ESC 2010: From Moldova to Iceland, from Lithuania to Turkey

Semifinal 1 on May 25, 2010

1. MOLDOVA
2. RUSSIA
3. ESTONIA
4. SLOVAKIA
5. FINLAND
6. LATVIA
7. SERBIA
8. BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA
9. POLAND
10. BELGIUM
11. MALTA
12. ALBANIA
13. GREECE
14. PORTUGAL
15. FYR MACEDONIA
16. BELARUS
17. ICELAND

Semifinal 1 on May 27, 2010

1. LITHUANIA
2. ARMENIA
3. ISRAEL
4. DENMARK
5. SWITZERLAND
6. SWEDEN
7. AZERBAIJAN
8. UKRAINE
9. NETHERLANDS
10. ROMANIA
11. SLOVENIA
12. IRELAND
13. BULGARIA
14. CYPRUS
15. CROATIA
16. GEORGIA
17. TURKEY

Final on May 29, 2010:

2. SPAIN
3. NORWAY
12. UNITED KINGDOM
18. FRANCE
22. GERMANY

The voting order has been drawn as well despite the rumours NRK would use a help of a computer to determinate the order to create a thriller. Well, in a year like 2009 or 2006 with a runaway winner even that would not have made it exciting....

VOTING ORDER

1 Romania 2 Ireland 3 Germany 4 Serbia 5 Albania 6 Turkey 7 Croatia 8 Poland 9 Bosnia & Herzegovina 10 Finland 11 Slovenia 12 Estonia 13 Russia 14 Portugal 15 Azerbaijan 16 Greece 17 Iceland 18 Denmark 19 France 20 Spain 21 Slovakia 22 Bulgaria 23 Ukraine 24 Latvia 25 Malta 26 Norway 27 Cyprus 28 Lithuania 29 Belarus 30 Switzerland 31 Belgium 32 United Kingdom 33 The Netherlands 34 Israel 35 FYR Macedonia 36 Moldova 37 Georgia 38 Sweden 39 Armenia.

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