1st semi final results

Last night the first semi final of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow kicked off. The reactions I have read/heard are that most agree it was a fabulouus show, however the flashing lights on stage were somewhat distracting, the presenters were disappointing and did an amateurish impression, and lastly that the interval act lacked the big impact it should have or could have had. Hopefully many of these aspects will be improved by tomorrow's show. Below are the 10 qualifiers from yesterday's semi final:

Sweden

Armenia

Turkey

Israel (my guess is this was the jury choice)

Iceland

Romania

Finland

Portugal

Malta

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Congratulations to myself as I got 8 out of the 10 right in my prediction. Not bad. A press conference followed an hour after the show finished where two representatives from each country drew their start number in the final. After this draw the final now looks like this:

01 -

02 Israel

03 France

04 Sweden

05 -

06 Portugal

07 Iceland

08 -

09 Armenia

10 Russia

11 -

12 Bosnia & Herzegovina

13 -

14 Malta

15 -

16 -

17 Germany

18 Turkey

19 -

20 -

21 -

22 Romania

23 United Kingdom

24 Finland

25 Spain