My Eurovision Song Contest 2013

Final dates
 Venue
 Number of entries
 Winning song

**My Eurovision Song Contest 2013** was the 14th edition of the annual **My Eurovision Song Contest****.** It took place in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, following Luis Fonsi's and Daddy Yankee's win at the 2012 contest in Paris, France with the song *"Despacito".* The contest was held in the Poliesportiu d'Andorra on Saturday 16 March.

## Host City

Due to Andorra winning the contest in Paris, they where expected to host the competition. The Andorran broadcaster: Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra (RTVA) confirmed in the winner's press conference that they would indeed love to host the contest in Andorra. However, they did state that although micronations had hosted the contest before *(namely Monaco in 2001)* Andorra did not have the facilities to host the contest and therefore niether accepted or declined the offer to host stating that they would be willing to try but other options must be put on standby. The broadcasters and delegations from Russia, Italy and Portugal who place second, third and fourth respectively where contacted and asked in the case of Andorra being unable to host would they be interested in hosting the contest in 2013. All three nations obliged with the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Unipol Arena in Bologna and Pavilhão Atlântico in Lisbon all put forward their bids for the contest if Andorra declined which was becoming more likely as time went on.

By May 2012 it was presumed that Andorra would not host the 2013 contest and it was confirmed in late May 2012 that the Russian Broadcaster Pervyy Kanal Rossiya (C1R) had gone into talks with the European Broadcasting Union about hosting the contest in Moscow.

However, on the 17th June 2012 it was revealed that the **Poliesportiu d'Andorra** in Andorra la Vellawould infact host the contest. The venue is primarily used for various sporting events such as team handball and futsal matches and has a capacity of *5,000*, which would drop to just over *4,000* once the stage was constructed. This was considered a very small crowd for the contest however it was agreed that the venue would be suitable for the contest as the majority of the contests fans watch it on television from home. This is the smallest capacity of any venue in the contest's history to date.

It was revealed in July 2012 that Puerto Rican-American singer, songwriter, and actor; **Luis Fonsi** who won the 2012 contest alongside Daddy Yankee for Andorra would co-host the show with Spanish actress and television presenter; **Tania Llasera.**

## Qualification for Final

Each country will submit a song to the **EBU** in which professional juries will vote for songs to qualify for the final. The qualification process is entirely due to professional juries who are the only people to hear the countries' songs before the final. If a country makes it to the final then their song will be released to the public. Andorra, Portugal, Turkey, Denmark and Estonia would all automatically qualify due to they finished as top 5 non-Big 5 countries in the 2012 contest. They will qualify along with the Big 5 countries: France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the United Kingdom.

## Final

The Final of '*My Eurovision Song Contest 2013**was held in '***Poliesportiu d'Andorra**, Andorra la Vella, Andorra** with the Motto: ***"#Crystalize"*** this theme is said by RTVA to "Symbolise new beginings as well has having old values and memories frozen inside our minds"It was critisized heavily as many said it was uncreative and bland.