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) Unnamed NF (ISC 17-)
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".

Internatia Song Contest 9 was held in the Leplandian capital, Woodchester. The venue was the Royal Concert Hall. This was also the host arena of Internatia Second Chance Contest 12, after Gregorian feat. Amelia Brightman won the previous edition with the song "Heaven".

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

  Jury qualifier

  Did not compete

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	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"	Failed to qualify		13	41
ISC 9	Yohanna	"Worryfish"	22	55	Host country
ISC 10	Belinda Carlisle	"Summer Rain"	Failed to qualify		17	42
ISC 11	Dervish	"The Queen and the Soldier"	Failed to qualify		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"	Failed to qualify		15	38
ISC 15	Secret Garden	"Prayer"	26	50	9	69
ISC 16	Daniel & Natasha Bedingfield	"Ain't Nobody"	Failed to qualify		22	27
ISC 17	Elvenking	"Heaven is a Place on Earth"	26	39	13	53
ISC 18	Penelope Austin	"A Place to Call Home"	Failed to qualify		14	60
ISC 19	Tina Arena	"Only Lonely"	Failed to qualify		19	41
ISC 20	Birgit Õigemeel	"Olen loodud rändama"	Failed to qualify		21	30
ISC 21	Tangerine Kitty	"Dumb Ways to Die"	8	120	17	50
ISC 22	Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth	"Defying Gravity"	Failed to qualify		21	39
ISC 23	Lauren Aquilina	"Forest Fires"	9	112	1	105
ISC 24	Helen Trevillion	"The Last Unicorn"	Failed to qualify		21	39
ISC 25	The Common Linnets	"Broken But Home"	4	144	5	80
ISC 26	Robert Wittmer feat. Christian Antonius Müller & Chiara Dubey	"Melody of Dance"	17	110	8	60

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 25, Saint Eva & Lepland's voting history is as follows:

Most points given in the grand finals only
Rank	Country	Points
1	DPR Jindalea	105
2	Irdminia	98
3	Sunetti	88
4	Kosma	58
	Tikata	58

Most points received in the grand finals only
Rank	Country	Points
1	Tikata	70
2	Volnytaria	48
3	Kosma	43
	Grolskira	43
5	Spirevo	42

Most points given in the semis and finals
Rank	Country	Points
1	DPR Jindalea	231
2	Irdminia	204
3	Sunetti	153
4	Tikata	122
5	Kosma	115
	Nicolas' Neighbour	115

Most points received in the semis and finals
Rank	Country	Points
1	Tikata	103
2	Volnytaria	73
3	Aonach	67
4	Kosma	65
5	Grolskira	63
	Caprika	63

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		None	No semi finals
ISC 2	Sibinia			Brickistan Spirevo
ISC 3	Tashkveny			Luzze Sunetti
ISC 4	Üürnikoise			Tikata Volnytaria
ISC 5	Sunetti			None
ISC 6	Dulcet Ebullience			None
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	Unknown1
ISC 11	Did not vote	DPR Jindalea	San Remo	Did not qualify	None
ISC 12	Alexandria	Alexandria	Nicolas' Neighbour	None	Grolskira
ISC 13	Tashkveny	Sibinia	Tashkveny	None	None
ISC 14	Kosma	Kosma	Canedonia	Did not qualify	None
ISC 15	Kosma	Territrius	Irlandia	Yazminia	Canedonia Marvelia San Remo Yazminia
ISC 16	HKJIADH	Puntíkov	Keohretcha	Did not qualify	None
ISC 17	Sunetti	Sunetti	Spitzenbergen	None	None
ISC 18	Lost Islands	Stylé	Lost Islands	Did not qualify	None
ISC 19	Chruno	Territrius	Chruno	Did not qualify	Amsteris
ISC 20	Spitzenbergen	Spitzenbergen	San Remo	Did not qualify	None
ISC 21	Anselmsuusonia	Caprika	Anselmsuusonia	Volnytaria	Volnytaria
ISC 22	Irdminia	Yazminia	Irdminia	Did not qualify	None
ISC 23	Keohretcha	Edoriada	Keohretcha	Leshia	Aonach DimkaRUS Spirevo
ISC 24	Zephyrus	Porielana	Zephyrus	Did not qualify	None
ISC 25	Tikata	DPR Jindalea	Caprika	Bubblique Kaledonii Spitzenbergen	None

¹ The full results of the ISC 10 semi-finals are unknown to date.