Polska Piosenka

Polska Piosenka (English: Polish song) is a music competition organised by Polish broadcasters Telewizja Polska (TVP) and Polskie Radio (PR). Through the competition the country's representative for the Own Eurovision Song Contest is decided. It has so far selected two entrants for the contest, one being the winner of the contest in the 12th edition.

About
The first edition was held for the 12th edition of OESC. It included only songs by the singer Marina. The second edition had songs by various artists and it will be continued in the next editions. TVP announced that the 3rd edition will be held for OESC 18. It is expected to start with the start of OESC 17.

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The first edition was held for Own Eurovision Song Contest 12. Its theme was A song for Marina and it included only songs from the singer. The voting system was the basic OESC voting system. The national juries awarded 12 to their favourite song, 10 the their second favourite and so on. The winner was "Electric bass" which represented the country in the contest. In the contest, Poland didn't manage to qualify but it luckily got the wildcard. Even if it was a wildcard qualifier, Poland became the winner of the edition being the first wildcard to win the contest. It received a total of 221 points which was another record for the contest until that edition.

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During the 12th edition, the second edition of the selection was held. The winning song represented the country in the 13th edition. In this edition there wasn't any theme and there were songs by various artists. Once again Sylwia Grzeszczak was the host. This time she was joined by Liber. There were eight participants divided into two quarter finals from where two qualified from each to the semi-finals and from there to the final. Patricia Kazadi and Magdalena Tul were the two acts to reach the final. Patricia was the winner with 66.67% of the votes. As a host of the 13th edition, Poland was a direct qualifier. It was the second time that they were a big 5 member. Patricia took the 16th place with 106 points, tied with the 15th place.

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It was revealed that the edition will be hosted by Sylwia once again but this time with Honey. The songs were presented on 15 March. Sixteen songs will be competing to represent the country in OESC, eight in each semi-final.