North Vision Song Contest 28

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Dates
PQR date	8 April 2019
Semi-finals date	20 May 2019
Final date	27 May 2019
Host
Venue	PostFinance Arena, Bern
Presenter(s)	Charline Mignot, Alexa
Broadcaster	SRG SSR
Opening act	Semi-final 1: Rachel Bloom performing her song "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" Semi-final 2: Vendredi sur Mer performing her song "Écoute chérie" Final: Crimer performing his song "Brotherlove" in a Chapel version
Interval act	Semi-final 2: Steff la Cheffe performing "Guggisbärglied" Final: Trauffer and DJ BoBo performing a mashup of their songs "Alpenmuhve" and "Somebody Dance With Me"
Participants
Entries	50
Returning	Cyprus Estonia Finland Tunisia Turkey
Withdrawing	Czech Republic Egypt Poland Portugal Spain
Participation map      Participating countries     Did not qualify from the semi final or the PQR     Countries that participated in the past but not this edition
Voting
System	Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to their 10 favourite songs: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting
Winner	Ireland "Falling"
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North Vision Song Contest 28, often referred to as NVSC 28, was the twenty-eighth edition of the North Vision Song Contest. The contest was hosted in Bern, as Switzerland was the winning country of the twenty-seventh edition due to Crimer's win with "Brotherlove". The show was hosted by duo Charline Mignot and Alexa.

Fifty countries will participate in the edition, with Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Tunisia and Turkey returning. Tunisia returned after an absence of 11 editions. The Czech Republic, Egypt, Poland, Portugal and Spain withdrew from the contest.

Location

For further information see Bern

Although there was no bidding phase made public, SRG SSR received biddings from several cities to host the edition, including the capital city Bern, the host city of the 3rd edition Winterthur, as well as Lugano. Eventually, Bern was announced as the host city of the edition along with the theme art reveal on 20 April 2019.

Bern or Berne is the de facto capital of Switzerland, referred to by the Swiss as their "federal city", in German Bundesstadt, French ville fédérale, and Italian città federale. With a population of about 140,000 (as of 2019), Bern is the fifth-most populous city in Switzerland. The Bern agglomeration, which includes 36 municipalities, had a population of 406,900 in 2014. The metropolitan area had a population of 660,000 in 2000. Bern is also the capital of the canton of Bern, the second-most populous of Switzerland's cantons.

Participating countries

Fifty countries took part in the 28th edition. Five countries announced their return to the competition: Cyprus, Estonia, Finland and Turkey all returned after a short abscence from the competition, while Tunisia made their return after last taking part in the 12 editions ago.

Meanwhile, five other countries confirmed their absence from the competition: the Czech Republic, Egypt and Spain announced that they would be withdrawing after taking part last edition, while Poland was forced to withdraw after missing the deadline. Romania was originally forced to withdraw as well, but the NBU eventually let TVR take part with a fine. Although Portugal originally confirmed to take part in the competition, they were later removed for missing the submission deadline for the Pre-Qualification Round.

Returning artists

Four of the returning artists have previously taken part in the 15th edition of the contest. Those are Emel Mathlouthi, who was selected to represent Tunisia on their return, Greta Svabo Bech who returned to represent the Faroe Islands for the 4th time, following her participation in the 10th, 15th and 24th edition, just like Thea Trajkovska who returns for a third time to represent North Macedonia following her participations in the 13th and 15th edition and AURORA who was as well selected to represent Norway once again. Another Norwegian returnee is Ina Wroldsen who represented her home country in the twenty-sixth edition, now taking part for Lithuania in a collaboration with Lithuanian DJ Dynoro. Salvatore Ganacci returned to the contest with Nailah Blackman after having previously represented Bosnia and Herzegovina in the twenty-fifth edition with an uncredited vocalist. The Croatian DJ duo Vanillaz represented Slovenia in the third edition featuring Kosta Radman and Hannah Mancini and have now returned to represent their home country. Tolvai Reni was selected to represent Hungary for a third time after her participations in the 10th and 21st edition. Rita Dakota returns to represent Belarus for a second time following her participation in the twenty-second edition. Andrea di Giovanni comes back just one edition after representing San Marino to represent his home country Italy in this edition.

