Eurovision Song Contest 2002

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**Eurovision Song Contest 2002**

Dates	25 May 2002
Presenters	Annely Peebo, Marko Matvere
Host Broadcaster	ETV
Director	Marius Bratten
Venue	Saku Suurhall, Tallinn, Estonia
Winning Song	I Wanna (Latvia)
Voting system	Each country awards 1-8, 10, and 12 points to their 10 favourite songs
Number of Songs	24
Countries Making Debut	None
Null points	None

The Eurovision Song Contest 2002 was the 47th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on May 25, 2002 in the Saku Suurhall Arena in Tallinn, Estonia. The presenters were Annely Peebo and Marko Matvere. The contest was won by Marie N who was representing Latvia with the song I Wanna. Estonia was the first country from the Eastern-bloc to organize the Eurovision Song Contest. There were many worries about whether Estonia would have enough funds to stage the competitions, but they were put to rest when fundraising activities enabled them to host a satisfying event. The theme created around this Eurovision was 'a fairytale', which was evident in the postcards aired between the songs.

This edition was originally scheduled to have 22 competitors - the top 15 from the previous year's contest, plus the seven countries that had been excluded from the 2001 event because of their low five-year point average. However, the European Broadcasting Union increased the number of participants to 24, granting Israel and Portugal the opportunity to enter. Portugal declined and was replaced by eventual winner Latvia.

This year's contest proved the unpredictability of Eurovision, as few could have guessed beforehand that the contest would turn into a two horse race between Malta and Latvia. The United Kingdom returned to their success with Jessica Garlick's entry 'Come Back', which made it into joint third position with Estonia. There were many rhythms and sounds in this year's songs that made them unique. The stage acts became more elaborate with the winner Latvia pulling a strip routine and Greece dressing up and moving like robots. Germany sent singer Corinna May who had been blind from birth. Slovenia entered three men dressed as female flight attendants.

1 Results
2 Voting structure
3 Score sheet
4 Map

The presenters, Annely Peebo, and Marko Matvere.

Marie N performing I Wanna for Latvia at Eurovision 2002.

[edit] Results

Draw	Country	Language	Artist	Song	Translation	Place	Points
1	Cyprus	English	One	Gimme	-	6	85
2	United Kingdom	English	Jessica Garlick	Come back	-	3	111
3	Austria	English	Manuel Ortega	Say A Word	-	18	26
4	Greece	English	Michalis Rakintzis	S.A.G.A.P.O	I L.O.V.E Y.O.U	17	27
5	Spain	Spanish	Rosa	Europe's living a celebration	-	7	81
6	Croatia	English	Vesna Pisarović	Everything I Want	-	11	44
7	Russia	English	Prime Minister	Northern Girl	-	10	55
8	Estonia	English	Sahlene	Run Away	-	3	111
9	FYR Macedonia	Macedonian	Karolina Gočeva	Od Nas Zavisi	It Depends On Us	19	25
10	Israel	English, Hebrew	Sarit Hadad	Light a Candle	-	12	37
11	Switzerland	French	Francine Jordi	Dans le jardin de mon âme	In the garden of my soul	22	15
12	Sweden	English	Afro-dite	Never let it go	-	8	72
13	Finland	English	Laura Voutilainen	Addicted to you	-	20	24
14	Denmark	English	Malene	Tell Me Who You Are	-	24	7
15	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, English	Maja Tatić	Na Jastuku Za Dvoje	On A Pillow For Two	13	33
16	Belgium	English	Sergio & The Ladies	Sister	-	13	33
17	France	French	Sandrine François	Il faut du temps (Je me battrai pour ça)	It takes time (I will fight for that)	5	104
18	Germany	English	Corinna May	I can't live without music	-	21	17
19	Turkey	English, Turkish	Buket Bengisu & Group Safir	Leylaklar soldu kalbinde	Lilacs faded in your heart	16	29
20	Malta	English	Ira Losco	7th Wonder	-	2	164
21	Romania	English	Monica Anghel & Marcel Pavel	Tell me why	-	9	71
22	Slovenia	Slovene	Sestre	Samo ljubezen	Only Love	13	33
23	Latvia	English	Marie N	I Wanna	-	1	176
24	Lithuania	English	Aivaras	Happy you	-	23	12

[edit] Voting structure

The majority of participating countries organized a televote where the top 10 songs received the points, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12, but Romania, Russia, Turkey and Bosnia & Herzegovina used juries, while Cyprus, Greece, Croatia and Malta used a 50-50 mix of both televoting and jury votes. This year caused the end of jury voting due to the juries in use being found guilty of swapping votes between each other source

[edit] Score sheet

	CY	GB	AT	GR	ES	HR	RU	EE	MK	IL	CH	SE	FI	DK	BA	BE	FR	DE	TR	MT	RO	SI	LV	LT
Cyprus		3	0	12	3	10	6	4	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	3	0	0	0	12	8	4	8	4
United Kingdom	0		12	7	0	0	0	6	4	5	6	2	8	6	7	6	1	8	2	10	0	8	5	8
Austria	1	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	5	0	0	12	0	0	0	0	0
Greece	12	0	0		0	1	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0
Spain	7	2	0	4		6	0	0	0	6	12	7	0	0	6	12	12	7	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatia	6	0	6	5	0		0	0	5	0	5	0	0	0	2	0	0	3	0	0	0	12	0	0
Russia	5	0	0	2	0	0		10	0	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	10	0	10	6
Estonia	0	7	3	0	0	5	3		6	2	0	12	10	8	10	4	0	4	8	2	2	6	12	7
FYR Macedonia	3	0	0	0	0	4	0	0		0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	12	0	0	0
Israel	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		1	0	5	1	0	2	10	5	0	0	5	0	3	0
Switzerland	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	3	2	0	0	3	1	1	0
Sweden	0	1	4	1	0	0	0	8	0	3	0		7	10	12	1	0	0	4	0	0	7	4	10
Finland	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	1	0	0	10		3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Denmark	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnia-Herzeg	0	0	7	0	3	7	0	0	3	0	0	6	0	2		0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0
Belgium	0	4	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	0	0	3	0	4	0		2	0	10	0	0	0	0	2
France	0	10	0	3	8	0	0	3	0	7	10	8	12	5	8	10		6	0	0	4	3	2	5
Germany	0	0	1	0	2	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0		3	4	1	0	0	0
Turkey	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0		0	7	0	0	0
Malta	10	12	8	6	10	12	5	7	10	10	4	4	2	12	4	7	6	10	5		0	10	7	3
Romania	8	0	0	8	5	0	12	0	12	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	7	6		0	0	0
Slovenia	0	6	2	0	7	8	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	0		0	0
Latvia	4	8	10	10	12	2	10	12	7	12	8	5	6	7	5	8	8	12	6	7	0	5		12
Lithuania	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6
The table is ordered by appearance.