Finland: Tonight,the UMK for Eurovision 2020

Tonight, the UMK 2020 will take place through which Finland will choose its entry in the 65th Eurovision Contest. The show’s  presenters will be Mikko Silvennoinen and Krista Siegfrids (country representative in 2013).

Unlike the previous two years, not one but six different artists will compete in the Finnish national final. The result will be judged by 50% by an international commission and 50% by the Finnish public.

The 8 countries that will form the international committees are:

-Bulgaria
-Germany
-Estonia
-United Kingdom
-Spain
-Netherlands
-Russia
-Sweden
Each country will have four members in its committee.

Ticket for Rotterdam tonight will be claimed by 6 artists in the following order:

1. Catharina Zühlke – Eternity
2. Erika Vikman – Cicciolina
3. Aksel Kankaanranta – Looking Back
4. F3M – Bananas
5. Sansa – Lover View
6. Tika – I Let My Heart Break

The final will take place at the Mediapolis multiplex in Tampere, Finland.

Residents outside of Finland can vote for their favorite song for free by simply downloading the special app available here and easily creating an account so they can vote.

You can watch UMK 2020 at 20:00 CET time time through the official UMK website here as well as through the live broadcast of Yle TV1 HERE.

Bets just before the UMK 2020 final

Many consider tonight’s competition night to be meaningless, as in Finland both in terms of bets, betting and YouTube views etc, there is the biggest favorite in the national final, at least for this season.

Erika Vikman with “Cicciolina” is performing at some companies even at 1.35, which makes it almost a given at UMK 2020. they do just as well in live. But we repeat that in no other national final this year, did we have any participation that is universally considered such a strong favorite.