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Results Of The Semi Final Allocation Draw Written by on January 31, 2017 | 1 Comment

Who sings in which half, when do the delegations have to arrive, and when do the automatic qualifiers vote? All of that was decided in Kyiv today with the Semi Final allocation draw.

The results of the Semi Final allocation draw are…

Semi Final One

Top Half: Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Finland, Georgia, Montenegro, Portugal, and Sweden.
Bottom Half: Armenia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Iceland, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, and Slovenia.
Also Voting: Italy, Spain, United Kingdom.

Semi Final Two

Top Half: Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Macedonia, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, and Serbia.
Second Half: Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Israel, Lithuania, Norway, San Marino, and Switzerland.
Also Voting: France, Germany, Ukraine.

ESC Insight will have further analysis on the draw- stay tuned!

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One response to “Results Of The Semi Final Allocation Draw”

  1. Cathal says:
    January 31, 2017 at 20:13

    My opinion’s of this draw as a whole changed so much as the day went on, about 6 hours ago I thought that semi 1 was the dream semi to be in and semi 2 was the semi of death but now looking at it I’m starting to think its the other way round, in semi 1 you’ve got Australia,Sweden,Poland,Armenia,Azerbaijan,Greece who you would say have one foot in the final before a song is even picked whereas in semi final 2 you only have Russia and Romania really ( probably Lithuania aswell with there 2nd half draw) but while there are other big name’s in there I dont think any have the ability to send something average and still probably qualify like the 2(3) I mentioned, semi 2 I feel the strongest song’s will probably qualify (baring San Marino probably).