Eurovision Song Contest 2005

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The 50th Euro Vision Song Contest was held in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on 19 and 21 May 2005. Winner was Elena Paparizou, the team representing Greece with the song My Number One.

Event was held at the Palace of Sports Kiev ( Palats Sportu ) in downtown. Presented were the shipments by the moderators Maria Efrosinina and Pawlo Schilko, known in Ukraine by his stage name DJ Pasha and last year leaving the score of his country. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and the Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko were personally present at the finale. The televoting in the final was opened by a native of Ukraine, professional boxers Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko. Wladimir Klitschko and last year's winner Ruslana also conducted interviews in the Green Room and awarded the winner's trophy. In addition, President Yushchenko handed the winner personally Euro Visions characters from 500 grams of gold.

• 4.1 scoreboard (Finale )
• 4.2 Marcel- Bezençon price

Special

Ruslana was supposed to appear as a presenter, but turned down by their management on May 4. This was justified officially so that she was unable due to a charity event two days earlier, is sufficient to focus on the samples. However, from circles of the organizer European Broadcasting Union states, the real reason was the criticism of Ruslana's poor English and French language skills, which could result in the awarding points to irritation.

Ukraine took the opportunity to present themselves to the organization of the contest as a modern European country. During the whole week before the finale was the center of Kiev attracted visitors from around the world who were offered an extensive program. Participants such as the journalist and Grand Prix Expert January Feddersen said these diverse themed parties and club gigs, the artist would have been the actual experience of the event. On large screens of the competition was the evening broadcast live on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

With 39 participating countries of the Euro Vision Song Contest 2005 was the at the time numerically largest event in this competition.

Like last year, there were two days before the finals semi-finals from which the ten first place winners in the final. Fourteen other countries were already qualified for the finals: the finishers of the previous year as well as the Big Four of the European Broadcasting Union ( Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Spain).

The participation of the singer Gracia for Germany was controversial, as their producer David Brandes had to admit that he had the title Run & Hide pushed through targeted acquisitions in the CD charts. He was subsequently excluded from the German delegation. But he had also composed the contribution of Estonian girl band Vanilla Ninja and traveled as a member of the Swiss delegation.

The Big Four occupied in the finals but only the last four places and would not have been qualified without their special status for the final of the Euro Vision Song Contest 2006.

Viewers during transmission on giant screens

Concert on Saturday before the finals on the Maidan

Scoring

Since 2004, the points are determined in all countries with the televoting process. In almost all participating countries, the viewers were involved in scoring in the past. The song with the most votes received twelve points, the. Has the second most ten points The following songs placed counted eight points down to one point.

All 39 participating countries voted in both the semifinals and in the finals. In the semifinals, were in the end only the ten countries that get into the final, called in random order at the mention of the winner; in the final results of the individual votes were read out traditionally by live circuit in the respective countries. At first, gave the non- eligible countries in order of their semi-final appearances from points, followed by the 24 eligible countries according to the boot sequence in the final.

Semifinal

The following 25 countries took part in the semi-final on 19 May. The starting order was drawn on March 21. For the finale, the green highlighted countries could qualify.

Scoreboard ( semi-finals )

The scoring was not published until after the final.

Final

The winner and the green highlighted countries were directly qualified for the final in the following year. Due to the cancellation of Serbia and Montenegro in the following year, the elftplatzierte Croatia automatically moved after and was qualified for the finals in 2006.

Scoreboard (Finale )

Marcel- Bezençon price

This time, the following winners were chosen for the Marcel Bezençon Price:

• Press Award for Best Song - Malta Malta - Angel - Chiara
• Artist Award for the best performers - Greece Greece - Elena Paparizou - My Number One
• Composers Award for the best composition / Text - Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro - Slaven Knezović (m ) and Milan Peric (t ) - zauvijek moja - No Name

" We, the people of Euro vision ... "

For the first time in the history of the ESC tried the organizers with an exhibition on the occasion of the anniversary, besides the music also incorporate other art forms. " We, the people of Euro vision ... " at the Sports Palace on 18 to 21 May showed photographs and sculptures. Each participating country could each determine an artist for both categories. For Germany presented the Lüdenscheider Photographer Dirk Jung from a photograph of the singer Gracia Baur. A sculpture not filed Germany.

Controversy surrounding the Austrian candidates and Lebanese participation

Alf POIER represented Austria at the 2003 Euro Vision Song Contest. With his title because man is one he reached the 6th place, the best result for Austria since 1989. His song and his stage show was a parody of the pop business.

In February 2005, he wanted to take a second kick at the Euro Vision Song Contest, but in Austria 's internal decision- Show ( song.null.fünf ) he was with the song Good Old Europe Is Dying with 4 points behind in second. However, he was doing a victim of a rating system that the unequally weighted votes: The organizer ORF let the viewers via phone and vote separately to via SMS. Each state had to assign the same number of points - whether the Burgenland or six times as large Vienna. The entire voting via SMS counted together just as much as a single " tenth " state. This unequal weighting brought POIER with around 106,000 votes cast in 2nd place behind the band Global Kryner, although they received only 60,000 votes, but was in contrast to POIER supported mainly by landline callers from Vorarlberg and Burgenland with a higher voting weight.

The originally planned direct evaluation was replaced only a few days before the vote by the described indirect mode; some interested summarized this as a deliberate maneuver to " prevent " the artistic bulky and decidedly not folk POIER.

Alf Poiers opinion about this:

Originally Lebanon should also participate. Télé Liban had the singer Aline Lahoud and the song Quand tout s'enfuit even selected as the contribution of the country. However, the station said on 18 March 2005 from participation. Télé Liban justified his step so that the legal situation of the Lebanese state would make a transfer of the Israeli contribution impossible. The ESC Regulations requires though that the entire program is transmitted.

Comments

• The "Big Four" Germany, France, Great Britain and Spain ended up closed on the last four ranks.
• 9 of the 10 semi-finalists successfully placed among the first 12 participants. Even Macedonia number 17 received more than 50 points in the final.
• Moldova and Bulgaria took part for the first time. However, Bulgaria failed in the semifinals.
• The Czech Republic moved a possible participation because they wanted to concentrate on other projects for 2005.
• Previous Participants Greece Elena Paparizou was involved in 2001 for Greece as part of Antique group in the competition.
• Iceland Selma reached Iceland in 1999 for the 2nd place
• Malta Chiara was in 1998 at the start, then it reached # 3 for Malta.
• Constantinos Christoforou Cyprus Republic represented Cyprus in 1996 solo and was in 2002 as part of the Group One at the start.

Map

• Countries in the final
• Countries that have not reached the final
• Countries that have participated in the past in the Euro Vision Song Contest, but not in 2005