Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

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Eurovision Song Contest 2012
Country  Switzerland
National selection
Selection processDie grosse Entscheidungs Show 2012
Selection date(s)10 December 2011
Selected entrantSinplus
Selected song"Unbreakable"
Finals performance
Semi-final resultFailed to qualify (11th, 45 points)
Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest
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Switzerland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Swiss entry was selected through Die grosse Entscheidungs Show, a national final organised by the Swiss broadcaster SRG SSR. Sinplus represented Switzerland with the song "Unbreakable", which failed to qualify from the first semi-final, achieving 11th place with 45 points.[1][2]

Before Eurovision[]

Die grosse Entscheidungs Show 2012[]

Die grosse Entscheidungs Show 2012 was the second edition of the Swiss national final format that selected Switzerland's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. The national final was a collaboration between three broadcasters in Switzerland: the Swiss-German broadcaster Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SF), the Swiss-French broadcaster Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) and the Swiss-Italian broadcaster Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI), and radio broadcaster DRS 3.

Selection process[]

The selection process took place in two stages before the finalists for the live show and ultimately the winner are selected. The first stage of the competition included SF, DRS 3, RTS and RSI each conducting varying selections in order to determine the candidates they submitted for the second stage of the competition. SF submitted six candidates, DRS 3 and RTS each submitted three candidates and RSI submitted two candidates. The fourteen artists and songs proceed to the second stage, the televised national final, where the winning artist and song was selected to represent Switzerland in Baku.[3][4]

SF selection[]

The SRF selection involved an online internet voting platform where interested artists could submit their songs and have them listed for public listening. The platform began accepting entries on 1 September 2011 and concluded on 30 September 2011. 221 entries were submitted following the submission deadline, including entries from 1956 contest winner and 1957 and 1958 Swiss representative Lys Assia, 2007 Danish entrant DQ (Peter Andersen), former Deutschland sucht den Superstar participant Zazou Mall, Idols South Africa winner Heinz Winckler and former The Voice UK participants Same Difference and Maria Lawson.[5][6] Internet users had between 16 October and 30 October 2011 to vote for their favourite entries.[7] The internet votes were combined with the votes from an expert jury and on 11 November 2011, the top six entries were announced.[8] The six candidates ultimately selected from the SF selection for the national final were "She" performed by Emel, "Fragile" performed by I Quattro, "Peace & Freedom" performed by Ivo, "C'était ma vie" performed by Lys Assia, "Shining" performed by Macy and "The Song in My Head" performed by Raphael Jeger.[9][10]

DRS 3 selection[]

Following an internal selection, the three candidates selected from the DRS 3 selection for the national final were announced on 13 October 2011: "Baby Baby Baby" performed by Guillermo Sorya, "Real Love" performed by Patric Scott feat. Fabienne Louves and "Lost" performed by Sara McLoud, who was later disqualified as an acoustic version of the song had been released in 2009. "Black Symphony" performed by Atomic Angels was selected as the replacement entry.[11]

RTS selection[]

The RTS selection involved interested artists submitting their entries to the broadcaster until 30 September 2011. At the close of the deadline, RTS received 27 entries that were evaluated by the votes from internet users who had from 5 to 25 October 2011 to vote for their favourite entries.[12] The top ten entries were again evaluated by the votes from internet users (50%), who had from 25 October to 3 November 2011 to vote for their favourite entries, and the votes of an expert jury (50%) that consisted of Catherine Colombara, Emile Felber, Jean-Marc Richard and Yann Zitouni, and the top three entries were announced on 4 November 2011.[7] The three candidates ultimately selected from the RTS selection for the national final were "Wrong To Let You Go" performed by Katherine St-Laurent, "Quand je ferme les yeux" performed by Sosofluo and "L'autre" performed by Ze Flying Zézettes Orchestra.[13]

Draw Artist Song (English translation) Result
1 Romanz "For You (I'll Build Rome in One Day)" Eliminated
2 Marie-Élaine & Étienne "Demande-moi" (Ask me) Eliminated
3 Katherine St-Laurent "Wrong to Let You Go" Finalist
4 The Kompozit "Le faim du monde" (The hunger of the world) Eliminated
5 Sosofluo "Quand je ferme les yeux" (When I close my eyes) Finalist
6 Sinplus "Unbreakable" Eliminated
7 Vartoch' et les Aliens "Boum sur saturne" (Boom on saturn) Eliminated
8 ADN 2.0 "Dark Light" Eliminated
9 Ze Flying Zézettes Orchestra "L'autre" (The other) Finalist
10 Valentine de Rham "It Doesn't Have to Rain Today" Eliminated

RSI selection[]

