Etefest

Etefest is a traditional Edorian music festival that happens every year. The organising comitee with the national bradcaster also decides wether a competitve section of the festival is added to serve as a national selection for the Edorian representative in either ISC or OSC.

History of the Festival

The festival was first organised before the 11th edition of ISC. It has since been a regular and most popular domestic televised festival in Edoriada. Eight of the first twenty-four editions also included a competitve section to select the Edorian representative at the Internatia Song Contest. From the 25th to the 70th edition Etefest was a purely domestic festival. form the 71st edition on it again hosts a competitive section for Outernatia Song Contest.

Competitve Etefest

Edition	Contest	Entries	Rounds	Voting	Winner	Final	Semi
1st	ISC 11	10	1	Televote + Jury + International Jury	"Only the Horses" by Scissor Sisters	Failed to qualify	16
2nd	ISC 12	8	3	Televote + Jury + International Jury	"Vuelvo al sur" by Vesna Zornik	Failed to qualify	14
7th	ISC 17	4	1	Televote + International Jury	Cancelled
9th	ISC 19	4	1	Televote + International Jury	"Vladarjev dan" by Omar Naber	Failed to qualify	23
10th	ISC 20	6	1	Televote + International Jury + Jury	"Barka iz perja" by Jan Plestenjak	Failed to qualify	23
18th	ISC 28	4	1	Televote + International Jury	"The Greatest Reward" By Celine Dion	Failed to qualify	15
22nd	ISC 32	3	1	Televote + International Jury	"Deux ils, deux elles" by Lara Fabian	Failed to qualify	23
24th	ISC 34	4	1	Televote + International Jury	"Ksimeronei" by Nana Mouskouri	Failed to qualify	19
71st	OSC 57	3	1	International Juries	"Rún" by Skáld	TBD	TBD
72nd	OSC 57	3	1	International Juries	"An Me Deis Na Klaio" by Elena & Anastasios	TBD	TBD

1st

SCOREBOARD

Draw	Artist	Title	Place	Points	TE Jury	International Jury	Televote
1	David Cook	"Circadian"	4	87	25	28	34
2	Jadranka Juras	"Podej Naprej"	7	70	37	23	10
3	Scissor Sisters	"Only the Horses"	1	108	20	41	47
4	Lara B	"Meja v Glavi"	8	52	20	18	14
5	James Morrison	"Slave to the Music"	6	71	14	28	29
6	Elena Paparizou	"Baby it's Over"	2	107	31	32	44
7	Siddharta	"Homo Carnula"	3	103	55	6	42
8	Maja Keuc	"Ta Čas"	10	28	5	22	1
9	Maroon 5	"How"	5	74	29	29	16
10	Kelly Clarkson	"Whyyawannabringmedown"	9	50	14	22	14

2nd

Asterisk marks the result that qualified a song to the next round

ROUND ONE

Draw	Artist	Title	Televote	INT Jury	TE Jury
1	David Bisbal	"Aquí Y Ahora"	04	19 *	08
2	Mike Vale ft. Stella Mercury	"Don't Give A Damn"	16	06	12
3	Balladero & Jadranka Juras	"Če Bi"	07	18	08
4	Siddanda	"Mala Voda"	19	10	19 *
5	Fridrik Dor	"I Don't Remember Your Name"	05	06	08
6	Vesna Zonik	"Vuelvo Al Sur"	10	26 *	09
7	Gušti & Polona	"Vedno Zame"	20 *	13	16
8	Magnifico	"Pasrtirče Mlado"	20 *	02	19

ROUND TWO

Draw	Artist	Title	Televote	INT Jury	TE Jury
1	Siddanda	"Mala Voda"	26	13	20
2	Magnifico	"Pasrtirče Mlado"	27 *	02	12
3	Vesna Zonik	"Vuelvo Al Sur"	14	41 *	08
4	David Bisbal	"Aquí Y Ahora"	07	28	22
5	Gušti & Polona	"Vedno Zame"	26	16	38 *

