ARMENIA WILL TAKE 8TH PLACE IN EUROVISION SEMIFINAL, FORECASTS SAY

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
12.05.2009 21:50 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Readers and members of independent Eurovision Song
Contest website have been predicting the outcome of each Semifinal,
and the results are grouped geographically and then worked out based
on the Eurovision Song Contest scoring Prediction.

Over 100,000 predictions have been made by more than 6,000 members
of esctoday.com.

The 10 countries predicted to qualify from tonight’s semi final are:

1. Turkey
2. Bosnia Herzegovina
3. Sweden
4. Iceland
5. Malta
6. Finland
7. Romania
8. Armenia
9. Portugal
10. Switzerland

Contest participants from 18 countries, including Inga and Anush with
their song, Nor Par, will be competing for passage to the finals of
May 16.

First contest evening will be hosted by supermodel Natalya Vodyanova
and TV presenter Andrey Malakhov.

After all songs have been performed, viewers can vote by making a
phone call or sending an SMS for their favorite songs. Ten qualified
countries will be announced at the end of each Semifinal.