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Eurovision 2018 Semi Final One: results

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Ten acts have qualified from Semi Final One for the Eurovision Song Contest Final this weekend.

Bookies favourites Israel, Cyprus, and Estonia were amongst the 10 countries who qualified early this morning (Australian time) in Lisbon.

Amongst those to miss out were Belgium, ranked ahead of Australia according to the bookies, Belarus and Greece.

Qualifiers in bold:

01 Azerbaijan Aisel “X My Heart”
02 Iceland Ari Ólafsson “Our Choice”
03 Albania Eugent Bushpepa “Mall”
04 Belgium Sennek “A Matter of Time”
05 Czech Republic Mikolas Josef “Lie to Me”
06 Lithuania Ieva Zasimauskaitė “When We’re Old”
07 Israel Netta “Toy”
08 Belarus Alekseev “Forever”
09 Estonia Elina Nechayeva “La Forza”
10 Bulgaria Equinox “Bones”
11 Macedonia Eye Cue “Lost and Found”
12 Croatia Franka “Crazy”
13 Austria Cesár Sampson “Nobody but You”
14 Greece Yianna Terzi “Oniro mou”
15 Finland Saara Aalto “Monsters”
16 Armenia Sevak Khanagyan “Qami”
17 Switzerland ZiBBZ “Stones”
18 Ireland Ryan O’Shaughnessy “Together”
19 Cyprus Eleni Foureira “Fuego”

SBS screened the event Live this morning with commentary by Joel Creasey and Myf Warhurst, to be repeated tonight at 7:30pm.

Semi Final 2 with Jessica Mauboy will air Live at 5am on Friday with Australians able to vote for the other countries entering. The Final airs Live at 5am Sunday, with primetime replays for both.

This post updates.

Eurovision Song Contest 2018: Guide

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  1. And SBS is copping a whacking on social media tonight by quietly ditching their “#SBSEurovision” Twitter hashtag and trying to get people to use the generic “#Eurovision”. Then when displaying tweets on screen in the prime time broadcast they are from people in UK, Canada and Europe who tweeted them hours earlier and had nothing to do with following the SBS broadcast. Not good to try and engage real-time discussion from the viewers only to snub those viewers in favour of cold tweets from the other side of the world. So to SBS, don’t try to put one over people on social media because they will find you out!

  2. The only real scandal of semi 1 is SBS’s efforts to drop the #SBSEurovision hashtag on Twitter in favour of the generic #eurovision. Boooooo.

  3. I thought the stage looked incredible. I was worried about going LED free but they really did a great job. Not as good as Stockholm but better than Kyiv in my opinion.

    It was the best and toughest semifinal ever – semi final 2 will be a let down in comparison. I picked 7 of 10 qualifiers – I had hoped Azerbaijan, Switzerland and Belarus would get through but can understand why they didn’t and there’s noone who made it through who doesn’t deserve to be in the final. Again, SF2 will be a letdown – if only they had a wildcard round!

  4. I can see why Cyprus is the new bookies favourite, that song was a banger with an awesome perforce to boot.

    But for me its Finland, I loved Saara when she was on The X Factor, she is quite bonkers and that song was thumping!!!

    Switzerland were robbed not to go through. Albania was awful how that got through ill never know! Onwards and upwards to semi final number 2 and Our Jess!!!

  5. I was an early riser this morning (who knew how dark it is at 5am!) and thought it was a solid semi-final. I thought the second-half was stronger than the first in terms of performances. I think deciding not to have the LED wall behind the stage was a mistake, without the visual effects behind the performances, it didn’t have quite the same feel to me personally. Looking forward to the second semi with Australia!

    1. I think the lack of LED has made for some more creative staging.

      I thought Azerbaijan would get through though. They usually do (or even win) even with ordinary songs, and their song this year was actually good. Maybe being first on stage was unfortunate.

      I think Joel and Myf are settling in well in their 2nd year as commentators.

      Biggest shock, realising that the Food Lovers Guide to Australia as the lead-in show was not made in widescreen in 2002! 🙂

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