BBC Poll predicts German win

by Richard West-Soley 127 views

Roger Cicero has been tipped as the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in a special BBC poll featuring fans and former contestants.

A panel of eleven people gave their top ten points, in true Eurovision Song Contest style, for the BBC website poll. Some big names from past contests were present on the jury: Sandra Kim (Belgium 1986), Mihai Traistariu (Romania 2004), Richard Herrey (Sweden 1984), Andrius Mamontovas (Lithuania 2006)and Nicki French (UK 2000)were on hand to give their expert opinion. They were joined by six fans for the final vote.

The top five was as follows:

  1. Germany
  2. Switzerland
  3. Serbia
  4. Georgia
  5. Spain

The UK was awarded 19th place out of the 42 countries. We will find out how accurate at least part of the poll is after tonight's semifinal, which top fivers Switzerland, Serbia and Georgia will have to pass first before having a chance at taking the crown.

Richard West-Soley

Senior Editor

Richard's ESC history began way back in 1992, when he discovered the contest could fuel his passion for music and languages. Since then, it's been there at every corner for him in some way or another. He joined the esctoday.com team back in 2006, and quickly developed a love for writing about the contest. In his other life, he heads the development team at the learning resources company Linguascope, and writes about all aspects of language learning on the site Polyglossic.com.