Austria chose Iceland as the winner of the 2020 song contest

Iceland wins the 2020 Eurovision Song Contest, if it had taken place and only Austria would have voted: at the end of the trio of the program “The Little Song Contest” on ORF 1, Dadi Freyr and the group Gagnamagnid with the ironic number sat down in the final sprint on Saturday night “Think about things” – against Malta and national candidate Vincent Bueno.

Initially, the ORF jury consisted of ESC veterans around Conchita, Lisbon’s third Cesar Sampson, and veterans like Waterloo or Petra Frey as patriots and as the winner of the third day after the two shows on Tuesday and Thursday, the Austrian candidate Vincent Bueno was on the podium. . In the final public vote, however, 48 percent of viewers voted not for Austria’s number, prone to criticism, but for Icelandic Nordic nerds. Destiny, 17, was born in Malta and also had to settle for a Stockerplatz with “All of My Love”.

Even if Vincent Bueno of the local “Mr. Song Contest” Andi Knoll could not win the “small” competition, the 34-year-old has a chance to prove himself at the true Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands next year. The ORF will send the singer back to the race in 2021, with a number still unknown. Like all songs this year, “Alive” has been blocked by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) for the next year after the crown-related cancellation of the mega music competition in Rotterdam.

BTW, if you want to close the ESC timeout until then, the “Little Song Contest” is not over yet. Sweden will follow on May 9 and 14, when the winner will be chosen in two evening shows voting for the public in “Eurovision: Sveriges 12: a”. There will be a real bottleneck on May 16, the date that was actually the last night for Rotterdam.

Titled “Eurovision: Come Together” and moderated by conversation legend Graham Norton, the BBC wants to showcase a mix of this year’s best performances and reps. In Germany, the intellectual author Stefan Raab designed the “Free European Song Contest” for ProSieben the same day, in which, in addition to Sven Gätjen, the ESC Queen Conchita of Austria changes from the role of jury of ORF to that of moderator.

And then there is EBU as the true mother ESC, with which you stand. After all, the two-and-a-half-hour show “Europe Shines a Light” was conceived here, which, among other things, brings the 41 participants together in a virtual choir and with parts of their contributions. According to the organizers, there is no competition here not to jeopardize the responsibility of the insurance company. The ORF will also air this ESC moment on May 16.