Own Eurovision Song Contest 2

Own Eurovision Song Contest 2; Welcome to Sweden!
Dates
Semi-final 1 date	16 May 2012
Semi-final 2 date	17 May 2012
Final date	21 May 2012
Host
Venue	Friends Arena; Stockholm, Sweden
Presenter(s)	Lorine Talhaoui
Broadcaster	Sveriges Television (SVT)
Opening act	"The girl" by Charlotte Perrelli
Participants
Entries	34
Debuting	Austria; Germany; Greenland; Iceland; Israel; Monaco; Montenegro; Norway; Ukraine
Returning	None
Withdrawing	Belgium; Denmark; Italy; Lebanon
	Participation map ;
Voting
System	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8-1 points to their 10 favourite songs
Winner	Croatia; "On fire"
Own Eurovision Song Contest

Own Eurovision Song Contest 2, often referred to as OESC #02, was the 2nd edition of Own Eurovision Song Contest host in Stockholm, Sweden, following Charlotte Perrelli's win in the last edition. It was the first time Sweden, had hosted the contest.

Thirty-four countries confirmed participation in the contest. Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Israel, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway and Ukraine made their debut, while Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Lebanon withdrew from the contest.

The second winner of the Own Eurovision Song Contest was Croatia with Franka Batelic & Eric Destler singing "On fire" which received 164 points. Second place went to Romania, third to Norway, fourth to Ireland and Sweden, the host country, taking the 5th place.

Romania (2nd) and Sweden (5th) were the only members of the "Big Five" to make it into the top 10. However, out of the 26 countries who made it into the final, the remaining three of the "Big Five",Greece, Russia and Spain, failed to make it into the top half of the leader board coming 17th (42 points), 19th (39 points) and 20th (36 points) respectively.

The Own Eurovision Song Contest 2 marks United Kingdom's last participation in the contest.

Venue

Friends Arena, the Association football national arena of Sweden, is a retractable roof multi-purpose stadium located next to Lake Råstasjön in Solna, just north of Stockholm City Centre. The main tenants of the stadium are Sweden's national football team and top-tier Stockholm football club AIK. Both relocated from their previous home at the Råsunda Stadium. The venue has a total capacity of 65,000 at concerts and 50,000 seated at football matches, but the stadium can be scaled down to accomplish a more intimate setting to host smaller events with a capacity of approximately 20,000 guests. Friends Arena is the biggest football stadium, and indoor venue, in the Nordic countries.

Initially there were plans to build a new national stadium close to the indoor venue Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, but at 1 April 2006 the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) took the decision to build the new stadium in Solna, where the old Råsunda Stadium is located. It was calculated to cost around 1.9 billion kronor (170 million euro) to complete. The estimated cost before construction had begun was 2.3 billion kronor. It replaced Råsunda Stadium, Sweden's former national arena for football. Råsunda will be torn down and will be the first stadium that hosted a FIFA World Cup in history to be removed. Blocks of 700 flats and office buildings will be erected on the site.

Swedbank acquired the naming rights to the new stadium in a 153 million kronor (about 20.5 million euro) deal that will last until 2023. While the arena was originally to be known as Swedbank Arena under the deal, Swedbank announced on 28 March 2012 that it would donate its naming rights to Friends, a nonprofit organization against school bullying of which Swedbank is a supporter. As such, the stadium was re-named Friends Arena.

Location

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Own Eurovision Song Contest 2 is located in Sweden

Stockholm

Location of the host city in Sweden.

Sweden, officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish: About this sound Konungariket Sverige), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund. At 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi), Sweden is the third-largest country in the European Union by area, with a total population of over 9.8 million. Sweden consequently has a low population density of 21 inhabitants per square kilometre (54/sq mi), with the highest concentration in the southern half of the country. Approximately 85% of the population lives in urban areas. Southern Sweden is predominantly agricultural, while the north is heavily forested. Sweden is part of the geographical area of Fennoscandia.

Germanic peoples have inhabited Sweden since prehistoric times, emerging into history as the Geats/Götar and Swedes/Svear and constituting the sea peoples known as the Norsemen. Sweden emerged as an independent and unified country during the Middle Ages. In the 17th century, it expanded its territories to form the Swedish Empire, which became one of the great powers of Europe until the early 18th century. Swedish territories outside the Scandinavian Peninsula were gradually lost during the 18th and 19th centuries, beginning with the annexation of present-day Finland by Russia in 1809. The last war in which Sweden was directly involved was in 1814, when Norway was militarily forced into personal union.

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Founded no later than c. 1250, possibly as early as 1187, Stockholm has long been one of Sweden's cultural, media, political and economic centres. Its strategic location on 14 islands on the south-central east coast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago, has been historically important. Stockholm has been nominated by GaWC as a global city, with a ranking of Alpha.
Stockholm's location appears in Norse sagas as Agnafit, and in Heimskringla in connection with the legendary king Agne. The earliest written mention of the name Stockholm dates from 1252, by which time the mines in Bergslagen made it an important site in the iron trade. The first part of the name (stock) means log in Swedish, although it may also be connected to an old German word (Stock) meaning fortification. The second part of the name (holm) means islet, and is thought to refer to the islet Helgeandsholmen in central Stockholm. The city is said to have been founded by Birger Jarl to protect Sweden from a sea invasion by foreign navies and to stop the pillage of towns such as Sigtuna on Lake Mälaren.

Participants

Thirty-four countries announced that will participate in the contest. Austria, Germany, Greenland, Iceland, Israel, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway and Ukraine made their debut at the 2nd contest.

Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Lebanon withdrew from the contest.

Despite not beeing in the contest, Belgium voted for the winning contest in all shows, semifinals and final.

Results

Semifinals

Semi-final 1

the first semi-final took place in Stockholm on 16 May 2012.
The ten countries in this semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to the votes from each voting country, qualified for the final.
Slovenia won the wildcard.
Greece, Russia and Sweden(host country) voted in this semi-final.
Belgium voted as a jury.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Croatia	Franka Batelić feat. Eric Destler	"On fire"	1	158
02	Malta	Amber	"Catch 22"	10	63
03	Albania	Adelina Tahiri	"Manipulator"	2	90
04	Norway	Tone Damli	"Look back"	5	78
05	Moldova	Nelly Ciobanu	"Turn on the light"	12	49
06	Kosovo	Afërdita Dreshaj	"Për ty dridhem"	11	62
07	Switzerland	Evelyne Filipe	"L'egoiste"	6	73
08	Macedonia	Toše Proeski	"Pratim te"	8	71
09	Portugal	Carla Moreno	"Sobrevivo"	4	80
10	Andorra	David Bisbal	"Bulería"	3	90
11	Cyprus	Despina Olympiou	"Na eisai kala"	9	64
12	Slovenia	Omar Naber	"Mute & loud"	13¹	48
13	Czech Republic	Tereza Kerndlová	"Přísahám"	14	47
14	Germany	Nena	"Du bist so gut für mich"	7	71

Notes

1.^ The country won the wilcard battle.

Semi-final 2

the first semi-final took place in Stockholm on 17 May 2012.
The ten countries in this semi-final with the highest scoring points, according to the votes from each voting country, qualified for the final.
Monaco was disqualified.
Romania, Spain and Sweden(host country) voted in this semi-final.
Belgium voted as a jury.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Israel	Harel Skaat	"HaMea ha-21"	9	62
02	Armenia	Lilu	"Ekela"	1	106
03	Turkey	Hadise	"Mesajımı almıştır o"	2	99
04	Greenland	Juno	"No gravity"	6	78
05	Monaco	Tal	"On avance"	15²	94
06	Austria	Frida Gold	"Wovon sollen wir träumen"	5	83
07	Serbia	Daniel Djokic	"Like it like this"	8	66
08	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Halid Bešlić	"Dvadesete"	10	62
09	Ireland	Tulisa	"Young"	3	94
10	United Kingdom	Alex Clare	"Too close"	14	20
11	Iceland	Emilíana Torrini	"Jungle drum"	7	74
12	Montenegro	Sergej Ćetković	"Ako te nije pronasla ljubav"	12	45
13	San Marino	Patty Pravo	"Il vento e le rose"	13	24
14	Bulgaria	Divna feat. Miro, Krisko	"I ti ne mojesh da me spresh"	4	87
15	Ukraine	Elka	"Provans"	11	50

Notes

2.^ The country was supposed to proceed to the Grand Final, but it was disqualified, for not voting.

Second Chance Round

the second chance round took place on May 18, 2012.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Result
01	Slovenia	Omar Naber	"Mute & loud"	Final
02	Ukraine	Elka	"Provans"	Eliminated

Final

The final took place between 18 May 2012 to 21 May 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden
'The Big Five' qualified directly for the final.
From the two semi-finals twenty-one countries qualified for the final, there was an wildcard, all countries voted for a country that didn't reached top ten in the semi-finals. A total of twenty-six countries competed in the final.
Albania, Andorra, Austria, Portugal, Switzerland were disqualified.
Belgium voted as a jury.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Place	Points
01	Iceland	Emilíana Torrini	"Jungle drum"	10	64
02	Sweden	Danny Saucedo	"Amazing"	5	91
03	Germany	Nena	"Du bist so gut für mich"	6	80
04	Portugal	Carla Moreno	"Sobrevivo"	26³	19
05	Croatia	Franka Batelic feat. Eric Destler	"On fire"	1	164
06	Switzerland	Evelyne Filipe	"L'egoiste"	24³	25
07	Greece	Despina Vandi	"I believe it"	17	42
08	Macedonia	Toše Proeski	"Pratim te"	9	67
09	Russia	Alsou	"Ya tebya ne pridumala"	19	39
10	Slovenia	Omar Naber	"Mute & loud"	13	60
11	Israel	Harel Skaat	"HaMea ha-21"	15	53
12	Albania	Adelina Tahiri	"Manipulator"	23³	30
13	Norway	Tone Damli	"Look back"	3	103
14	Spain	Pablo Alborán	"Solamente tú"	20	36
15	Greenland	Juno	"No gravity"	12	60
16	Romania	INNA feat. Play & Win	"10 Minutes"	2	134
17	Ireland	Tulisa	"Young"	4	92
18	Andorra	David Bisbal	"Bulería"	22³	81
19	Cyprus	Despina Olympiou	"Na eisai kala"	21	23
20	Serbia	Daniel Djokic	"Like it like this"	14	56
21	Turkey	Hadise	"Mesajımı almıştır o"	11	60
22	Bulgaria	Divna feat. Miro, Krisko	"I ti ne mojesh da me spresh"	16	47
23	Malta	Amber	"Catch 22"	18	42
24	Austria	Frida Gold	"Wovon sollen wir träumen"	25³	15
25	Armenia	Lilu	"Ekela"	8	70
26	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Halid Bešlić	"Dvadesete"	7	71

Notes

3.^ For the first time in the history of the contest, there was a massive disqualification of countries. They were disqualified for violation of the rules of Own Eurovision Song Contest.