Results

Pre-Qualification Round

Main article: Pre-Qualification Round 14

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	France	Nazca	"Loups"	3	109
02	Bulgaria	Mila Robert	"Nešto grubo"	7	77
03	Malta	CRUX	"Smiling Man"	5	99
04	Kazakhstan	JUZIM	"Tańdaý"	1	119
05	Faroe Islands	Greta Svabo Bech	"All My Bones"	4	106
06	Azerbaijan	Emin	"Let Me Go"	6	82
07	Lebanon	Mayssa Karaa	"Call Me a Stranger"	2	110

Semi-final 1

Andorra, Lithuania and United Kingdom also voted in this semi-final.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Croatia	Vanillaz feat. Dilini	"I Got Love"	16	58
02	Slovenia	Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl	"Valovi"	8	168
03	Belgium	Slõane	"J'irai"	12	122
04	Lebanon	Mayssa Karaa	"Call Me a Stranger"	2	222
05	Moldova	Mark Stam	"Doar Noi"	9	136
06	Ukraine	DETACH	"Bridges"	10	135
07	Albania	Irkenc Hyka feat. Mimoza Shkodra	"Valla"	20	25
08	Tunisia	Emel Mathlouthi	"Footsteps"	4	205
09	Ireland	Lyra	"Falling"	1	297
10	Monaco	Lyna Mahyem	"Boucan"	18	54
11	Kazakhstan	JUZIM	"Tańdaý"	6	190
12	Latvia	Laura Rizzotto	"Tightrope"	19	53
13	Denmark	Ea Kaya	"4 AM"	14	83
14	Serbia	Anastasija	"Rane"	11	134
15	Sweden	LÉON	"You and I"	3	218
16	Algeria	Nabila Dali	"Tidet (The Truth)"	15	78
17	Israel	Mergui	"Tni Li Rega"	7	171
18	Georgia	Apolloe	"Suicide Tea"	13	119
19	Hungary	Tolvai Reni	"Get It"	17	57
20	Norway	AURORA	"Animal"	5	201

Semi-final 2

Greece, Italy and Switzerland also voted in this semi-final.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Finland	Amorphis	"Amongst Stars"	16	89
02	Armenia	Mariam Araqelyan	"Lozh' Iznutri"	19	64
03	North Macedonia	Thea Trajkovska	"Koja sum jas"	17	88
04	Netherlands	AAPNOOTMIES	"Supersoakerkracht"	7	155
05	Luxembourg	Sabrina Gérard	"En attendant"	13	117
06	Romania	Lucia	"Food Chain"	9	136
07	Turkey	Mabel Matiz feat. Sibel Gürsoy	"Mendilimde Kırmızım Var"	6	170
08	Montenegro	MAiKA	"River Sava"	1	258
09	Russia	DRUG feat. Zimne	"Kovboy"	12	123
10	France	Nazca	"Loups"	4	191
11	San Marino	Shanguy	"Toukassé"	2	222
12	Morocco	Malca	"Wham"	14	104
13	Germany	lilly among clouds	"Wasting My Time"	3	221
14	Slovakia	Katarzia	"Bábiky sa vraždia"	8	144
15	Cyprus	Sophia Patsalides	"Deep Blue Ocean"	20	53
16	Iceland	Valdimar	"Of Seint"	10	125
17	Austria	Little Big Sea	"My Famous Laughter"	5	174
18	Belarus	Rita Dakota	"Kto"	11	125
19	Estonia	NOËP	"Move"	18	64
20	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Salvatore Ganacci feat. Nailah	"Kill a Soundboy"	15	103

