Romania has decided for Eurovision!

by Stella Floras 88 views

In order to accomodate our readers who wish to watch the reruns of Saturday's finals, we will be reporting on the winners inside the articles. The Romanian final was held tonight in Bucharest the winner is Elena Gheorghe with The Balkan Girls.

Twelve songs competed tonight for the honour to represent Romania in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. Although popular girl band Blaxy Girls won the televote as highly expected, the jury vote overturned the result and gave the ticket to Moscow to Elena Gheorghe with a cheerful dance song with distinct Balkan elements, The Balkan Girls.

These are the complete results of tonight’s show:

Performer Televoting
(Calls)
Jury Total
1st Elena Gheorghe 10
(3503)
12 22
=2nd Blaxy Girls 12
(4861)
6 18
=2nd Catalin 8
(2360)
10 18
=4th Zero 5
(1322)
7 12
=4th Tabassco 4
(1239)
8 12
6th Dalma 6
(1834)
5 11
7th Tina Geru 7
(2328)
1 8
8th Popas Band 1
(612)
4 5
9th Red Blonde 2
(878)
2 4
=10th Costi 0
(528)
3 3
=10th Alin Nica 3
(1178)
0 3
12th IMBA 0
(463)
0 0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbR9IS1ERYU&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&rel=0

Live from the final:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6hfEAYEW_k&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&rel=0

Stella Floras

Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain.

I joined esctoday.com in 2006 as a junior editor after being invited by Barry Viniker, I soon became Senior Editor and during the 2007 contest in Helsinki I was appointed Head of Communications. Today I hold the post of Head of Human Resources and I am proud to be working with the best editorial team in the world.