Ukraine in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Performing during the show in position 7, "Be My Guest" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 26 May.Ukraine's least successful result had been 19th place, which they achieved during the 2005, with the song "Razom nas bahato" performed by GreenJolly.Between 2005 and 2011, NTU had set up national finals to choose both or either the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Ukraine, with both the public and a panel of jury members involved in the selection.[3][4] The second stage was the televised final, which took place on 18 February 2012 and featured the twenty-one acts vying to represent Ukraine in Baku.[6][7][8] Auditions were held on 25 January 2012 at the NTU Headquarters in Kyiv where a four-member selection panel consisting of Vlad Baginsky (music producer of NTU), Volodymyr Kozlov (music director of RU), Victoria Romanova (Ukrainian Eurovision Head of Delegation) and Ivo Bobul (singer) reviewed the 54 received submissions and shortlisted twenty entries to compete in the national final.[11][12] On 16 February 2012, "I Will Fight to the End", written by Mikhail Nekrasov and to have been performed by Matias, was withdrawn from the national final due to a conflict of interest between the artist and audition jury member Vlad Baginsky.Twenty-one entries competed and the winner, "Be My Guest" performed by Gaitana, was selected through the combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury.[18] In Ukraine, both the semi-finals and the final were broadcast on Pershyi Natsionalnyi with commentary by Timur Miroshnychenko and Tetiana Terekhova.[21][22] The performance began with Gaitana walking through two of four moveable LED panels featured in the middle of the stage that slid open.This jury was asked to judge each contestant based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.
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