Sweden: Iceland’s Dadi Freyr wins the alternative Eurovision show “Sveriges 12:a”

Sweden: Iceland’s Dadi Freyr wins the alternative Eurovision show “Sveriges 12:a”
Friday, 15 May 2020

  • Following this year’s heartbreaking cancellation of Eurovision 2020, the Swedish broadcaster, SVT, opted for  an alternative Eurovision program. Last evening the alternative Eurovision show “Sveriges 12:a” crowned winner Iceland’s Daði & Gagnamagnið.

    Withing its alternative Eurovision schedule SVT held this evening the show “Sveriges 12:a” aiming to convey to the audience the Eurovision feeling through our screens.

    Eurovision Week on SVT started on Saturday, May 9 with the show Inför ESC, hosted by Christer Björkman along with the comedian David Sundin. The Swedish public watched all 41 songs and voted for their favourites using the Melodifestivalen app. 25 entries out of the 41 entries qualified to this evening’s show. The voting that unfolded during the show was based on points coming from a jury and the televoting.

    Iceland achieved to win both votings reaching the maximum total of 24 points while Malta finished 2nd with a total of 20 points. The top 3 closed with Switzerland receiving a total of 10 points.

    Here is how the score looked like after the jury votes were announced: 

    jury vote

    The jury results were followed by the televoting results which saw the impressive number of 1,461,000 votes determining the winner. Once the public votes were added the final scoreboard developed as following:

    Sverige-12a

    Iceland adds one more victory after its win in Eurojury 2020, Eurostream 2020 and several other polls showing that if the contest was held Daði & Gagnamagnið would have been one of favorites to win this year’ s contest with the song ‘Think About Things’.