Sentile Song Contest 9

The Sentile Song Contest 9 will be the ninth edition of the Sentile Song Contest and will be hosted in the winning country of the Sentile Song Contest 8, won with the song "You're Mine" performed by Lola Marsh. This was the first time that the country had won the contest. The song achieved a score of 166 points, which is a new point record and get 23 more points than the runner-up from. , and  finished on the 3rd, 4th and 5th place, which means that they are the Automatic Qualifiers in this edition.

Participating Countries
Totally 52 countries are participating in this edition. It's more 5 participant then in the previous edition. The countries, , , , , , , , , , , , debuted in this contest. after one, and  after two while  decided to return after three edition break. ,, and  failed to submit thier votes in the previous edition and they're banned from this edition. ,, , , , , and  decided to withdraw.

Venue
On 20th of October, Sudeck Television (STV) decided that the city of Twinlight will serve as the host city of the 9th edition. The contest will be held in the Sudeckaya Arena. The stadium was opened in 2002 with a capacity of 20,000 people.



Hosts

 * Gerard Joling and Gordon Heuckeroth are the hosts of Sentile Song Contest 9.
 * Gerard Jan Joling (born 29 April 1960 in Alkmaar) is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 1980s and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics" and "Love Is in Your Eyes". He also achieved success in Asia and received more than 20 gold and platinum records.
 * Cornelis Willem (Gordon) Heuckeroth (born 6 July 1968, Amsterdam) is a Dutch performer and radio and television personality, better known by his nickname Gordon. As a singer, he had his greatest hit with the single Kon ik maar even bij je zijn (If I could be with you for just a while), which was a number one hit in The Netherlands in 1991.



Format

 * All competing countries submit an entry chosen either internal. The entry has to follow the rules given by SSC. The council have the right to decline the entry if they feel that the entry chosen do not fulfil the rules of the contest.
 * The contest will consist of a grand final, and in the case when there are more participants than can reasonably compete in one show, semi-finals will be introduced. The winning country will host the next edition and therefore be pre-qualified to the final as the hosts. In those cases where a country decline to host the contest, they can become pre-qualified as the winning country along with the host of that respective edition.
 * The number of competing countries will decide the number of semi-finals, automatic finalists and qualifiers from each semi-final according to the rules of the contest.
 * There are no limits to how many times an artist can participate in the contest. But there are limitations when it comes to how often an artist can participate in the contest.
 * If an artist has participated once, it must wait at least 2 rounds before it can return to the competition.
 * If an artist has participated more than once, it must wait at least 4 rounds before it can return to the competition.

Semi Final Allocation Draw
The participating countries have been split into six pots based on their voting similarity at previous editions of the contest. The voting similarity and pots were calculated by the SBU.

The following pots are updated after the 8th edition:

Automatic Qualifiers
Although these countries are automatic qualifiers for this edition, each country has still been assigned a pot.
 * would have been in Pot A.
 * and would have been in Pot B.
 * would have been in Pot E.
 * would have been in Pot F.