Greece: Antonis Dominos wins Eurostar group 2

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Antonis Dominos is the winner of the second group of participatants in the Greek talent show Eurostar. The winner of Eurostar will represent Greece at the 49th Eurovision Song Contest. Antonis received 65 points. Six hopefuls have thus been added to the people who have made it to the next round of 18 contestants, bringing the total number of selected finalists to 12.

After the initial open auditions throughout the country, the jury of Eurostar had selected 36 people for the following phase of the program. These were divided into 3 groups of 12. The contestants of each group have now to compete against each other over two heats. The six contestants with the higher score from each group proceed to the following round.

Panagiotis Railidis ended up second with 52 points, Ionna Mitsiaki, Konstantina Hitoy and Maximilien Sapoutzis all received three points less. Eirini Zoi came far behind, but still received enough points to proceed to the next round.

Saturday's female participants
Pinnelope Vavasi (Athens) – 29/80 (5th)
Eirini Zerva (Athens) – 25/80 (6th)
Eirini Zoi (Athens) – 32/80 (3rd)
Tania Karakasidou (Thessaloniki) – 30/80 (4th)
Ioanna Mitsiaki (Athens) – 52/80 (1st)
Konstantina Hitoy (Kos) – 52/80 (2nd)

Ioanna Mitsiaki and Konstantina Hitoy got the same amount of points, but the first one was declared as winner because she got more points for her vocal capacities.

Sunday's male participants
Antonis Dominos (Andros) – 64/80 (1st)
Dionissis Kostis (Athens) – 20/80 (5th)
Thanasis Milonas (Athens) – 25/80 (4th)
Panagiotis Rafailidis (Athens) – 53/80 (2nd)
Maximilien Sapoutzis (Athens) – 52/80 (3rd)
Nikos Sintridis (Athens) – 20/80 (6th)

Proceed to the final
Antonis Dominos – 64/80
Panagiotis Rafailidis – 53/80
Ioanna Mitsiaki – 52/80
Konstantina Hitoy – 52/80
Maximilien Sapoutzis – 52/80
Eirini Zoi – 32/80

These participants already qualified for the final
1. Gianna Fafaliou 64 ptn
2. Thanos Papaioannou 60 ptn
3. Apostolos Psixramis 57 ptn
4. Valia Zolota 54 ptn
5. Dimitris Kilkis 47 ptn
6. Theoharis Mosaidis 43 ptn

The third and last group of twelve participants will appear next weekend on 24th and 25th January (20:00 on ERT).