Super Vision Song Contest 30

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The **Super Vision Song Contest 30** will be the thirtieth edition and first jubilee of the Super Vision Song Contest. It will take place for the second time in Ireland, at a to-be-determined venue, following the country's second victory in the previous edition in Kaunaus with the song "Love's Just a Feeling", performed by Lindsey Stirling and Rooty. The contest will consist of at least two semi-finals and a final scheduled to be held sometime in March 2018.

On 13 January 2018, it was announced that there would be no participation limit to celebrate thirty editions of the competition. Additionally, it was announced that the edition will feature a new format, decided by the member broadcasters of the competition. These formats were later revealed to be sending songs in the national or dialect language of a country, additionally awarding negative points to bottom 5 countries and receiving random countries.

Forty-three countries will participate in the contest, the highest amount since the 26th edition. Among these countries, 13 have debuted, 14 have returned and 23 have withdrawn. This is due to the randomization of countries, as broadcasters for their regular countries were randomly chosen to participate for another country.

## Location

**Ireland** (Irish: *Éire*), also known as the **Republic of Ireland** (*Poblacht na hÉireann*), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city, serving as the host city of the edition, is Dublin, which is located on the eastern part of the island, and whose metropolitan area is home to around a third of the country's 4.75 million inhabitants. The state shares its only land border with Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom. It is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the Celtic Sea to the south, Saint George's Channel to the south-east, and the Irish Sea to the east. It is a unitary, parliamentary republic. The legislature, the *Oireachtas*, consists of a lower house, *Dáil Éireann*, an upper house, *Seanad Éireann*, and an elected President (*Uachtarán*) who serves as the largely ceremonial head of state, but with some important powers and duties. The head of government is the *Taoiseach* (Prime Minister, literally 'Chief', a title not used in English), who is elected by the Dáil and appointed by the President; the Taoiseach in turn appoints other government ministers.

**Dublin** (Irish: *Baile Átha Cliath*) is the capital of and largest city in Ireland. Dublin is located 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 people, and the population of the Greater Dublin area was 1,904,806.

## Format

### **Special format suggestions**

Submissions were open for one week, with a total of sixteen suggestions by nine countries. Additionally, countries which made similar suggestions were merged with the first suggester to avoid repetition. The six highlighted were shortlisted by the Council to the voting phase, with the winning suggestion being implemented to the edition. However, it was decided that three new formats would be applied, which are italicized.

## Participating countries

It was announced on 6 March 2018 that forty-four countries would participate in the contest. Due to broadcasters being randomized countries to participate for, 23 countries withdrew though 14 debuted and 14 returned. This marks the highest number of participating countries since the 26th edition. However, on 22 March 2018, it was announced that Tonga would no longer participate due to not sending an entry within the submission deadline, lowering the contest to 43 countries.

### **Semi-final 1**

Nineteen countries participated in the first semi-final. Algeria, Iraq and United Kingdom voted in this semi-final.

### **Semi-final 2**

Nineteen countries participated in the second semi-final. Belarus, Ethiopia and France voted in this semi-final.

## Voting and spokespersons

Belarus, Estonia and France failed to submit votes and therefore did not present their points.

2. Ádám Szabó
3. Alice Taticchi
4. Stephanie Beatriz
5. Janice Man
6. Sevak Khanagyan
7. Priyanka Chopra
8. Sofia Carson
10. Mila Kunis
11. Alexander Skarsgård
12. Heida Reed
13. Omar Borkan Al Gala
14. Myahri
15. Jah Khalib
16. Alex Vargas
18. Alisha Boe
19. Barbara Opsomer
20. Raquel Tavares
21. Bracha van Doesburgh
22. Sofia Boutella
23. Jun Matsumoto
24. Becky Lynch (DNQ votes)

## Notes

**^1** Although the suggestion was not listed on the poll, it was used as three suggestions were applied to the edition.