[Semi Final 2] The Qualifiers

The Second Semi Final of the 57th Eurovision Song Contest has ended in Baku, Azerbaijan. 10 countries qualified to join the automatic finalists (Big 5 and the host nation) and the 10 qualifiers from the First Semi Final on Tuesday night.

The automatic finalists are United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Azerbaijan.

Joining them are tonight’s qualifiers; Lithuania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Ukraine, Sweden, FYR Macedonia, Norway, Estonia, Malta and Turkey.

Our voters got 7 out 1o tonight as the Netherlands, Belarus and Portugal failed to qualify and Bosnia, Malta and Estonia got through instead.

The final line-up looks like this following the draw after the show and press conference

01. United Kingdom

02. Hungary

03. Albania

04. Lithuania

05. Bosnia & Herzegovina

06. Russia

07. Iceland

08. Cyprus

09. France

10. Italy

11. Estonia

12. Norway

13. Azerbaijan

14. Romania

15. Denmark

16. Greece

17. Sweden

18. Turkey

19. Spain

20. Germany

21. Malta

22. FYR Macedonia

23. Ireland

24. Serbia

25. Ukraine

26. Moldova

It means its an ok draw for Ireland, but an excellent draw for Sweden. It will be a slow start, but it will have some faster songs together. It will be an interesting night.

Related articles

• [Semi-Final 1] The Qualifiers! (escireland.com)
• EBU Press Conference (escireland.com)
• The Results from Eurovision Semi-Final One (joyeurovision.com)
• Dates announced for 2013 Contest (eurovision.tv)