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Take part in the voting!Tonight: National final in GreeceTonight, the Greek national final for the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest will be held. Sakis Rouvas performs all three songs and then it will be decided, which of them is going to be the 30th Greek entry in the competition. For the first time, the readers of esctoday.com can take part in the voting process as part of the international jury. The show The show to be broadcast on ERT and ERT World will start at 22:00 local time (21:00 CET) and it will be hosted by Betty & Mathilde Maggira at the Athinon Arena Music Hall in Athens. Sakis Rouvas will perform all three songs and the winner will be chosen by televoting (60%) and a jury (40%), which includes the votes of the esctoday.com voters (read more below). Many representatives from other countries will appear in the gala show: Chiara from Malta with What if we, Jade from the United Kingdom with It's my time, Petr Elfimov from Belarus with Eyes that never lie, Christina Metaxas from Cyprus with Firefly and Hadise from Turkey with Düm tek tek. Your opinion counts Readers are invited to vote for their favourite song in a special poll now. Greek readers cannot vote in the poll. They will have the opportunity to vote in the televote, worth 40% of the result in the final. The international result will be delivered by Stella Floras, as one seventh of the jury vote. Back-up voting locations Should esctoday.com crash or be unavailable due to the amount of traffic coming to the site, you will be able tovote via our back-up page on Blogger here (www.esctodaycom.blogspot.com) orvote via our myspace page here (www.myspace.com/esctoday). Once again, the voting will not allow people to vote more than once, whereever they log in from. Webcast The show will be streamed live on eurovision.tvhere and by ERThere. Octoshape plugin required for both webcasts. Entries Composer/lyricist in brackets.
Greece has been one of the most succesful countries in the Eurovision Song Contest in recent years not finishing outside the top ten since 2003. In 2008, Kalomoira won the first semi final and finished third in the final in Belgrade with her entry Secret combination. In 2009, the country will take part in the second semi final on 14th March. Related polls
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ReactionsWhen reacting to a news item, please stick to the topic.Inappropriate messages (swearing, racism, hate, etc.), messages in other languages thanEnglish and spam (which includes URL advertising) will be deleted and you risk your account beingremoved. Reacting on newsitemsis only possible when logged in as a member. Still don't havemember account? Click here to react Click here to become a member (free!)  Wed 18 Feb 2009 23:24:55 JADE HAS A WONDERFUL VOICE AND SHE SUNG LIVE!!! When does phase 2 voting begin? Good luck to Sakis and all Greeks! I know how important tonight is for you! I hope you will have a wonderful show and the best song will win! I cant believe how bad the song choices are! Come on Greece - you're always so good, why have you gone and chosen three mediocre songs. @Morgan Frayne Greece Top 5 = good luck Sakis Allen, @Allen Believe me once again, Greece will stay in the semi. This is your night Sakis, this is OUR NIGHT all 3 songs have nothin special- a big disappointment for me good luck Sakis!!! Wed 18 Feb 2009 16:34:41 I'm fed up to the teeth of everyone going on about 'Fairytale' - it had better be good after all the hype. good luck to sakis and to our choice. Good luck tonight! I will watch the performances before I decide which song I'll vote for. So far I think "This is our night" would be the best choice. Or San Marino, w s. It has an even smaller population than Monaco. Pity Monaco isn't in the contest anymore. Their jury would have consisted of more members then there would have been televoters. at least voters were more than 5 lol @mina, trust me juries will make people to complain and suffer from the results more (i also wish we could learn their votes and the votes by public) than the televoters . i know i wont be happy with our juries votes i know their votes and wont be so different from the old ones, really sad i dont want 5 people to decide for me , 5 people cant represent 80 million at least voters were more than 5 lol and now these 5 people will be equal to the whole voters sad @desire are there really more than 4 billion in your population? our votes will be so different this time cuz of jury! i really dislike it and probably they will kill our faves with their silly and unfair votes which is so sad Hey guys! visit the newest Eurovision blog:http://eurovisionmania.livejournal.co m/ @cyprus and w s i really couldnt get the problem between u sorry i hope u will solve it soon , but i just know that cyprus should win this year is a greek cypriot not turk anyway @turquality fire : problem is here people dont watch esc sometimes they talk about it but they dont watch or vote do u know last year how many people it here? only 2 million which is lower than %0,05 of our population so we cant complain about our votes if we dont watch or if we dont vote we cant say why immigrants vote for themselves and getting the best points it is very very normal. i cant blame anyone cuz of it. this will be the first time more people r gonna watch it here first time many news about esc on channels this is hadises sucess but i think our votes will be so different this time cuz of jury! i really dislike it and probably they will kill our faves with their silly and unfair votes which is so sad @Everyone  Wed 18 Feb 2009 15:36:55 to w s Wed 18 Feb 2009 15:31:57 anyway i must ignore the sikness of w s and i sure have better things to do. if he was normal he wouldn't even bother to attack me continuously would he? Well, unfortunatelly he is ill. I have a tiny comment about Jade. The list of 115 reactions is divided into 5 pages. Choose a page: React yourself 19/Feb/2009367 visitors online 67 members online 32299 members 577 reactions today Search newsToolsMore newsCountry pagesShare!Do you have news for esctoday.com? Please let us know! You can submit your newsitem in ourcontact centre! Hot ItemsTip! |
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