the finalists for the live show and ultimately the winner are selected. The first stage of the competition included SRF/RTR, RTS and RSI each conducting varying selections in order to determine the candidates they submitted for the second stage of the competition. SRF/RTR submitted nine candidates, RTS submitted six candidates and RSI submitted three candidates. The second stage was the Expert Check live audition, where the 18 selected candidates performed the songs that qualified from their respective broadcaster selections. A jury panel selected three artists and songs to qualify from the SRF/RTR selection, two from the RTS selection and one from the RSI selection. The six artists and songs proceed to the third stage, the televised national final, where the winning artist and song was selected to represent Switzerland in Vienna. The SRF/RTR selection involved an online internet voting platform where interested artists could submit their songs and have them listed for public listening. The platform accepted entries between 29 September 2014 and 27 October 2014. 210 entries were submitted following the submission deadline, including an entry from 1999 French entrant Nayah. Internet users had between 3 and 17 December 2014 to vote for their favourite entries and their votes were combined with the votes from an expert jury. On 25 November 2014, the top nine entries for the "Expert Check" were announced. The RTS selection involved interested artists submitting their entries to the broadcaster between 9 September 2014 and 27 October 2014. At the close of the deadline, 26 entries were received. Ten of the entries were selected to perform live during a radio show on 23 November 2014 from the RTS Studio 15 in Lausanne, and a jury panel that consisted of Catherine Colombara, Laurent Pavia, Emile Felber and Nicolas Tanner selected the six candidates that proceeded to the "Expert Check". RSI opened a submission period between 16 July 2014 and 15 October 2014 for interested artists and composers to submit their entries. On 4 November 2014, a jury panel consisting of 2008 Swiss contest entrant Paolo Meneguzzi, Iris Moné and Simone Tomassini evaluated the 28 entry submissions received and selected the three candidates that proceeded to the "Expert Check". Expert Check The "Expert Check" of the eighteen selected candidates was webcast from SRF Studio 5 in Zürich on 7 December 2014 and was hosted by Clarissa Tami. The candidates performed their songs in front of an expert