The broadcaster responsible for the Armenian participation in the Eurovision Song Contest, Armenia Public Television (AMPTV) has announced the return of their national final format Depi Evratesil (Toward Eurovision) will return for a third run.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2020 will tke place in Rotterdam, The Netherlands after Duncan Laurence’s win in Tel-Aviv with the song “Arcade”
On 5th November 2019, the Head of Delegation for Armenia – David Tserunyan announced that AMPTV had brought back the National Final. This follows an internal selection that saw Srbuk represent the Caucus nation. She failed to qualify finishin in Sixteenth-Place with 49 points.
The all important rules.
The link to apply for Depi Evratesil in 2020 can be found here. Some ground rules include.
- One artist must submit only one song.
- The song can be in any language
- The song must not have been for commercial release befor the 1st September 2019
- The song must be no longer than three minutes.
- The song must be submitted by 31st December 2019, yes NEW YEARS EVE. So there’s no reason to forget it!
A brief (I do mean brief) history.
As previously mentioned Depi Evratesil was used twice. Once in 2017 when it was held in late 2016. This format was only used to select the singer. This was won by Artsvik. She then went on to sing “Fly With Me. She qualified for the final in Seventh-Place. In the final she managed to come in Eighteenth-Place with 78 points, this was at the time the third worst result for them.
In 2018 it was used again with a more traditional format of the song and artist coming as a package with two Semi-Finals and one Grand Final. This was won by Sevak Khanagyan with the song “Qami”. He did’t qualify for the final furthermore this was only Armenia’s second non qualification at the time. He came in Fifteenth-Place with 79 points. This was their worst ever result at the contest.
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