Final

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Kazakhstan	JUZIM	"Tańdaý"	10	237
02	Austria	Little Big Sea	"My Famous Laughter"	16	194
03	Greece	Ioanna Gika	"Roseate"	20	162
04	Moldova	Mark Stam	"Doar Noi"	23	140
05	Andorra	Karla Grunewaldt	"Desatar"	5	288
06	Romania	Lucia	"Food Chain"	24	119
07	Switzerland	Ekat Bork	"Fear"	22	150
08	Netherlands	AAPNOOTMIES	"Supersoakerkracht"	25	105
09	Ukraine	DETACH	"Bridges"	18	181
10	Lebanon	Mayssa Karaa	"Call Me a Stranger"	8	264
11	Iceland	Valdimar	"Of Seint"	26	95
12	Germany	lilly among clouds	"Wasting My Time"	15	197
13	Tunisia	Emel Mathlouthi	"Footsteps"	7	269
14	Israel	Mergui	"Tni Li Rega"	13	212
15	France	Nazca	"Loups"	9	259
16	Norway	AURORA	"Animal"	4	289
17	Slovakia	Katarzia	"Bábiky sa vraždia"	19	165
18	Lithuania	Dynoro feat. Ina Wroldsen	"Obsessed"	21	152
19	United Kingdom	Tom Adams	"Fade"	14	209
20	Sweden	LÉON	"You and I"	6	281
21	Slovenia	Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl	"Valovi"	11	231
22	Ireland	Lyra	"Falling"	1	563
23	San Marino	Shanguy	"Toukassé"	2	356
24	Turkey	Mabel Matiz feat. Sibel Gürsoy	"Mendilimde Kırmızım Var"	12	213
25	Montenegro	MAiKA	"River Sava"	3	336
26	Italy	Andrea di Giovanni	"Bang"	17	191

Non-qualifier results

Place	Country	Semi-final Place	Points	Percentage
27	Serbia	11	134	5.02%
28	Belarus	11	125	4.69%
29	Russia	12	123	4.61%
30	Belgium	12	122	4.57%
31	Georgia	13	119	4.46%
32	Luxembourg	13	117	4.39%
33	Morocco	14	104	3.90%
34	B&H	15	103	3.86%
35	Finland	16	89	3.34%
36	North Macedonia	17	88	3.30%
37	Denmark	14	83	3.11%
38	Algeria	15	78	2.92%
39	Estonia	18	64	2.40%
40	Armenia	19	64	2.40%
41	Croatia	16	58	2.17%
42	Hungary	17	57	2.14%
43	Monaco	18	54	2.02%
44	Cyprus	20	53	1.99%
45	Latvia	19	53	1.99%
46	Albania	20	25	0.94%
47	Faroe Islands	N/A
48	Malta
49	Azerbaijan
50	Bulgaria

Voting grids

Semi-final 1

Semi-final 1 split jury/televote results
Place	Televoting	Points	Jury	Points
1	Ireland	133	Ireland	152
2	Israel	106	Lebanon	129
3	Tunisia	102	Sweden	119
4	Ukraine	96	Norway	106
5	Slovenia	95	Tunisia	97
6	Kazakhstan	92	Kazakhstan	91
7	Sweden	89	Moldova	85
8	Lebanon	88	Slovenia	72
9	Norway	87	Serbia	66
10	Belgium	67	Israel	63
11	Georgia	65	Belgium	55
12	Serbia	64	Georgia	54
13	Moldova	51	Denmark	40
14	Denmark	43	Ukraine	39
15	Algeria	42	Algeria	36
16	Hungary	26	Croatia	31
17	Monaco	26	Hungary	31
18	Croatia	24	Latvia	29
19	Latvia	24	Monaco	28
20	Albania	14	Albania	11

12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country in the first semi-final.

Countries in bold represent those awarded full 24 points (12 points apiece from professional jury and televoting) to a specified entrant.

