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The third qualifier round of American Song Contest just finished with twelve more songs competing for four spots in the semifinals, with the outcome decided by the votes of the judges and the public vote. North Dakota’s Chloe Fredericks, Kansas’ Broderick Jones and Montana’s Jonah Prill will join Kentucky’s Jordan Smith from the second qualifier round to the semi-finals, while Tennessee’s Tyler Braden will follow them as he won the third qualifier round’s jury!

The following artists competed in tonight’s third qualifying round:

1. Texas: Grant Knoche – “Mr. Independent”
2. Louisiana: Brittany Pfantz – “Now You Do”
3. Tennessee: Tyler Braden – “Seventeen”
4. New Jersey: Brooke Alexx – “I Don’t Take Pictures Anymore”
5. Alabama: Ni/Co – “The Difference”
6. Florida: Ale Zabala – “Flirt”
7. Alaska: Jewel – “The Story”
8. South Carolina: Jesse LeProtti – “Not Alone”
9. South Dakota: Judd Hoos – “Bad Girl”
10. Delaware: Nitro Nitra – “Train”
11. Northern Mariana Islands: Sabyu – “Sunsets and Seaturtles”
12. Colorado: Riker Lynch – “Feel the Love”

At the beginning of the night, Snoop Dogg and Kelly Clarkson announced that Chloe Fredericks from North Dakota, Broderick Jones from Kansas and Jonah Prill from Montana won the public’s support in the second qualifier round and will be in the semifinals.

The detailed results of the second qualifier round’s juries were as follows:

1. Kentucky: Jordan Smith – “Sparrow”
2. Kansas: Broderick Jones – “Tell Me”
3. Montana: Jonah Prill – “Fire It Up”
4. Maine: King Kyote – “Get Out Alive”
5. North Dakota: Chloe Fredericks – “Can’t Make You Love Me”
6. Ohio: Macy Gray – “Every Night”
7. Nebraska: Jocelyn – “Never Alone”
8. Virginia: Almira Zaky – “Over You”
9. New York: ENISA – “Green Light”
10. U.S. Virgin Islands: Cruz Rock – “Celebrando”
11. Oregon: courtship. – “Million Dollar Smoothies”

Just before the end of the show, the winner of the second qualifier round’s jury was announced and therefore Tyler Braden from Tennessee will be in the semi-finals.

The detailed results of the third qualifier round’s juries were as follows:

1. Tennessee: Tyler Braden – “Seventeen”
2. Florida: Ale Zabala – “Flirt”
3. Alabama: Ni/Co – “The Difference”
4. Texas: Grant Knoche – “Mr. Independent”
5. New Jersey: Brooke Alexx – “I Don’t Take Pictures Anymore”
6. Colorado: Riker Lynch – “Feel the Love”
7. Delaware: Nitro Nitra – “Train”
8. Louisiana: Brittany Pfantz – “Now You Do”
9. Alaska: Jewel – “The Story”
10. Northern Mariana Islands: Sabyu – “Sunsets and Seaturtles”
11. South Dakota: Judd Hoos – “Bad Girl”
12. South Carolina: Jesse LeProtti – “Not Alone”

Voting for those not selected by the jury will continue for two days until Wednesday. The public vote will determine the other three artists who will make it to the semi-finals. The semi-finalists will be announced each time at the start of next week’s show.

This was the third of a total of five qualifier rounds. You can also follow the contest from Denmark (DR) at 21:00 CET on Tuesdays, Finland (YLE) on Tuesday evenings, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Luxembourg (Red Bull) on demand, Greece (ERTFLIX), Iceland (RUV), Montenegro (RTCG) at 21:00 CET on Sundays, Norway (NRK) on Saturday nights, Serbia (RTS), Slovenia (RTV SLO) at 22:00 CET on Saturdays, Spain (RTVE Play) and Sweden (SVT)!

You can check here the performance of the first semifinalist of the 3rd qualifying round from Tennessee:

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