Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000

Eurovision Song Contest 2000
Country	Belgium
National selection
Selection process	Finale Nationale Concours; Eurovision de la Chanson; 2000
Selection date(s)	18 February 2000
Selected entrant	Nathalie Sorce
Selected song	"Envie de vivre"
Finals performance
Final result	24th, 2 points
Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest

Belgium was represented by Nathalie Sorce, with the song '"Envie de vivre", at the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest, which took place in Stockholm on 13 May. Sorce was the winner of the Belgian national final for the contest, held in Brussels on 18 February.

Final

French-language broadcaster RTBF was in charge of the selection of the Belgian entry for the 2000 Contest. The national final was held in Studio 6 of RTBF, hosted by Jean-Pierre Hautier. Ten songs competed to become that year's Belgian entrant, to be chosen by public televoting. For the purposes of announcing the results, the country was split into six regions: Brussels, four in the Francophone provinces (the votes from the provinces of Namur and Luxembourg were combined and announced together) and one termed the "Rest of Belgium", covering the five Dutch-speaking provinces where viewing figures were likely to be much lower. Each region announced the actual number of televotes received, rather than converting them into the Eurovision 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-10-12 format. Sorce emerged the winner by a margin of over 3,500 votes.^[1]

Although it did not affect the outcome, there was initially some degree of uncertainty about the disproportionately high number of votes to Sabrina Klinkenberg from the province of Liège, but RTBF subsequently confirmed that it was correct, citing the fact that Klinkenberg was a native of that province as the most probable explanation, and pointing out that Sorce had also received an exceptionally high number of votes from her home province of Hainaut.

**Final - 18 February 2000**
Draw	Artist	Song	Lyrics (l) / Music (m)	Televotes	Place
1	Maria Canel	"Et si..."	Maria Canel Ferreiro (m & l), Patrice de Matos de Morais (m)	2,518	10
2	Géraldine Cozier	"Ma voie"	Geraldine Cozier (m & l), Cécile Delamarre (m & l), Pascal Noel (m & l), Philippe Libois (m & l)	8,371	5
3	Gerlando	"Rêve"	Fernando de Meersman (m), Hughes Maréchal (l)	4,002	9
4	Sabrina Klinkenberg	"Tout ce que je suis"	Alexis Vanderheyden (m), Jacques Broun (l)	11,085	3
5	La Teuf	"Soldat de l'amour"	Alec Mansion (m & l)	6,216	6
6	Mezzo Mezzo	"Belgicanos"	Silvio Pezzuto (m & l), Michel Ianiri (m), Juan Gonzalez (m)	10,750	4
7	Christel Pagnoul	"Pour la vie"	Francis Goya (m), Ralph Benatar (m), Christel Pagnoul (l), Valérie Weyer (l)	6,066	7
8	Frédéric Reynaerts	"Le nomade m'a dit"	Frédéric Reynaerts (m & l)	17,774	2
9	Nathalie Sorce	"Envie de vivre"	Silvio Pezzuto (m & l)	21,362	1
10	Triana	"Donne"	Roberto D'Angelo (m & l), Filippo di Maira (m & l)	5,270	8

**Televotes**
Song	Walloon Brabant	Hainaut	Namur & Luxembourg	Liège	Rest of Belgium	Brussels	Total
Et si...	163	63	142	68	48	2035	2518
Ma voie	368	2042	2782	1072	228	1879	8371
Rêve	103	1313	263	360	563	1427	4002
Tout ce que je suis	292	809	393	7906	114	1571	11085
Soldat de l'amour	290	727	731	1489	146	2833	6216
Belgicanos	424	3962	848	1109	497	3910	10750
Pour la vie	340	681	221	742	456	3626	6066
Le nomade m'a dit	956	2497	1988	3137	2225	6971	17774
Envie de vivre	910	8305	2243	3360	950	5594	21362
Donne	91	629	211	3361	47	931	5270

At Eurovision

On the night of the final Sorce performed 10th in the running order, following Russia and preceding Cyprus. A somewhat shrill and at times off-key vocal performance, combined with a much-criticised choice of outfit, contributed towards an ignominious result, with only 2 points received (from the unlikely source of Macedonia) and a last place finish of the 24 entrants, the eighth time that Belgium had finished at the foot of the Eurovision scoreboard. The 12 points from the Belgian televote were awarded to Latvia.^[2]

Points Awarded by Belgium

12 points	Latvia
10 points	Denmark
8 points	Netherlands
7 points	Russia
6 points	Germany
5 points	Sweden
4 points	Ireland
3 points	Turkey
2 points	Estonia
1 point	Malta