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Based upon the new rules only 22 countries would be able to compete in Tallinn but the EBU changed their own rules again to have 24 countries competing. Israel and Portugal were invited to join the 22.. More..

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Date of the Eurovision Song Contest 2002: 25 May 2002
Location: Saku Suurhall, Tallinn, Estonia
Broadcaster: ETV
Host(s): Annely Peebo, Marko Matvere
Participating countries: 24
Voting: Each country allocated 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point to the top 10 of the national jury in descending order.

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Eurovision Song Contest 2002

		country	participant(s)	song	pts	rnk
	23	Latvia	Marie N	I wanna	176	1
	20	Malta	Ira Losco	7th wonder	164	2
	2	United Kingdom	Jessica Garlick	Come back	111	3
	8	Estonia	Sahl�ne	Runaway	111	4
	17	France	Sandrine Fran�ois	Il faut du temps	104	5
	1	Cyprus	One	Gimme	85	6
	5	Spain	Rosa	Europe's living a celebration	81	7
	21	Romania	Monica Anghel & Marcel Pavel	Tell me why	72	8
	12	Sweden	Afro-dite	Never let it go	72	9
	7	Russia	Prime minister	Northern girl	55	10
	6	Croatia	Vesna Pisarovic	Everything I want	44	11
	10	Israel	Sarit Hadad	Light a candle	37	12
	15	Bosnia & Herzegovina	Maja	Na jastuku za dvoje	33	13
	16	Belgium	Sergio & the Ladies	Sister	33	14
	22	Slovenia	Sestre	Samo ljubezen	32	15
	19	Turkey	Buket Bengisu & Saphire	Leylaklar soldu kalbinde	29	16
	4	Greece	Michalis Rakintzis	S.A.G.A.P.O.	27	17
	3	Austria	Manuel Ortega	Say a word	26	18
	9	FYR Macedonia	Karolina	Od nas zavisi	25	19
	13	Finland	Laura	Addicted to you	24	20
	18	Germany	Corinna May	I can't live without music	17	21
	11	Switzerland	Francine Jordi	Dans le jardin de mon �me	15	22
	24	Lithuania	Aivaras	Happy you	12	23
	14	Denmark	Malene	Tell me who you are	7	24

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Based upon the new rules only 22 countries would be able to compete in Tallinn but the EBU changed their own rules again to have 24 countries competing. Israel and Portugal were invited to join the 22 initial countries. Israel accepted the invitation but Portugal declined, giving the opportunity to Latvia, the country that would eventually win this contest. People in Europe where afraid that the Estonians could not afford to host the contest but Estonian fundraising solved that problem and everything ended up like a fairytale, which was also the theme of the show.