Madame Monsieur wins Destination Eurovision — and the French ticket to Lisbon!

After two semi-finals and a long final show, the new French National Selection, Destination Eurovision 2018, reveals its winner. And it is Madame Monsieur who will represent France in Lisbon, with “Mercy”.

The final was long, lasting more than three hours, but we finally know the winner, and the French entry for 2018. Madame Monsieur won the selection with 186 points, thanks to their victory in the televote: the juries had them ranked 3rd.

The full results

1. Madame Monsieur — “Mercy” — 186 points
2. Lisandro Cuxi — “Eva” — 162 points
3. Malo’ — “Ciao” — 117 points
4. Emmy Liyana — “OK ou KO” — 112 points
5. Igit — “Lisboa Jerusalem” — 110 points
6. Max Cinnamon — “Ailleurs” — 90 points
7. Nassi — “Rêves de Gamin” — 48 points
8. Louka — “Mamma Mia” — 15 points

The 10 international jurors ranked their six favorite songs, awarding them 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 points, in the Eurovision style. After that, the televote points were added, in the style of Sweden’s Melodifestivalen: the 420 televote points (the same amount of points the jury gives) were divided proportionally to each act’s score with the televote (10% of the vote gives 10% of the points, 42 points).

The juries

Here are the detailed results of the juries:

• Tali Eshkoli (Israel) [IS]
• Terhi Novastro (Finland) [FI]
• Felix Bergsson (Iceland) [IC]
• Nicola Caligiore (Italy) [IT]
• Christer Björkman (Sweden) [SW]
• Olga Salamakha (Belarus) [BE]
• Ivan Katsarev (Bulgaria) [BU]
• Iveta Mukuchyan (Armenia) [AR]
• Sergei V Pavlov (Russia) [RU]
• Reto Peritz (Switzerland) [SZ]

And if you don’t care about the details, this is the summarized version:

1. Lisandro Cuxi — “Eva” — 90 points
2. Emmy Liyana — “OK ou KO” — 82 points
3. Madame Monsieur — “Mercy” — 68 points
4. Igit— “Lisboa Jerusalem” — 60 points
5. Max Cinnamon — “Ailleurs” — 54 points
6. Nassi — “Rêves de Gamin” — 30 points
7. Malo’ — “Ciao” — 28 points
8. Louka — “Mamma Mia” — 8 points

And then we add the televote…

Hence, this is the public ranking :

1. Madame Monsieur — “Mercy” — 118 points
2. Malo’ — “Ciao” — 89 points
3. Lisandro — “Eva” — 72 points
4. Igit — “Lisboa Jerusalem” — 50 points
5. Max Cinnamon — “Ailleurs” — 36 points
6. Emmy Liyana  — “OK ou KO” — 30 points
7. Nassi — “Rêves de Gamins” — 18 points
8. Louka — “Mamma Mia” — 7 points

The ESCXTRA team congratulates Madame Monsieur on their victory! What do you think? Do you agree with the results? Will Madame Monsieur bring France back into the Top 10? Top 3? Or even make them win? Tell us more on the comments below or on social media, at @escxtra !