Saint Eva & Lepland in the Internatia Song Contest
Saint Eva & Lepland | |
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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 | 20 |
First appearance | ISC 1 |
Best result | 1st: ISC 7 |
Worst result | Last: ISC 12 |
External links | |
SealTV 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.
Prior to the results of ISC 15, the head of SealTV said that Saint Eva & Lepland would withdraw from the Internatia Song Contest should Yazminia win. On October 3, a national final was held. Shortly after it began, SealTV confirmed Saint Eva & Lepland's participation in ISC 17. Interest in the Internatia Song Contest, which had been at an all-time low, began to increase after Tangerine Kitty finished 8th in ISC 21.
After initial reports of Saint Eva & Lepland was to be represented by Birds of Tokyo with "Lanterns" at ISC 24, it eventually transpired that SealTV internally selected Helen Trevillion with "The Last Unicorn", a cover of America's song from the film of the same name. As of yet there has been no word as to whether Birds of Tokyo will represent Saint Eva & Lepland in a future edition or not.
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
As Dysprosia
Edition | Artist | Song | Final | Points |
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ISC 1 | Tina Cross | "Nothing But Dreams" | 5 | 38 |
As Saint Eva & Lepland
Edition | Artist | Song | Final | Points | Semi | Points |
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ISC 2 | Matt Dusk | "Back in Town" | 6 | 77 | No semi finals | |
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" | 13 | 41 | ||
ISC 9 | Yohanna | "Worryfish" | 22 | 55 | ||
ISC 10 | Belinda Carlisle | "Summer Rain" | 17 | 42 | ||
ISC 11 | Dervish | "The Queen and the Soldier" | 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" | 15 | 38 | ||
ISC 15 | Secret Garden | "Prayer" | 26 | 50 | 9 | 69 |
ISC 16 | Daniel & Natasha Bedingfield | "Ain't Nobody" | 22 | 27 | ||
ISC 17 | Elvenking | "Heaven is a Place on Earth" | 26 | 39 | 131 | 53 |
ISC 18 | Penelope Austin | "A Place to Call Home" | 14 | 60 | ||
ISC 19 | Tina Arena | "Only Lonely" | 19 | 41 | ||
ISC 20 | Birgit Õigemeel | "Olen loodud rändama" | 21 | 30 | ||
ISC 21 | Tangerine Kitty | "Dumb Ways to Die" | 8 | 120 | 17 | 50 |
ISC 22 | Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth | "Defying Gravity" | 21 | 39 | ||
ISC 23 | Lauren Aquilina | "Forest Fires" | 10 | 110 | 2 | 105 |
ISC 24 | Helen Trevillion | "The Last Unicorn" |
- NOTES:
- 1. ^ Due to a mistake in the tallying of the ISC 17 semi-final, Spirevo accidentally awarded itself 12 points, rather than giving 12 to Tashkveny. This allowed Saint Eva & Lepland an unmerited qualification.
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. Following controversy regarding high points given to Kosma in ISC 15 and ISC 16, bringing in accusations of vote rigging, SealTV adopted the system of the public and jury's full rankings being combined to determine the points given, while still allowing viewers to vote for and against songs.
Voting History
As of ISC 22, Saint Eva & Lepland's voting history is as follows:
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12 points
Table key
- Winner – Saint Eva & Lepland gave 12 points to a winning song / Saint Eva & Lepland won the contest.
- Second place – Saint Eva & Lepland gave 12 points to a runner-up song / Saint Eva & Lepland was runner-up in the contest.
- Third place – Saint Eva & Lepland gave 12 points to a third place song / Saint Eva & Lepland came third in the contest.
- Qualified – Saint Eva & Lepland gave 12 points to a song that qualified to the Grand Finals / Saint Eva & Lepland qualified to the Grand Finals.
- Non-qualified – Saint Eva & Lepland gave 12 points to a song that did not qualify to the Grand Finals / Saint Eva & Lepland did not qualify to the Grand Finals.
- Italics – Saint Eva & Lepland voted as part of the International Jury.
Edition | Given | Received | |||
Final | Semi 1 | Semi 2 | Final | Semi | |
ISC 1 | T.E.T.R.I.S | No semi finals | No semi finals | ||
ISC 2 | Sibinia | Brickistan Spirevo | |||
ISC 3 | Tashkveny | Luzze Sunetti | |||
ISC 4 | Üürnikoise | Tikata Volnytaria | |||
ISC 5 | Sunetti | ||||
ISC 6 | Dulcet Ebullience | ||||
ISC 7 | Dulcet Ebullience | Anselmsuusonia Dinokratys & Shrikidai Irdminia Sunetti Symphony Isles Tikata | |||
ISC 8 | Irdminia | Dulcet Ebullience | Irdminia | Did not qualify | Sunetti |
ISC 9 | Luzze | Marvelia | Luzze | Oalia | Did not participate |
ISC 10 | Novatlantida | Lost Islands | Thorway | Did not qualify | |
ISC 11 | Did not vote | DPR Jindalea | San Remo | Did not qualify | |
ISC 12 | Alexandria | Alexandria | Nicolas' Neighbour | Grolskira | |
ISC 13 | Tashkveny | Sibinia | Tashkveny | ||
ISC 14 | Kosma | Kosma | Canedonia | Did not qualify | |
ISC 15 | Kosma | Territrius | Irlandia | Yazminia | Canedonia Marvelia San Remo Yazminia |
ISC 16 | HKJIADH | Puntíkov | Keohretcha | Did not qualify | |
ISC 17 | Sunetti | Sunetti | Spitzenbergen | ||
ISC 18 | Lost Islands | Stylé | Lost Islands | Did not qualify | |
ISC 19 | Chruno | Territrius | Chruno | Did not qualify | Amsteris |
ISC 20 | Spitzenbergen | Spitzenbergen | San Remo | Did not qualify | |
ISC 21 | Anselmsuusonia | Caprika | Anselmsuusonia | Volnytaria | Volnytaria |
ISC 22 | Irdminia | Yazminia | Irdminia | Did not qualify |
1 The full results of the ISC 10 semi-finals are unknown to date.