Kvalifikacija za Millstreet — qualifying song contest for the Eurovision Song Contest 1993
A one-off EBU-organised qualifying contest that selected three of seven post-communist nations to debut at Eurovision 1993, managing the surge in new member countries.
Key Facts
- Date held
- 3 April 1993
- Venue
- Studio 1, Televizija Slovenija, Ljubljana
- Competing countries
- 7
- Countries qualifying
- 3 (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia)
- Host broadcaster
- Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO)
- Eurovision 1993 date/venue
- 15 May 1993, Millstreet, Ireland
By the Numbers
Location
Cause → Event → Consequence
The collapse of communist regimes and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia produced a wave of newly independent states seeking to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest, creating more applicants than the 1993 contest could accommodate.
Organised by the EBU and RTVSLO and presented by Tajda Lekše, Kvalifikacija za Millstreet took place on 3 April 1993 in Ljubljana. Seven countries with no prior Eurovision history each submitted entries judged by one juror per competing nation, with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia advancing to the Eurovision Song Contest 1993.
Estonia, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia, the four countries that did not qualify, made their Eurovision debuts the following year in 1994. The contest also prompted the EBU to introduce a relegation system for future editions, giving new and returning countries direct access while removing the lowest-scoring participants from the previous year.