Saint Eva & Lepland in the Internatia Song Contest

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Saint Eva & Lepland
Saint Eva & Lepland
Member stationSBC (ISC 1-9)
SealTV (ISC 10-)
National selection eventsIsland Voices
(ISC 3-4, 7) International Song Festival
(ISC 13)
Participation summary
Appearances12
First appearanceISC 1
Best result1st: ISC 7
Worst resultLast: ISC 12
External links
SBC Page

Saint Eva & Lepland first participated in the Internatia Song Contest in the first edition, being one of eight countries to do so. It originally participated under the name Dysprosia. Saint Eva & Lepland has chosen most of its entries through internal selections, due to a lack of available funds, although a national final called Island Voices has been used occasionally.

Early on in the contest's history, Saint Eva & Lepland generally received favourable results, finishing in the top 10 each time of its first four participations, with the latter two being chosen by the national final. However, the tables would soon turn, as Saint Eva & Lepland would finish third-last and second-last with their next two (internally selected) entries. Following these unfortunate results, SBC revived Island Voices with a new format. This resulted in a victory at the Internatia Song Contest 7, where Saint Eva & Lepland was represented by Slovak singer Kristina with the song "Life is a Game".

The Internatia Song Contest 9 was held in the Leplandian capital, Woodchester. The venue was the Royal Concert Hall.

Due to recent poor results, there have been calls for Saint Eva & Lepland to withdraw from the Internatia Song Contest. However, SealTV has confirmed that there are currently no plans to withdraw.

Results

As Dysprosia

Edition Artist Song Final Points
ISC 1 Saint Eva & Lepland Tina Cross "Nothing But Dreams" 5 38

As Saint Eva & Lepland

Edition Artist Song Final Points Semi Points
ISC 2 Saint Eva & Lepland Matt Dusk "Back in Town" 6 77
ISC 3 Saint Eva & Lepland Kerrie Roberts "Rescue Me (How the Story Ends)" 9 59
ISC 4 Saint Eva & Lepland Marcin Mroziński "Never Felt Like This" 10 61
ISC 5 Saint Eva & Lepland Amy Grant "Eye to Eye" 17 27
ISC 6 Saint Eva & Lepland Deborah Conway "It's Only the Beginning" 19 14
ISC 7 Saint Eva & Lepland Kristina "Life is a Game" 1 128
ISC 8 Saint Eva & Lepland Sieneke "Amore fantastico" X X 13 41
ISC 9 Saint Eva & Lepland Yohanna "Worryfish" 22 55 X X
ISC 10 Saint Eva & Lepland Belinda Carlisle "Summer Rain" X X 17 42
ISC 11 Saint Eva & Lepland Dervish "The Queen and the Soldier" X X 16 38
ISC 12 Saint Eva & Lepland McFly "Love is Easy" 25 50 9 67
ISC 13 Saint Eva & Lepland Het Metropole Orkest & Friends "Wereldwijd orkest" 20 67 8 65
ISC 14 Saint Eva & Lepland Soluna Samay "Everything You Do" X X 15 38
ISC 15 Saint Eva & Lepland Secret Garden "Prayer"

Island Voices

Preceding the third edition of the Internatia Song Contest, Saint Eva & Lepland introduced a national final called Island Voices. Due to an almost non-existent music scene, ten artists from other countries were invited to present a song from their existing repertoire to win the chance to represent Saint Eva & Lepland, with two runner-ups receiving a wildcard to the next edition of Island Voices. Island Voices was also used to select Saint Eva & Lepland's entry for the Internatia Song Contest 4. It was then scrapped due to budget cuts from SBC.

Following two internal selections which yielded poor results at the Internatia Song Contest, Island Voices was revived with a new format, in which six artists participated and only one wildcard was given.

The fourth edition of Island Voices was intended to be a Disney Special with two semi-finals to commemorate the ten year anniversary of Internatia's first Disneyland, but it was postponed and later scrapped entirely due to legal issues with the Walt Disney Company. This, combined with the pressures of hosting ISC 9, caused financial problems for SBC, leading to the cancellation of Island Voices and eventually the withdrawal from IBU altogether.

