FIRST SEMI-FINAL: THE QUALIFIERS!
by Marco Brey
EuroVision Song Contest
e-2008?id=1039
May 20 2008
The First Semi-Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest has
just finished, and the ten countries qualifying for the Final are
known. Read more about the magnificient show and the outcome here
on Eurovision.tv!
The representatives of nineteen countries have presented their
songs tonight in the First Semi-Final of the 2008 Eurovision Song
Contest. The theme of the show, presented by Jovana JankoviÄ~G and
Željko JoksimoviÄ~G, was "City", whereas the theme of the Second
Semi-Final will be "Water". After all songs had been presented,
televoting started in all the participating countries as well as
in Spain and Germany, who are already qualified for the Final, but
were drawn to vote in the First Semi-Final, while the other directly
qualified finalists – France, The United Kingdom and Serbia – get
to vote in the Second Semi-Final. Nine of the qualifying countries
were decided by televoting. Furthermore, the highest placed song in
the result of the national backup juries which was not yet qualified
through televoting got a place in the Final as well. However, the
TV public will only find out which country it was after the Final of
the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday.
The qualifiersThe following countries have qualified for the Final
of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest (in order of announcement):
Greece Romania Bosnia and Herzegovina Finland Russia Israel Azerbaijan
Armenia Poland Norway
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