Home Composed Song Contest 2008

Contest overview

The Home Composed Song Contest returned to former host city Hamburg in 2008, with the organiser this time being 2007 winner Stefan Engel.

The innovations started in the previous year showed no sign of stopping under Stefan's enthusiastic leadership. The contest again had its own website and was conducted almost exclusively online. The songs were placed on the site in the order that they were received, while the audiovisual aspect was underlined with several introductory video clips and - in a new development that had been the dream of many a HCSC regular over the years - the voting itself was conducted in an impressive video presentation, complete with Eurovision-style scoreboard. Some clips from that show can still be viewed here, and the colourful programme that was circulated to all participants after the event can be downloaded in PDF form here.

Online support was provided by Radio International, who presented an hour-long programme dedicated to the contest (listen here) and formed their own guest jury, while the contest's website itself also contained an online vote that was included as part of the final result - this would become a regular feature of future editions. The scoresheet below shows these guest juries at the end, numbered (Radio International) and (Internet).

While the contest continued to expand and evolve, the only new country to appear on the scoreboard this year was Serbia, represented by Boban Djekić - who promptly won the competition on his first attempt with the polished "Vino", beating out fellow first-timer Heja from Turkey and defending champion Stefan Engel from Germany. Just below them, persistence paid off for the contest's most experienced competitor, Martin Faulkner from the UK, whose band Vulnerable recorded comfortably their best result to date in fourth place - while fellow Brit Dan Dyer was unfortunately disqualified when his votes failed to reach the organisational team in time.

Entries and results

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Position	Points
01	Germany I	Naturally	Mave O'Rick	Mave O'Rick, Ian Coleen	Mave O'Rick, tEEgEE	13	58
02	Turkey I	Askindan ötesi yok	Yakup & Levent	Yakup Mutlu, Levent	Yakup Mutlu	18	34
05	Serbia	Vino	Boban Djekić	Snežana Končar	Snežana Končar	1	127
06	Sweden I	Vad?	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	Martin Kahnberg	25	11
07	United Kingdom II	Lecture Over	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Ray Holt	4	94
08	United Kingdom II	Xeno's Paradox	Vulnerable	Ray Holt, Martin Faulkner	Andrew Donaldson	19	29
09	Malta	Fly With The Angels	Mauro Kitcher	Mauro Kitcher	Mauro Kitcher	5	85
10	Turkey II	Feel Free	Heja	Timo Schmid, Art Brauer	Timo Schmid	2	119
11	Switzerland	Hello, Yassou, I Just Love You	Mazarra vs. Lukmi	Lukmi	Lukmi	27	7
12	United Kingdom III	Ingenting kan stoppa mig	londonvision feat. Tiina	Andy Brook	Andy Brook, Tiina Kolehmainen	8	80
13	Sweden II	I Will Always (Love You)	Andreas Nilsson	Andreas Nilsson	Andreas Nilsson	21	18
14	Sweden II	Be My Casanova	Andreas Nilsson	Andreas Nilsson	Andreas Nilsson	29	6
15	Germany II	Die Welt/The World	Jan & Friends	Marcus Seiler	Stefan Engel	3	105
16	Spain	A ritmo de tango	Samuel Bugia	Samuel Bugia	Nacho Croxatto	9	75
17	Germany III	Spiel nicht mit meinen Gefühlen	Tina	Danzel White, Tina	Tina	17	35
18	Germany IV	Sound Alarm	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	15	50
19	Germany IV	Not Easy To Find	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	Felix Penk	30	5
20	Greece	Elpides (Hopes)	Alexandros Kanlis	Dimitrios Karas	Dimitrios Karas	20	23
21	Portugal I	All Again	Heitor	Heitor	Heitor	11	71
22	Portugal I	Livre ao sol	Heitor	Heitor	Heitor	22	14
23	Sweden III	Higher, Higher	Marcus Björkander	Marcus Björkander	Josef Boström	16	44
24	Portugal II	Somewhere In The World	Marco Daniel Nunes	Rogério Afonso	Rogério Afonso	6	84
25	Portugal III	You've Got My Love	Enhanced Duo 7	Manel da Silva	Manel da Silva, Enhanced Duo 7	14	51
26	Denmark	Vidste aldrig hvem du var	Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen	Tony Olsen	10	74
27	Portugal IV	Devil Told You Lies	Skin2Skin	Pedro Sousa	Pedro Sousa	26	9
28	Portugal IV	Oxygen	Skin2Skin	Pedro Sousa	Pedro Sousa	24	13
29	Germany V	In der Stille der Nacht	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	27	7
30	Germany V	Ballerina der Nacht	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	Achim Wurm	31	2
31	Germany VI	Up And Down	LuMa	Lutz Holzapfel, Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	12	62
32	Germany VI	Feuer der Nacht	LuMa	Lutz Holzapfel, Matthias Pohl	Matthias Pohl	22	14
33	Germany VII	Simple Words	Ron Koprivica & Lara Koprivica	Ron Koprivica	Ron Koprivica	7	82

