Slovakia’s mammoth selection process took a step closer to Oslo, by selecting six more songs for next weekend’s final. Would there be any shocks?
Slovakia completed its line-up for the national final on 28 February. As last week, 12 acts were competing for six berths. Five acts took part at various stages in the 2009 selections. Would any of them make the final this year? The 12 lucky semi-finalists this time were (with their quarter-final positions in brackets):
Soňa – Skús me viesť (1st. 17.7%)
Horská Chata – Myšlíš, že vieš kto som (5th, 8.7%)
Martin Konrád – Ja viem (4th, 13.5%)
D Kostovcik & Bic Project – Dázď (4th, 11.6%)
Peter Bažík – Paradise vs Babylon (3rd, 15.1%)
Alone – Strasne mim chybaš (3rd, 12.0%)
Smola a hrušky – Pridaj si ma (2nd, 12.1%)
Martina Schindlerová – Môžeš isť (1st, 20.0%)
Free Voices – Z osnov (2nd, 14.2%)
Tomáš Bezdeda – Na strechách domov (3rd, 16.9%)
Aya – Do neba volám (3rd, 15.7%)
Mista – Emotions (1st, 16.1%)
As usual, the 12 acts were called up on stage, and the results were announced in reverse order. With this stage including both text (SMS) voting, and the use of the jury, the respective positions were converted into scores 1 to 12. Kristina had scored the maximum 24 last weekend, so it would be interesting to see if this was repeated tonight.
Martin Rausch, our host throughout, revealed the final scores as follows (in the event of a tie, the public vote takes precedence):
Mista – 12 (14.2%) 11 23
Tomáš Bezdeda – 10 (9.7%) 10 20
Aya – 8 (9.0%) 12 20
Soňa – 11 (13.0%) 5 16
Martina Schindlerová – 6 (7.8%) 7 13
Free Voices – 9 (9.1%) 3 12
Dáška Kostovčik – 4 (6.7%) 8 12
Smola a hrušky – 2 (5.6%) 9 11
Martin Konrád – 7 (8.5%) 2 9
Peter Bažík – 5 (6.9%) 4 9
Horská chata – 1 (3.7%) 6 7
Alone – 3 (5.8%) 1 4
The final takes place at STV’s Bratislava studios on Sunday 28 February.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkKz6Bxe-HU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7uJOJM5hHU&feature=PlayList&p=C007E78674A1CDE0&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=51