Jury No. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 3 Ireland Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tunisia Kazakhstan Israel, Serbia, United Kingdom Lebanon Albania, Belgium, Sweden Norway Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania Slovenia Denmark, Lebanon, Monaco 2 Moldova Algeria, Andorra Tunisia Georgia, Slovenia 1 Hungary Latvia Israel Ukraine Serbia Norway Sweden Croatia

Televoting No. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 4 Slovenia Belgium, Denmark, Kazakhstan, Serbia 3 Ireland Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine 2 Israel Hungary, Norway Lebanon Algeria, Tunisia Tunisia Ireland, Lebanon Ukraine Israel, Slovenia 1 Belgium Albania Croatia Sweden Denmark Monaco Georgia Latvia Moldova Georgia Monaco United Kingdom Norway Andorra Sweden Croatia

Semi-final 2

Semi-final 2 split jury/televote results
Place	Televoting	Points	Jury	Points
1	Montenegro	134	Montenegro	114
2	Germany	124	France	106
3	San Marino	104	San Marino	106
4	Austria	86	Turkey	94
5	France	77	Netherlands	90
6	Turkey	76	Germany	90
7	Slovakia	76	Austria	82
8	B&H	67	Romania	76
9	Netherlands	65	Luxembourg	73
10	Morocco	63	Iceland	70
11	Russia	62	Slovakia	67
12	Belarus	59	Belarus	61
13	Romania	58	Russia	61
14	Iceland	55	North M.	44
15	Finland	51	Morocco	41
16	North M.	44	Estonia	39
17	Luxembourg	41	Finland	38
18	Cyprus	35	B&H	32
19	Armenia	32	Armenia	32
20	Estonia	25	Cyprus	18

12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country in the second semi-final.

Countries in bold represent those awarded full 24 points (12 points apiece from professional jury and televoting) to a specified entrant.

Jury No. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 4 France Armenia, Iceland, San Marino, Slovakia 3 Montenegro Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands Slovakia Estonia, Italy, Montenegro 2 Germany Finland, France Luxembourg Cyprus, Germany Netherlands Morocco, Switzerland San Marino Luxembourg, Russia 1 Austria Romania Belarus Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina North Macedonia Romania Belarus Turkey Greece

Televoting No. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 5 Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina, Finland, Italy, Slovakia, Switzerland 3 Germany Austria, France, San Marino Turkey Germany, Greece, Montenegro 2 Belarus Armenia, Russia Bosnia and Herzegovina Belarus, Turkey San Marino Luxembourg, Romania 1 Cyprus North Macedonia France Estonia Iceland Netherlands Netherlands Morocco Russia Cyprus Slovakia Iceland

Final

Final split jury/televote results
Place	Televoting	Points	Jury	Points
1	Ireland	292	Ireland	259
2	Montenegro	187	San Marino	175
3	San Marino	171	Sweden	171
4	Norway	146	Lebanon	158
5	Kazakhstan	144	Andorra	158
6	Tunisia	142	France	151
7	Andorra	129	Montenegro	147
8	Israel	125	UK	140
9	Slovenia	121	Norway	136
10	Turkey	120	Tunisia	127
11	Ukraine	115	Austria	110
12	Germany	114	Slovenia	110
13	Sweden	110	Turkey	93
14	Lebanon	106	Italy	93
15	France	100	Moldova	88
16	Italy	98	Kazakhstan	87
17	Slovakia	89	Greece	82
18	Austria	84	Israel	82
19	Switzerland	82	Germany	79
20	Greece	80	Lithuania	79
21	Lithuania	73	Slovakia	76
22	Romania	67	Switzerland	68
23	UK	66	Ukraine	66
24	Moldova	52	Netherlands	57
25	Netherlands	48	Iceland	56
26	Iceland	39	Romania	52

12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country in the final.

Countries in bold represent those awarded full 24 points (12 points apiece from professional jury and televoting) to a specified entrant.

