edition of Supernova, the music competition that selects Latvia's entries for the Eurovision Song Contest. The competition took place at the LTV studios in Riga on 8 February 2020, hosted by Toms Grēviņš, Ketija Šēnberga and Beta Beidz and broadcast on LTV1 as well as online via the streaming platform Replay.lv. An alternative broadcast also occurred on LTV7 with presentation in sign language. The show was watched by over 145,000 viewers in Latvia, while the online broadcast was watched by over 27,000 users from 75 countries. Format The format of the competition consisted of a final held on 8 February 2020 that selected the Latvian entry for Rotterdam from nine competing entries. A public vote exclusively determined which entry would be the winner. Viewers were able to vote once per each phone number via telephone or via SMS, while the online vote conducted through the official Supernova website allowed users to vote up to five times per each accepted social network account: Draugiem.lv, Facebook and Twitter. Due to technical issues, only one vote per account was ultimately counted in the online vote. During the show, a jury provided feedback to the competing artists. The panel consisted of: Maarja Merivoo-Parro – editor-in-chief of Raadio 2 Estonia Gerūta Griniūtė – Lithuanian cultural presenter and event host Petri Mannonen – representative of Universal Music Finland and the Baltics Artis Dvarionas – producer at Radio SWH Competing entries Artists and songwriters were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster between 10 October 2019 and 20 November 2019. A record 126 entries were submitted at the conclusion of the submission period. A jury panel appointed by LTV evaluated the submitted songs and shortlisted 28 entries. The jury panel consisted of: Agnese Cimuška-Rekke – Latvian Music Development Society Aiga Leitholde – Music Reviewer Liena Grīna – Latvian Association of Performers and Producters Sabīne Brice – Universal Music Latvia Ilze Jansone – Supernova Producer Inese Saulāja – Warner Music Latvia Kaspars Zaviļeiskis – Music Journalist Jānis Žilde – Musician, TVnet Kultura+ Presenter Kaspars Mauriņš – Latvijas Radio 2 Rūdolfs Švēde – Radio Tev Emīls Kazakovs – Kurzemes Radio – Pieci.lv – Radio SWH Aleksis Vilciņš – Pieci.lv Edgars Bāliņš – Wiwibloggs Petri Mannonen – Universal Music Finland and the Baltics Martti Vuorinen – Universal Music A&R Pēteris Krievkalns – Creative Director for Supernova Auditions in front of alternate jury panel took place on 21 and 22