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BuzzJack Music Forum _ Eurovision Song Contest _ Eurovision Song Contest 2018 · Semi Final Allocation Draw

Posted by: AdamAloud 29th January 2018, 09:11 AM

In a couple of hours, we'll know which countries are in which semi finals for this year's contest. 19 countries will go into Semi Final 1 and 18 to Semi Final 2. The Big 5 and Portugal will also be assigned semi finals which they must broadcast and vote in. All the semi finalists have been placed into pre-determined pots to try and eliminate so called 'neighbour voting' and to ensure a fairer playing field.

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Pot 1: Albania, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland
Pot 2: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden
Pot 3: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine
Pot 4: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania
Pot 5: Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Israel, Malta, San Marino
Pot 6: Belgium, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland

You can watch the ceremony live on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22UO_twddIo at 1pm CET today (noon in the UK).

And to save shameless self promo, here's an fab article looking back on the history of the allocation draw.
https://www.escxtra.com/2018/01/28/eleven-years-eurovision-pots/

Posted by: AdamAloud 29th January 2018, 12:40 PM

Big 5 + Host Semi Final Voting
Semi 1: Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom
Semi 2: France, Germany, Italy

Semi 1
First Half
Albania
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Estonia
Iceland
Israel
Lithuania

Second Half
Armenia
Austria
Croatia
Cyprus
Finland
Greece
Ireland
Macedonia
Switzerland

Semi 2
First Half
Australia
Denmark
Moldova
Norway
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
The Netherlands

Second Half
Georgia
Latvia
Hungary
Malta
Montenegro
Poland
Slovenia
Sweden
Ukraine

Posted by: Styles Bilinski 29th January 2018, 01:56 PM

QUOTE(AdamAloud @ Jan 29 2018, 12:40 PM)

Semi 2
Russia

Nah. Surely they'll pull out again

Posted by: LexC 29th January 2018, 02:58 PM

Looks like we’ll be able to get the vote out for Saara Aalto from the UK!

Posted by: Ryan. 29th January 2018, 06:51 PM

Thank you for the promo! *.*

Statistically semi 2 is much stronger, but I feel like lots of the promising national final entries/internal selections are all in semi 1! Interesting indeed.

Posted by: RobBob 30th January 2018, 01:27 AM

Mikolas to open up Eurovision 2018? x

Posted by: ionderella 30th January 2018, 10:20 AM

QUOTE(Styles Bilinski @ Jan 29 2018, 04:56 PM)

Nah. Surely they'll pull out again