The new two semifinal format with the voting division has worked, one can think by looking at the map of qualified countries. It's more evenly spread than for a long time. Besides the Big4 (UK, Germany, France, Spain) we can add Portugal and Israel from the "old countries". Three countries from the ex-Yogoslavia made it: Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia besides Serbia. Two countries from the Baltics: Latvia and Poland. Four countries from the Balcans: Turkey, Greece, Romania and Albania and also four countries from the ex-USSR: Russia, Georgia, Latvia and Ukraine. Add new comer Azerbaidjan and relatively new Armenia. Surprisingly the strongest block comes from the Nordic countries: all of them (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland) made it to the final for the first time since 2000! Now let's see on Saturday how they will spread up on the scoreboard....
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