The Free European Song Contest 2020 was the first edition of the

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, organised by the German television network

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and the production company

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. It served as an alternative for the

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, which was planned to be held in

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, Netherlands, but was cancelled due to the

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. The show was broadcast on 16 May 2020 at 20:15

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on the television channel

. It was presented by

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and

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. It was also broadcast on the Austrian private television broadcaster Puls 24 with commentary by Tamara Mascara, Dori Bauer and Patrick Fux. ProSieben Austria and ProSieben Schweiz also took the live feed.

Format

Presenters

The programme was hosted by two presenters: the German television host

and the Austrian singer

, who won the

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Participants

Score sheet

12 points

Spokespersons

The spokespersons announced the scores of their respective country's national jury * – Tamara Mascara * – Friends of Oonagh * – Marino Mandekić (father of Vanessa Mai) * – Valeria (mother of Kate Hall) * –

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and

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* – Lion Rosenberg * – Angelo Kelly * –

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* – Paul (father of Mike Singer) * Noia 64 apps kmoon

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as Mr. Spuck * –

Duncan Laurence Duncan de Moor (; born 11 April 1994), known professionally as Duncan Laurence, is a Dutch singer and songwriter. He represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with his song " Arcade" and went on to win the competition, g ...

* –

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* – Clarissa Wellenbrink (sister of Nico Santos) * –

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* –

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* –

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Notes

References

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