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1.2. Within the meaning of this Regulation, the Performer is a citizen of Latvia at least 16 years old or a non-citizen of Latvia (with the status of a non-citizen) whose permanent place of residence is the Republic of Latvia - a soloist, a duet of such persons, or an association (group) of several persons (group) up to 6
persons. In order to participate in the Competition, the Contractor must have reached the age of 16 by 1 December 2021.

1.3. Citizens of Latvia and non-citizens of Latvia who are permanently residing outside the borders of the Republic of Latvia may participate in the Competition as Performers.

5.1. The participant who wins the Competition wins the opportunity to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, for which the Participant and LTV enter into a separate contract;
5.2. If the Participant does not sign the cooperation agreement for participation in the international competition within two working days after the final of "Supernova 2022", LTV has the right to enter into a contract with the next place winners at the discretion of the Organisers of the
Competition.

2. Evaluation criteria for the songs and participants of the competition

2.1. The songs and the entry of participants into the live broadcast of the Competition shall be determined by a jury selected by Latvian Television. Latvian Television selects the jury on the basis of their experience and achievements in the industry. 2.2. The Jury evaluates the Songs and Participants' applications

at its own professional discretion, taking into account the following criteria: 2.1.1.

The structure of the song – originality, arrangement, message, compliance with modern market trends;
2.1.2. Opportunities and potential of the Song and Participant to compete in the international pop market;
2.1.3. The performer's vocal abilities and personality;
2.1.4. Past achievements in the sector or potential for future achievements and real market existence.

2.3. The titles of the entries selected by the jury and entered in the next round, including the SongWriters, will be published by LTV in December 2021.

https://supernova.lsm.lv/lv/balsoshanas-nolikums/

Latvia's supernova2022 submissions have opened until 7th December, and their NF will take place somewhere in February

here's some important bits of the rules translated

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host city been revealed, not gonna say which one it is

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https://eurovision.tv/story/turin-to...urovision-2022

ok here you go

Turin



but i don't agree with Rai's choice at all, Bologna would've been better strategically, in terms of putting that one more on the map in terms of tourism purposes etc

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Italy is a great places

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Slovenia news

The rules for EMA 2022 are out

EMA 2022 is going to feature 20 songs and will have two semifinals, with 12 songs (6 from each semifinal: 3 chosen by televoting, 3 by jury) making it to the final
4 of those songs will come from EMA Freš, which will once again start with daily online duels
EMA Freš will feature 24 (?) songs (4 duels per week for three weeks, plus a second chance round): 14 will make it to the two-part EMA Freš final, with 2 songs qualifying from each part
EMA Freš artists must be younger than 30 and can't have commercially released more than 3 songs
the voting in the EMA 2022 final will be similar to 2017-18: 5 juries (50 % of the vote) + televoting (50 % of the vote)
the juries are: (1) singers (2) songwriters and producers (3) radio jury (4) TV jury (5) OGAE Slovenia members
the deadline for sending songs is 22nd November




happy EMA Fres is also back for the newbie artists

[Nicky91]

inbefore Turin goes for Valentino Rossi as a interval act again, same as winter olympics opening ceremony

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Dates revealed too: 10, 12, 14 May 2022

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apparently Montenegro's RTCG might announce their return to the contest in only matter of weeks, according to one montenegrin user in a croatian eurovision forum

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some predictions

Sweden: a generic lifeless plastic pop trash in english
Norway: a outdated but gaybait pop trash song in english
Denmark: returning to english obviously because of the basic fandom
Bulgaria: english song because of the basic fandom
Cyprus: english song since the fandom are too racist
Greece: another outdated english pop song
Netherlands: another country ballad in english




can rather be called englishvision thx to the stupid fandom

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ooh something what makes me happy

http://esctoday.com/184052/montenegr...rovision-2022/

official: Montenegro confirms participation, according to esctoday

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another EurovisionAgain this saturday at 21:00 CET

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https://k100.mbl.is/frettir/2021/10/..._i_eurovision/

Iceland's NF info

160 submitted songs, SFs will be 19th/26th February, final 5th March

[Nicky91]

this is from tuesday, so we will know the FiK60 (Albania's NF) full list of participants tomorrow

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i hope for the return of fun act ICON Kozma Dushi, nje kafe is still such a guilty pleasure for me


his recent new song of this year, duet with a Eranda Libohova

Youtube video

out of those rumoured, i am looking forward to Elhaida Dani's comeback, and of course my dutch bias but Alban Ramosaj

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hope for another year we get no international interval act


italy has a divine music culture of its own honestly


few of its past entries pls

Al Bano, Gabbani, Il Volo + also Eros Ramazzotti, Andrea Bocelli


and of course the titleholders Maneskin with new work hopefully

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one act who i'd love to see from Czech Republic is this popband MIRAI

Youtube video

there is a rumour of Mikolas Josef (CZESC2018 entry) having submitted a song for their NF but i don't know if i would want him back so soon, i rather want someone else who we haven't seen on the esc stage now

[Nicky91]

how many countries do we think will take part next year?



i think either 41 or 42 and i hope the latter with Turkey's grand comeback after 10 years absence, i hope so i've missed them so so much

[Nicky91]

yup it'll be 40+ (but not sure which number yet)

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Youtube video

participating nations reveal in 8 minutes from now

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eurovision is dead to me


no turkey, no point of me watching it, with so little countries taking part

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some new record label for UK's entry? which i never ever heard of

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Dua Lipa wanting the double zero

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no more Milanov and team for Bulgaria's entries to come


might be a good thing yes i am controversial but maybe lesser overhype is better so more focus is on the songs, rather than the act


hoping for fab quality chalga from them that would be divine


Montenegro going for internal selection is a wise choice i think, hoping for a nice song in montenegrin either, since 2014, 2015 they were in own language and had success with

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https://eurovisionfun.com/2021/10/br...%ce%bf-%ce%ba/

according to the new Cypriot HoD Andreas Anastasiou, Cyprus will send a cypriot singer for the first time in many years again

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hoping Armenia will give us a quirky ethnic banger


not Athena Manoukian pls, she can't sing that well and i don't think armenia wants to return with a possible flop



Martin Mkrtchyan or Mavr Mkrtchyan might be nice, either one of those guys for sure are vocally better than Athena too