Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Country	Georgia
National selection
Selection process	National Final
Selection date(s)	1 March 2008
Selected entrant	Diana Gurtskaya
Selected song	"Peace Will Come"
Finals performance
Semi-final result	Qualified (5th, 107 points)
Final result	11th, 83 points

The Georgian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 will be chosen through a national final on Saturday 1 March 2008. A total of 12 participants will compete for the Georgian place in the semi-finals of Eurovision.

On 31 December during "Eurovision Year" program of the GPB 12 songs taking part in national Georgian preselection have been presented for the first time as both video clips and live performances. Winner will be determined by televoting during the final concert on March 1.

National final

The participants for the national final have been announced and their songs can be heard online. Below is a list of all of the participants and the competing songs:

Draw	Artist	Song	Result	Place
1	VIVO	Life	1.3%	8
2	Aleko Berdzenishvili	The Beautiful Girl	1.3%	9
3	Salome Gasviani	Share Your Love	32.9%	2
4	Irakli Pirtskhalava	Freedom	8.3%	3
5	Diana Gurtskaya	Peace Will Come	39.4%	1
6	Salome Korkotashvili	Captaine	3.0%	6
7	Teatroni	Sakartvelo itsvevs megobrebs	2.3%	7
8	Tika Patsatsia	Never Change	4.0%	5
9	3G	I'm Free	5.3%	4
10	Tako Gachechiladze	Me And My Funky	0.9%	10
11	Tamta Chelidze	Give Me Your Love	0.8%	11
12	Guga Aptsiauri	Don't Look At Me	0.5%	12

At Eurovision

Georgia qualified from Semi Final 2 to the Final. In the final they performed in 17th position, behind Denmark and before Ukraine where they picked up 83 points.

Points Awarded by Georgia

Semi final

12 points	Ukraine
10 points	Lithuania
8 points	Croatia
7 points	Portugal
6 points	Latvia
5 points	Turkey
4 points	Belgium
3 points	Denmark
2 points	Cyprus
1 point	Hungary

Final

12 points	Armenia
10 points	Ukraine
8 points	Russia
7 points	Azerbaijan
6 points	Turkey
5 points	Norway
4 points	Greece
3 points	Israel
2 points	Latvia
1 point	Croatia

Points Awarded to Georgia (Semi-Final 2)

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
Cyprus Ukraine	Belgium Latvia Lithuania Malta Turkey	Czech Republic	Portugal Serbia
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
	Bulgaria		Hungary Iceland Macedonia	Sweden

Points Awarded to Georgia (Final)

12 points	10 points	8 points	7 points	6 points
	Armenia	Latvia Ukraine	Cyprus Russia	Belgium
5 points	4 points	3 points	2 points	1 point
Estonia Lithuania Malta	Azerbaijan Czech Republic Greece Turkey	Moldova	Israel	Portugal

Spokesperson

For the 2008 contest the spokesperson for Georgia was Tika Patsatsia.

See also

• Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest

External links

• Eurovision Georgia 2008