during the NTU programme Shuster Live. An additional four entries were shortlisted from the non-qualifying entries of the auditions for the say.tv online wildcard and users were able to cast their votes on 13 and 14 February 2012. The winner, "Dance" performed by Max Barskih, was announced on 15 February. On 16 February 2012, "I Will Fight to the End", written by Mikhail Nekrasov and to have been performed by Matias, was withdrawn from the national final due to a conflict of interest between the artist and audition jury member Vlad Baginsky. Matias would later perform the song during the competition as an interval act. Final The final took place on 18 February 2012. Twenty-one entries competed and the winner, "Be My Guest" performed by Gaitana, was selected through the combination of votes from a public televote and an expert jury. Ties were decided in favour of the entries that received higher scores from the jury. The jury panel consisted of Egor Benkendorf (President of NTU), Walid Arfush (producer), Yuriy Rybchynsky (poet), Semyon Horov (director and composer), Mariya Manyuk (artist agent), Rudolf Kirnos (media producer) and Olena Mozgova (music producer). 16,825 votes were registered by the televote during the show. In addition to the performances of the competing entries, 2010 Ukrainian Eurovision entrant Alyosha, 2012 French Eurovision entrant Anggun, 2012 Swiss Eurovision entrant Sinplus, Matias and Zlata Ognevich performed as guests. At Eurovision According to Eurovision rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top ten countries from each semi-final progress to the final. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 25 January 2012, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals, as well as which half of the show they would perform in. Ukraine was placed into the second semi-final, to be held on 24 May 2012, and was scheduled to perform in the first half of the show. The running order for the semi-finals was decided through another draw on 20 March 2012. As one of the five wildcard countries, Ukraine chose to