And the winner is...

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I hope you all enjoyed listening to the songs in the contest, but now it is time for the moment of truth. Who will win the International Song Contest 2011? Which country collected the most points during the past 1.5 week? Who will have the honour of being victorious in the first edition of this contest? We will find out soon.

I can tell you that in total 15 people voted in this contest, from 7 different countries. I would have loved to share a link with you guys where the votes would appear just like in the traditional Eurovision way, but unfortunately this was not possible due to technical problems. So you should believe me when I say that it was an exciting contest in the beginning, even though the final result is very clear. In total, 14 out of all 15 people gave points to the winning country (the only person who didn't, was not allowed to, because she submitted it) and 8 people put this particular country in first place. In the end, the winning country had more than twice as many points as the runner-up. So it was a very convincing victory for...


FINLAND!!!


Congratulations to Samu, Raul, Sami, Riku and Osmo from Sunrise Avenue and of course to my friend Essi from Finland, who submitted the winning song! I already knew that your music taste was great, but now we both know that the rest of the world thinks the same! Please do keep on sending me some more songs from your home country.

Now, for the ones that are interested to see how their country did in this contest, here are the final results:

1. Finland	100
2. Belarus	45
3. Netherlands	44
4. Latvia	44
5. Philippines	37
6. Mexico	28
7. Croatia	24
8. Czech Republic	22
9. Estonia	21
10. Chile	15
11. Saint Lucia	10

Finally I would like to thank all those wonderful people that voted in this contest, it really made me happy every time I received a new list. Especially, I would like to thank my close friend Laura from Estonia, who actively helped me in encouraging people to vote and even posted a link to the contest on her blog! Thanks a lot, I really appreciated your effort.

So I hope you all enjoyed this contest and all those interesting songs as much as I did and maybe I will do such a contest again in April 2012. :)

Take care!