Microstate Qualification

Microstate Qualification is a qualifying round for the Nation Song Contest introduced in order to keep the number of entries participating in the main contest itself down to 42. The voting and presentation of results is similar to that of the semi final in the NSC itself. In NSC10 only the participating microstates themselves had to vote, since NSC11 also full countries were allowed to vote, while the microstates still were required to vote. From NSC18 onwards the Microstate Qualification has been abandoned with the introduction of two semi finals.