Cyprus was represented at the

Eurovision Song Contest 1992 The Eurovision Song Contest 1992 was the 37th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 9 May 1992 at the in Malmö, Sweden. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (SVT), and presented by Lydia Capolicc ...

with the song "", written by

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, and performed by

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. The Cypriot participating broadcaster, the

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(CyBC), selected its entry through a national final.

Before Eurovision

''1992''

Competing entries

The

(CyBC) opened a submission period for Cypriot artists and composers to submit songs until 10 January 1992. By the end of the submission period, 65 entries had been submitted. On 16 February 1992, in the CyBC studios, a 16-member jury listened to the received submissions and chose eight songs to compete in the national final. The selection was done in three stages: first the songs were listened to and the invalid entries were taken out of the contest; then the jury voted and selected 20 entries; and from those 20 entries, the eight competing entries for the national final were selected.

Final

The final was broadcast live at 21:00 EET on RIK on 13 March in a show titled ''1992'' (). The contest was held at the International Conference Centre in

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, and was hosted by Eirini Charalambidou. The winner was decided by a 24-member jury who each gave out 10 points to their favourite song, 8 to their second favourite, and 6 through to 1 points for their third to eighth placing songs. The jury was intended to have 26 members, consisting of the 16 jury members who chose the competing entries and ten members of the public, however the jury panel ended up only having 24 juries.

At Eurovision

On the night of the final,

performed ninth in the running order, following and preceding . At the closing of the voting, "" received 57 points, placing Cyprus 11th out of 23 competing countries. The Cypriot jury awarded its 12 points to .

Voting

References

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 1992

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