ESC 2018 – Decision Show

ESC 2018 – Decision Show
Preliminary Decision Data
Country	Switzerland Switzerland
Broadcaster Sender
Producing Broadcaster
Location	Studio Zurich Leutschenbach, Zurich-Oerlikon
Date	4. February 2018
Time	20:05 (CET)
Duration	approx. 100 minutes
Number of participants	6
Number of contributions	6
Vote	50 % international jury voting, 50 % televoting
Opening Act	Timebelle and Jugendmusik Kreuzlingen: Apollo (Music/Lyrics: Elias Näslin, Nicolas Günthardt, Alessandra Günthardt)
Intermission filler	Leticia Carvalho and Appenzeller Sängerfreunde: Amar pelos dois (Music/Lyrics: Luísa Sobral)
Moderation
Sven Epiney, Stefan Büsser (Backstage)[1]

The ESC 2018 – Decision Show was the Swiss preliminary for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal. The band ZiBBZ won the preliminary decision with their song Stones. In the Song Contest, however, they were eliminated in the first semi-final on 8 May 2018.

Format

Concept

SRG SSR presented a new preliminary competition concept on 13 July 2017. A workshop was held in advance with Martin Österdahl and Christer Björkman, the producers of the Swedish preliminary Melodifestivalen. SRG SSR developed its new preliminary competition concept on the basis of this workshop.

From 1 September until 8:00 a.m. on 22 September 2017, composers had the opportunity to submit a contribution to Swiss television SRG SSR. In addition to Swiss citizens and those who have a residence in Switzerland, international composers were also allowed to submit their contributions. Contributions from Swiss citizens will be given priority in the pre-selection process. A 20-member independent jury selected six songs from all the entries. This jury consisted of music and media professionals, ESC fans and television viewers. A suitable performer was then sought for the six songs.

The final six chosen performers then performed their songs in a live broadcast on 4 February 2018. The entry was selected 50% by tele-voting and 50% by an international jury of experts. The composition of the jury was announced after the broadcast.^[2]

A total of 670 contributions were submitted, which is more than in previous years.^[3]

Finale

On January 9, 2018, the performers and their songs were introduced.^[4][5]

Place	Start no.	Artist	Song Music (M) and lyrics (T)	Language	Translation (Unofficial)	Albania AL	Armenia AM	Germany DE	France FR	Iceland IS	Israel IL	Italy IT	Jury total	Viewer comments (Tele-voting & SMS)		Total
														%	Points
1.	1	ZiBBZ	Stones M: Laurell Barker, Corinne Gfeller, Stefan Gfeller; D: Laurell Barker, Corinne Gfeller	English	Stones	12	8	10	10	12	12	12	76	30,64	77	153
2.	5	Alejandro Reyes	Compass M/T: Alejandro Reyes, Laurell Barker, Lars Christen	English	Compass	8	10	12	12	10	10	10	72	19,23	48	120
3.	6	Vanessa Iraci	Redlights M/T: Borislav Milanov, Joacim Bo Persson, Johan Alkenäs, Jessica Ashley Karpov, Jesse Saint John	English	Red lights	10	12	– –	8	– –	6	6	42	9,91	25	067
4.	4	Chiara Dubey	Secrets and Lies M/T: Chiara Dubey, Janie Price, Jeroen Swinnen, Darcy Proper, Sally Herbert	English	Secrets and lies	– –	– –	– –	6	8	8	– –	22	17,59	44	066
5.	2	Angie Ott	A Thousand Times M/T: Jonas Gladnikoff, Sara Ljunggren, Glen Vella	English	A thousand times	6	6	8	– –	6	– –	– –	24	15,27	39	063
6.	3	Naeman	Kiss Me M/T: Kate Northrop, Eric Lumiere, Ken Berglund, Alejandro Reyes	English	Kiss me	– –	– –	6	– –	– –	– –	8	14	7,36	19	033
Jury Point Spokesperson
Germany – Christoph Pellander France – Edoardo Grassi Armenia – David Tserunyan Albania – Kleart Duraj Italy – Nicola Caligiore Iceland – Gísli Marteinn Baldursson Israel – Tal Barnea

Web links

• Website of the Swiss Preliminary Decision (German)

See also

• Eurovision Song Contest 2018
• Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest

Individual references

1. ↑ Tickets for the “Eurovision Song Contest 2018 – Decision Show”.(No longer available online.) In: srf.ch. December 14, 2017, archived from the original onDecember 16,2017; retrievedon December 18, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automaticallyandhasnot yet been checked. Please check original and archive link according to instructions, then remove this notice.@1@2Template:Webachiv/IABot/www.srf.ch
2. ↑ “Eurovision Song Contest” 2018: song wanted for Switzerland!@1@2Template:Dead Link/www.srf.ch(page no longer available, search web archives ) Info: Thelink was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
3. ↑ Ewan Mccaig:Switzerland: Record Number of Submissions for Eurovision 2018.In: eurovoix.com. 22 September 2017, accessed 11 October 2017 (English).
4. ↑ The 6 finalists in the “ESC 2018 – Decision Show”.In: srf.ch. 9 January 2018, retrieved 9 January 2018.
5. ↑ Robyn Gallagher:SWITZERLAND: SRF REVEALS THE SIX ACTS COMPETING IN ESC 2018 – DECISION SHOW.In: wiwibloggs.com. 9 January 2018, accessed 10 January 2018 (English).