Romania participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 and selected their entry through a national final, organised by TVR (Romanian Television Society).

On 9 December TVR announced details on the Romanian national final, Selecţia Naţională 2010, with an open call for songs held from 9 November to 14 January. On 25 to 27 January a 15-member jury of composers, performers, press, radio professionals and television personalities would select between 12 and 15 songs to progress to a single televised show. New for 2010 is the introduction of the right for jury members to change the performing artists of each song. Should artists be changed they have between 28 January and 5 February to re-record the song.

TVR received 117 entries for the contest at the close of the submission period, of which 111 complied with contest rules. TVR announced the 16 finalists on 25 January, after there was an equal score in the lowest placings of the jury's list. The finalists included Luminita Anghel, the 2005 Romanian entry, last year's runner-up Cătălin Josan, participants in last year's contest Zero, four-time participant in Selecţia Naţională Paula Seling, and two time participant in the Norwegian national selection Melodi Grand Prix Ovi Martin.

TVR will record presentation videos for each entry between 6 and 19 February. These promotional videos will be broadcast from 20 February until 5 March in the lead up to the live contest on 6 March.

Regional juries will be introduced this year. The final results will be a 50/50 mix of televote and jury preferences. The televote was free of charge.

Shortly after "Playing with Fire" won Selecţia Naţională 2010 there were reports that the song, performed by Paula Seling and Ovi, aka Ovi Cernăuţeanu, was registered in Norway as being co-written by a Norwegian composer, Simen Eriksrud, which would have broken TVR regulations as participants and songwriters must all be Romanian. This was followed by calls for the song to be disqualified and a new national final held to select another song. Eriksrud, also Ovi's producer, confirmed that Ovi was the only songwriter, with Eriksrud and Ovi only sharing publishing rights as his producer.

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