Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Dora 2019 was the twentieth edition of the Croatian national selection Dora which selected Croatia's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2019. The competition consisted of sixteen entries competing in one final on 16 February 2019 at the Marino Cvetković Sports Hall in Opatija, broadcast on HRT 1 as well as online via the broadcaster's streaming service HRTi and hosted by Mirko Fodor, Jelena Glišić and Iva Šulentić.[3][4]

On 20 November 2018, HRT opened a submission period where artists and composers were able to submit their entries to the broadcaster with the deadline on 10 January 2019.[5] Songs submitted were required to be in either English, French, Italian or Croatian.[6] 162 entries were received by the broadcaster during the submission period.[7] A seven-member expert committee consisting of Ivana Vrdoljak Vanna, Zlatko Turkalj Turki, Igor Geržina, Ante Pecotić, Antonija Šola, Zlatko Gal and Željen Klašterka reviewed the received submissions and selected sixteen artists and songs for the competition.[8][9] HRT announced the competing entries on 17 January 2019 and among the competing artists, Neda Parmac of Gelato Sisters represented Bosnia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 and Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 as member of Feminnem, while Marko Škugor of 4 Tenora represented Croatia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as member of Klapa s Mora. On 29 January 2019, 4 Tenora withdrew from the competition due to a previously scheduled concert, and was replaced by "Nisam to što žele" performed by Kim Verson.[10][11]

The final took place on 16 February 2019. The running order was announced on 4 February 2019.[12] The winner, "The Dream" performed by Roko Blažević, was determined by a 50/50 combination of votes from ten regional juries and a public televote. Ties were decided in favour of the entry ranked higher by the public televote.[13]

Roko made several appearances across Europe to specifically promote "The Dream" as the Croatian Eurovision entry. He performed at Moscow Eurovision Party on 26 April.

Croatia performed tenth in the second semi-final, following the entry from Austria and preceding the entry from Malta. At the end of the show, Croatia was not announced among the top 10 entries in the second semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that Croatia placed fourteenth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 64 points: 38 points from the televoting and 26 points from the juries. With the old voting system, Croatia would have ranked 14th with 25 points.

Voting during the three shows involved each country awarding two sets of points from 1–8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. Each nation's jury consisted of five music industry professionals who are citizens of the country they represent, with their names published before the contest to ensure transparency. This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act. In addition, no member of a national jury was permitted to be related in any way to any of the competing acts in such a way that they cannot vote impartially and independently. The individual rankings of each jury member as well as the nation's televoting results will be released shortly after the grand final.[16]

The following members comprised the Croatian jury:[16]

• Zlatko Turkalj (jury chairperson) – Managing Editor of the Croatian Radio Entertainment Program Department
• Doris Karamatić – harp professor, harpist
• Bojan Jambrošić – singer
• Silvestar Glojnarić – composer and conductor
• Franka Batelić – singer, represented Croatia in the 2018 contest

Detailed voting results from Croatia (Semi-final 2)[17]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		D. Karamatić	B. Jambrošić	S. Glojnarić	Z. Turkalj	F. Batelić	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Armenia	6	13	14	8	8	10	1	16
02	Ireland	8	14	15	17	17	15		14
03	Moldova	4	9	12	10	10	9	2	15
04	Switzerland	5	2	4	4	3	2	10	3	8
05	Latvia	11	12	17	11	16	14		13
06	Romania	12	10	16	12	15	13		12
07	Denmark	17	17	13	14	13	17		10	1
08	Sweden	7	5	10	5	5	7	4	7	4
09	Austria	16	15	9	15	11	12		17
10	Croatia
11	Malta	2	3	7	6	7	5	6	9	2
12	Lithuania	13	11	8	13	12	11		11
13	Russia	15	6	3	7	6	8	3	8	3
14	Albania	3	4	6	9	9	6	5	5	6
15	Norway	14	16	11	16	14	16		2	10
16	Netherlands	10	8	5	1	1	3	8	4	7
17	North Macedonia	1	1	1	2	2	1	12	1	12
18	Azerbaijan	9	7	2	3	4	4	7	6	5

Detailed voting results from Croatia (Final)[18]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		D. Karamatić	B. Jambrošić	S. Glojnarić	Z. Turkalj	F. Batelić	Average Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Malta	16	10	20	6	10	12		19
02	Albania	8	12	17	11	13	15		10	1
03	Czech Republic	5	7	2	3	5	4	7	20
04	Germany	20	18	14	20	20	21		22
05	Russia	12	8	6	8	11	9	2	12
06	Denmark	24	25	22	19	17	24		17
07	San Marino	25	26	18	26	26	25		9	2
08	North Macedonia	1	2	3	4	4	2	10	4	7
09	Sweden	11	5	8	10	8	6	5	11
10	Slovenia	13	16	25	14	9	17		2	10
11	Cyprus	14	13	13	23	15	18		21
12	Netherlands	7	9	16	2	2	5	6	7	4
13	Greece	23	21	19	13	23	22		26
14	Israel	22	15	11	21	24	20		23
15	Norway	21	24	15	22	22	23		6	5
16	United Kingdom	17	17	4	16	16	14		25
17	Iceland	26	22	26	25	25	26		8	3
18	Estonia	3	19	12	18	18	10	1	15
19	Belarus	18	23	10	17	21	19		24
20	Azerbaijan	15	14	23	7	7	13		13
21	France	6	6	21	15	6	8	3	18
22	Italy	2	3	7	1	1	1	12	1	12
23	Serbia	4	4	24	24	12	7	4	3	8
24	Switzerland	9	1	1	5	3	3	8	5	6
25	Australia	10	11	9	9	14	11		14
26	Spain	19	20	5	12	19	16		16