Sentile Song Contest 8

The Sentile Song Contest 8 will be the seventh edition of the Sentile Song Contest and will be hosted in the winning country of the Sentile Song Contest 7. won with the song "Heal Me" performed by Grace Carter. This was the second time that the country had won the contest. The song achieved a score of 141 points, which is a new point record and get 1 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. had hosted the contest previously the third edition in the city Clearford.

Participating Countries
Totally 47 countries are participating in this edition. It's more 5 participant then in the previous edition. The countries, , , and  debuted in this contest. ,, and  after one,  after two while  decided to return after four 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, Athington Channel decided that the city of Dever will serve as the host city of the 8th edition. The contest will be held in the Marble Park Arena. The stadium was opened in 1999 with a capacity of 27,000 people.



Hosts

 * Helena Paparizou and Eleni Foudeira are the hosts of Sentile Song Contest 8.
 * Elena Paparizou known professionally as Helena Paparizou, is a Greek-Swedish 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.
 * Eleni Foureira is a Greek singer and dancer. She began her music career in 2007 as a member of the Greek girl group Mystique, before pursuing a solo career after the group disbanded in 2009.



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 6th edition:

Automatic Qualifiers
Although these countries are automatic qualifiers for this edition, each country has still been assigned a pot.

Semi Final 1
, and  need to vote in this semi as IJ.

Semi Final 2
and need to vote in this semi as IJ.