The three time winner of the esctoday.com award for best national final, Melodifestivalen begins tomorrow as the SVT crew and semi finalists for Saturday's first heat arrive on Sweden's West Coast and the second city, Gothenburg. esctoday.com will begin coverage of the competition live from the Scandinavium tomorrow as well as sending a team to Malta and continued coverage of the Cypriot national finalists.

Sweden's six week television show, Melodifestivalen 2009 kicks off at 20:00 CET on Saturday. Tomorrow morning, rehearsals and the first press conference commence at the Scandinavium, the arena that hosted the 1985 Eurovision Song Contest. esctoday.com will be there to cover the event and bring you all the latest news from Europe's most popular national final as voted for by the readers of esctoday.com.

esctoday.com will be live in Gothenburg to cover the event and interview the participants. At the same time, we will have a team flying to Malta to cover final preparations for Malta's national final on saturday night. We have also published interviews with all ten of the finalists competing in Saturday night's Cyprus national final.

You can follow all the latest news and comments from Sweden, Cyprusand Malta with esctoday.com over the coming days.

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