Romania: TVR shares all the details for Selecţia Naţională 2022

Romania: TVR shares all the details for Selecţia Naţională 2022
Friday, 26 November 2021

  • The Romanian national broadcaster, TVR, has shed light on the details of the country's selection for Eurovision 2022, Selecţia Naţională the final of which is set for March 5, 2022. 

    TVR has released the rules and regulations of the Romanian national selection for Eurovision 2022. A total of 45 entries will be taking part in next year's national selection which will unfold over a time of four months. The selection process will kick off on December and run up to March in 2022. 

    Next month between December 21 and 22 , a five member jury panel will review the submissions sent to TVR in order to shorlist 45 entries that will be taking part in the national selection. The results will go public the latest by December 23. 

    The 45 entries will then go into a two phase semi final round. Between February 5 and 10 a jury and the public will be able to vote online the acts they favor to advance to the second phase of the semi final. 15 song will be selected by the jury and an additional set of five acts to be selected by the public. 

    The 20 selected acts will compete performing live in a televised semi final show on February 12, 2022. A jury will rate the songs after each performance and will select 10 entries that will qualify to the Grand final show. 

    On March 5 , the Grand final show of Selecţia Naţională will take place with a combination of public and jury voting will select one of the 10 candidates to represent Romania at the 66th Eurovision Song Contest in Turin, Italy. 

     

    Romania in Eurovision 

    Romania made its first attempt to compete in the contest back in 1993 for the Eurovision Song Contest. After competing in the preliminary  semi-final in Slovenia with Dida Dragan, failed to win one of the three spots that led to the Eurovision stage in Millstreet, Ireland

    Romania officially debuted at the the Eurovision Song Contest in 1994 with Dan Bitman and has participatted a total of 23 times since then. Its best reuslts were scored in 2005 with Luminita Anghel and in 2010 with the duo Paula Seling & Ovi achieving in both cases the honorable 3rd place in the Grand Final. In 2016 the country received a penalty by the EBU due to its broadcaster’s overdue debt and was forced to withdraw from the contest, although it had chosen its Eurovision entry and act for Stockholm.

    In 2018 Romanian band The Humans won the Selecţia Naţională and performed Goodbye on the stage of Altice Arena in Lisbon. For the first time in its history the country didn’t make it to the final, breaking a record of qualifying to each grand final since the semi finals were introduced. In 2019 the country was represented by Ester Peony with her entry On a Sunday but failed to reach the grand final.

    In 2020 the Roxen was internally selected to represent Romania at ESC2020 with the song was “Alcohol You”, whose production was by Viky Red, the music being signed by him along with Ionuţ Armas and  written by Ionuţ Armas and Breyan Isaac. Unfortunately the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic and Roxen didn't reach eventually the Eurovision stage. 

    However, this year Roxen was internally selected to represent the nation in Rotterdam performing 'Amnesia', which sadly didn't make it to the final. 

     

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