Home Composed Song Contest 2010

Contest overview

The 2010 Home Composed Song Contest was organised by the team from the Eurovision Austria website and OGAE Austria under the coordination of former HCSC winner Sascha Mutavdzic.

Although no countries made their Home Composed debuts, there were a handful of new faces among the 22 entries. The overwhelming majority of participants chose to enter only one song, and while the organiser of each year's edition would continue to have the freedom to allow entrants to submit either one or two songs, a "one song per entrant" rule would effectively establish itself as the norm in just a few years' time.

The organisers produced a video voting show, which is archived here. As in previous years, the results of the contest included an internet vote (shown as in the scoreboard below). Radio International again provided enthusiastic support, featuring the contest extensively in its shows, although the organisers refrained from inviting a guest jury to give its votes this time. Unfortunately, two participants failed to submit their votes on time and were subsequently disqualified.

After leading almost all the way, Estonian entrant Christa was pipped at the post - with the votes of the very last jury giving the victory instead to "Running On Empty" by londonvision feat. Tiina. Having been represented in every single edition of the contest to date, this was the first ever win for the United Kingdom. It proved to be a consensus result, too - this was only the second time a song had won HCSC without receiving a single maximum vote.

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Denmark	Still On My Mind	Tony Søgaard Olsen	Tony Søgaard Olsen	Tony Søgaard Olsen	6	64
03	Greece	Who I Am	Angelos Kaskampaniotis	Kostas Papoutsis	Thanasis Nakos	11	49
04	Germany I	Unterwegs	Christian Deussen	Marcus Seiler	Stefan Engel	4	78
05	Malta II	Re-Cap	Off-Set	Off-Set	Billy.J	10	50
06	Malta II	Walk Alone	Off-Set	Off-Set	Billy.J	16	18
07	United Kingdom I	Dance	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Ray Holt	13	38
08	Germany II	Not	Mave O'Rick	Mave O'Rick, Henning Birkenhake, Ian Coleen, Stefan Pietrek	Mave O'Rick, Thomas Gunesch	12	48
09	Germany III	Auf der Flucht	Flo	Florian Sawatzki	Florian Sawatzki	6	64
10	Germany III	I'm Over You	Mr. Mahogany	Tim Berlingen, Florian Sawatzki	Tim Berlingen, Florian Sawatzki	8	57
11	Portugal	I Wanna Be There	Heitor	Heitor	Heitor	4	78
12	Germany IV	Morgen (Am Meer)	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	14	35
13	Estonia	Morning Sun	Christa	Marcus Seiler	Marcus Seiler	2	87
14	Spain	Fuerte	Samuel Bugia	Samuel Bugia	Samuel Bugia	15	31
17	Austria	Üürnikaktus	Cactus Project	Cactus Project	n/a	19	4
18	United Kingdom	Running On Empty	londonvision feat. Tiina	Andy Brook	David Graaff	1	91
19	Germany VI	Mein Herz schlägt weiter	Riinka	Bernd Öttlinger	Michael Bauer, Bernd Öttlinger	3	82
20	Germany VII	Wir geben niemals auf	Matthias Pohl	Lutz Holzapfel	Matthias Pohl	18	14
21	Germany VIII	Ennis and Jack - Freunde auf dem Brokeback Mountain	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	17	15
22	Serbia	Black Sea Memories	Dejan & Nikola	Dejan Nikodijević, Nikola Radunović	n/a	9	51

Songs disqualified after the contest and removed from the final ranking:

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Points
02	Malta I	Spirit Of A Nation	Mauro	Clinton Paul	Clinton Paul	69
15	Germany V	Verweht (Jeden Tag)	Deniz Fingskes	Deniz Fingskes	Deniz Fingskes	13
16	Germany V	Nur du	Deniz Fingskes	Deniz Fingskes	Deniz Fingskes	8

Scoreboard

	Juries
																					Total
Still On My Mind	6	x		8	7	8		7				7			3			6	12		64
Spirit Of A Nation	10		x	12	8			2	12	8		2	5				10				69
Who I Am	12	7		x		12				7		3	3				5				49
Unterwegs	1	10		3	x	7		6		4	8	12	6		1	3	7	5	5		78
Re-Cap					2	x	6	8	6			6	4			1	8	7		2	50
Walk Alone						x		4	2							4				8	18
Dance	7	2				1	x	1			7				4	6			4	6	38
Not	5	8			10		8	x			1	8				5				3	48
Auf der Flucht		5		4	5		5		x	12	12		2		2	2	12	2		1	64
I'm Over You		6			3	10		12	x		2	10				8	6				57
I Wanna Be There		4		5		2	1		3	x	5	4			8	12	3	12	7	12	78
Morgen (Am Meer)					1		7			3	x		1				1	10	8	4	35
Morning Sun	4	12		6	12	6	3	10	4	10		x	8		5		4		3		87
Fuerte	3	3		7		3	4			6			x				2	3			31
Verweht (Jeden Tag)							2		10					x				1			13
Nur du									1					x						7	8
Üürnikaktus											4				x						4
Running On Empty	8			10	6	5	10	3	5	5	6		7		10	x			6	10	91
Mein Herz schlägt weiter				1	4		12		8	2	10	5	10		12	7	x	4	2	5	82
Wir geben niemals auf		1		2						1								x	10		14
Ennis und Jack...															7			8	x		15
Black Sea Memories	2					4		5	7		3	1	12		6	10			1	x	51

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Media

HCSC 2010 winner: londonvision feat. Tiina - Running On Empty
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Recap of all HCSC 2010 songs in draw order
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