Eesti Laul 2017

Eesti Laul 2017
Preliminary decision data
country	Estonia
Broadcasting station	,
Producing broadcaster
place	Semi-final: Studio ERR, Tallinn , Final: Saku Suurhall , Tallinn
date	4th March 2017
Time	Semi-finals: 7:35 pm ( EET ) Final: 7:30 pm ( EET )
Duration	approx. 110 & 155 minutes
Number of participants	20th
Number of contributions	20th
Preliminary rounds	2
Preliminary round dates	Semi-finals: February 11, 2017 February 18, 2017
poll	Semi-finals & finals: 50% jury voting, 50% televoting Superfinals: 100% televoting
Pause filler	Finale: Måns Zelmerlöw : Heroes , Glorious ; Beyond Beyond: So Alive , Get Used To Me
Moderation
Marko Reikop & Elina Netšajeva

The Eesti Laul 2017 took place on March 4, 2017 and was the Estonian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev ( Ukraine ).

format

The show consisted of three programs: two semi-finals and the final. Ten participants competed against each other with their songs in the semi-finals. Five of them each qualified for the final. The first four finalists were determined 50% by the jury and 50% by televoting. The fifth finalist was determined exclusively by televoting in a second separate voting round. In the final, the ten qualifiers from each of the two semi-finals competed against each other. Three of them qualified for the superfinal . 50% of this was done by the jury and 50% by televoting. In the superfinal , the winner was determined exclusively by televoting. In 2017 the jury consisted of the following people: Metsakutsu, Kadri Voorand , Niko Nykänen, Eva Palm, Jüri Pihel, Maia Vahtramäe, Sten Teppan, Aleksandr Žedeljov, Ingrid Kohtla, Meisterjaan and Allan Roosileht.

Attendees

Interested parties could submit their songs from the beginning of September 2016 to November 1, 2016. The performers and composers should be Estonian or permanently resident in Estonia. Nonetheless, foreign composers were allowed to participate. But 50% of the composers of the song had to be Estonian. The remaining 50% may come from abroad. As a composer, however, you were not allowed to submit more than three songs, unless you took part in the songwriting camp , which was organized by the Estonian Song Academy in spring and autumn 2016. In the end, a jury selected the 20 entries that were presented on November 8, 2016. Among them were some repeat offenders such as Elina Born , who represented Estonia together with Stig Rästa at the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna in 2015 . Daniel Levi also took part in the Eesti Laul in 2015. Also Lenna Kuurmaa took already in 2005 at the Euro Vision Song Contest in Kiev in part, at that time as part of the band Vanilla Ninja . But there under the flag of Switzerland .

Semifinals

First semi-final

The first semi-final took place on February 11, 2017, 9:35 p.m. ( EET ) at the ERR studios. Ten participants competed against each other. Five of them qualified for the final. They are highlighted in light green here.

Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Round 1						round 2
					jury		Audience votes (televoting & SMS)		total	space	Audience votes (televoting & SMS)	space
					be right	Points	be right	Points
05	Ivo Linna	Suur loterii M / T: Rainer Michelson, Urmas Jaarman	Estonian	Big lottery	61	6th	4,244	12	18th	01.	-	-
06th	Lenna Kuurmaa	Slingshot M / T: Lenna Kuurmaa, Nicolas Rebscher, Michelle Leonard	English	Slingshot	74	10	1.912	7th	17th	02.	-	-
01	Elina Born	In Or Out M / T: Stig Rästa , Vallo Kikas, Fred Krieger	English	Inside or outside	85	12	1,780	5	17th	03.	-	-
07th	Karl-Kristjan & Whogaux feat. Maian	Have You Now M / T: Karl-Kristjan Kingi, Hugo "Whogaux" Martin Maasikas, Maian Lomp	English	Have you now	74	8th	2,509	8th	16	04th	-	-
09	Ariadne	Feel Me Now M / T: Margus Piik, Tomi Rahula, Anni Rahula	English	Feel me now	52	5	4,241	10	15th	05.	8,065	01.
02	Carl-Philip	Everything but You M / T: Carl-Philip Madis, Carola Madis, Arno Krabman, Jaap Reesema, Leon Paul Palmen, Noah McNamara	English	Everything but you	63	7th	0726	4th	11	06th	1,089	03.
10	Uku Suviste	Supernatural M / T: Uku Suviste, Oliver Mazurtšak	English	Supernatural	45	4th	1,796	6th	10	07th	2,906	02.
03	Laura Prits	Hey Kiddo M / T: Laura Prits, Andres Kõpper , Tara Nabi	English	Hey kid	37	1	0660	3	04th	08th.	0696	06th
04th	Leemet Onno	Hurricane M / T: Leemet Onno, Ed Struijlaart	English	hurricane	38	2	0599	2	04th	09.	0743	05.
08th	Janno Reim & Kosmos	Valan pisaraid M / T: Janno Reim	Estonian	I cry tears	43	3	0590	1	04th	10	0991	04th

 Candidate has qualified for the final.

Second semi-final

The second semi-final took place on February 18, 2017, 9:35 p.m. (EET) at the ERR studios. Ten participants competed against each other. Five of them qualified for the final. They are highlighted in light green here.

Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	Round 1						round 2
					jury		Audience votes (televoting & SMS)		total	space	Audience votes (televoting & SMS)	space
					be right	Points	be right	Points
02	Guys	Spirit Animal M / T: Kerli Kõiv , Brian Ziff	English	Spirit animal	93	12	2,337	8th	20th	01.	-	-
01	Koit Toome & Laura	Verona M / T: Sven Lõhmus	English	-	63	6th	5,226	12	18th	02.	-	-
08th	Rasmus Rändvee	This Love M / T: Rasmus Rändvee, Ewert Sundja, Bert Prinkenfeld, Stewart James Brock	English	This love	81	7th	2,678	10	17th	03.	-	-
04th	Liis Lemsalu	Keep Running M / T: Liis Lemsalu, Mihkel Mattisen, Gustaf Svenungsson, Magnus Wallin	English	Keep walking	83	8th	2,246	7th	15th	04th	-	-
03	Daniel Levi	All I Need M / T: Daniel Levi Viinalass, Ago Teppand	English	Everything I need	91	10	1.109	4th	15th	05.	4,058	01.
06th	Antsud	Vihm M / T: Aile Alveus-Krautmann	Estonian	rain	41	4th	1,691	6th	10	06th	2,245	03.
10	Angeelia	We Ride with Our Flow M / T: Angeelia Maasik, Andres Kõpper	English	We drive with our flow	52	5	1,299	5	10	07th	2,265	02.
09	Alvistar Funk Association	Make Love, Not War M / T: Margus Alviste, Inga Kaare, Jürgen Urbanik	English	Make love, not war	30th	3	1,074	3	06th	08th.	1,305	05.
04th	Close to Infinity feat. Ian Karell	Sounds Like Home M / T: Ian Robert Karell, Johannes Kanter, Sander Ulp, Tanel Kordemets	English	Sounds like home	14th	1	0940	2	03	09.	1,578	04th
08th	Almost Natural	Electric M / T: Anis Arumets, Amiran Gorgazjan, Noah McNamara, Willie Weeks	English	Electric	24	2	0633	1	03	10	0915	06th

 Candidate has qualified for the final.

final

Saku Suurhall

The final took place on March 4, 2017, 7:30 p.m. (EET) at Saku Suurhall in Tallinn . There the ten qualifiers from the respective semi-finals competed against each other. The three best placed reached the superfinal. They are highlighted in light green here.

Måns Zelmerlöw introduced his new single Glorious to fill the break . The Estonian boy band Beyond Beyond also performed.

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	language	Translation (unofficial)	jury		Audience votes (tele-voting & SMS)		total
						be right	Points	be right	Points
01.	10	Guys	Spirit Animal M / T: Kerli Kõiv , Brian Ziff	English	Spirit animal	100	12	14,497	10	22nd
02.	02	Koit Toome & Laura	Verona M / T: Sven Lõhmus	English	-	060	5	27,759	12	17th
03.	08th	Rasmus Rändvee	This Love M / T: Rasmus Rändvee, Ewert Sundja, Bert Prinkenfeld, Stewart James Brock	English	This love	077	10	8,617	6th	16
04th	02	Whogaux & Karl-Kristjan feat. Maian	Have You Now M / T: Karl-Kristjan Kingi, Hugo "Whogaux" Martin Maasikas, Maian Lomp	English	Have you now	071	8th	8,362	5	13
05.	02	Ivo Linna	Suur loterii M / T: Rainer Michelson, Urmas Jaarman	Estonian	Big lottery	057	4th	14.002	8th	12
06th	02	Ariadne	Feel Me Now M / T: Margus Piik, Tomi Rahula, Anni Rahula	English	Feel me now	055	3	12,325	7th	10
07th	02	Liis Lemsalu	Keep Running M / T: Liis Lemsalu, Mihkel Mattisen, Gustaf Svenungsson, Magnus Wallin	English	Keep walking	062	6th	4,880	4th	10
08th.	02	Lenna Kuurmaa	Slingshot M / T: Lenna Kuurmaa, Nicolas Rebscher, Michelle Leonard	English	Slingshot	062	7th	3,422	2	09
09.	02	Daniel Levi	All I Need M / T: Daniel Levi Viinalass, Ago Teppand	English	Everything I need	049	2	3,657	3	05
10.	02	Elina Born	In Or Out M / T: Stig Rästa , Vallo Kikas, Fred Krieger	English	Inside or outside	045	1	3,057	1	02

Super finals

In the superfinal, the top three participants from the first final round competed against each other. The winner was determined exclusively by televoting. The final was won by the duo Koit Toome & Laura with the song Verona composed by Sven Lõhmus .

space	Start number	Interpreter	Song Music (M) and Text (T)	Audience votes (televoting & SMS)
				be right	%
1.	3	Koit Toome & Laura	Verona M / T: Sven Lõhmus	44,818	56%
2.	1	Guys	Spirit Animal M / T: Kerli Kõiv , Brian Ziff	23,901	29%
3.	2	Rasmus Rändvee	This Love M / T: Rasmus Rändvee, Ewert Sundja, Bert Prinkenfeld, Stewart James Brock	11,641	15%

Web links

• Estonian Preliminary Competition website (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mans Zelmerlow Beyond Beyond Eesti Laul Interval
2. ↑ https://eurovoix.com/2017/01/30/iceland-songvakeppnin-semi-final-draw-complete/
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://menu.err.ee/v/eestilaul/a08c7411-ad39-4e0c-a758-2f6eb9f71469/eesti-laul-tuleb-muudatustega-voistluslugusid-saavad-esitada-ka-valismaa-autorid
5. ↑ http://esctoday.com/142179/estonia-eesti-laul-2017-voting-breakdown-released/
6. ↑ http://esctoday.com/142179/estonia-eesti-laul-2017-voting-breakdown-released/
7. ↑ https://eurovoix.com/2017/02/21/estonia-eesti-laul-final-running-order-announced-2/
8. ↑ http://esctoday.com/142179/estonia-eesti-laul-2017-voting-breakdown-released/
9. ↑ https://eurovoix.com/2017/02/21/estonia-mans-zelmerlow-beyond-beyond-eesti-laul-interval/
10. ↑ http://esctoday.com/142179/estonia-eesti-laul-2017-voting-breakdown-released/