The allocation draw took place this afternoon in Rotterdam. The draw set which countries will compete in which semi final as well as in which semi final each country of the big 6 will vote. Following the results of the draw the allocation was as following:
The following countries will compete in the first semi final on the 12th of May:
First half
- North Macedonia
- Belarus
- Lithuania
- Sweden
- Slovenia
- Australia
- Ireland
- Russia
Second half
- Norway
- Cyprus
- Croatia
- Azerbaijan
- Malta
- Israel
- Ukraine
- Romania
- Belgium
The automatic finalists voting in this semi final are:
- Italy
- Germany
- The Netherlands
The following countries will compete in the second semi final on the 14th of May:
First half
- Austria
- Moldova
- Poland
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Iceland
- Czech Republic
- Greece
- Estonia
Second half
- Denmark
- Bulgaria
- Switzerland
- Finland
- Armenia
- Latvia
- Georgia
- Portugal
- Albania
The automatic finalists voting in this semi final are:
- France
- Spain
- United Kingdom
The first time Eurovision had the semi final system introduced was in 2004 when the contest took place in Istanbul. Since 2008 we were having 2 semi finals in each year. Since the introduction to this system only 2 countries kept their 100% qualification rate and these are Australia and Ukraine. Other countries with remarkable qualification rate are Russia , Sweden, Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Azerbaijan which failed to qualify only once as well as Greece and Romania which failed to qualify twice.
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