Kross-European Song Contest of 1958

This was the 33rd edition of the contest and was held in May 1958. 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 but was moved to a later week to match up with the other contests (held every other year). The Semi Finals would be held on the Monday and Wednesday with the final on the Friday. This meant the first semi final would be held on 19th May 1958, the second semi final on the 21st May 1958 and the Grand Final on 23rd May 1958. Vendelín Slávik became the new executive producer after Kiana Rätz preferred to be given less responsibilities like when they were an assistant director for half a decade before.

Hosting
Due to Egypt winning the 1957 contest, questions were raised over whether they would host the European contest since they weren't in Europe. Egypt wasn't in the richest of circumstances to host anyway and them hosting would lead to a withdrawal of the United Kingdom and France. It was decided that second place Bulgaria would host in Sofia to solve all these problems and give Bulgaria their first hosting duties despite winning the 1927 contest.

Participants
The countries hosting a national final to find their participant: The countries using an internal selection:
 * Andorra.png Andorra
 * AlbaniaOld.png Albania
 * Bulgaria.png Bulgaria
 * Cyprus.png Cyprus
 * Czech Republic.png Czechia
 * Finland.png Finland
 * EastGermany.png East Germany
 * Hungary.png Hungary
 * Iceland.png Iceland
 * Ireland.png Ireland
 * Israel.png Israel
 * Liechtenstein.png Liechtenstein
 * Luxembourg.PNG Luxembourg
 * Malta.png Malta
 * Monaco.png Monaco
 * Morocco.png Morocco
 * Poland.png Poland
 * Romania.png Romania
 * Turkey.png Turkey
 * Wales.png Wales

Other Countries
These countries didn't participate for some reason or another:
 * Tunisia.png Tunisia withdrew from the contest seeing it as another guest appearance and receiving a low score.
 * Lebanon.png Lebanon withdrew from the contest due to controversies with Israel and the grouping of the Semi-Finals.
 * SanMarino.png San Marino withdrew from the contest because of financial issues and no reason to pursue the contest.
 * Australia.png Australia has never participated before but broadcasts the show with the commentary from the United Kingdom. The broadcaster wants to make a guest appearance like those countries in North Africa but Kross Company has not stated the possibility of an Australian debut.

Grouping
The automatic qualifiers are:
 * Bulgaria.png Bulgaria (hosting)
 * Egypt.png Egypt (winner of 1957)
 * France.png France
 * Switzerland.png Switzerland
 * Italy.png Italy
 * UK.png United Kingdom
 * Netherlands.png Netherlands

Semi Final 1
The voting system would 1pt, 2pts, 4pts, 6pts, 8pts, 10pts and 12pts.

Grand Final
All participants of the show (27) will vote first. In the second table it will show any juries that won't fit onto this one, the rest of the participants and the televote will show up on the second table.

Awards and Predictions
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