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Song.Null.Zwei was the national final that selected Austria's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2002. The competition took place on 1 March 2002 at the ORF Theater in Vienna, hosted by Andi Knoll and broadcast on ORF 1.
Format[]
Ten songs competed in the competition where the winner was selected by public voting and an internet jury panel consisting of 2,002 members selected via an online quiz. The sum of all the jury scores created an overall ranking from which points from 1 (lowest) to 5 (highest) were distributed to the top five entries. Viewers were able to vote via telephone or SMS and the overall ranking of the entries for both streams of voting was also assigned scores from 1 to 5. After the combination of all scores, the entry with the highest number of points was selected as the winner.[1]
Competing entries[]
Six of the ten competing artists were nominated by record companies, while the remaining four acts were chosen through an open submission. ORF invited all interested artists to submit their entries to the broadcaster between 28 August 2001 and 30 November 2001.[2] At the close of the deadline, the broadcaster received over 700 submissions.[3] The ten artists selected to compete in the national final were revealed on 28 January 2002.[4]
The televised final took place on 1 March 2002. Ten songs competed and the combination of votes from an internet jury panel and a public vote split between televoting and SMS voting selected "Say a Word" performed by Manuel Ortega as the winner.[5]
On the night of the contest, Ortega sang 3rd, following the United Kingdom and preceding Greece. At the close of the voting, his song had received 26 points, placing 18th in a field of 24.[6] The Austrian televoting awarded its 12 points to the United Kingdom.
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