The Grand Final of the 63rd Eurovision Song Contest will take place on May 12th at the Altice Arena of Lisbon, Portugal. Forty-three artists will take to the stage over three nights to perform their contributions for the contest, fighting to become the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. The first ten qualifiers have been revealed and now at the qualifiers press conference the half in which they perform will be drawn.
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23:45 CET – The press conference is now underway, it will be around 5-10 minutes until we get the first interview.
23:53 CET – We’re still waiting for just two more countries to be introduced.
23:55 CET – We’re now got the ten finalists.
23:58 CET – It appears that they are asking two questions to all of the qualifiers first and then doing the draw.
00:01 CET – We expect that we won’t get the first draw for another twenty minutes.
00:13 CET – We’ve now made it up to Czech Republic in the questions.
00:20 CET – Questions for Albania now, then we will have Finland & Ireland and the draw will take place.
00:30 CET – The interview questions have now ended.
00:34 CET – The draw has now been completed:
- Austria first half
- Estonia first half
- Cyprus second half
- Lithuania first half
- Czech Republic second half
- Bulgaria second half
- Israel second half
- Albania first half
- Finland second half
- Ireland second half
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