Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000

Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Country  Belgium
National selection
Selection process Finale Nationale Concours
Eurovision de la Chanson
2000
Selection date(s) 18 February 2000
Selected entrant Nathalie Sorce
Selected song "Envie de vivre"
Finals performance
Final result 24th, 2 points
Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄1999 • 2000 • 2002►

Belgium was represented by Nathalie Sorce, with the song '"Envie de vivre", at the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Stockholm on 13 May. Sorce was the winner of the Belgian national final for the contest, held in Brussels on 18 February.

Final

French-language broadcaster RTBF was in charge of the selection of the Belgian entry for the 2000 Contest. The national final was held in Studio 6 of RTBF, hosted by Jean-Pierre Hautier. Ten songs competed to become that year's Belgian entrant, to be chosen by public televoting. For the purposes of announcing the results, the country was split into six regions: Brussels, four in the Francophone provinces (the votes from the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg were combined and announced together) and one termed the "Rest of Belgium", covering the five Dutch-speaking provinces where viewing figures were likely to be much lower. Each region announced the actual number of televotes received, rather than converting them into the Eurovision 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-10-12 format. Sorce emerged the winner by a margin of over 3,500 votes.[1]

Although it did not affect the outcome, there was initially some degree of uncertainty about the disproportionately high number of votes to Sabrina Klinkenberg from the province of Liège, but RTBF subsequently confirmed that it was correct, citing the fact that Klinkenberg was a native of that province as the most probable explanation, and pointing out that Sorce had also received an exceptionally high number of votes from her home province of Hainaut.

Final - 18 February 2000
Draw Artist Song Lyrics (l) / Music (m) Televotes Place
1 Maria Canel "Et si..." Maria Canel Ferreiro (m & l), Patrice de Matos de Morais (m) 2,518 10
2 Géraldine Cozier "Ma voie" Geraldine Cozier (m & l), Cécile Delamarre (m & l), Pascal Noel (m & l), Philippe Libois (m & l) 8,371 5
3 Gerlando "Rêve" Fernando de Meersman (m), Hughes Maréchal (l) 4,002 9
4 Sabrina Klinkenberg "Tout ce que je suis" Alexis Vanderheyden (m), Jacques Broun (l) 11,085 3
5 La Teuf "Soldat de l'amour" Alec Mansion (m & l) 6,216 6
6 Mezzo Mezzo "Belgicanos" Silvio Pezzuto (m & l), Michel Ianiri (m), Juan Gonzalez (m) 10,750 4
7 Christel Pagnoul "Pour la vie" Francis Goya (m), Ralph Benatar (m), Christel Pagnoul (l), Valérie Weyer (l) 6,066 7
8 Frédéric Reynaerts "Le nomade m'a dit" Frédéric Reynaerts (m & l) 17,774 2
9 Nathalie Sorce "Envie de vivre" Silvio Pezzuto (m & l) 21,362 1
10 Triana "Donne" Roberto D'Angelo (m & l), Filippo di Maira (m & l) 5,270 8
Televotes
Song Walloon
Brabant		 Hainaut Namur &
Luxembourg		 Liège Rest of
Belgium		 Brussels Total
Et si...16363142684820352518
Ma voie36820422782107222818798371
Rêve103131326336056314274002
Tout ce que je suis2928093937906114157111085
Soldat de l'amour290727731148914628336216
Belgicanos42439628481109497391010750
Pour la vie34068122174245636266066
Le nomade m'a dit9562497198831372225697117774
Envie de vivre910830522433360950559421362
Donne916292113361479315270

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Sorce performed 10th in the running order, following Russia and preceding Cyprus. A somewhat shrill and at times off-key vocal performance, combined with a much-criticised choice of outfit, contributed towards an ignominious result, with only 2 points received (from the unlikely source of Macedonia) and a last place finish of the 24 entrants, the eighth time that Belgium had finished at the foot of the Eurovision scoreboard. The 12 points from the Belgian televote were awarded to Latvia.[2]

Points Awarded by Belgium

12 points Latvia
10 points Denmark
8 points Netherlands
7 points Russia
6 points Germany
5 points Sweden
4 points Ireland
3 points Turkey
2 points Estonia
1 point Malta

Points Awarded to Belgium

Points Awarded to Belgium (Final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ ESC National Finals database 2000
  2. ↑ ESC History - Belgium 2000