Eurovision 2024: The Semi-Final Allocation Draw Results!
Malmö with a very nice event hosted a few minutes ago the draw for the semi-finals of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest.
The analyzes of the fans and not only, have been on fire for a few minutes now. Since the theories based on the pre-history of the countries in the competition, it is a first insight into how passable the qualification to the final is or not. In other words, it’s time to make our predictions, about who will go through to the final and who are the favorites to say goodbye to Malmö early…
The presenters and the handover ceremony
Presenters of the Eurovision 2024 semi-final draw were Pernilla Månsson Colt and Farah Abadi. It is worth mentioning that Pernilla Månsson Colt was also the presenter of the corresponding draw in 2013, eleven years ago when Malmö hosted the Eurovision Song Contest for the last time. Both of them are part of the SVT staff, being some of the most beloved faces of the Swedish state broadcaster.
During the draw, the ceremony of handing over and accepting the emblem of the contest took place. The mayor of Liverpool, Steven Rotheram, formally handed over the “keys to the event” to the mayor of Malmö, Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh.
Draw Procedure
Big 5 and Sweden
With the big winner of last year’s competition, Sweden, directly in the final, along with the Big 5 (UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain), the first part of the draw determined the semi-final that the direct finalists would vote for.
Will vote in the 1st Semi-Final:
- Sweden
- United Kingdom
- Germany
Will vote in the 2nd Semi-Final:
- Spain
- Italy
- France
In the semi-final that the six aforementioned countries were drawn to broadcast and vote for, the video from their dress rehearsal will also be shown. This was done at Eurovision 2016 for the first time, for reasons of equal exposure of the countries directly in the final and the countries that qualify from the semi-finals. Essentially, viewers see each entry twice during the shows.
Semi-Final Allocation Draw
The allocation draw for the two semi-finals had two parts. In the first part the 31 countries participating in the semi-finals were drawn in which of the two they will compete in. Fifteen countries will compete in the first semi-final and sixteen in the second semi-final.
In the second part, each country learned whether it will appear in the first or second half of the semi-final in which it will compete. The exact order of appearance will be determined by the EBU and the show’s producers at a later date.
1st Semi-final (May 7):
1st Half
- Ukraine
- Cyprus
- Poland
- Serbia
- Lithuania
- Croatia
- Ireland
2nd Half
- Slovenia
- Iceland
- Finland
- Portugal
- Luxembourg
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Moldova
2nd Semi-Final (May 9):
1st Half
- Austria
- Malta
- Switzerland
- Greece
- Czechia
- Albania
- Denmark
- Armenia
2nd Half
- Israel
- Estonia
- Georgia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Latvia
- San Marino
- Belgium
Malmö will host the 68th Eurovision Song Contest from 7 to 11 May at the Malmö Arena. The motto of this year’s event, as chosen by the organisers, is “United by Music“, retaining the motto first chosen for last year’s contest in Liverpool.
You can see the draw again through the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_-2hMEq5sk
Stay tuned to Eurovisionfun for all the developments regarding Eurovision 2024!
