The Hungarian broadcaster channel, MTVA, has stated a few minutes ago that Hungary confirms participation and the method selection will be the National Final A Dal once again.

There will be 4 songs, all of them sung in Hungarian due to the special edition. We also wanted to improve the quality of the songs to assure a place in the final. As always, all the countries delegations are invited to vote in our national final.

The free countries draws will take place on Saturday afternoon, if you don't apply for them in time, you will have lose the chance.

FIRST REMINDER TO CONFIRM PARTICIPATION IN ESCT30

This are the countries which need to confirm:

-🇦🇿 Azerbaijan- JamieN8954
-🇧🇪 Belgium- Carmelo
-🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina- Jcpb814
-🇧🇬 Bulgaria- Greg2001
-🇨🇿 Czech Republic- Chico_valencia15
-🇩🇰 Denmark- Eduharibob
-🇮🇸 Iceland- Patrick319
-🇮🇪 Ireland- Manick
-🇮🇱 Israel- Rakky
-🇱🇺 Luxembourg- Aliciafox2
-🇲🇪 Montenegro- LiukBB
-🇵🇱 Poland- Kike11
-🇷🇴 Romania- Paulmusic4ever
-🇹🇷 Turkey- Naimito11

Deadline: Tuesday, April 10th 2018, 11:59 pm (CET)

There's plenty of time to confirm your country yet, but if someone is planning to withdraw from the contest, it's time to do it to let its country free for other participants.

If some of you can contact with those people who need to confirm, that would help me a lot.

Montenegro will like to come back for ESCT 30 with something not esct tastly.

Montenegro wish the besst of luck to  everyone.

These are the people who applied for the free countries draws so far

🇨🇾 Cyprus:
Alexxx33
Aaronet
JotaMCL
TolisKalkas

🇮🇹 Italy:
Alexxx33
Aaronet
Alberto
DallasAndrew
Greg2001
JotaMCL
TolisKalkas

🇲🇹 Malta:
Alexxx33
Aaronet
Alberto
JotaMCL

This afternoon, the draw ceremony will take place. Afterwards, maybe some new countries will be free and the draws for them will take place in the following edition.

Can I be Malta? :)

Yes, sure you will participate in Malta's draw.

ill confirm to be finland in ESCT31

I want to apply to Cyprus, Italy and Malta.

I'll apply for Cyprus, Italy or Malta too. 😊

Results from the free countries draws

Here are the winners:

🇨🇾 Cyprus:
-Aaronet

🇮🇹 Italy:
-Greg2001

🇲🇹 Malta:
Waf_

Congratulations to all the winners. All you have to do now, is confirm with your new country, you have time until the deadline is over, there won't be more draws, so if any of the winners don't confirm, the draws would be repeated with the people who applied. If they confirm, then 🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 🇸🇮 Slovenia would be free for ESCT31.

Grats on the winners. 👍🏽

robbed!

I can officially confirm that there won't be the Pre-Semifinal due to the decrease of countries participating in the edition of the contest.

confirming Iceland :)

sorry for not posting sooner