Grolskira in the Internatia Song Contest

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Grolskira
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Member stationGLTV
GrolSat
National selection eventsLakmosoja Y Lakma
Participation summary
Appearances23
First appearanceISC 1st
Best result2nd: ISC 19
Worst result22nd SF: ISC 12, ISC 13

Grolskira is one of eight countries that participated in the very first Internatia Song Contest edition and one of four countries that participate in every edition of ISC.

A very brief Grolskiric ISC history

The start (ISC 1 - ISC 3)

Grolskira entered since the very first ISC and they chose Lily Allen to sing in ISC 1 with her song "22". She performed 1st in the show, that meant that she had to perform first ISC entry ever. Grolskiric people expected, that Lily will do well with her ISC entry, while sadly, it came 7th out of 8 participants, but suddenly the disqualification of Tashkveny raised Grolskira by 1 more place and made it 6th out of 8.

In the next edition many countries started competing and Grolskira was trying to not be chanceless. However, ISC theory about famous people is very different that Grolskira thought and they failed hugely for 2 later editions they took part after the first one. Kylie Minogue was chosen to have her own NF for ISC 2 and the winning song of the NF was "Timebomb", and the performance at ISC was very poor. The worser ISC edition proved to be the next one - Inna won the very big Grolskiric national selection with 8 heats in every state and a second chance round. And she performed "Club Rocker", but suddenly during her performance 2 fans of Inna came on stage to have fun with her bra. Inna called security, but they arrived very late from stage. The performance wasn't repeated. And Inna came second last, this time - for real.

First real Top 10 entrance and middle results afterwards (ISC 4 - ISC 7)

After Inna's failure in ISC, Grolskira's national broadcaster GLTV decided to add people's suggestions for their selection to ISC 4. This time it was quite similar to selection for ISC 3, but this time a couple of things changed, including the live vote showing during the Second Chance round. Voltaire won the selection with "So Still" and it was suggested act by Spirevo. Internatian people instantly liked it, but gave it a little low points. Then Spirevo gave them 12 points, mainly because Voltaire are Spirevan, and then they got 12 from Sibinia. Then Grolskira reached their first real Top 10 place - 9th.

The 9th place of Voltaire in ISC 4 made GLTV downsize the NF for ISC 5, and made it consist of only 5 songs, representing different categories. Nolwenn Leroy won it with "Tri Martolod" and went to the ISC 5. Grolskiric people had big ambitions for the song and thought that it could do very well. On ISC 5 results night, it was proved right - Nolwenn Leroy springed into the Top 3 and had been the first and only Top 3 placer for Grolskira. People in Grolskira were extra happy, but also were satisfied with the winner. They showed it by releasing many blue and yellow balloons into the sky after the result show.

Then Grolskira came back to the big selections. Selection for ISC 6 had 6 heats, 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals and a 10-song final, which was criticized a lot, because it had too much famous songs. One of them won and it was Marina And The Diamonds with "Primadonna". This song didn't did very badly at ISC, but next Grolskiric selection for ISC was consisting of few songs in different languages. Girls' Generation with their song "Paparazzi" won the selection. Grolskiric people didn't accepted this choice very warmly, but Girls' Generation surprisingly managed to bring Grolskira better than 20th place and Grolskiric people were satisfied with it.

The start of semifinals and 3 qualifications (ISC 8 - ISC 11)

Since semifinals began, Grolskira was trying to send the songs that people could like and make them qualify. National final for ISC 8 was consisting of only 3 songs in 3 different languages. Vlatko Lozanoski with "Nema Den, Nema Nokj" won it, but then received some negative reactions, because that was "one of the worst songs of Vlatko" and that saddened Grolskiric people. That was truly confirmed after the semi results show - Grolskira didn't qualify in the first edition with semis.

The Grolskiric hopes refreshed the next edition. A national final for ISC 9 required the people's votes for the first round and 5 songs out of 6 qualified for the second round, where Kelly Clarkson with "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" won. It was criticized a little, because Spirevo suspected the "pointwhoring" in the Grolskiric entry. But Grolskira did qualified that edition and their people were very very happy with it. They held some posters, saying "Eat your heart out, Spirevo!" and "WE DID IT" somewhere near the Dlimon city square. But the final result made everybody frown and they were willing that the next edition will be fine.

Next edition Grolskira celebrated their 10 editions jubilee in ISC and GLTV decided to remember the songs, that participated in past national finals by hosting a selection, which had the songs, that tried to represent Grolskira before, but never did it. Venus and their "Restos Del Ayer" won the ticket to ISC 10. And they previously tried to do it in the first Grolskiric selection for ISC and the fourth one. The odds for Grolskira seemed not to be good, probably because there were none of them in the semifinal. But for some occassions, Grolskira managed to qualify and placed dissapointingly there. But that was quite expected from the Grolskiric people.

GLTV decided to hold Melodi Grand Prix-type of national final for ISC 11, which was won by Arlissa and her "Sticks & Stones". Grolskira did qualify for a third consecutive time and that made Grolskiric people more happier and they really hopes for a good place, but they ended somewhere in the lower part of the scoreboard.

