Welcome to the 13th edición of ESCT Second Chance Contest, held in 🇲🇹 Sliema, Malta, after winning the previous edition with Eleanor Cassar with her song "Back to Life".

In this little contest, only the songs that didn't make it through their national finals in ESCT38 will participate and just one of them will be choosen as the best non-selected song in ESCT38.

Since now until next Thursday, 12 November you can now CONFIRM your participation and publish your entry .

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RULES FOR PARTICIPATION

If you would like to join this event, make sure to follow the following rules:

• Every participant country must have had a public national selection to choose their entry for ESCT38.

• To take part, you must confirm below in the thread!

• Every country can only have one entry!

• Songs must be chosen internally and have to be announced below in this thread.

• Songs have to be from the national selection for ESCT38 of that country.
They must have been part of the final; the semi-final eliminated songs are not allowed to enter.
Depending on the format of your national selection, the rule may not apply to you.

• After you've submitted your entry, you can not change it!

• The deadline to confirm participation and your entry is next Thursday, 12 November 2020.

• A maximum of 26 countries and a minimum of 11 will be allowed to participate each edition.

• All the countries that participated in ESCT38 and did not hold a national final, will be able to vote as a juror. But first, those countries must confirm as jurors below this thread.

• All the songs participating in the ESCT Second Chance Contest won't be able to participate in following editions of ESCT or in any national finals.
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RULES FOR VOTING

• The voting will open for probably 5-6 days.

• Only participating countries must vote. The non-participant countries can vote as jurors.

• Voting will be Eurovision style.

• The song with the most points wins.

• The winning country will have the honour to organize the ESCT Second Chance Contest #39!

Have fun and good luck! :)

The potential countries which can participate as they organized a national final in ESCT38 are:

🇦🇩 Andorra
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇧🇦 Bosnia & Herzegovina
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇮 Finland
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇮🇱 Israel
🇲🇹 Malta
🇲🇨 Monaco
🇲🇦 Morocco
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇲🇰 North Macedonia
🇳🇴 Norway
🇷🇸 Serbia
🇸🇰 Slovakia
🇨🇭 Switzerland
🇺🇦 Ukraine
🇬🇧 United Kingdom

The rest of participating countries in ESCT38 who didn't hold a National Final, are invited to vote as part of the jury!

If any country doesn't confirm on time because its owner is missing or doesn't want to participate, any other country/user that wants to participate with that country, will be able to do it according to some rules.

If you are not going to participate, please decline your participation in this thread.