XXL represented Macedonia in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest after winning the national final selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song "100% te ljubam".

Before Eurovision

Skopje Fest 2000

The national final, was held on 19 February 2000 at the Universal Hall in

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. Katerina Krstevska and Dragan B. Kostic hosted the event. The voting was in 3 parts - an "expert" jury of 21 people (who each awarded 100 points to their favourite song), the votes of the audience in the Universal Hall (who could give 1 point to their favourite song) and televoting (with the favourite of the televoting getting 200 points, 2nd getting 180 points...)."https://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/national_finals_90s_00s/FYROM2000.html&date=2009-10-26+02:37:44

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won the televote with about 38,000 votes and XXL were second with about 30,000 votes.

At Eurovision

Voting

References

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Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000

Eurovision The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...