Jury No. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 7 Ireland Belarus, Croatia, Faroe Islands, Malta, Moldova, Serbia, Sweden 5 San Marino Algeria, Georgia, Ireland, Lithuania, Russia 4 Andorra Armenia, North Macedonia, Romania, San Marino Lebanon Albania, Azerbaijan, France, Latvia Sweden Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Turkey 3 Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, United Kingdom Tunisia Bulgaria, Germany, Slovakia United Kingdom Estonia, Monaco, Tunisia 2 France Iceland, Netherlands Norway Belgium, Montenegro Slovenia Denmark, Lebanon Turkey Greece, Israel 1 Austria Cyprus Germany Finland Greece Italy Israel Norway Italy Hungary Lithuania Ukraine Moldova Andorra Netherlands Morocco Slovakia Slovenia

Televoting No. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points 9 Ireland Armenia, Bulgaria, France, Luxembourg, Montenegro, North Macedonia San Marino, Tunisia, Ukraine 4 Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, Slovakia, Switzerland 3 Andorra Algeria, Georgia, Lithuania Germany Austria, Belarus, Cyprus Norway Belgium, Latvia, Sweden Slovakia Iceland, Ireland, Italy Sweden Croatia, Estonia, Norway Ukraine Albania, Andorra, Israel 2 Austria Moldova, Slovenia Israel Hungary, Russia Kazakhstan Netherlands, United Kingdom San Marino Finland, Turkey Slovenia Kazakhstan, Malta Tunisia Lebanon, Morocco Turkey Germany, Greece 1 Greece Serbia Italy Faroe Islands Lebanon Romania Moldova Azerbaijan United Kingdom Monaco

Incidents

Hungarian entry change

After the national selected ended and Stolen Beat were declared as the winners with their song "Hol vagy?", it was revealed, that one of their members was under the age limit of the North Vision Song Contest rules. The group refused to take part in the competition without their member, therefore the Hungarian broadcaster chose the runner-up Tolvai Reni to represent Hungary in the contest instead.

Kazakh performers

Shortly before the competition started, it was discovered that one of the group members of JUZIM did not meet the age requirements to perform in the competition. The group went on to perform with their 5 remaining members. It is unknown whether the Kazakh broadcaster tried to sneak her through or whether the group was not aware of the age limitation.

Voting errors

After the results of the edition were announced, multiple voting errors have come to light. In the final, the Russian votes were submitted incorrectly, leading to Slovenia gaining and Ireland losing 7 points, respectively. There was another error discovered with the voting lines of the Rest of the World. Later corrected, Ireland and San Marino switched places; France, Norway and Kazakhstan gained 2 more points, while Israel lost 2 points and Germany 4 points. Montenegro gained 1 point, while Andorra lost one. These result errors led to several placement changes from the original scoreboard with Norway actually coming fourth and Andorra dropping to fifth place, as well as Israel dropping to thirteenth, while Turkey climbs to twelfth place.

Other countries

Further information: List of countries in the North Vision Song Contest

Active NBU members

• Czech Republic: On 30 March 2019, CT announced their withdrawal from the edition, citing a lack of interest from Czech musicians as well as financial difficulties within the broadcaster, furthermore, the country would have had to participate in the Pre-qualification round. The delegation stated their aim to return in the twenty-ninth edition.
• Egypt: On 28 March 2019, the Tunisian head of delegation announced that TT1 would make a cooperative show with the Arabic countries of this edition, in order to reveal their entries. It was confirmed that Egypt will also present their entry for this edition but the Egyptian broadcaster is yet to confirm their participation in the contest. Egypt wasn‘t in the final list of participants.
• Poland: TVP failed to confirm or withdraw from the edition on time and were fined by the NBU.
• Portugal: RTP confirmed participation for this edition but failed to submit a song on time and were fined by the NBU.
• Spain: On 22 March 2019, TVE announced that the country would be withdrawing from the 28th edition, citing financial difficulties as the reason behind their decision. A return in the 29th edition has not been ruled out.

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