Wimbo'116

Wimbo'116 is fourteen edition in Wimbo Music Competition in 2017 season. Edition held in city somewhere in Spain. This is third time whe Spain hosts Wimbo's edition. Last time this was in edition #77 in 2015. Barcelona was host in that time edition too as in this edition. 39 countries participate in this edition.

Winner became Armenia, that represent Iveta Mukuchyan with song "Depi nor irakanutyun", she recieved 160 points in Final. Armenia was winner of Semi-Final #1. Portugal, that was winner of Semi-Final #2 finished only 5-th. Malta that finished 4-th, take own best results in Wimbo Hisory.

Location:
Edition 116 hosts Barcelona in Palau Sant Jordi, Beth and Sergio Dalma are conductors.

Later was annonced oficial moto -  "We build future" .

Format:
Edition goes on Regular Rules. In a case that number of particapated countries were 39 used Format #3 with two Semi-Finals on 17 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.

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 -                             "La tormenta" by Pastora Soler.

In Semi-Final using alphabetic draw of perfomances.

In Grand Final order of perfomances decided manager.

Participation countries:
In edition #116 participate 39 countries. Chile return after one edition break. Canada return with new broadcaster. Georgia withdrawm on indefinite reasons. Colombia decided take a break on some editions in case technical problems. Italy withdrawn after changing citizenship by manager to Spain. Slovenia decided skip one edition.

Choosen countries were Brazil and United KingdomU that finished 18-th and 14-th.

Semi-Final 1:
Recap

Voting Form

In Semi-Final #1 participate 17 countries

Semi-Final 2:
Recap

Voting Form

In Semi-Final #2 participate 17 countries

Final:
Recap

Voting Form

In Final performe 27 countries. Australia, Kazakhstan, Spain, Sweden, UK were direct finalists. A top 11 countries were qualify from both Semi-Finals.

41% of Final songs performed on national languages, 26% in English, 11% in Spanish, on 7% in Albanian, Portuguese, Romanian and Serbian. So, 3/4 songs were not in English.

12 points in Final:
20 countries takes the highest points in Final. Therea are:

Scoreboards:
here

Personal results:
Armenia takes own third victory. Malta takes the best place ever - 4-th.