Pre-Qualification Round 2

Pre-Qualification Round 2 (abbreviated PQR 2), was a pre-event held for the second edition of The Song. Seven countries were participating and two of them qualified to the semi finals of the edition. Czech Republic and Spain qualified to the semi-finals.

Format
The European Broadcaster Union (EBU) announced that the limit of entries for each edition would be the 46 participants. Because of the amount of confirmations the EBU created a pre-qualification round that takes place every edition before the actual contest. Two countries every edition qualify from the pre-qualification round to the semi-finals while the others are eliminated. This edition the participating countries of the pre-qualification round were Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Georgia and Spain.

Scoreboard
Full results including televoting and results from the individual jury members were released shortly after the announcement of the semi-finalists

12 points
Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points each country awarded to another in the pre-qualification round:

Azerbaijani Jury Points
The EBU noticed that the jury votes submitted were noticeably different from the personal rankings made before and after submission, with those rankings of the Pre-Qualification countries being identical. This created a lot of suspicion, and the EBU deemed this change to be down to strategic voting. The decision to replace the Azerbaijani jury points shall not be revoked, however the EBU would like to stress that Azerbaijan's song 'Space Star' will not be receiving any kind of point deduction.