Hungary in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017

A Dal 2017 was the sixth edition of the Hungarian national selection A Dal, which selected Hungary's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. The competition consisted of 30 entries competing in three heats, two semi-finals, and a final.[3] The hosts are Levente Harsányi, Krisztina Rátonyi, and Csilla Tatár.

On 11 October 2016, MTVA opened the submission period for artists and composers to submit their entries up until 20 November 2016.[4] Two new rules for aspiring participants were created; all artists must belong to a record label or have a contract with a professional music manager, while also performers must have released an album previously or have performed their music on Hungarian television or radio.[4] In January 2017, it was announced that Jetlag and the song "Keresem a bajt" would be replaced by Chase and the song "Dust in the Wind".[5] Later, it was announced that Szabyest was disqualified due to his song being available to the public before 1 September 2016, which is against Eurovision rules. He was replaced by Rocktenors and their song "Ősz".[6]

Three heats took place on 14 January, 28 January and 4 February 2017. The second heat was originally to take place on 21 January 2017, but a few hours before the show, it was announced that the heat would be postponed, due to the 2017 Verona bus crash, where several Hungarian students were killed. The timeslot was replaced by a vigil for the victims of the accident. The new date for the heat was announced on 24 January; the original third heat took place as scheduled as the second heat, with the original second heat taking place one week later as the new third heat.[7][8]

In each heat ten entries competed and six entries qualified to the semi-finals after two rounds of voting. In the first round of voting, five qualifiers were determined by the combination of scores from each judge and an aggregate score from a public SMS and mobile app vote. In the second round of voting, the remaining five entries that were not in the initial top five faced a public vote consisting of votes submitted through SMS in order to determine one additional qualifier. In addition to the competing entries, other performers featured during the shows. Margaret Island performed as the interval act in heat 1, Csaba Vastag performed in heat 2, and Irie Maffia performed in heat 3.

Two semi-finals took place on 10 and 11 February 2017. In each semi-final nine entries competed and four entries qualified to the final after two rounds of voting. In the first round of voting, three qualifiers were determined by the combination of scores from each judge and an aggregate score from a public SMS and mobile app vote. In the second round of voting, the remaining six entries that were not in the initial top three faced a public vote consisting of votes submitted through SMS in order to determine one additional qualifier.

In addition to the competing entries, other performers featured during the shows. Szilvia Péter Szabó performed as the interval act in semi-final 1 and Magdi Rúzsa performed in semi-final 2.

The final took place on 18 February 2017 where the eight entries that qualified from the semi-finals competed. The winner of the competition was selected over two rounds of voting. In the first round, the jury determined the top four entries that advanced to the second round. The voting system for the four jurors was different from the method used in the heats and semi-finals. Each juror announced their scores after all songs had been performed rather than assigning scores following each performance and the jurors ranked their preferred top four entries and assigned points in the following manner: 4 (lowest), 6, 8 and 10 (highest). The four entries with the highest total scores proceeded to the second round. In the second round, "Origo" performed by Joci Pápai was selected as the winner via a public vote consisting of votes submitted through SMS, mobile app and online voting. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, guest performers included one of the judges, Caramel and A Dal 2016 winner and the 2016 Hungarian Eurovision entrant Freddie.

The following members comprised the Hungarian jury:[13]

• Ferenc Molnár (Caramel; jury chairperson) – singer, songwriter
• Gábor Závodi – songwriter, producer, sound engineer
• Viktor Király – singer, songwriter
• Adrienn Zsédenyi (Zséda) – singer, actress
• Petra Várallyay – composer, singer, violinist

Detailed voting results from Hungary (Semi-final 2)[11]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Caramel	G. Závodi	V. Király	Zséda	P. Várallyay	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Serbia	8	7	8	11	7	7	4	16
02	Austria	2	5	1	4	4	3	8	8	3
03	Macedonia	6	11	7	12	12	9	2	12
04	Malta	13	4	9	14	16	11		15
05	Romania	17	17	17	17	17	17		4	7
06	Netherlands	3	2	3	1	5	2	10	5	6
07	Hungary
08	Denmark	4	10	4	9	1	5	6	14
09	Ireland	9	3	6	5	8	6	5	11
10	San Marino	16	12	14	16	13	15		13
11	Croatia	12	15	10	8	14	14		2	10
12	Norway	5	6	5	2	2	4	7	6	5
13	Switzerland	10	14	11	10	11	12		10	1
14	Belarus	7	8	13	13	6	8	3	9	2
15	Bulgaria	1	1	2	3	3	1	12	1	12
16	Lithuania	15	16	12	6	9	13		17
17	Estonia	14	13	15	15	15	16		7	4
18	Israel	11	9	16	7	10	10	1	3	8

Detailed voting results from Hungary (Final)[12]

Draw	Country	Jury							Televote
		Caramel	G. Závodi	V. Király	Zséda	P. Várallyay	Rank	Points	Rank	Points
01	Israel	12	23	22	19	22	21		14
02	Poland	19	7	17	18	17	17		12
03	Belarus	14	17	18	12	16	15		20
04	Austria	6	13	9	16	10	11		15
05	Armenia	15	6	15	13	2	9	2	19
06	Netherlands	4	3	2	3	3	3	8	11
07	Moldova	17	16	10	11	15	14		2	10
08	Hungary
09	Italy	16	15	21	22	18	20		7	4
10	Denmark	2	14	5	8	5	6	5	23
11	Portugal	5	1	1	1	4	1	12	4	7
12	Azerbaijan	11	5	12	9	8	7	4	17
13	Croatia	23	24	25	17	25	24		6	5
14	Australia	3	4	4	7	9	4	7	16
15	Greece	22	19	19	24	21	22		21
16	Spain	24	22	23	25	24	25		25
17	Norway	7	9	6	4	1	5	6	13
18	United Kingdom	8	12	7	5	14	8	3	18
19	Cyprus	18	10	20	20	20	18		9	2
20	Romania	25	25	24	14	23	23		5	6
21	Germany	21	20	14	15	19	19		22
22	Ukraine	13	18	16	23	7	16		24
23	Belgium	20	21	8	6	13	13		3	8
24	Sweden	10	8	11	10	12	10	1	8	3
25	Bulgaria	1	2	3	2	6	2	10	1	12
26	France	9	11	13	21	11	12		10	1