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
Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest
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The Georgian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was chosen through a national final on Saturday 1 March 2008. A total of 12 participants competed for the Georgian place in the semi-finals of Eurovision. The winner was Diana Gurtskaya with the song "Peace Will Come". The song finished 11th with 83 points.

On 31 December during "Eurovision Year" program of the GPB, 12 songs were presented for selection as both video clips and live performances.

National final

The participants for the national final are listed below, alongside their 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	Belarus
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	Belarus 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	Belarus
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