Contest year
- Host City
- Tallin, Estonia
- Venue
- Saku Suurhall
- Final Date
- January 1, 2002
- Entries
- 24
- The 2002 contest in Tallinn marked Eurovision’s first staging in a former Soviet republic, after early media doubts over Estonia’s venue and budget were eased by fundraising and government support.
- Participation rules shifted as the EBU expanded the field to 24, but Portugal’s withdrawal over broadcaster problems let Latvia in via tiebreak, and Ireland and Norway were relegated for the only time.
- A slogan was introduced for the first time (“A Modern Fairytale”), and vote recap order was reversed to counter running-order bias; allegations of jury vote-swapping also surfaced.
- via Wikipedia
Presenters
Annely Peebo, Marko Matvere
Latvia – I Wanna 
Estonia 