Songs disqualified after the contest and removed from the final ranking:

Draw	Country	Song Title	Performer	Composer	Lyricist	Points
03	United Kingdom I	Betrayed	Dan Dyer	The Jockster	Jodie Blackman	9
04	United Kingdom I	AstroVectrix	Dan Dyer	Dan Dyer	n/a	11

Scoreboard

	Juries
																												Total
Naturally								7			3	3		12	4								5	8	10		6	58
Askindan ötesi yok				8		2			2								5				10		7					34
Betrayed				1										2		6												9
AstroVectrix								4	3																4			11
Vino	8	12					7	10	12	12	8	7	3	4	1		6	3				10		6	12	6		127
Vad?						10																	1					11
Lecture Over	10			6	12			8		8		1	4		10	7				10	3	12				3		94
Xeno's Paradox					4			5								12						8						29
Fly With The Angels	5	3		5	3				1			12		10					1		4	4	12	5		10	10	85
Feel Free	6	10		4	8	6			4	1		6	7	7	12	2	2	12	7	7		5			5	8	1	119
Hello, Yassou, I Just...										4						1				2								7
Ingenting kan stoppa mig	1	1		7	1	4					4	5	10	1		5	8		8		12				6	7		80
I Will Always (Love You)		8					4			6																		18
Be My Casanova									5																		1	6
Die Welt/The World	7	6		12	6		12	12		3				5	7			4	5	8	8			1	8	1		105
A ritmo de tango		2					10		6	5					2		3	6	4	4	7	7			7	12		75
Spiel nicht mit meinen...	3			2							5									5	6					2	12	35
Sound Alarm		4			5	12							8			10		5				3	3					50
Not Easy To Find							5																					5
Elpides (Hopes)									7								7				5						4	23
All Again		7				8					7	4	1		3	4		10	12	1		6		3		5		71
Livre ao sol											2							8	2		2							14
Higher, Higher					7	1					12		2		8		4						4			4	2	44
Somewhere In The World		5		3			8		8		6		12		6		10			12				4	3		7	84
You've Got My Love	12						6	6		2				8					10						2		5	51
Vidste aldrig hvem du var	2				10	7					1	10	5				12	1	3			2	6	12			3	74
Devil Told You Lies						3		1										2		3								9
Oxygen						5	2	3						3														13
In der Stille der Nacht																								7				7
Ballerina der Nacht																								2				2
Up And Down									10	7		2	6		5		1	7	6	6	1		2		1		8	62
Feuer der Nacht					2		1									3							8					14
Simple Words	4			10			3	2		10	10	8		6		8						1	10	10				82

Media

HCSC 2008 winner: Boban Djekić - Vino

Recap of all HCSC 2008 songs in draw order
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