Hungary – Tonight sees semi-final 2 take place in Hungary’s national selection A Dal. 9 more acts are battling it out to secure the last four places in next week’s national final. You can watch tonight at 20.15 (CET) here. Check out who is still in the competition. 
In each semi-final, the jury will first choose two finalists. The televoters will then select two more qualifiers out of the remaining seven acts. Yesterday the two acts chosen by the jury were András Kállay-Saunders and Gergő Rácz. Ildikó Keresztes and Laura Cserpes qualified via the televoting.
The jury includes Magdi Rúzsa (2007 Hungarian Eurovision representative), Philip Rákay (director of M1 and M2), Viktor Rakonczai (1997 Hungarian Eurovision representative as a member of the band V.I.P), Csaba Walkó (lead singer of Compact Disco, the 2012 Hungarian Eurovision representatives) and Jenő Csiszár (TV and radio host).
During the heats, previous favourites of the jury included Szilvi Agárdi & Dénes Pál, Gigi Radics and Gergő Baricz. Tonight they must choose 2 only. Who do you think they will support in this semi-final?
Tonight’s line up for semi-final 2
United – ‘Tegnap még más voltál‘
Fatima Mohamed – ‘Nem baj‘
Gigi Radics – ‘Úgy fáj‘
Tamás Vastag – ‘Holnaptól‘
ByeAlex – ‘Kedvesem‘
Janicsák Veca – Új generáció
Tamás Palcsó – ‘Ezt látnod kell‘
Agárdi Szilvi & Pál Dénes – ‘Szíveddel láss‘
Gergő Baricz – ‘Húz’
The final will be held next Saturday, on March 2nd, at 20:15 (CET).
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UNITED and Gigi tied on 2nd place ( 42 jury points ) , but in the end jury chose Gigi to the final !
Thank you for your report! I’ve been off for a while and I’m glad to see that you have written down the jury scores. I listened to ByeAlex in the recap and I must say it growed on me just during those 15 seconds. I hope he’ll make it.
Sigh, I must get to bed soon if I’m supposed to make it through the whole night…
Enjoy your Oscar awards ! ;)
Thank you very much! :)
I’ll just sit through A Dal first. Now I would really like to know what the hosts were talking about. Something about Italy at least…
So, the jury sent through safe and generic ballads. The last time Hungary sent a safe and generic ballad to ESC, they got last place in their semi (and I’d like to say now that I loved that safe and generic ballad).
Tamás Vastag was originally number 4 on my list (7/10), but the song has grown some more on me, so now it is on my second place with 8/10, which means that both of my top 2 favourites (Gigi Radics and Tamás Vastag) actually went through :-)
Now I hope that my 3. and 4. favourite (Szilvi & Dénes and Veca Janicsák) will qualify, too.
I’m not liking what i read!Who was first with the jury?
Tamás Vastag
Thanks!I knew i should’t trust the Hungarian jury this year!I also noticed that they completely changed their scores from the heats to the semifinal.
Well, some of the performances have crashed and burned in the heat and were good in the semis and vice-versa. However, I agree that it’s fishy that the jury hasn’t had any disagreements in any of the shows.
What happened to Fatima Mohamed today? That sounded awful! Her live in her heat wasn’t amazing, but it was competent.
Looks like more terrible results in Hungary. Do ByeAlex still have a chance to make it to the final?
I would be surprised.I think Gigi is a sure qualifier and then it may be between the bland duo,Fatima and ByeAlex.
Gigi’s already in the final. I think it’ll be Fatima, and either ByeAlex or Veca. The duo have a shot, but they’ve never had to face the televote before now either, so I don’t actually know how televote perceives them.
Yes,you are right.
Thanks to both of you. :)
i hope you’re right but he’s the current voice champion
i fear the worst
I should warn you that I let my optimism cloud my judgement, so I’m barely ever right. ;)
I must say I am not to keen on how there’s jury qualifiers and televote qualifiers. Why isn’t it just mixed?
I agree. Such a silly voting system in my opinion.
And the televoting keeps going on…
That choir gives me some Christmas feelings.
OK, Hungary, hurry up. According to you schedule, the show should have ended five minutes ago. I must leave soon, give me the results! :P
Magdi Ruzsa is loving the bland duo.That’s disappointing!
Yes! ByeAlex made it!
ByeAlex!!!Yes!
ByeAlex!!!Yes!
No! :(
Y’know, who would have thought that ByeAlex would only be in the final because the televote loves him?
Because they are by far the most viewed and popular on YouTube. The only thing stopping them now could be the dumb judges wanting Gigi or something.
The superfinalists are decided by the judges alone. It’s practically a lost cause.
Who knows, the judges have been changing their scores all the time so their votes can change in the final. All depending on how tactical they want to play…
I don’t know what’s tactical about putting the same song over and over again in the final, but I get your point.
Tactical because they change scores from show to show… so they could give less points to ByeAlex or other contenders on purpose to keep them out of the superfinal so they have no chance of winning. So maybe their favorite will have a better chance. I don’t trust them at least.
I’m more than pleased with these results.
Good night, everyone! :)
amazing news!
Semi-final 2 results:
Thee bland, unoriginal songs and “Kedvesem.”
So true!And since the jury will choose the 4 superfinalists,i’m sure i won’t like Hungary 13.
And the televote will choose from those 4?
Yes.The jurie’s top-4.That doesn’t sound promising.
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Thanks. It certainly does not. Gigi or Saunders will be travelling to Malmö.
This is my biggest fear. Kallay, Gigi, Tamas, and the bland couple.
the final system fills me with fear
Bye Alex and Ildikó Keresztes FTW, please!
Reality check: Gigi and Saunders will be duking it out.
Good luck to all the finalists.
I hope ByeAlex will win in the end… It wasn’t my favourite song of all Hungarian entries, but it is the only song that stands out among the finalists now + it is the only chance of getting a song that MIGHT stay in Hungarian at ESC.
ByeAlex should win but they set the final up so that unless you’re one of the jury’s favorites you can’t win :/. Unless the jury votes drastically changes in the final it’ll probably be down to the 4 jury qualifiers.
Gigi is Hungary’s best chance! No offence, but don’t understand why everyone likes ByeAlex it’s really boring and wont do well with juries because it’s very bland imo. GIGI FOR THE WIN!
OMG you can check my first comment in this article and i was totally right!! I predicted everything, only Fatima Mohamed, but I wrote as well that Bye Alex has chance with televoting!
Keresztes ildiko FTW!!