Eurovision 2017: Armenia’s Artsvik leads in Press Poll 2017

Armenia’s Artsvik has won the Daily Press Poll 2017 after the first rehearsal on Eurovision stage in Kyiv.

Nine entrants took to the Kyiv stage on May 1 for their first rehearsal for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest and members of the press voted for their top rehearsals of the day.

A total of 35 members of the press, who each viewed all of the nine performances, voted for and rated their top rehearsals of day 2.

Members of the viewing press representatives ranked the rehearsals based purely on the performances they saw, each giving their favorite performance 5 points, their second place 3 points and their third place 1 point.

The poll hit its first 3-figure set of points for the first time this year, with Armenia ranking the highest with a huge total of 100 points. Moldova ranked in second place with 69 points based on, whilst Cyprus placed in third with 40 points.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS