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Hello and welcome to this year's favourite event. No, it's not the recent hockey championship which Russia rightly lost. The last time Russia won a hockey tournament they also won Eurovision so we are still good there.

Anyway, be sure to tune in tonight at 8pm BST (first time it's broadcast as early as 10PM in Moscow! yasss) for the first Semi Final of this year's contest. It will feature 16 max trax of life and Europe's favourite songs. Australia, Austria, France, Spain as well as all of the 16 participating countries will vote so the casual British fans may choose to sit this one out (although that's literally a crime here so I'd not advice you do that really). Yes, you heard it right (but I'm sure you all already knew that) - today will mark the first time Australia will actively participate in the contest, and not just be passive audience members or ones to send an interval act. Therefore their votes can't be predicted that easily. That's why we are all very excited about this.

The show is expected to last for 2 hours and it will be hosted by the three Austrian ladies, a Eurovision's very first. Oh well, male hosts usually only ruin the show anyway. See 2008, 2009, 2012. 2010 and 2014 being the exceptions. And of course fabulous Conchita was demoted from her ESC Winner status to manhandling the Green Room and its craziness. I'm sure she will be as awesome as she always is so there's nothing to worry there. The Green Room host standards are quite low anyway oops.

Entries-wise, in this Semi Final we have Finland, who have been hyped for months since they won their Finnish selection, Estonia & Russia, both of which are among the frontrunners of the competition at the moment, Greece and Romania, who sent mediocre songs this year and might finally get a chance to DNQ for the first time since the current Semi Final system has been introduced, Georgia, Belgium and Albania with max trax of LIFE, Netherlands with a tired and failing attempt at being all K.I.S.S. for the third year in a row, Hungary and Armenia with almost-political statements, Moldova and Belarus with their controversial national selection winners, two Balkan countries of Serbia ("taking mistakes" though. girl...) and Macedonia (who sent 3 incredible songs in a row now), and finally last year's hosts Denmark. I hope I didn't leave anyone out. But if I did it was probably their fault anyway.

So be sure to get your TVs ready, prepare snacks and flags with your favourite countries to cheer on tonight and, of course, to go to the toilet before the event. You do NOT want problems 3 minutes INTO the thing really.


01. Moldova // Eduard Romanyuta - I Want Your Love
02. Armenia // Genealogy - Face The Shadow
03. Belgium // Loïc Nottet - Rhythm Inside
04. The Netherlands // Trijntje Oosterhuis - Walk Along
05. Finland // Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät - Aina Mun Pitää
06. Greece // Maria Elena Kyriakou - One Last Breath
07. Estonia // Elina Born & Stig Rästa - Goodbye To Yesterday
08. Macedonia // Daniel Kajmakoski - Autumn Leaves
09. Serbia // Bojana Stamenov - Beauty Never Lies
10. Hungary // Boggie - Wars For Nothing
11. Belarus // Uzari & Maimuna - Time
12. Russia // Polina Gagarina - A Million Voices
13. Denmark // Anti Social Media - The Way You Are
14. Albania // Elhaida Dani - I'm Alive
15. Romania // Voltaj - De La Capăt/All Over Again
16. Georgia // Nina Sublatti - Warrior