RSI opened a submission period on 22 August 2011 for interested artists and composers to submit their entries.[14] On 10 October 2011, a jury panel consisting of Mauro Ravarelli, Gianluca Verga and Nicola Albertoni evaluated the 22 entry submissions received and selected five candidates to proceed to the RSI selection. An additional two candidates were selected by internet voting from the remaining 17 entries.[15] The RSI selection, televised on RSI La 2 and broadcast via radio on RSI Rete Tre, took place on 8 November 2011 at the Temus Music Bar in Agno and was hosted by Clarissa Tami and Fabrizio Casati. Public televoting solely selected "Unbreakable" performed by Sinplus and "Anima nuova" performed by Chiara Dubey as the two candidates from the RSI selection for the national final.[16]

Draw Artist Song (English translation) Result
1 Vittoria Hyde "It's Your Love" Eliminated
2 Gianluca Solci "Giro intorno" (Turn around) Eliminated
3 Rossella "Here I Am" Eliminated
4 Laetitia "The Big Picture" Eliminated
5 Sinplus "Unbreakable" Finalist
6 Chiara Dubey "Anima nuova" (New soul) Finalist
7 Scilla Hess "Masquerade" Eliminated

National final[]

Die grosse Entscheidungs Show 2012 took place on 10 December 2011 at the Bodensee Arena in Kreuzlingen, hosted by Sven Epiney.[4] The show was televised on SF1, RSI La 2 with Italian commentary by Clarissa Tami and Paolo Meneguzzi and RTS deux with French commentary by Nicolas Tanner and Jean-Marc Richard. The competition was also broadcast via radio on DRS 3 and streamed online at the respective official website of each Swiss broadcaster.[17][18] Two-minute abridged versions of the fourteen candidate songs in contention to represent Switzerland were performed and an expert panel provided commentary and feedback to the competing artists. The expert panel consisted of Nik Hartmann (presenter), Carlos Leal (musician and actor) and Stämpf (singer).[19] In addition to the performances from the competing artists, Swiss Eurovision Song Contest 2011 entrant Anna Rossinelli performed her song "Joker" as the interval act.[18] Public televoting solely selected "Unbreakable" performed by Sinplus as the winner.[20][21]

Draw Artist Song (English translation) Composer(s) Televote Place
1 Patric Scott feat. Fabienne Louves "Real Love" Patric Scott, Martin de Vries 9.81% 6
2 Emel "She" Christian Riesen, Emel Aykanat, Kareem Roustom, Rolf Stauffacher 1.3% 11
3 Chiara Dubey "Anima nuova" (New soul) Filippo Leoni, Chiara Dubey 13.82% 3
4 Guillermo Sorya "Baby Baby Baby" Guillermo Sorya 1.19% 12
5 Macy "Shining" Cyril Mauderli, David Hofmann, Frank Niklaus, Jim Bows, Thomas Maritz 3.49% 9
6 Sosofluo "Quand je ferme les yeux" (When I close my eyes) Sophie Rochat 1.08% 14
7 Atomic Angels "Black Symphony" Ben Mühlethaler, Tom Jensen, Dawn Joseph, Atomic Angels 2.36% 10
8 Ivo "Peace & Freedom" Ivo, Kevin Salem 16.02% 2
9 Ze Flying Zézettes Orchestra "L'autre" (The other) Sébastien Wolfensberger 1.17% 13
10 Raphael Jeger "The Song in My Head" Raphael Jeger 5.96% 7
11 I Quattro "Fragile" Evelyn Fischer 10.56% 4
12 Sinplus "Unbreakable" Gabriel Broggini, Ivan Broggini 17.87% 1
13 Lys Assia "C'était ma vie" (It was my life) Jean-Paul Cara, Ralph Siegel 5.46% 8
14 Katherine St-Laurent "Wrong to Let You Go" Katherine St-Laurent, Benoît Babin 9.91% 5

At Eurovision[]

During the Semi-Final Allocation draw which was held on 25 January 2012, it was announced Switzerland were scheduled to compete in the first half of the first semi-final on 22 May.[22] On 20 March 2012 the Running Order draw was held, which determined the order of which the participants performed. Switzerland is set to perform 7th in the first semi-final.[23]

Switzerland achieved 11th place and so did not go to the final. The public vote gave the song 10th place with 49 points but the jury only 13th place.[24] Switzerland got only 45 points in the 2012 contest.[25]

Voting[]

Points awarded to Switzerland[]

Points awarded to Switzerland (Semi-final 1)[26]
Score Country
12 points
10 points
8 points
7 points  Latvia
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points
2 points
1 point

Points awarded by Switzerland[]

External links[]

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