Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011

Slovenia participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany, selecting their entry through a televised national final, organised by the Slovenian broadcaster Radiotelevizija Slovenija (RTVSLO). The show was held on 27 February 2011.[1]

Eurovision Song Contest 2011
Country Slovenia
National selection
Selection processEMA 2011
Selection date(s)27 February 2011
Selected entrantMaja Keuc
Selected song"No One"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultQualified (3rd, 112 points)
Final result13th, 96 points
Slovenia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Before Eurovision

EMA 2011

EMA 2011 was the 16th edition of the Slovenian national final format Evrovizijska Melodija (EMA). The competition was used by RTV Slovenija to select Slovenia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and was broadcast on TV SLO1 and online via the broadcaster's website rtvslo.si and the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv.[2]

Format

Ten songs competed in a televised show where the winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a three-member expert jury selected two finalists out of the ten competing songs to proceed to a superfinal. Each member of the expert jury assigned a score of 1 (lowest score) to 5 (highest score) to each song with the top two being determined by the songs that receive the highest overall scores when the jury votes are combined. Ties were broken by giving priority to the song(s) that achieved a higher number of top scores (5), which would be followed by each juror indicating their preferred song should a tie still have persisted. In the superfinal, public televoting exclusively determined the winner. In case of technical problems with the televote, the jury would have voted to determine the winner in a similar process as in the first round of the competition.

Competing entries

Ten artists selected by the editors of the broadcaster's entertainment program were directly invited to submit entries. The competing artists were announced on 20 January 2011. Among the competing artists was former Slovenian Eurovision contestant Omar Naber who represented Slovenia in 2005.[3]

Final

EMA 2011 took place on 27 February 2011 at the RTV Slovenija Studio 1 in Ljubljana, hosted by Klemen Slakonja. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 1995 and 1999 Slovenian Eurovision entrant Darja Švajger and 2006 Croatian Eurovision entrant Croatian Eurovision entrant Severina performed as guests. The winner was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, a three-member jury panel selected two entries to proceed to the second round: "Vanilija" performed by Maja Keuc and "Ladadidej" performed by April. The jury consisted of Darja Švajger, Severina and Mojca Mavec (television presenter). In the second round, a public vote selected "Vanilija" performed by Maja Keuc as the winner.

Final – 27 January 2011
Draw Artist Song Composer(s) Result
1 Rock Partyzani "Time for Revolution" Aleš Klinar Eliminated
2 Tabu "Moje luči" Tomaž Trup, Iztok Melanšek Eliminated
3 Nina Pušlar "Bilo lepo bi" Martin Štibernik, Dejan Radičevič Eliminated
4 Maja Keuc "Vanilija" Matjaž Vlašič, Urša Vlašič Advanced
5 Feliks Langus "Disko raj" Matej Mršnik, Anže Langus, Alen Steržaj Eliminated
6 LeeLooJamais "Slovenka" LeeLooJamais, Sašo Pipič Eliminated
7 April "Ladadidej" Raay, Erika Mager, Franci Tepina Advanced
8 Sylvain, Mike Vale feat. Hannah Mancini "Ti si tisti" Mike Vale, Hannah Mancini, Anze Palka Eliminated
9 Time to Time "Pravi čas" Tomaž Kozlevčar, Nino Kozlevčar, Samo Kozlevčar, Andrej Rozman Roza Eliminated
10 Omar Naber "Bistvo skrito je očem" Omar Naber, Jure Golobič, Eva Breznikar Eliminated
Superfinal – 27 January 2011
Draw Artist Song Televote Place
1 April "Ladadidej" 11,993 (29%) 2
2 Maja Keuc "Vanilija" 28,908 (71%) 1

At Eurovision

Slovenia chose Maja Keuc as their representative in Düsseldorf in 2011, singing "No one". Slovenia performed in the second semi-final on May 12, 2011 in position 13. After voting, Slovenia qualified for the grand final on Saturday May 14 with a respectable 3rd place and 112 points. Slovenia drew position 20 in the grand final. At the conclusion of voting, Slovenia ended in 13th place with 96 points. This result gave Slovenia its third best effort in the Eurovision Song Contest, the best result being 7th place in 1995 and 2001, and the second being 10th place in 1997.

Split results
  • In the Semi-final 2 Slovenia came 3rd with 112 points: the public awarded Slovenia 7th place with 68 points and the jury awarded 1st place with 146 points.
  • In the Final Slovenia came 13th with 96 points: the public awarded Slovenia 22nd place with 39 points and the jury awarded 4th place with 160 points.

Points awarded by Slovenia
Points awarded to Slovenia (Semi-final 2)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point
Points awarded to Slovenia (final)
12 points 10 points 8 points 7 points 6 points
5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point

See also

References
  1. Laufer, Gil (8 November 2010). "EMA 2011 on February 27th". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 12 November 2010. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
  2. Gudim, Laura (27 February 2011). "LIVE: Slovenia selects for Dusseldorf". Esctoday. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  3. Kopina, Klavdija (20 January 2011). "Foto: Znana deseterica povabljencev na Emo 2011". rtvslo.si (in Slovene). Retrieved 2 January 2021.CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
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