The "critical condition" era (ISC 12 - ISC 16)

After the ISC 11 GLTV didn't really thought, that a long row of non qualifications for Grolskira could happen. Bastille won the preselection of Grolskira for ISC 12 with "Pompeii" and Grolskiric people had high ambitions for it. They hoped for finally a win, since the song has been considered as a popular one. But didn't realise, that Internatia don't like hugely famous songs and they almost came last in semi. They could've been last if not the disqualification of Karuex & Qargering and Yazminia in the same semifinal. That made Grolskiric entrants be higher by 2 places.

Poor result made GLTV think of a withdrawal or a national final of two singers only. They chose the latter variant, because they wanted to participate in every ISC somehow. It was won by Bryn Christopher and his song "Smilin'". People were appreciating that Internatian countries are going to vote Grolskira in ISC 13. However, Grolskira almost ended last in semi again, this time HKJIADH was disqualified in Grolskira's semi. And that result made GLTV think that public national finals attract people's attention and the winners of them can qualify to the finals. Grolskiric national final for ISC 14 was won by CC and her "Rock'N'Roll Girl" and that made some people not satisfied, because it was almost sure that they won't qualify again. And that was proved right - Grolskira didn't qualify for the 3rd edition in a row.

A selection for ISC 15 was a little bit big, and the national final had 12 songs. Saint Lu won with "Don't Miss Your Own Life" and hoped for a win, because they thought that they can host ISC 17. But that happened that their hopes were crushed - Grolskira just missed out a qualification and came 14th in the semi.

Grolskira went back to selecting a song for one artist and they confirmed, that Biplan will go to ISC 16. After a NF of 5 songs of theirs was held, the winning song, "O Mes Prie Jūros", was chosen, but sadly, Grolskiric high hopes were crushed again, for the 5th time in a row - Grolskira didn't qualify again. And once again, Grolskira came 14th in semi.

Grolskiric faith restoration (ISC 17 - ISC 20)

GLTV held a NF for ISC 17, where all of Grolskiric states may had entered their own entry to this NF. Grolskira, together with a couple of Internatian countries, had decided that Grolskiric ISC 17 entry is going to be "Wish I Could" by Miss Montreal. This choice has finally paid off for the Grolskiric people and Internatia successfully returned Grolskira to the final again after 5 editions of non-qualifying. The gift of returning to final was non Top 10 finish, but Miss Montreal broke the Grolskiric points record, set in ISC 5.

Then, for 18th edition, GLTV agreed with RTVRA to make a joint NF, called Aonachskira Fest. Among the couple of Aonachian and Grolskiric entries, a Grolskiric song won the whole fest and it was Brooke Fraser's "Something In The Water". With this song Grolskira qualified twice a row in the final and returned Grolskira to Top 10 there. The Grolskiric point record was broken again.

Next edition Grolskira held a state NF once again and Woodkid was chosen to represent Grolskira in ISC 19 with his "Run Boy Run". Even though there were some kind of propaganda surrounding Grolskira from NSC side, the song managed to achieve best Grolskiric result ever (2nd place) beating Nolwenn's achieved 3rd place in ISC 5. The point record was broken 3rd time in a row. After that, Michelle Branch and her "Everywhere" was finally chosen to represent Grolskira in ISC for ISC 20 and suddenly pulled out an unexpected qualification over Semifinal 1 favourites such as Chruno. In the final her chances to shine went nowhere, as she only placed 2nd last in the final, only beating Aonach.

GrolSat IBU membership (ISC 21 - ISC ?)

For ISC 21, GrolSat joined IBU, but they did not influence the choice GLTV made back in February 1st 2014. After many rumours of OneRepublic going, GLTV chose Coldplay to represent Grolskira in ISC 21 with "Paradise". Sadly, they didn't manage to get Grolskira fifth final in a row by losing a tiebreaker to 12th qualifier, but it seems like they won't next time as well, because for ISC 22 Grolskira is sending Gorillaz with their smash hit "Feel Good Inc." which placed the highest in El Gran Festival De Kosmallán 9 among the 2 Grolskiric entries and is a rap song. The latter genre songs are rather not really warmly greeted in ISC but it pulled out a qualification thanks to International Jury from Semi 2 + Waiting List countries. In the final it scored 90 points and ranked 19th which is the 5th wost Grolskiric result in finals.

Avalanche City, who originate from Spirevo, got chance to represent Grolskira in ISC 23 with having their own national final and "Ends In The Ocean" was chosen to go to ISC 23. It succeeded and went to finals, but placed dissapointingly there (third last). For next edition Lenka will represent Grolskiric soil with "Heart Skips A Beat" after winning "MariLenka: The NF", which was the NF between her and Maria Mena.

