They watch every rehearsal, they get to describe and commentate over each song during the live Eurovision shows and they have an opinion too! ESCToday presents today the results of a secret poll where only the Eurovision Commentators can participate.

Few hours left for the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final to kick off live from Kyiv, and while the tension is rising more and more, the polls and betting odds are helpful to ease it.

The Commentators’ Eurovision Poll 2017

ESCToday conducted secretly a poll among the commentators to determine who’s going to be the winner during the Eurovision Song Contest Grand final tonight. No less than 20 commentators from 15 countries have accepted to answer our question and give us their Top 3 of tonight’s participants allocating them the respective points, the Eurovision way (12, 10 and 8).

The Participating Commentators

Albania	Andri Xhahu
Armenia	Gohar Gasparyan
Armenia	Avet Berghsayan
Austria	Andreas Knoll
Azerbaijan	Azar Suleymanov
Croatia	Duško Ćurlić
Cyprus	Tasos Tryfonos
Cyprus	Christiana Artemiou
Estonia	Marko Reikop
Georgia	Demetre Ergemlidze
Greece	Giorgos Kapoutzidis
Greece	Maria Kozakou
Montenegro	Tijana Miskovic
Portugal	Nuno Galopim
Serbia	Duska Vucimic
Spain	Jose Maria Iñigo
Spain	Julia Varela
Switzerland	Sven Epine
Ukraine	Aandriy Gorodyskyi
Ukraine	Tatiana Terekhova

The final results

The results are collected and here are the Top 10 countries according to the Commentator’s votes.

Countries	Total Points
1. Italy	176
2. Portugal	148
3. Bulgaria	90
4. Sweden	36
-. Belgium	36
6. United Kingdom	20
7. Moldova	16
8. Romania	8
-. Belarus	8
-. Hungary	8