Kross-European Song Contest of 1954

This was the 29th edition of the contest and was held in 1954. Kross Company again collaborated with RECORDZA and EmbeX for the edition of the contest. The contest was to be hosted in the 2nd week of May like the 1950 and 1952 contest with semi finals on the Wednesday and Thursday and the final on the Saturday. This meant the first semi final would be held on 12th May 1954, the second semi final on the 13th May 1954 and the Grand Final on 15th May 1954. After the departure of Magnus Nibbelink again, nobody wanted to take the job except Marie Francis. She won the contest for Luxembourg in 1945, represented them in 1950 and 1952 and had many degrees for the job.

Hosting
Austria won the 1953 contest but due to the country not existing as a unified state along with the western powers of France and United Kingdom not wanting the contest to be hosted in the Soviet occupied zone, made a vote to decide a new host. 100 employees of Kross Company voted for the seven candidates and each round, one candidate was removed until it was a one on one and the majority would win. All seven candidates are: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Spain. In Round 1, Belgium got 58 points; Switzerland got 23; France got 9; Netherlands got 6; Germany got 3; United Kingdom got 1 and Spain got 0. This means that Spain was eliminated from the first round. Because there were no points to distribute, United Kingdom and Germany were also eliminated. Germany was heavily not favoured to win due to having hosted five times before and as recent as 1952.

In Round 2, Belgium got 62 points; Switzerland got 24 points; France got 9 and Netherlands got 5 points. This meant that Netherlands and France were eliminated because they had too small of the vote. In Round 3 only Belgium and Switzerland remained. Belgium got 84 points while Switzerland got only 16 points meaning Belgium would host. Antwerp was chosen to host the venue.

Participants
The countries hosting a national final are: The countries using internal selection are: The countries using a different method are:
 * Andorra.png Andorra
 * AlbaniaOld.png Albania
 * Austria.png Austria
 * Bulgaria.png Bulgaria
 * Finland.png Finland
 * Hungary.png Hungary
 * Iceland.png Iceland
 * Ireland.png Ireland
 * Israel.png Israel
 * Luxembourg.PNG Luxembourg
 * Malta.png Malta
 * Poland.png Poland
 * Portugal.png Portugal
 * Romania.png Romania
 * Russia.png Russia
 * Spain.png Spain
 * Turkey.png Turkey
 * Ukraine.png Ukraine
 * Wales.png Wales
 * Yugoslavia.png Yugoslavia
 * Cyprus.png Cyprus (2nd in Greece's national final)
 * Liechtenstein.png Liechtenstein (2nd in Switzerland's national final)
 * Monaco.png Monaco (2nd in France's national final)
 * SanMarino.png San Marino (2nd in Italy's national final)

Grouping
There are 6 automatic qualifiers: Each pot will have 6 countries in 5 pots
 * Belgium.png Belgium (host)
 * Switzerland.png Switzerland
 * Netherlands.png Netherlands
 * France.png France
 * Italy.png Italy
 * UK.png United Kingdom

Semi Final 1
RTop 7 qualify The qualifiers from the first semi final are:
 * Cyprus.png Cyprus - 148 points
 * Ukraine.png Ukraine - 144 points
 * GreeceOld.png Greece - 204 points
 * Denmark.png Denmark - 256 points
 * Wales.png Wales - 159 points
 * Russia.png Russia - 131 points
 * Norway.png Norway - 227 points

Semi Final 2
The qualifiers from the second semi final are:
 * Germany.png Germany with 261 points
 * Sweden.png Sweden with 201 points
 * Czech Republic.png Czechia with 142 points
 * Ireland.png Ireland with 160 points
 * Austria.png Austria with 176 points
 * Portugal.png Portugal with 147 points
 * Turkey.png Turkey with 220 points

Final Results
The show started at 6:00pm local time and finished at 9:17pm local time. The songs took up 2 hours and 15 minutes, there was a 20 minute interval act and then the results which took 40 minutes approximately. The table below shows the votes of all non-participating countries in the final. The table afterwards will show the total, the televote, the main participating juries and the final places. Even though they were not participating in any of the show, the juries from East Germany and Belarus also voted. Austria and France's points will be included in the first table due to no space in the second.
 * Belgium.png Belgium
 * Switzerland.png Switzerland
 * Netherlands.png Netherlands
 * France.png France
 * Italy.png Italy
 * UK.png United Kingdom