Saint Eva & Lepland in the Internatia Song Contest

Saint Eva & Lepland
Member station	SBC (ISC 1-9) SealTV (ISC 10-)
National selection events	Island Voices (ISC 3-4, 7) International Song Festival (ISC 13)
Participation summary
Appearances	12
First appearance	ISC 1
Best result	1st: ISC 7
Worst result	Last: 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	Tina Cross	"Nothing But Dreams"	5	38

As Saint Eva & Lepland

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

• Due to the cancellation of Island Voices, Lionel Richie & Trijntje Oosterhuis participated in Internatia Second Chance Contest 1 instead of receiving a wildcard.

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	Boh Runga	"Names in the Sand"
02	English	Jessica Garlick	"Hard Not to Fall"
03	Dutch	Het Metropole Orkest & Friends	"Wereldwijd orkest"
04	German	Roger Cicero	"In diesem Moment"
05	English	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	63
2	Sunetti	56
	Dulcet Ebullience	56
4	Sibinia	33
5	H Kim Jong Il's AD Hangug	26

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

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