Wimbo'117

Wimbo'117 is fifteen and last edition in Wimbo Music Competition in 2017 season. Edition held in city Yerevan, a capital of Armenia. This is third time when Armenia hosts Wimbo's edition. Last time this was in edition # in. Yerevan was host in last time editions too. 40 countries participate in this edition. Winner became Ina Wroldsen with song "Strongest" from Norway recieved 157 pts in Final. France finished 2-d, Ukraine - 4-th. Both was a winners in Semi-Finals.

Location:
Edition 117 hosts Yerevan in Karen Demirchyan Complex, Garik Papoyan and Iveta Mukuchyan are conductors.

Later was annonced oficial moto - "Towards new reality".

Format:
Edition goes on Regular Rules. In a case that number of particapated countries were 40 used Format #3 with two Semi-Finals on 17/18 countries and Final on 27 places. Grand Final included 5 direct Finalists on results of last edition and top 11 Qualifiers from Semi-Finals. Manager of contest can law add 1 Wilcards for final on personal mind. Wilcard was used for South Korea, that finished 23-th from 28.

In Semi-Final must obligatory vote all contestants of Round, Direct Finalists can free to vote in this Round.

In Grand Final must obligatory vote all countries. In case not vote will using sanctions.

Voting system are standart ESC version - 1-8, 10 and 12 points for the most favorite countries. Vote for myself can't.

All Rounds open previous winner's song -  "Depi nor irakanutyun" by Iveta Mukuchyan.

In Semi-Final using alphabetic draw of perfomances.

In Grand Final order of perfomances decided manager.

Participation countries:
In edition 117 participate 40 countries. Azerbaijan return with new broadcaster, Colombia change citizenship of broadcaster from Chile. Puerto Rico and Slovenia return after some break. Brazil lost connection and withdrawn. Serbia decided take some hithouse.

Choosen countries are France and Hungary. that finished 2-d and 10-th.

Through returning former winners - Dua Lipa [Kos], Eleni Foureira [Greece 2 times], Marc Antony [P-R], Sebastian Yatra [Col] and Via Gra [Ukr].

Semi-Final 1
Recap

Voting Form

In Semi-Final #1 performe 17 countries. Top 11 will qualify in Final.

Semi-Final 2:
Recap

Voting Form

In Semi-Final #2 performe 18 countries. Top 11 will qualify to Final.

Final:
Recap

Voting Form

In Final performe 27 songs, but in case that used wilcard, they were 28.

52% of songs performe in diffrent national languages, 28% in English, on 10% in Russian and Spanish. So, again almost 3/4 of songs performe not in English.

Scoreboards
here

Official list of entries:
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