Aonach in the Internatia Song Contest

Aonach
Member station	RTVRA
National selection events	AonachFest
Participation summary
Appearances	8
First appearance	ISC 12
Best result	4th: ISC 12
Worst result	18th SF: ISC 18

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

Edition	Artist	Title	Language	Place	Points	Semi	Points
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	X	X	18	45
19th	Laura	"2020"	Estonian
20th	Elhaida Dani	"Baciami E Basta"	Italian
21st	Lucie Vondráčková	"Zombie"	Czech

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.

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.

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Voting

Most points given in Grand Finals
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
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
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
Rank	Country	Points
1	DimkaRUS	61
2	Amsteris	53
3	Sunetti	52
4	Spirevo	51
	Nicolas' Neighbour	51