Eurovision

Now that the results from the final have been announced, the scores from the semi-finals have been revealed.

Here is the order of how the first semi-final acts placed. The ones in bold moved on to the final round (the top 9, plus the one jury pick):

1. Iceland
2. Turkey
3. Bosnia and Herzegovina
4. Sweden
5. Armenia
6. Malta
7. Israel
8. Portugal
9. Romania
10. Macedonia
11. Montenegro
12. Finland
13. Belarus
14. Switzerland
15. Andorra
16. Bulgaria
17. Belgium
18. Czech Republic

Here’s the order of how the second semi-final acts placed:

1. Norway
2. Azerbaijan
3. Estonia
4. Greece
5. Moldova
6. Ukraine
7. Albania
8. Denmark
9. Lithuania
10. Serbia
11. Ireland
12. Poland
13. Croatia
14. Cyprus
15. Hungary
16. Slovenia
17. Netherlands
18. Slovakia
19. Latvia

Here’s how the placement would have been if the points from the semi-finals had determined the winners (note that France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, and Russia did not have to participate in the semi-finals, so I left them out of this, because using their final votes would have skewed these numbers. In bold are the countries that progressed to the finals; the ones with asterisks were the jury votes):

1. Norway
2. Azerbaijan
3. Iceland
4. Turkey
5. Bosnia and Herzegovina
6. Estonia
7. Greece
8. Moldova
9. Sweden
10. Armenia
11. Malta
12. Ukraine
13. Israel
14. Albania
15. Portugal
16. Denmark
17. Romania
18. Lithuania
19. Serbia
20. Ireland
21. Macedonia
22. Montenegro
23. Poland
24. Finland*
25. Croatia*
26. Cyprus
27. Belarus
28. Hungary
29. Switzerland
30. Slovenia
31. Netherlands
32. Slovakia (tie for 32nd)
32. Andorra (tie for 32nd)
34. Latvia (tie for 34th)
34. Bulgaria (tie for 34th)
36. Belgium
37. Czech Republic

The semi-final results (which are not counting the “Big Four” and host countries) are pretty close to what the final results ended up being; perhaps this is why these results are only published after the final contest, as to make the final more exciting. The top four are the same, though places 2 and 3 were switched in the final. Bosnia and Herzegovina scored surprisingly high in the semi-finals, probably more from sympathy votes than votes for the actual performance.

Also, it is interesting knowing which entries were the jury’s picks, and which were the general public’s picks. Granted, the jury picks were the highest-placing jury-vote entry that did not qualify from the televoting. Still, I’m wondering what the jury saw in Finland’s act that they didn’t see in, say, Switzerland’s.

Overall it’s interesting to see which entries were not popular at all. The Czech entry (with the orange jumpsuit and SuperGipsy) received zero points, Belgium’s Elvis impersonator received just one point; Bulgaria’s awful performance did well comparatively with a grand total of seven points from the semi-final.

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovision_Song_Contest_2009

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