The results of both semifinals have now been released by the EBU. They make interesting reading. The jury overturned the telephone vote to save countries in each of the semifinals. Quite annoying if your country finished 10th in the phone vote.
In a contest which nobody could call close, Norway won the 54th Eurovision Song Contest in the Olympiyskiy Arena in Moscow. He scored a record 387 points, leaving him a long way in front of Iceland and Azerbaijan in second and third places respectively.
A week into rehearsals and finally the five countries already in the final took to the stage. Before that, it was the turn of some of the remaining countries in Thursday’s second semifinal to rehearse for the second time.
Over the last couple of weeks, Eurovisionary has assessed the chances of the songs competing in the semifinals. Now it is time to analyse the chances of the ‘big 4’ and the hosts.
Alex & Oscar will be representing Germany at the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest with this song called Miss Kiss Kiss Bang. Last year Germany were in the final where they finished 23rd.
They have come in for a lot of criticism since the introduction of the semifinals, but the Big Four are showing that this year, they really do mean business.