Island Voices 1

Draw Language Artist Song Place Points
01 English Kim Wilde "Perfect Girl" 4 26
02 English The Overtones "Gambling Man" 3 28
03 English Will Martin "Over the Hills" 6 23
04 English Margaret Urlich "Gonna Make You Mine" 10 11
05 English Kerrie Roberts "Rescue Me (How the Story Ends)" 1 34
06 English Rick Astley "Hopelessly" 9 13
07 English Belinda Carlisle "I Plead Insanity" 8 21
08 English Esther Hart "Hollywood Ending" 2 30
09 English Billy Joel "The Downeaster 'Alexa'" 7 22
10 English Bree Sharp "America" 5 24

Island Voices 2

Draw Language Artist Song Place Points
01 English Marcin Mroziński "Never Felt Like This" 1 49
02 English Élan Rivera & Jamily Gray "All We Wanna Do" 8 27
03 Instrumental David Arkenstone "Heart of Spring" 5 31
04 English Carly Binding "We Kissed" 9 26
05 Dutch Sieneke "Zonnestralen" 3 48
06 English The Overtones "Carolyn" 6 29
07 English Hayley Westenra "Both Sides Now" 2 49
08 English Manuel Ortega "Swimming in Deep Waters" 10 18
09 English Simon Mathew "These Arms" 7 28
10 English Esther Hart "Underneath the Stars" 4 43

Island Voices 3

Draw Language Artist Song Place Points
01 English Kristina "Life is a Game" 1 43
02 English Sieneke "You Don't Know" 3 32
03 English Blessid Union of Souls "Brother My Brother" 4 32
04 English Hayley Westenra "Dark Waltz" 5 27
05 English Lionel Richie & Trijntje Oosterhuis "Face in the Crowd" 2 34
06 English John Cacavas & Hal David "Bluebird" 6 21

International Song Festival

After SealTV took over Saint Eva & Lepland's participation in the Internatia Song Contest, a national final was reintroduced, this time called the "International Song Festival". It has been confirmed that six acts will participate representing six different countries, but no other details are yet known.

The line-up was announced on 1 June 2013. Originally Switzerland was intended to send a participant, but withdrew for unknown reasons.

Draw Language Artist Song Place Points
01 English New Zealand Boh Runga "Names in the Sand"
02 English United Kingdom Jessica Garlick "Hard Not to Fall"
03 Dutch Netherlands Het Metropole Orkest & Friends "Wereldwijd orkest"
04 German Germany Roger Cicero "In diesem Moment"
05 English Canada Robin Sparkles "Let's Go to the Mall"

Voting System

Starting with the first edition, Saint Eva & Lepland's points were decided by a televote and jury combination. The jury consisted of 5 music professionals and 5 regular citizens from different demographics. The top ten of the televote were given 36-30-24-21-18-15-12-9-6-3 points, and the jury top ten were given 12-10-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 points which were then added to the televote points (i.e. the televote-jury split was 75%-25%). Televoting figures were generally close, with the winning song usually receiving around 2000 televotes and the runner-up receiving 1500-2000 votes. A one-vote-per-song-per-phone rule was also used. This method was used up until the semi-finals of ISC 7.

Following Saint Eva & Lepland's semi-final votes being announced, there was much controversy regarding perceived 'friendly' voting. Therefore, a new system was implemented to determine Saint Eva & Lepland's points, which would give the televoting and jury equal share. The ten jury members would be asked to give each song a score out of 10, and the total of all jurors would be that song's jury score. The televoting score would be more complicated; songs receiving at least 2000 votes would receive 100 televoting points; songs that failed to reach 2000 votes would receive a percentage score rounded to the nearest whole number (for example, a song that got 1000 votes would receive 50 televoting points). The televoting and jury points would be totaled to determine which songs received the most points from Saint Eva & Lepland.

SealTV introduced a new voting system, in which viewers could vote both for songs and against songs.

Voting History

Saint Eva & Lepland has given the most points to...

Rank Country Points
1 DPR Jindalea DPR Jindalea 63
2 Sunetti Sunetti 56
Dulcet Ebullience Dulcet Ebullience 56
4 Sibinia Sibinia 33
5 H Kim Jong Il's AD Hangug H Kim Jong Il's AD Hangug 26

Saint Eva & Lepland has received the most points from...

Rank Country Points
1 Tikata Tikata 46
2 Sunetti Sunetti 35
3 Volnytaria Volnytaria 34
4 Luzze Luzze 27
Grolskira Grolskira 27

NOTE: The totals in the above tables include only points awarded in finals from the second edition onwards, as the voting format was different in the first edition.