64 the song contest “Eurovision” became a history – Sergey Lazarev once again nearly got to the top.

In tel Aviv, ended with a Grand finale of the international contest “Eurovision”. As suggested earlier, bookmakers, won by the representative of the Netherlands Duncan Lawrence with a lyrical composition of “Arcade” – according to the voting of the professional jury from different countries and TV viewers it scored 492 points. In second place was Italy – by Mahmood got 465 points.
Russian party Sergey Lazarev took third place with a total of 369 points. Recall that in 2016 Sergei also took third place in total points, but the voting audience won first place. This year the voting audience he was the second vote of the jury of the ninth.

The winning number 25-year-old Duncan Lawrence without special effects – the singer sang his song sitting at the piano. The Netherlands in the entire history of “Eurovision” have won the competition four times, and that fifth victory – the last time a representative of the country became the best 44 years ago.