Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

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Eurovision Song Contest 2021
Country Poland
National selection
Selection processInternal selection
Selection date(s)12 March 2021
Selected entrantRafał
Selected song"The Ride"
Selected songwriter(s)
  • Joakim Övrenius
  • Thomas Karlsson
  • Clara Rubensson
  • Johan Mauritzson
Finals performance
Semi-final resultFailed to qualify (14th)
Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest
◄2020 2021 2022►

Poland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021 with the song "The Ride" written by Joakim Övrenius, Thomas Karlsson, Clara Rubensson and Johan Mauritzson. The song was performed by Rafał. In March 2021, the Polish broadcaster Telewizja Polska (TVP) announced that the Polish entry for the 2021 contest in Rotterdam, Netherlands would be selected through an internal selection. Rafał and the song "The Ride" were announced as the Polish entry on 12 March 2021 during the TVP2 programme Pytanie na śniadanie.

Poland was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 20 May 2021. Performing during the show in position 6, "The Ride" was not announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Poland placed fourteenth out of the 17 participating countries in the semi-final with 35 points.

Background

Prior to the 2021 Contest, Poland had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest twenty-two times since its first entry in

Fire of Love (Pali się)" performed by Tulia
.

The Polish national broadcaster,

Szansa na sukces that featured a competition among several artists and songs in order to select the Polish entry. However, on 7 March 2021, TVP announced that the Polish entry for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest would be selected via an internal selection. The last time the Polish entry was selected internally was in 2019.[3]

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

Rafał was internally selected to represent Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021

The Polish entry for the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest was selected via an internal selection by the TVP Entertainment Agency with several artists and songwriters being directly invited to submit entries, including Cleo, who represented Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2014, and Alicja Szemplińska, who was to represent Poland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2020 before the contest was cancelled.[4][5] TVP announced in March 2021 that the Polish entry would be presented on 12 March 2021 during the TVP2 programme Pytanie na śniadanie, hosted by Mateusz Szymkowiak.[3]

During the broadcast of Pytanie na śniadanie, it was announced that Rafał Brzozowski would represent Poland with the song "The Ride", written by Joakim Övrenius, Thomas Karlsson, Clara Rubensson and Johan Mauritzson. The song was also presented to the public the same day via the release of the official music video on the official Eurovision Song Contest's YouTube channel.[6] Rafał previously attempted to represent Poland at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017, placing second in the national final with the song "Sky Over Europe", and had co-hosted the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in November 2020 which was held in Warsaw.[7][8]

Promotion

Rafał's pre-contest promotion for "The Ride" was mainly focused in Poland. On 15 April, Rafał performed together with

Senhit during the TVP1 game show Jaka to melodia?, which he also presented.[9] Rafał also performed during several online international events, including the Concert in the Dark on 21 April which was organised by Eurovoix, and the PrePartyES on 24 April which was organised by eurovision-spain.com.[10][11]

At Eurovision

According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "

Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. The semi-final allocation draw held for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 on 28 January 2020 was used for the 2021 contest, which Poland was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 20 May 2021, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show.[12]

Once all the competing songs for the 2021 contest had been released, the running order for the semi-finals was decided by the shows' producers rather than through another draw, so that similar songs were not placed next to each other. Poland was set to perform in position 6, following the entry from Austria and before the entry from Moldova.[13]

The two semi-finals and the final were broadcast in Poland on TVP1 and TVP Polonia with commentary by Marek Sierocki and Aleksander Sikora.[14][15] The three shows also aired on a one-day delay on TVP Rozrywka (semi-finals only) and TVP Kobieta (semi-finals and final).[16] The Polish spokesperson, who announced the top 12-point score awarded by the Polish jury during the final, was co-presenter of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019 and 2020 Ida Nowakowska.

Semi-final

Poland performed sixth in the second semi-final, following the entry from Austria and preceding the entry from Moldova. At the end of the show, Poland was not announced among the top 10 entries in the second semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Poland placed 14th in the semi-final, receiving a total of 35 points: 17 points from the televoting and 18 points from the juries.

Voting

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1–8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.[17] In addition, each member of a national jury may only take part in the panel once every three years, and no jury was permitted to discuss of their vote with other members or be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently.[18] The individual rankings of each jury member in an anonymised form as well as the nation's televoting results were released shortly after the grand final.[19][20]

Below is a breakdown of points awarded to Poland and awarded by Poland in the second semi-final and grand final of the contest, and the breakdown of the jury voting and televoting conducted during the two shows:

Points awarded to Poland

Points awarded to Poland (Semi-final 2)[21]
Score Televote Jury
12 points  San Marino
10 points
8 points
7 points
6 points
5 points
4 points
3 points  Bulgaria
2 points  Greece
1 point  Denmark

Points awarded by Poland

Detailed voting results

The following members comprised the Polish jury:[23][24]

Detailed voting results from Poland (Semi-final 2)[21]
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Juror E Rank Points Rank Points
01  San Marino 1 2 1 3 6 2 10 9 2
02  Estonia 6 6 5 14 8 7 4 12
03  Czech Republic 11 16 15 12 10 14 16
04  Greece 3 1 2 1 4 1 12 11
05  Austria 9 15 11 7 15 11 15
06  Poland
07  Moldova 2 7 4 6 2 4 7 4 7
08  Iceland 13 8 7 8 7 8 3 2 10
09  Serbia 10 12 16 16 12 15 10 1
10  Georgia 15 14 13 11 9 12 8 3
11  Albania 8 5 6 4 3 5 6 13
12  Portugal 14 11 9 5 13 10 1 6 5
13  Bulgaria 4 3 8 10 5 6 5 7 4
14  Finland 7 9 10 9 11 9 2 1 12
15  Latvia 12 10 12 15 14 13 14
16   Switzerland 5 4 3 2 1 3 8 3 8
17  Denmark 16 13 14 13 16 16 5 6
Detailed voting results from Poland (Final)[22]
Draw Country Jury Televote
Juror A Juror B Juror C Juror D Juror E Rank Points Rank Points
01  Cyprus 13 20 11 15 17 19 16
02  Albania 14 9 25 18 15 18 23
03  Israel 5 4 5 10 9 5 6 22
04  Belgium 26 17 17 6 1 8 3 19
05  Russia 3 8 21 25 13 10 1 9 2
06  Malta 6 5 12 9 7 7 4 11
07  Portugal 4 7 3 5 2 3 8 17
08  Serbia 18 16 20 21 25 23 20
09  United Kingdom 12 10 9 12 16 11 26
10  Greece 15 19 19 8 14 15 14
11   Switzerland 7 3 2 4 8 4 7 4 7
12  Iceland 2 1 4 1 4 2 10 3 8
13  Spain 19 18 13 23 11 22 24
14  Moldova 24 23 26 17 6 16 21
15  Germany 8 25 18 24 21 20 18
16  Finland 10 11 8 7 10 9 2 5 6
17  Bulgaria 22 12 14 13 24 21 15
18  Lithuania 23 24 24 14 23 24 7 4
19  Ukraine 9 13 22 20 12 14 1 12
20  France 20 14 6 16 19 13 6 5
21  Azerbaijan 21 21 23 22 20 26 12
22  Norway 25 26 15 26 26 25 8 3
23  Netherlands 16 6 10 19 22 12 25
24  Italy 17 22 7 2 5 6 5 2 10
25  Sweden 11 15 16 11 18 17 10 1
26  San Marino 1 2 1 3 3 1 12 13

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