Lyrical Song Contest 1

Lyrical Song Contest 1 Relight My Fire!
Host
Venue	Ziggo Dome
Presenter(s)	Irene Moors Carlo Boszhard
Executive supervisor	Jeffry Blight
Host	Netherlands
Opening act	Mandy Santos & Xuso Jones performing "Animal"
Participants
Number of entries	11
Vote
Winning song	"Afterski"
Lyrical Song Contest
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Information

The first information for the May 2014 edition of Lyrical Song Contest, also the introduction of the contest, was released on the 26th of April, 2014 by Jeffry Blight.

He will act as the executive supervisor over the contest.

The contest will be held by Netherlands at the Ziggo Dome, in Amsterdam.

The hosts of the contests are Irene Moors & Carlo Boszhard, who've been working as a presentation duo, actors and comedians for the past 15 - 20 years.

The theme of the contest is "Relight My Fire!"

Rules

Entry Rules:

- The singer can only represent the country he/she was born in.
- The song can only be 4 and a half minutes (4:30) long maximum.
- Remixed or other versions are allowed.
- Video's can only be actual video's, or live/staged versions, no lyric video's or series of images.

Sending In Submissions
When sending in an entry, you can do so in this thread, and the entry is accepted if:

• The entry is according to the rules.
  
• If you sent your entry in with: Artist - Song Title - Video Link - 20 Second Timeslot - Broadcaster

Voting Rules

• Participating countries can not vote for themselves.
• The voting system will be changed according to the number of competitors.

Contest Rules

• If necessary and the field of participants is able to, there will be a Qualifying Heat for the edition, of which countries will qualify to the final.
• The top 5 of each edition is sure of being in the final in the next edition, if there is a Qualifying Heat.

Participation

Withdrawing countries	Returning countries	Debuting countries
None	None	Azerbaijan Finland Germany Hungary Malaysia Netherlands Norway Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Vanuatu

Performance

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
6	Azerbaijan	Arash ft. Helena	One Day	7	61
2	Finland	Kotiteollisuus	Minä Olen	11	28
3	Germany	Unheilig	Wir Sind Alle Wie Eins	4	66
9	Hungary	Cserpes Laura	Úgy szállj!"	5	65
8	Malaysia	DJ Ryson	We Hold It Dirty Tonight	9	52
1	Netherlands	Alex	Hoezo Al Getrouwd	10	42
5	Norway	DJ Broiler	Afterski	1	70
11	Sweden	Avicii	Addicted To You	8	55
4	Switzerland	Celeste & Carmel Buckingham	Gone	2	70
10	United Kingdom	Clean Bandit	Rather Be	3	67
7	Vanuatu	Vanessa Quai	True Harmony	6	62

• Celeste is not able to enter for Slovakia, since she was not born there, she will now represent Switzerland in the contest.
• The BBC has announced on the 2nd of May, 2014 that Little Mix has been switched for Clean Bandit as representative, because Little Mix's song "Move" was too known, and they wanted to put in some more unknown talent.