Yourvision Song Contest 1

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**Yourvision Song Contest 1**, often shortened to **YVSC 1**, was the 1st edition of Yourvision. It took place in Gdańsk, Poland. This was the first time when the competition took place in Poland. The contest was scheduled to consist of two semi-finals and a final.

## Location

*For further information see Poland*
**Poland**, is a country in Central Europe. Poland is a unitary state divided into 16 administrative subdivisions, covering an area of 312,679 square kilometres (120,726 sq mi) with a mostly temperate climate. With a population of over 38.5 million people, Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest city is Warsaw. Other cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk and Szczecin.

Poland is a regional power as well as a possible emerging world power. It has the eighth largest and one of the most dynamic economies in the European Union, simultaneously achieving a very high rank on the Human Development Index. Additionally, the Polish Stock Exchange in Warsaw is the largest and most important in Central and Eastern Europe. Poland is a developed and democratic country, which maintains a high-income economy along with very high standards of living, life quality, safety, education and economic freedom. According to the World Bank, Poland has a leading school educational system in Europe. The country provides free university education, state-funded social security and a universal health care system for all citizens. Situated between Eastern and Western European cultures and coined by a changing history, Poland developed a rich cultural heritage, including numerous historical monuments and 15 UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It is visited by approximately 16 million tourists every year (2014), making it the 16th most visited country in the world. Poland is a member state of the European Union, the Schengen Area, the United Nations, NATO and the OECD.

### Host City

*For further information see Gdańsk*
**Gdańsk** is a Polish city on the Baltic coast. It is the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and is also the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.

The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay (of the Baltic Sea), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a population approaching 1.4 million. Gdańsk itself has a population of 460,427 (December 2012), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland.

Gdańsk is home to the University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk University of Technology, the National Museum, the Gdańsk Shakespeare Theatre, the Museum of the Second World War, Polish Baltic Philharmonic and the European Solidarity Centre. The city also hosts St. Dominic's Fair, which dates back to 1260, and is regarded as one of the biggest trade and cultural events in Europe.

### Veune

*For further information see Ergo Arena*
**Ergo Arena** (Hala Gdańsk-Sopot) is a multi-purpose indoor arena, that was opened in 2010. The boundary between two cities – Sopot and Gdańsk – runs through the very middle of the hall. The arena has a capacity of 11,409 people, for sports events and up to 15,000, with standing places, for concerts.

For Athletics competition a six-lane, banked 200-meter oval is installed on the arena floor. According to an IAAF press release, the athletics track at the ERGO Arena, the venue for the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, was officially opened for the 2014 season on Sunday 16 February and almost 6,000 people came to get a glimpse of the new track. Italian company Mondo made the indoor portable banked track with a Mondo Super X rubberized surface (13.5mm thick). Mondo's portable tracks can be assembled and disassembled in a matter of days. The company's claw locking mechanism locks the modular track frame in place without the use of screws or bolts, guaranteeing constant clamping force and perfect accuracy from panel to panel, and from installation to installation. Mondo's world-renowned Super X surface has been the world's top track for more than 30 years and was used at both the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.

### Bidding phase

**Key**
     Host venue

  Kraków
  Warsaw

## Format

The YBU has decided that in the upcoming edition there will be 2 Semi-finals. In each semi-final 10 countries will qualify for the Grand Final to make a line-up of 26 competing countries (20 Semi-Final qualifers + Big 6) without a second chance round.

### Presenters

    On 16.08 YBU and TVN announced that paulina Sykut-Jeżyna and Marcin Prokop will host of frist edition of Yourvision Song Contest.

### Voting

The YBU has announced that the voting system would be each country awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Televoting votes from all countries are pooled. After viewers have cast their votes, the results of each professional jury are presented. After the results of the professional juries are presented, the televoting points from all participating countries are combined, providing one score for each song. The results of countries finishing between 11th and 26th in the public vote are automatically added to the scoreboard, with only the results of the top ten countries being announced by the hosts. The new voting system is also used to determine the qualifiers from each semi-final, but as before the qualifiers are announced in a random order.

### Semi Final allocation draw

The draw that determined the semi-final allocation will be held on the 11th August 2017 at the headquarters of Gdańsk. The pre-qualified countries:

* Australia
* Liechtenstein
* United Kingdom
* Vatican City

will first drawn to determine in which semi-Final each country would vote. After that the remaning thirty-six countries were divided into six pots, based on their geographical place. Each time a country will be drawn from the pot, it´s half of the semi-final was determined.

The six pots were the following:

* Denmark
* Finland
* Iceland
* Norway
* Sweden
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Kosovo
* Serbia
* Estonia
* Kazakhstan
* Russia
* Turkey
 Pot 4
 * Cyprus
* France
* Greece
* Italy
* Monaco
* San Marino
* Czech Republic
* Germany
* Luxembourg
* Romania
* Switzerland
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Portugal
* Spain

###  Running order

The Running order of both Semi-finals will be official announced by TVN at the 29th August 2017, shortly before the semi-finals start. The Running order for Grand Final will official announced in 16 September 2017, on day before the Grand Final will start.

## Participating countries

**Fourty** countries have confirmed their participation in the contest. The submissions for the first edition opened on 6 August 2017. Every country should choose their broadcaster for the contest. The contest started in September. As the rules say, if the country will select internally their entry, they should announced the artist at least one week before they reveal the song.

## Results

### Semi-final 1

Seventeen countries will participate in the first semi-final.  Australia,  Liechtenstein and  Vatican City will also vote in this semi-final. The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

### Semi-final 2

Eightteen countries will participate in the second semi-final.  Armenia,  Poland and  United Kingdom will also vote in this semi-final. The highlighted countries qualified for the final.

### Final

  Australia | Samantha Jade
  Liechtenstein | Oonagh
  Poland | Agata Dziarmagowska
  United Kingdom | Ella Henderson
  Vatican City | Marco Carta

## International broadcasts and voting

### Voting and spokespersons

2. Graham Norton
3. Sanja Vučić
4. Dilara Kazimova
5. Marijana Batinić
6. Marco Mengoni
7. Enis Bešlagić
8. Aura Dione
9. ALMA
10. Stéphane Bern
11. Nicky Byrne
12. Samuel Forster
13. Çağatay Ulusoy
14. Zara Larsson

16. Gery-Nikol
17. Iveta Mukuchyan
18. Alma
19. Salvador Sobral
20. Alexander Rybak ﻿
21. Elina Born
22. Gianluca Ginoble
23. Conchita Wurst
24. Lisa Ajax
25. Ivi Adamou
26. Lorde
27. Eleni Foureira
28. Besa Kokëdhima
30. Alessandro Cattelan
31. Zhanar Dugalova
32. Dima Bilan
33. Martina Bárta
34. Alvaro Soler
35. Svala
36. Princess Alexandra
37. Afrojack
38. Dua Lipa
39. Sirusho
40. Alexandra Stan
41. Guy Sebastian