The broadcaster organised the national final Bŭlgarskata pesen v „Evroviziya 2013” in order to select the song that Elitsa and Stoyan competed with.

The song was withdrawn on 11 March 2013 after failing to secure its copyrights with its apparent songwriter Jonatan Tesei and replaced with runner-up "Samo shampioni".

[1] The nation achieved their best result in the contest in 2007 with the song "Water" performed by Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov, which placed fifth.

[3] On 10 February 2013, BNT announced that a committee had internally selected Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov to represent Bulgaria in Malmö.

The committee consisted of BNT 1 producers, which conducted a survey among Bulgarian Eurovision fans resulting in the selection of Elitsa and Stoyan for the competition.

The five-person jury consisted of Maria Ganeva, Nelly Rangelova, Yasen Kozev, Nikolay Yanchovichin and Georgi Andreev.

[12] On 11 March, BNT announced that "Kismet" had been withdrawn from the competition after the broadcaster had not been able to secure its copyrights from Jonatan Tesei, one of the apparent songwriters that they were misinformed about.

[13] Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov made several appearances across Europe to specifically promote "Samo shampioni" as the Bulgarian Eurovision entry.

On 13 April, Elitsa performed during the Eurovision in Concert event which was held at the Melkweg venue in Amsterdam, Netherlands and hosted by Marlayne and Linda Wagenmakers.

[20][21] The bagpiper that joined Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankoulov was Venci Venc', while the three backing vocalists were members of the Dragostin Folk National choir: Bilyana Sokolova, Biserka Danova-Pilarska and Desislava Georgieva.

This jury was asked to judge each contestant based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.