
Just like that… we have our 26 finalists! On a quick sad note, it’s also a sign of it’s soon all over, but let’s stay positive and keep the excitement going, soon we’ll crown a new European champion when it comes to music, but the question is, who will it be?
5 spots left in both halves
Let’s once again congratulate the 10 new finalists from the second semi-final, beingย ๐ฆ๐ฒ Armenia, ๐ช๐ช Estonia, ๐ง๐ช Belgium, ๐จ๐พ Cyprus,ย ๐ต๐ฑ Poland, ๐ธ๐ฎ Slovenia, ๐ฆ๐น Austria, ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania, ๐ฑ๐น Lithuania and ๐ฆ๐บ Australia.
These 10 qualifiers were all picked by the televote only, since for 2023, the juries have been removed from the semi-finals, and by the time of writing, there has been no indication from the EBU, that there was any need to intervene in the voting.
As we learned from after the first semi-final, the qualified acts would pick their halves first, before getting to the winner’s press conference. This is where the acts who qualified, will draw out of a bowl whether they get to perform in the first half or in the second half.
We also know, that after the finalists from the first semi-final qualified, there would only be 5 spots left in both the first and second half, so let’s see how it went for our 10 new finalists as follow:
- Entering in the first half of the grand final:
- Albania ๐ฆ๐ฑ
- Cyprus ๐จ๐พ
- Estonia ๐ช๐ช
- Austria ๐ฆ๐น
- Poland ๐ต๐ฑ
- Entering in the second half of the grand final:
- Belgium ๐ง๐ช
- Lithuania ๐ฑ๐น
- Australia ๐ฆ๐บ
- Armenia ๐ฆ๐ฒ
- Slovenia ๐ธ๐ฎ
With that, we now know all the 26 countries that will take part in the final and we now which half all country will participate in and more specifically, we know where Ukraine and the United Kingdom will be as well.
Just to put everything into proper perspective, below you’ll see how it all looked prior to the second semi-final took place:
First half countries:
- ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland
- ๐ซ๐ท France
- ๐ฎ๐น Italy
- ๐ต๐น Portugal
- ๐ท๐ธ Serbia
- ๐ช๐ธ Spain
- ๐ธ๐ช Sweden
- ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland
Second half countries:
- ๐ญ๐ท Croatia
- ๐จ๐ฟ Czech Republic
- ๐ฉ๐ช Germany
- ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel
- ๐ฒ๐ฉ Moldova
- ๐ณ๐ด Norway
- ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine – performing 19th
- ๐ฌ๐ง United Kingdom – performing 26th
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