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The second and last semi final of Eurosong 2010, the Slovak national selection for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest was held tonight. Twelve acts comepted and sx of them were chosen by a jury and SMS voting to proceed to the national final.

The following six acts will compete in the national final next Sunday, 28th February:

  • Mista Emotions
    (Mista)
  • TomášBezdedaNa strechách domov
    (T. Bezdeda/M. Hajšová)
  • Aya Do neba volám
    (B. Lettrich)
  • SoÅ�a Skús ma viesÅ¥
    (Peter Sámel)
  • Martina Schindlerová Môžeš ísÅ¥
    (J. Zaujec/P. Lehotský)
  • Free Voices Z osnov
    (R. Bendík)

Complete results

Jury voting and SMS voting did ot agree this time. Mista were the favourites of the SMS voters while Aya was seen in first place by the jury. The complete results were as follows:

No.
Performer
Tele
Jury
Total
1Mista12 (14.2%)1123
2Tomáš Bezdeda10 (9.7%)1020
3Aya

8 (9.0%)

1220
4So�a11 (13.0%)516
5Martina Schindlerová6 (7.8%)713
6Free Voices9 (9.1%)312
7Dáška KostovÄ�ik4 (6.7%)812
8Smola a hrušky2 (5.6%)911
9Martin Konrád7 (8.5%)29
10Peter Bažík5 (6.9%)49
11Horská chata1 (3.7%)67
12Alone3 (5.8%)14

This was the second and last semi final in Slovakia. Therefore, the line-up for the final next Sunday is complete:

  • Kristina Horehronie
    (Martin Kavuli�/Kamil Peteraj)
  • Miro Jaroš Bez siedmeho neba
    (Miro Jaroš, Vladimír Gnepa/Miro Jaroš)
  • Pavol Remenár, Klára & Liquid ErrorFigaro
    (P. Farnbauer, P. Jursa/P. Jursa)
  • Mayo Tón
    (Mayo)
  • Robo OpatovskýNieÄ�o máš
    (R. Opatovský/P. KoneÄ�ný)
  • Marián BangoTy tu ticho spíš
    (T. Jediný)
  • Mista Emotions
    (Mista)
  • TomášBezdedaNa strechách domov
    (T. Bezdeda/M. Hajšová)
  • Aya Do neba volám
    (B. Lettrich)
  • SoÅ�a Skús ma viesÅ¥
    (Peter Sámel)
  • Martina Schindlerová Môžeš ísÅ¥
    (J. Zaujec/P. Lehotský)
  • Free Voices Z osnov
    (R. Bendík)

esctoday.com poll results

The esctoday.com poll voters partly agreed with the results in the semi final. Four acts of the poll top six qualified for the final including poll winner Tomáš Bezdeda (19.3%) and runner-up Martina Schindlerová (17.0%). Semi final winners Mista had finished fourth in the poll with 13.6%.

In 2009, Slovakia returned to the Eurovision Song Contest after eleven years and was represented by Kamil Miculcik and Nela Pocisková with the song Let' tmou. The duo finished 18th in the second semi final thus not qualifying for the final.