the georgian national broadcaster, georgian public broadcaster (gpb), broadcasts the event within georgia and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. gpb confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2018 eurovision song contest on 2 october 2017. georgia has selected their entry for the eurovision song contest both through national finals and internal selections in the past. in 2013 and 2014, gpb opted to internally select the georgian entry, in 2015, the georgian entry was selected via a national final, and in 2016, the artist was internally selected while the song was chosen in a national final. for their 2017 participation, the entry was selected through a national final. in 2018 the artist was internally selected. in 2019, the entry was fully selected through georgian idol for the first time ever. oto nemsadze failed to qualify to the saturday final with "keep on going", achieving just a fourteenth place in the semi-final.