ROUND THREE

Draw	Artist	Title	Total	Televote	INT Jury	TE Jury
1	Gušti & Polona	"Vedno Zame"	104	43	28	33
2	Magnifico	"Pasrtirče Mlado"	62	26	08	28
3	Vesna Zonik	"Vuelvo Al Sur"	164	31	64	39

7th

TE rebooted Etefest for at least two editions of ISC on September 28th. The songs for Etefest 17 were presented on October 4th. Three Slovene artists (Nina Pušlar, Omar Naber and Neisha) participated with two songs each. Due to disagreements between Matie Tahtari (creative director) and Arona Uruh (executive director) of TE, Etefest 17 was cancelled a week before the voting ended (October 19th).

ENTRIES

• Nina - Tik tak tok
• Omar - Parfum
• Neisha - Planet za zadet
• Nina - Odhajam z vetrom
• Omar - Le srce ne spi
• Neisha - Alarm srca

After Etefest was cancelled, Nina and Neisha were later listed as Etefest 18 participants together with Papir and Jadranka Juras. TE then chose Lady Gaga to represent Edoriada in ISC 18.

9th

SCOREBOARD

Draw	Artist	Title	Total	Televote	INT Jury
1	Omar Naber	"Vladarjev dan"	115	72	43
2	Papir	"2010"	55	28	27
3	Manouche	"Kje si, ljubi"	35	8	27
4	In & Out	"Od višine se zvrti"	89	60	29

10th

SCOREBOARD

Draw	Artist	Title	Total	TE Jury	INT Jury	Televote
1	Jan Plestenjak	"Barka Iz Perja"	30	12	6	12
2	Matt Corby	"Brother"	12	9	3	X
3	Sunrise Avenue	"Lifesaver"	5	4	1	X
4	David Cook	"Rapid Eye Movement"	2	2	X	X
5	Scissor Sisters	"Somewhere"	21	6	12	3
6	Lawson	"Taking Over Me"	1	1	X	X

16th

Pablo Alborán withdrew from participation a week before the deadline.

TRACKLIST

• Donde Está el Amor (ft. Jesse and Joy)
• El Beso
• Quién
• Éxtasis

18th

SCOREBOARD

Draw	Artist	Title	Total	Televote	INT Jury
1	Kate Winslet	"What if"	108	76	32
2	Celine Dion	"The Greatest Reward"	141	75	66
3	Leona Lewis	"I See You"	97	32	65
4	Sarah Dawn Finer	"The Winner Takes It All"	54	17	37

22nd

SCOREBOARD

Draw	Artist	Title	Total	Televote	INT Jury
1	Laura Fabian	"Deux ils, deux elles"	106	68	38
2	Giannis Kotsiras	"Kai pali paidi"	25	N/A	25
3	Pablo Alboran feat. Jesse & Joy	"Donde está el amor"	69	32	37

24th

Four songs were presented by Nana Mouskuri, out of those a winner was annouced, Ksimeronei, the full results were never published.

SONGS

• Psaropoula
• Ksimeronei
• Athina
• Yalo Yalo

71st

Three songs competed on the 1st of March 2019, the international jury selected the winner (Skáld) with 40% of the votes. The second placed artist (zala & Gašper) directly qualified for the 72nd Etefest.

SCOREBOARD

Draw	Artist	Title	INT jury	Position
1	July Jones	"Jump in the Water"	28	3
2	Skáld	"Rún"	40	1
3	Zala & Gašper	"Valovi"	32	2

72nd

Zala & Gašper automatically qualified for the 72nd edition, they were joined by two other artists Elena & Anastasios and Trixie Mattel.

SCOREBOARD

Draw	Artist	Title	INT jury	Position
1	Trixie Mattel	"Moving Parts"	22	3
2	Zala & Gašper	"Baloni"	32	2
3	Elena & Anastasios	"An Me Deis Na Klaio"	46	1

Since Zala & Gašper had already competed as the Second CHance entrants, there will be no automatic qualifiers for the 73rd edition.