Six competing acts—Antigoni Psihrami, Kokkina Halia, Yorkas, Nikki Ponte, Trimitonio, and Valando Tryfonos—performed their prospective entries live during the televised event, with the winner selected by a combination of a public televote and a panel of judges.

To promote the entry, Yorkas and Stereo Mike made appearances in Belgium, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Turkey, and the UK, performing the song and meeting with local media.

[3][4] Although its selection techniques have varied over the decades, the most common has been a national final in which various acts compete against each other with pre-selected songs, voted on by a jury, televoters, or both.

A departure from this method was a reality television talent competition format inspired by the Idol series that ran for many months in 2004, ultimately being scrapped.

The new board of members at ERT quickly realized that time was not sufficient, and thus turned to the more traditional selection method of co-operating with record labels.

[11] After the failed talks of internal selections, ERT decided to hold a six-performer national final to choose the song to represent them, with all of the acts having been recent participants on a reality talent competition, either The X Factor or Greek Idol.

[13] After requesting proposals from record labels, six artists, all from the talent shows The X Factor Greece and Greek Idol, were selected by ERT to participate in the national final.

The six acts—Antigoni Psihrami, Kokkina Halia, Yorkas, Nikki Ponte, Trimitonio, and Valando Tryfonos—were announced on 11 January 2011;[16][17] the artists and their respective record labels then had until 4 February 2011 to submit their songs.

[12][24] The song was written by Giannis Christodoulopoulos with lyrics by Eleana Vrahali,[19] and was performed in English and Greek, with a fusion of hip hop and contemporary laïkó styles.

[39] On 15 January 2011, LAOS MP Georgios Anatolakis brought up the issue in the Hellenic Parliament, asking the Minister of Culture Pavlos Geroulanos, who helps oversee ERT, for clarifications on Ioanidis' and Savidakis' rejections.

[41] On 27 January 2011, ERT issued an official press release standing by their selection process, and addressed complaints from rejected artists and labels.

Yorkas and Konstantinos Rigas, the song's choreographer and artistic director, were guests on London Greek Radio, while that evening, Stereo Mike joined to perform "Watch My Dance" at the Live Music Awards of LDR.

[43] On 7 April, Yorkas and Stereo Mike visited Belgium where they met with members of the Greek diaspora and were interviewed by Belgian media.

In additional to interviews with local media, they met Yüksek Sadakat, who was representing Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 and performed an unplugged version of "Watch My Dance".

Yorkas and Stereo Mike were joined on stage by four dancers: Giannis Saikin, Michalis Spyridis, Manos Davarias and Pavlos Manogiannakis.

The dancers were largely motionless throughout the show, with movement only during the verses sung by Stereo Mike, and when one of them joined Yorkas for a choreographed routine.

This jury judged each entry based on: vocal capacity; the stage performance; the song's composition and originality; and the overall impression by the act.

[52] The tables below visualise a complete breakdown of points awarded to Greece in both the first semi-final and the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011, as well as by the country on both occasions.