Live: Fourth elimination round of Dora

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Tonight at 2010 CET, the fourth round of the Croatian national pre-selection takes place in Zagreb.

Five of the six acts who qualified from last week’s show will perform, and the sixth qualifier from last week will be announced at the beginning of the show.How to watch

  • Live on HRT1 at 20:10 CET
  • Webcast (HRT official streams)

Participants:

  • Katica Marinovic
  • Mirko Švenda
  • Ana Eškinja
  • Jacques Houdek
  • Darija Kinzer

Live

The show starts with Karolina Goceva, the FYROM representative from 2002 and 2007 singing in Croatian. Nesanica is the song, meaning Insomnia.

She gets a loud applause.

Now the presenters come on: Leona Paraminski and Aleksandar Kostadinov. She says a word in Serbian then corrects herself!

Now Monika Lelas is with last week's contestants, one of whom will go through.

And it is…

Doris Teur!

She won by five points.

Now the expert team are coming on: The singer Ivana Banfic, a former Dora participant, opeara actress Mirjana Bohanec and Tomislav Bralic, who took part in Dora 2009 with his harmony-singing group Intrade.

1. Katica Marinovic

Kartica Marinovic first, singing Tvoja Ljubav by the Bastardz. Very tall and skinny singer in short dress with high heels. Vocals are not strong.

2. Jacques Houdek

Jacques singing Oprosti (Forgive) by Gibonni. Vocals very strong. He is wearing white jeans which are probably not the best choice for someone his size. His supporters in the audience are wearing I Love Jacques T-shirts.

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Now over to the experts. They love Jacques. Jacques says that his little daughter thinks all dads sing!

Now a Survival guide for Eurovision! Questions about Düsseldorf.

3. Ana Eskinja

Ana Eskinja sings Carobno jutro (Magical morning) by Nina Badnic, which came 2nd at Dora 2003. She is singing better than last week.

4. Mirko Švenda

Mirko Svenda now singing a song by the legendary Oliver Dragojevic: U ljubav vjere nemam (I've got no belief in love).

Over to the experts, and Ivana Banfic is critical of both.

Over to the survival course, and Ana tries in vain to speak German. Mirko sings in German but forgets some of the lyrics.

5. Daria Kinzer

Daria Kinzer now with the song Da ti nisam bila dovoljna (That I wasn't enough for you) by ET. Daria is half German and Croatian is her second language, which can be heard as she sings. She is extremely tall and is wearing a short black dress and very high heels.

6. Doris Teur

Doris Teur sings Danas sam luda (Today I'm mad) by Josipa Lisac. Very young singer dressed more casually than the other female singers tonight, in a loose short skirt, jacket and big boots. She is going slighlty off-key!

Over to the experts, and Tomislav is very positive. Mirjana says that Doris should show Europe how tall Croats are! Daria sings Croatian songs on German talent shows. Now she's singing SATELLITE.

Voting has started. There is a reprise of the six songs.

Now Tomislav Bralic and Intrade are singing Ne damo te pismo nasa – We won't give you away, our song, their old Dora entry.

The voting is over.

Karolina is back on stage singing Vise se ne vracas (You're no longer coming back).

Now Mirjana Bohanec is singing Hvale ti srce (Thank you, heart).

The results are coming in.

Jacques Houdek is through. Daria Kinzer is through. Mirko Svenda is through.

A fourth qualifier will be announced next week.

Mirko got the most votes.