contest's theme and visual design.

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## Participation

Anyone is allowed to send a song for the Eurofans Song Contest according to the sending songs' rules. The participants have to change their country between any edition (except for the winning participant of the previous edition).

over 50 countries have participated at least once. These are listed here alongside the edition in which they made their debut:

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## Format

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The contest's format was different during the editions; In the first edition, three semi-finals and a final were held. The top eight scored countries from each semi-final and the two best ninth-placed countries advanced to the final. Since the Second edition, there was a big 6 that ended in the top 6 of the previous contest and were automatic qualifiers. In the Second edition, onwards two semi-finals and a final were held. In the third edition, the number of finalists was increased to 28.

### The "Big 6"

In the Second edition, it was already decided that the top six scored participants will be the "Big 6" in the next edition.

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### Rules

The official rules of the Eurofans Song Contest include rules for the entries, the broadcasting of the contest, or the voting.

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There are several rules of the contest in order to enter. The main rule regarding the entries is that Eurovision Song Contest artists and cover songs are not allowed to compete in the contest.

## Winners

*Main article List of Eurofans Song Contest winners*

## History by Country

Here you find the all specific histories of all countries they had participated in the Eurofans Song Contest at least once.

* Andorra
* Armenia
* Australia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Belarus
* Belgium
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Denmark
* England
* Estonia
* Faroe Islands
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Greece
* Hungary
* Iceland
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Kazakhstan
* Kosovo
* Latvia
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Malta
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Montenegro
* Morocco
* Netherlands
* Northern Ireland
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* San Marino
* Scotland
* Serbia
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Spain
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Turkey
* Ukraine
* United Kingdom
* Wales

## Spin-offs

The following spin-offs of the Eurofans Song Contest are planned or being discussed:

* Universal Song Contest, a worldwide song contest (excluding Eurofans' countries) Eurovision Style