Contests

Edition Country of origin Artist Language Title Translation Place Points Semi Points
#1 Spirevo Slavidonova United Kingdom UK Lily Allen English "22" - 6 32
#2 Spirevo Zinzolin Australia Australia Kylie Minogue English "Timebomb" - 20 33
#3 Territrius Aquaticia Romania Romania Inna English "Club Rocker" - 22 26
#4 Sunetti Affetto Germany Germany Voltaire German "So Still" So quiet 9 61
#5 Sibinia Meijar France France Nolwenn Leroy Breton "Tri Martolod" Three sailors 3 97
#6 Kosma Luna United Kingdom UK Marina and the Diamonds English "Primadonna" - 13 45
#7 San Monique Lördsberg South Korea South Korea Girls' Generation Korean, English "Paparazzi" - 18 38
#8 Symphony Isles Violetta North Macedonia Macedonia Vlatko Lozanoski Macedonian "Nema Den, Nema Nokj" No day, no night X X 14 40
#9 Saint Eva & Lepland Woodchester United States USA Kelly Clarkson English "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" - 23 49 12 58
#10 Bitland Pixopolis Spain Spain Venus Spanish "Restos Del Ayer" Remains of yesterday 23 44 TBA TBA
#11 Marvelia Amor United Kingdom UK Arlissa English "Sticks & Stones" - 14 72 8 61
#12 Novatlantida Platonia United Kingdom UK Bastille English "Pompeii" - X X 22 15
#13 Spirevo Siegeslinde United Kingdom UK Bryn Christopher English "Smilin'" - X X 22 24
#14 Luzze Lovendalen Australia Australia CC Martini English "Rock'N'Roll Girl" - X X 18 30
#15 Tikata Tramandi Austria Austria Saint Lu English "Don't Miss Your Own Life" - X X 14 53
#16 Anselmsuusonia Pensa Lithuania Lithuania Biplan Lithuanian "O Mes Prie Jūros" We're going to the sea X X 14 47
#17 Yazminia Liechgrado Netherlands The Netherlands Miss Montreal English "Wish I Could" - 11 106 3 101
#18 Kosma Astrée New Zealand New Zealand Brooke Fraser English "Something In The Water" - 5 135 2 101
#19 Pebbleland Rosetown France France Woodkid English "Run Boy Run" - 2 169 3 106
#20 Kaledonii Śānti United States USA Michelle Branch English "Everywhere" - 26 58 7 73
#21 Monteverde Stettino United Kingdom UK Coldplay English "Paradise" - X X 13 52
#22 Beige Tuscan City United Kingdom UK Gorillaz English "Feel Good Inc." - 19 90 17 51
#23 Alexandria Dalistra New Zealand New Zealand Avalanche City English "Ends In The Ocean" - 25 73 10 53
#24 Territrius Aquaticia Australia Australia Lenka English "Heart Skips A Beat" -
#25 Leshia Leshkent United Kingdom UK Coldplay English "The Scientist" -
#26 United States USA Sara Bareilles English "Love Song" -
#27 Netherlands/Canada The Netherlands/Canada Armin Van Buuren ft. Trevor Guthrie English "This Is What It Feels Like" -
#28 United States USA Green Day English "Kill The DJ" -
#29 United Kingdom UK I See Monstas English "Messiah" -

Grolskiric representatives gallery

Lily Allen
Lily Allen
Lily Allen  
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue  
Inna
Inna
Inna  
Voltaire
Voltaire
Voltaire  
Nolwenn Leroy
Nolwenn Leroy
Nolwenn Leroy  
Marina and the Diamonds
Marina And The Diamonds
Marina And The Diamonds  
Girls' Generation
Girls' Generation
Girls' Generation  
Vlatko Lozanoski
Vlatko Lozanoski
Vlatko Lozanoski  
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson
Kelly Clarkson  
Venus
Venus
Venus  
Arlissa
Arlissa
Arlissa  
Bastille
Bastille
Bastille  
Bryn Christopher
Bryn Christopher
Bryn Christopher  
CC
CC
CC  
Saint Lu
Saint Lu
Saint Lu  
Biplan
Biplan
Biplan  
Miss Montreal
Miss Montreal
Miss Montreal  
Brooke Fraser
Brooke Fraser
Brooke Fraser  
Woodkid
Woodkid
Woodkid  
Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch
Michelle Branch  
Coldplay
Coldplay
Coldplay  
Gorillaz
Gorillaz
Gorillaz  
Avalanche City
Avalanche City
Avalanche City  
Lenka
Lenka
Lenka  
Coldplay2
Coldplay (again)
Coldplay (again)  
Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles
Sara Bareilles  
Armin Van Buuren ft. Trevor Guthrie
Armin Van Buuren ft. Trevor Guthrie
Armin Van Buuren ft. Trevor Guthrie  
Green Day
Green Day
Green Day  
I See Monstas
I See Monstas
I See Monstas  

Voting History

Grolskira has given the most points to...

Rank Country Points
1  Kosma 63
1  Tonallán 63
3  Anselmsuusonia 62
4  San Monique 58
5  DPR Jindalea 47

Grolskira has received the most points from...

Rank Country Points
1  San Monique 58
2  Edoriada 55
3  DPR Jindalea 52
4  Spirevo 43
5  Sibinia 39

NOTE: The totals in the above tables include only points awarded in finals, not semi-finals

External links

Grolskira's ISC recap 1-15