Sentile Song Contest 3

The Sentile Song Contest 3 will be the third edition of the Sentile Song Contest and will be hosted in the winning country of the SSC 2, who won with the song Thirio performed by Melina Makris. This was the first time that the country had won the contest. The song achieved a score of 110 points, 5 more points than the runner-up from. , and  finished on the 3rd, 4th and 5th place. The countries, , , , , and  debuted in this contest. and didn't intended to join this edition. , and  are failed the voting in the last edition, so they're banned from this edition.

Venue
On 26th of December, ATRN decided that the city of Clearford will serve as the host city of the 3rd edition. The contest will be held in the Clearford Arena. The stadium was opened in 1994 with a capacity of 30,000 people, the largest in the city, Clearford.



Hosts



 * Helena Paparizou and Sergey Lazarev are the host of the FCSC3.
 * Elena "Helena" Paparizou (born 31 January 1982), usually referred to abroad as Helena Paparizou, is a Swedish-born Greek singer, songwriter and television personality. Born and raised in Sweden to Greek parents, she enrolled in various arts schools before launching a career in Sweden in 1999 as a member of the laïko (Greek folk music) and Eurodance duo Antique, who participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 and afterwards became popular in Greece.
 * Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev (born 1 April 1983) is a Russian singer, dancer and actor. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as a member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006. Since then Lazarev has pursued a solo career. He represented Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden and finished in third place, coming first in the televote.

Format

 * All competing countries submit an entry chosen either internal. The entry has to follow the rules given by FCSC. The council have the right to decline the entry if they feel that the entry chosen do not fulfil the rules of the contest.
 * An entry can not have been competing in a previous edition of FSC.
 * 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.

Final

 * Playlist
 * Recap
 * Voting Form

Other Countries

 * announced on 7th of January that they will not return in this edition.
 * announced on 7th of January that they will not debut in this edition.

Withdrawing Countries

 * failed to send his votes in previous edition and he banned from this edition. But ETV already know they will withdraw before say that. In 27th of November ETV anncouned to withdraw.
 * failed to send his votes in previous edition and he banned from this edition.
 * announced on 7th of December that they will not be competing in this edition.
 * failed to send his votes in previous edition and he banned from this edition.
 * announced on 3rd of January that they will not be competing in this edition.