Hello and welcome to the 22nd edition of Eurovision Theme Contest! BURN was the winner of 20th edition and he chose the theme of this edition. As you know, this theme is called
LET'S COMBINE THOSE VOICES
It is time to call to the stage our presenter, the winner of ETC 20.
LENA VALAITIS
Lena: Hello everyone! I am very pleased to see here all of you. 29 years has passed from the time when I sang this song in Royal Dublin Society main hall in Dublin. This song became 2nd there with 132 pts. I feel very happy, because you are still loving this song. Noow it finally won in an Eurovision related song contest and that is why I am presenting the 22nd Eurovision Theme Contest! The members of this edition are: Andrey, bURN, Centrix, Corlagol, Danijel, Dartacan, Diggloo, ESCFollower, Gerly, Ijm123, Jirka.cz, Karel, Martial, My Star, Nikky, Niko, Rapsodia, Remy and Westendpad.
Lena: Before we go to the contest itself, I decided to ask 2 grand ladies - Elizabeth Vaughan (in black dress) and Pauline Tinsley (in white dress) to sing here a very special duet for you. The song is Cat Duet by Rossini. Please enjoy, it is very funny! 
Lena: I hope you liked the song. Both Niko and I find it very cute and funny. 
Anyway, let me introduce you now the songs of this duet edition.
01 - Cyprus 2000 - Christina Argyri & Alexandros Panayi - Nomiza
02 - Croatia 1995 - Magazin & Lidija - Nostalgija
03 - Italy 1987 - Umberto Tozzi & Raf - Gente di mare
04 - Romania 2010 - Paula Seling & Ovi - Playing With Fire
05 - Croatia 2009 - Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea - Lijepa Tena
06 - Israel 2009 - Noa & Mira Awad - There Must Be Another Way
07 - Spain 1975 - Sergio y Estíbaliz - Tu Volveras
08 - Denmark 1981 - Debbie Cameron & Tommy Seebach - Krøller eller ej
09 - Monaco 1978 - Caline & Olivier Toussaint - Les jardins de Monaco
10 - Denmark 2010 - Chanée & N'Evergreen - In a moment like this
11 - Estonia 1996 - Maarja-Liis Ilus & Ivo Linna - Kaelekee hääl
12 - United Kingdom 1959 - Teddy Johnson & Pearl Carr - Sing Little Birdie
13 - Germany 1990 - Chris Kempers & Daniel Kovac - Frei zu leben
14 - Denmark 1957 - Birthe Wilke & Gustav Winckler - Skibet skal sejle i nat
15 - Israel 1991 - Duo Datz - Kan
16 - Norway 1994 - Elisabeth Andreassen & Jan Werner Danielsen - Duett
17 - United Kingdom 1977 - Lynsey de Paul and Mike Moran - Rock Bottom
18 - Finland 1972 - Päivi Paunu & Kim Floor - Muistathan
19 - Belgium 1983 - Pas de Deux - Rendez-vous
Lena: Once again a very exciting and interesting list of songs! And as always, it is impossible to predict the winner, it can be whichever of those songs. There have been very many surprise winners in ETC and I can smell such thing happening here too. But now, it is time to check
THE RULES
01 - Don't reveal anyone your own entry.
02 – Listen and watch all the 19 videos very carefully.
03 – Send your votes to Niko by PM, email or in msn, using the traditional ESC voting system giving the best song 12 pts, then 10 pts and 08 – 01 pts. You may of course not vote for your own entry.
04 – Deadline for voting is Wednesday, June 30th which means exactly 3 weeks from today.
Lena: Niko will start posting the videos in a moment, but before that I want to wish everyone a very happy beginning of summer and good luck to all of you! 
See you again in July 1st. 
