continued to select the 2012 Ukrainian entry. Before Eurovision Evrobachennya 2012 - Natsionalniy vidbir The Ukrainian national final took place on 18 February 2012 at the NTU Studios in Kyiv. The show was hosted by Timur Myroshnychenko and Tetyana Terekhova and broadcast on Pershyi Natsionalnyi as well as online via NTU's official website 1tv.com.ua and the official Eurovision Song Contest website eurovision.tv. Format The selection of the competing entries for the national final and ultimately the Ukrainian Eurovision entry took place over two stages. In the first stage, artists and songwriters had the opportunity to apply for the competition by attending a scheduled audition. Nineteen acts were selected and announced on 26 January 2012, while an additional two acts were selected as wildcards: one from the Inter Channel talent show Show #1 and one from an online wildcard selection via the social network platform say.tv. The second stage was the televised final, which took place on 18 February 2012 and featured the twenty-one acts vying to represent Ukraine in Baku. The winner was selected via the 50/50 combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury. Both the public televote and the expert jury assigned scores ranging from 1 (lowest) to 22 (highest) and the entry that had the highest number of points following the combination of these scores was declared the winner. Viewers participating in the public televote had the opportunity to submit a single vote per phone number for each of the participating entries via SMS. In the event of a tie, the tie was decided in favour of the entry that received the highest score from the jury. Competing entries Artists and composers had the opportunity to submit their entries between 25 November 2011 and 25 January 2012; Nerealnye was selected as the winner of Show #1 on 10 November 2011 and received the first wildcard to compete in the national final. Auditions were held on 25 January 2012 at the NTU Headquarters in Kyiv where a four-member selection panel consisting of Vlad Baginsky (music producer of NTU), Volodymyr Kozlov (music director of RU), Victoria Romanova (Ukrainian Eurovision Head of Delegation) and Ivo Bobul (singer) reviewed the 54 received submissions and shortlisted twenty entries to compete in the national final. On 26 January 2012, the twenty selected competing acts were announced. The running order draw for the twenty-two acts took place on 12 February 2012