Poland

Tonight Poland picked their participant for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest. Out of ten acts competing Marcin Mrozinski was chosen, by 100% televoting, to represent the country in Oslo in May with the song called Legenda. Edyta Górniak who finished second at the Contest in 1994, was guest star at tonight's final.

As the national selections get into full swing across Europe, Polish broadcaster TVP has revealed the names of the acts participating in the Polish national final to be held in February.

EBU has just announced that a total number of 39 countries will participate at the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo in May. Hungary, Czech Republic and Montenegro do not wish to take part while no new countries will be joining or rejoining the Contest.

The polish broadcaster has today released the full televoting & jury results from the 2009 semifinal and final. Results shows that Azerbaijan scored a huge win in the semifinal over Norway and that Denmark benefited a lot from the jury.

The results of both semifinals have now been released by the EBU. They make interesting reading. The jury overturned the telephone vote to save countries in each of the semifinals. Quite annoying if your country finished 10th in the phone vote.

After Tuesday’s semifinal, this evening, we discovered who would fill the remaining places in the final on Saturday. Nineteen countries, including favourites Norway, competed for the ten available places. The hosts were Andrey Malakhov and Natalia Vodianova, who also hosted the first semifinal.

Despite the problems with the press conference as reported by EuroVisionary, the sixth day of preparations continued with competitors from the first semifinal and some from the second semifinal taking to the stage.

Tuesday saw the first rehearsal for seven of the countries participating in the second semifinal. Croatia got the ball rolling and Denmark rounded things off.