After Slovenia decided that Omar Naber is on his way to Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv last night, broadcaster RTV Slovenija has today revealed the full results from both semi-finals of EMA 2017, which took place on February 17 and 18.

We already know a 50/50 combination of televoting and regional juries was used in the final. For both semi-finals, the two acts with the highest televotes qualified, followed by another two ranked next highest under the jury votes.

EMA 2017 semi-final jury panel

Two of Slovenia’s former Eurovision representatives were part of a seven-member jury panel involved at both semi-finals. They were Rebeka Dremelj from 2008 and Eva Boto from 2012.

  • Mistermarsh
  • Alenka Godec
  • Rebeka Dremelj
  • Patrik Greblo
  • Eva Boto
  • Jernej Dirnbek
  • Anika Horvat

EMA 2017 first semi-final results

Eventual winner Omar Naber came out on top of both televoting and the juries, while Sell Out finished second on televoting to reach the final. KiNG FOO and Nika Zorjan also qualified as the juries ranked them second and third highest respectively.

Televoting

  1. Omar Naber
  2. Sell Out
  3. Tosca Beat
  4. Nika Zorjan
  5. Lea Sirk
  6. Alya
  7. Zala
  8. KiNG FOO

Jury

  1. Omar Naber
  2. KiNG FOO
  3. Nika Zorjan
  4. Lea Sirk
  5. Tosca Beat
  6. Alya
  7. Zala
  8. Sell Out

EMA 2017 second semi-final results

BQL — a firm favourite with the Wiwi Jury and our readers — came out on top of televoting, only to finish third under the juries. Nuška Drašcek finish second on televoting to reach the final, and she also came out on top with the juries. Tim Kores and Raiven were ranked as the second and fourth highest respectively to reach the final under the jury votes.

Televoting

  1. BQL
  2. Nuška Drašcek
  3. Raiven
  4. Tim Kores
  5. Ina Shai
  6. Kataya & Duncan Kamakana
  7. United Pandaz & Arsello feat. Alex Volasko
  8. Clemens

Jury

  1. Nuška Drašcek
  2. Tim Kores
  3. BQL
  4. Raiven
  5. Ina Shai
  6. Clemens
  7. United Pandaz & Arsello feat. Alex Volasko
  8. Kataya & Duncan Kamakana

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Photo: RTV Slovenija

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fan17
fan17
7 years ago

and what i’ve written is just my opinion lmao calm down.

fan17
fan17
7 years ago

@TJ

i’m sorry for being sick of the fact that i’ve never been really pleased with the winner of ema. the only exception is maja keuc in 2011. AND I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE!

i am just guessing, okay. but you can’t deny it wasn’t a deal. bql was clearly people’s favorite. we all believed this year will be different okay?! and we voted. but the winner was selected by 18 people. 18 vs few thousands… think of that!

and omar is staying in semi final.

fan17
fan17
7 years ago

@D maybe…. it’s just my opinion. but people were mostly talking about nika, raiven and bql, even nuška.

the dialect nika sings is still slovene. it’s funny how people want more songs in slovene but then choose english over a dialect, which is worth nothing less than standard slovene. 🙂

Ulrik Raben
Ulrik Raben
7 years ago

I was hoping Omar would sing something like Stop again.

Kris
Kris
7 years ago

@fan17
Even kerli was live streaming.Hope that means she will win. 🙂

TJ
TJ
7 years ago

The ever rising level of pathological doubt about everything that doesn’t please one is alarming….

Lex
Lex
7 years ago

fan17 – you’ve just opened my eyes …

D
D
7 years ago

fan17 – Maybe you’d be on to something if this was Belarus, but this is Slovenia, that wouldn’t happen. Nika did bad in televoting because she sang in a dialect and not standard Slovene.

fan17
fan17
7 years ago

i highly doubt omar won the televoting in semi and was placed 2nd yesterday! 1) i think nika is the one who was chosen by people in the 1st semi and omar was ‘chosen’ by the juries, but they changed it because they didn’t want the final result looking suspicious. it was definitely a deal. you can see omar’s face expression. it’s not an expression of happiness, euphoria, excitement, surprise…. beacause HE KNEW HE WILL WIN. 2) he was also live streaming the voting, he obviosuly knew he will win. this sounds stupid but you know what i mean? it… Read more »

MTD
MTD
7 years ago

I’ve just heard BQL’s song.

One question – Slovenia, you stupid for not sending that one to ESC?

Oh, you are!

Just have a look at #2’s throughout the years before…and you’ll see what the hell Slovenia missed. Like, EVERY FU**IN’ YEAR.

(J)ESC Fanatic
(J)ESC Fanatic
7 years ago

I never really got the hype with Alya and I’m not surprised she flopped.

Austrian Ari
Austrian Ari
7 years ago

I’d like to know the absolute televote numbers.

TheBoyFromRomania
TheBoyFromRomania
7 years ago

JURY IN EUROVISION = BIG MAFIA !!!

Alen
Alen
7 years ago

so basically BQL never had a chance since they were only third with Jury at their Semi.