Last night saw the 2nd (and in my personal opinion) the better of the two semi-finals where the last 17 countries bying to reach Saturday’s final took place. All the sounds sounded like they should all reach the final, but as you Eurovision fans know – only 10 could joing the other 15 songs to Saturday’s final.
Here is who qualified in the order that they were announce.
01 – Georgia
02 – Ukraine
03 – Turkey
04 – Israel
05 – Ireland
06 – Cyprus
07 – Azerbaijan
08 – Romania
09 – Armenia
10 – Denmark
SHOCK – No Sweden, No Netherlands, No Croatia – all were favourites to reach the final.
Straight after the show, the draw to see where these finalist would perform, also took place and here is where they are singing:
Georgia go 13th
Ukraine go 17th
Turkey go 14th
Israel go 24th
Ireland go 10th
Cyprus go 5th
Azerbaijan go 1st
Romania go 19th
Armenia go 21st
Denmark go 25th
Now as you all know, if not you will by the end of this post, that the voting has yet again changed. Still in play is last year’s 50% televote and 50% jury vote but the BIG difference is that the phone lines to vote for your favourite song, will be opened at the START of the show. So you haven’t got to wait for all participants to perform, before you cast your vote. Excellent news if you love the Azerbaijani song (which I do) and not such good news if you like the Danish song (which I also love). The reason for me saying this is because if you haven’t heard any of the songs, then the earlier the song is performed, then the likelyhood of them receiving more votes than the songs which perform later.
If you want to keep up to date with all the happenings of what is going on in Oslo, then you can check out the official Eurovision.tv website for the news and gossip.