Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005

Eurovision Song Contest 2005
Country	Bulgaria
National selection
Selection process	National Final
Selection date(s)	Semi-final; 22 January 2005; Final; 12 February 2005
Selected entrant	Kaffe
Selected song	"Lorraine"
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Failed to qualify (19th, 49 points)
Bulgaria in the Eurovision Song Contest

Bulgaria was represented at Eurovision 2005 by the group Kaffe and the song "Lorraine". The Bulgarian Final was held on February 12, 2005 at the Grand Concert Hall. Before the final there was a semi-final on January 21 with a total of 24 competing songs. A professional jury selected 12 of these 24 songs to go forward to the final where the winner was chosen by televoting. A jazz inspired band Kaffe was elected with the song "Lorraine", which is written by Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko & Orlin Pavlov and composed by Vesselin Vesselinov-Eko.

The spokesperson who revealed Bulgaria's votes for other countries was BNT employee Evgenia Atanasova.^[1]

National final

Draw	Song	Singer	Points	Place
1	"Lorraine"	Kaffe	52.83%	1st
2	"Az znam"	Vasil Naidenov, Roberta, Mariana Popova, Orlin Goranov	2.58%	5th
3	"Ako ima rai"	Grafa	5.11%	3rd
4	"Edinstveni"	Slavi Trifonov & Sofi Marinova	28.33%	2nd
5	"Vsichki drehi mi prechat"	Ivan Georgiev-Ustata	2.12%	6th
6	"Taodos"	Stoian Roianov	2.85%	4th
7	"My Love"	Aija	0.37%	11th
8	"The Dance of the World"	Deep Zone Project	0.31%	12th
9	"Bitter Sweet"	Duet Mania	0.69%	10th
10	"Molitva"	Kali	2.02%	7th
11	"What I Want"	Gravity Co	1.73%	8th
12	"Otkriy me sega"	Melody	1.16%	9th

At Eurovision

They came 19th with 49 points failing to qualify to the Grand Final.Therefore, Bulgaria will have to compete in the semi-final again in ESC 2006.

Points Awarded by Bulgaria^[2]

Semi final

12 points	Belarus
10 points	Macedonia
8 points	Croatia
7 points	Hungary
6 points	Moldova
5 points	Romania
4 points	Israel
3 points	Switzerland
2 points	Norway
1 point	Ireland

Final

12 points	Greece
10 points	Cyprus
8 points	Romania
7 points	Macedonia
6 points	Moldova
5 points	Hungary
4 points	Serbia and Montenegro
3 points	Turkey
2 points	Croatia
1 point	Norway

Points Awarded to Bulgaria

Points Awarded to Bulgaria (Semi Final)
12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
	Cyprus	Macedonia	Greece Moldova	Spain
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Turkey	Albania			Bosnia and Herzegovina Serbia and Montenegro

References

↑ Philips, Roel (2005-05-17). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 2005-12-19. Retrieved 2009-04-27.
↑ Eurovision Song Contest 2005

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[1] Philips, Roel (2005-05-17). "The 39 spokespersons!". ESCToday. Archived from the original on 2005-12-19. Retrieved 2009-04-27.

[2] Eurovision Song Contest 2005