As we are getting closer and closer to the live shows of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest, and the Grand Final being 55 days away, we wanted to start a Eurovision Knockout ‘battles’ on our Twitter, and see which of this year’s 43 acts is going to come out as the winner.
We split the 43 entries in 21 duels of two – as we have an uneven number of participants, we thought it’s only fair for Portugal to be through to the second phase. The duels have been allocated in the alphabetical order of the song titles. In the second phase the winners of each duel from the first round and Portugal are going to be paired in knockouts, thus we will have 11 duels – they’ll be allocated by the alphabetical order of the artists’ names. Apart from the winner of each knockout, the act which lost with the lowest margin will get a ‘wildcard’ for the quarterfinals.
In the quarterfinals, there will be six duels of two, and the winner of each one will go to the Semi Finals. There will be three semi finals, where the winner of each one will go into the Final of three.
The duels in the first round are going to be as follows:
1
Belgium – Sennek – A Matter Of Time
Bulgaria – Equinox – Bones
2
Croatia – Franka – Crazy
Sweden – Benjamin Ingrosso – Dance You Off
3
Georgia – Iriao – For You
Belarus – Alekseev – Forever
4
Cyprus – Eleni Foureira – Fuego
Latvia – Laura Rizzotto – Funny Girl
5
Romania – The Humans – Goodbye
Denmark – Rasmussen – Higher Ground
6
Slovenia – Lea Sirk – Hvala, ne!
Russia – Julia Samoylova – I Won’t Break
7
Montenegro – Vanja Radovanovic – Inje
Estonia – Elina Nechayeva – La Forza
8
Czech Republic – Mikolas Josef – Lie To Me
Poland – Gromee feat. Lukas Meijer – Light Me Up
9
Macedonia – Eye Cue – Lost And Found
Albania – Eugent Bushpepa – Mall
10
France – Madame Monsieur – Mercy
Finland – Saara Aalto – Monsters
11
Moldova – DoReDos – My Lucky Day
Austria – Cesar Sampson – Nobody But You
12
Italy – Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro – Non mi avete fatto niente
Serbia – Sanja Ilic & Balkanika – Nova deca
13
Greece – Yianna Terzi – Oneiro mou
Iceland – Ari Olafsson – Our Choice
14
Netherlands – Waylon – Outlaw In Em
Armenia – Sevak Khanagyan – Qami
15
Switzerland – Zibbz – Stones
United Kingdom – Surie – Storm
16
Malta – Christabelle – Taboo
Norway – Alexander Rybak – That’s How You Write A Song
17
Ireland – Ryan O’Shaughnessy – Together
Israel – Netta – Toy
18
Spain – Alfred & Amaia – Tu cancion
Ukraine – Melovin – Under The Ladder
19
Hungary – AWS – Viszlat nyar
Australia – Jessica Mauboy – We Got Love
20
Lithuania – Ieva Zasimauskaite – When We’re Old
San Marino – Jessika feat. Jenifer Brening – Who We Are
21
Azerbaijan – Aisel – X My Heart
Germany – Michael Schulte – You Let Me Walk Alone
The first knockout has already started! Make sure you follow us on Twitter in order to take part in the game, and not to let your favorite act(s) to be knocked-out.
It's a Eurovision knockout! @LauraGroes vs @EquinoxBulgaria!#eurovision #escknockout
— ESCBubble (@escbubble) March 18, 2018
