The national final took place on 31 December 2010 at the TVR studios in Bucharest, hosted by Paula Seling, Ovi and Gianina Corondan. Thirteen songs competed and the winner, "Change" performed by Hotel FM, was determined by the 50/50 combination of the votes from an eleven-member jury panel and public televoting. Each member of the jury voted by assigning scores from 1–8, 10 and 12 points to their preferred songs. The summation of the jury points had produced an overall ranking that was converted to 1–8, 10 and 12 points. Among the members of the jury were Johnny Logan (Irish singer-songwriter, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 and 1987), Niamh Kavanagh (Irish singer, winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1993), Chiara Siracusa (Maltese singer, represented Malta in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998, 2005 and 2009) and Oliver Vanhoutte (Belgian journalist). The public had the opportunity to submit their vote during a voting window and the top ten songs as ranked by the televote received 1–8, 10 and 12 points. For the second year in a row, the winning composer received a car, this time being a BMW 3 Series (E90). In addition to the performances of the competing entries, the interval acts featured performances by Johnny Logan, Niamh Kavanagh and Chiara Siracusa.