Italian Music Festival 03

Announcement
On December 6th of 2017, it was announced by the Italian broadcaster, Rai, that another selection would be used to select our entrant. Within less than 72 hours, over 100 artists submitted their songs to the broadcaster. A jury panel constisting of 10 musicians evaluated each song individually and the Top 10 would get a chance to be in the selection. However, one of the 10 selected acts couldn't perform on those dates, so to replace the last spots, the broadcaster introduced a "wildcard". International juries from many countries of the world determined the 3 best songs. Then they went on to the online voting. The winner replaced the 10th spot.

Location
It was decided that Rome and Stadio Olimpico, which previously hosted OSF #4 and JOSF #1 would host the national selection!

Wildcard Battle
The international juries selected these 3 songs for the WCB. It worked like a 'second chance' to the songs who failed on editions 1 and 2. The winning song was announced as the 10th act of the selection shortly afterwards.

Juries
The following countries voted as juries. The Philippines was a jury and voted on the WCB, but was removed later since they didn't submit votes. Kazakhstan applied too, but they were removed before the WCB because of the country HoD's disqualification. Belarus and Uruguay weren't a part of the WCB, but they did vote on the final.

Final
Here is the results of the final. Each of the juries awarded 12pts to their favourite, 10 to their second favourite, and so on with 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 points. Because the results were very tight, the broadcaster decided to host a superfinal too.

Superfinal
International juries awarded 1 point to their favourite song.