Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Romania is set to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022. The Romanian broadcaster Televiziunea Română (TVR) will organise the national final Selecția Națională 2022 in order to select the Romanian entry for the 2022 contest in Turin, Italy. The national final will consist of three shows: two semi-finals and a final. A total of forty-five entries will be selected and ten qualifiers will ultimately compete in the final on 5 March 2022 where the winner scoring top marks from both a jury panel and a public televote will be selected.

Eurovision Song Contest 2022
Country Romania
National selection
Selection processSelecția Națională 2022
Selection date(s)Semi-finals:
5-10 February 2022
12 February 2022
Final:
5 March 2022
Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Background
Main article: Romania in the Eurovision Song Contest

Prior to the 2022 contest, Romania has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 21 times since its first entry in 1994. Its highest placing in the contest, to this point, has been third place, which the nation achieved on two occasions: in 2005 with the song "Let Me Try" performed by Luminița Anghel and Sistem, and in 2010 with "Playing with Fire" by Paula Seling and Ovi.[1] In 2020, Romanian Television (TVR) did not fully select its representative by means of the national final format Selecția Națională for the first time ever. They collaborated instead with Global Records to internally select the entrant, Roxen, with only her entry "Alcohol You" being selected through the national final.[2][3][4] However, the contest was ultimately cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The entrant was internally re-selected to take part in the 2021 contest with the song "Amnesia", which failed to qualify to the final, placing 12th in the first semi-final. This marked the third consecutive time that the nation failed to qualify to the final of the Eurovision Song Contest since the introduction of semi-finals in 2004. Following the televised debate Eurovision... pe șleau! ("Eurovision... frankly!") on 5 July 2021 which featured personalities of the national music industry, the broadcaster confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest on 20 October 2021 and would opt for a national final with several artists to select their 2022 entry.[5][6][7][8]

Before Eurovision

Selecția Națională 2022

Selecția Națională 2022 will be the national final organised by TVR in order to select Romania's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.[8] The competition will consist of two shows: a semi-final featuring twenty songs and a final featuring ten songs to be held between February and 5 March 2022.[9]

Competing entries

TVR opened a submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries between 26 November 2022 and 19 December 2021. A jury panel consisting of Alexandra Ungureanu, Ozana Barabancea, Randi, Cristian Faur and Adrian Romcescu will review the received submissions on 21 and 22 December 2021, with each juror on the committee rating each song between 1 (lowest) and 10 (highest) based on criteria such as the melodic harmony and structure of the song, the orchestral arrangement, originality and stylistic diversity of the composition and sound and voice quality.[10] After the combination of the jury votes, the top forty-five entries that scored the highest will be selected for the national final. The competing entries will be announced on 23 December 2021.[11]

Semi-final 1

The first semi-final will take place between 5 and 10 February 2022. Forty-five songs will compete and twenty will qualify to the final. The entries will first face a public online vote on the Eurovision Romania Facebook page on 9 and 10 February 2022 where the top five songs will advance. An additional fifteen qualifiers will be selected from the remaining thirty entries by a jury panel.

Semi-final 2

The second semi-final will take place on 12 February 2022. Twenty songs will compete and a jury panel will select ten songs to qualify to the final.

Final

The final will take place on 5 March 2022. Ten songs will compete and the winner will be determined by the combination of the votes from a jury panel and public televoting. The juries will have TBA points to award, while the viewers had a total of 12 points to award. Each member of the jury will vote by assigning scores from 1–8, 10 and 12 points to their preferred songs, while the viewer vote will be assigned by dividing the votes received by each song by the number of votes of the song that will gain the most viewer votes and then multiplied by 12 points. For example, if a song gained 10% of the viewer vote, then that entry would be awarded 10% of 12 points rounded to the nearest integer: 1 point.[11]

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big 5" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot.[12]

References
  1. "Romania – Eurovision Song Contest". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 13 May 2017. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  2. "TVR și Global Records, parteneri pentru Eurovision Song Contest 2020" [TVR and Global Records, partners for the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest] (in Romanian). Romanian Television. 31 January 2020. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  3. "Roxen will represent Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020". European Broadcasting Union. 11 February 2020. Archived from the original on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  4. "Eurovision 2020: "Alcohol You", piesa cu care Roxen va reprezenta Romania" [Eurovision 2020: "Alcohol You", the song Roxen will represent Romanian with]. Ziare (in Romanian). 2 March 2020. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  5. Argyriou, Giannis (8 July 2021). "Romania: Everything that was discussed on the special show about the analysis of the bad results!". Eurovision Fun. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  6. Eurovision... pe șleau!. ESC Extras (in Romanian). 5 July 2021. Retrieved 2 October 2021 – via YouTube.
  7. "REVEALED: the 41 countries joining Eurovision in Turin 2022". Eurovision.tv. EBU. 20 October 2021. Archived from the original on 20 October 2021. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
  8. Gallagher, Robyn (23 November 2021). "Romania: TVR returns to national final Selectia Nationala for Eurovision 2022". Wiwibloggs. Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  9. "Eurovision 2022: Încep înscrierile pentru Selecția Națională" (in Romanian). Romanian Television. 26 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  10. "TVR PREZINTĂ JURIUL EUROVISION ROMÂNIA 2022". TVR (in Romanian). 10 December 2021. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
  11. "Eurovision 2022: regulament Selecție Națională Eurovision Song Contest 2022" (in Romanian). Romanian Television. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  12. "Rules – Eurovision Song Contest". European Broadcasting Union. Archived from the original on 20 June 2017. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
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