Aonach in the Internatia Song Contest
Aonach | |
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Member station | RTVRA |
National selection events | AonachFest |
Participation summary | |
Appearances | 11 |
First appearance | ISC 12 |
Best result | 4th: ISC 12 |
Worst result | Last: ISC 20 |
Aonach made their debut in the 12th Edition of the Internatia Song Contest. The first Aonachian entry was selected internally due to a limited budget. However, a national final called AonachFest was introduced for the 13th edition of ISC in order to decide the Aonachian ISC representative.
Results
Table key
- Winner
- Second place
- Third place
- Last place
- Disqualified
- Automatically qualified to the final
- Jury qualifier
- Did not qualify for the final
- Did not compete
Edition | Artist | Title | Language | Place | Points | Semi | Points |
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12th | Sylwia Grzeszczak | "Karuzela" | Polish | 4 | 141 | 3 | 103 |
13th | Tamar Kaprelian | "New Day" | English | 19 | 85 | 7 | 74 |
14th | Anna Abreu | "Stereo" | English | 12 | 102 | 8 | 59 |
15th | Shy'm | "Prendre L'Air" | French | 9 | 116 | 1 | 108 |
16th | Rennata | "Please Stay" | English | 20 | 80 | 11 | 56 |
17th | Tone Damli Aaberge | "Winner Of A Losing Game" | English | 7 | 134 | 4 | 80 |
18th | Katya Savelyeva | "Raskololos Nadvoe" | Russian | 18 | 45 | ||
19th | Laura | "2020" | Estonian | 26 | 63 | 5 | 86 |
20th | Elhaida Dani | "Baciami E Basta" | Italian | 27 | 36 | 5 | 75 |
21st | Lucie Vondráčková | "Zombie" | Czech | 14 | 52 | ||
22nd | The Coronas | "Closer To You" | English | 19 | 44 | ||
23rd | Carpark North feat. Stine Bramsen | "32" | English | 19 | 91 | 10 | 54 |
Selection process
Due to a limited budget and uncertainty about how the population would react to the contest, RTVRA decided to chose their representative internally for the 12th edition. Sylwia Grzeszczak was chosen internally by the Aonachian broadcaster with the song 'Karuzela'. She performed the song in Platonia, Novatlantida,, and came 3rd in the 1st semi-final, qualifying to the final. There, Aonach came in 4th place with 141 points. RTVRA were extremely satisfied with this position, and decided to expand their budget for following contests, incorporating a national final to decide the representatives.
RTVRA organised a National Final called AonachFest in order to determine the representative for the ISC 13 in Siegeslinde, Spirevo. Six songs competed in the final, and the voting comprised of 50% SMS voting by the public and 50% Jury Voting. The Jury Voting comprised of a 5 member jury from 13 Internatia nations. The favourite of both the televoting and jury vote was Tamar Kaprelian and the song 'New Day'. She performed in the first semi-final in Siegeslinde, coming 7th and qualifying Aonach to the final for the second year in succession. In the final, she came a disappointing 19th.
This did not deter RTVRA from using the same process for ISC 14, despite the disappointing result. The selected song finished mid-table, and RTVRA decided to postpone AonachFest for one contest at least. Returning to an internal selection for ISC 15 returned Aonach to a second top 10 placing and a victory in the first semi-final. However, RTVRA's gamble to run AonachFest for ISC 16 once again ended up in disappointment. Rennata managed to qualify for the final, but ended up in 20th position, the nation's worst result so far. It was decided to run an internal selection for the near future in order to keep viewing figures as high as possible.
However, RTVRA decided to host a joint national final with Grolskira's broadcaster for the 18th edition of ISC. This resulted in rather disappointing places for RTVRA's choices in the national final itself, as well as the choice of the Aonachian public (Rosela Gjylbegu) being defeated by Katya Savylyeva. This resulted in a disaster for RTVRA, as well as public humiliation - 18th place in the first semi-final in Kosma, as well as the first non-qualification for Aonach.
A joint national final was also held for the 20th edition of the contest with Anselmsuusonia. This was popular amongst the public of the nation, and hopes were raised when Elhaida Dani managed to qualify for the final. However, this ended in tears, when Aonach managed a humiliating last place in the final.
Due to both a limited budget for the contest, as well as a sharp decline in the interest of the public and the broadcaster, RTVRA have chosen internally since ISC 20, with very unsuccessful results.
Performance at ISC
Aonach has been one of the most consistent nations at the ISC in terms of qualification for the final. They have qualified to the final six times in a row ever since they have debuted at the contest (ISC 12). However, the final results have varied wildly. Their debuting entry reached a strong 4th place on the scoreboard, but none of the entries since have troubled the scoreboard much, despite being pre-contest favourites (ISC 14 and ISC 15).
After a run of six successful qualifications to the ISC final, Aonach failed to qualify for the final in ISC 18, coming 18th in the semi-final #1.
A second-last position, as well as a last position achieved in ISC 19 and ISC 20 respectively, as well as a string of non-qualifications has led to a dramatic decrease in the interest of the public in the contest, and calls to withdraw have been very strong within the Aonachian media.
See more:
Aonach in the Internatia Second Chance Contest
Aonach in the Junior Internatia Song Contest
Voting
Most points given in Grand Finals | ||
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Rank | Country | Points |
1 | Irdminia | 29 |
2 | Spirevo | 25 |
3 | Sunetti | 22 |
4 | Nicolas' Neighbour | 20 |
5 | Tikata | 19 |
Most points received in Grand Finals | ||
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Rank | Country | Points |
1 | Amsteris | 43 |
2 | Irdminia | 34 |
3 | Kaledonii | 30 |
4 | DimkaRUS | 29 |
Sunetti | 29 |
Most points given in Grand Finals and Semi-finals | ||
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Rank | Country | Points |
1 | Sunetti | 46 |
2 | Nicolas' Neighbour | 45 |
3 | Irdminia | 40 |
4 | Tikata | 38 |
5 | Kaledonii | 30 |
Most points received in Grand Finals and Semi-finals | ||
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Rank | Country | Points |
1 | DimkaRUS | 61 |
2 | Amsteris | 53 |
3 | Sunetti | 52 |
4 | Spirevo | 51 |
Nicolas' Neighbour | 51 |