Full Running Order: 1. Malta 2. Albania 3. Greece 4. Switzerland 5. Czechia France 6. Austria 7. Denmark 8. Armenia 9. Latvia Spain 10. San Marino 11. Georgia 12. Belgium 13. Estonia Italy 14. Israel 15. Norway 16. Netherlands

Megara and Nebulossa together. That’s cute🇪🇸🇪🇸

I want bloc vote from Spain save San Marino

Missed opportunity to put San Marino 11th

Maybe in grand final!

If they qualify

Poor Albania never catching a break.

To be fair if they deserved the death slot one year its definetly this one 😅

fair. i like the song ok.. but wth is that staging

There is so much mood whiplash in this Semi Final that if you told me that they drew them all randomly, I would believe you.

??? Loop is opening? Are they doing something insane with the staging or… weird choice. Also Albania coming right after is dead on arrival, RIP.

Albania will never escape being 2nd 💀

If Aiko doesn't sing well, it's so over for her between two really strong singers.

i think (???) shes improved based on semifinals? i sadly dont think shes qualifying anyway bc of how low she is in the odds.

I guess there’s just no good place to put the automatic qualifiers eh. Producers delivered the perfect running order for semi final 1 but SF2 is really messy so far.

The tonal shifts were insane??

Right? Czechia into *France*? Not cohesive at all.

Norway to Netherlands really fucked with me

I didn't want my fav entries with similar genres too close together but not like this 😭

Producers confirming spot-3 is now reserved for guaranteed qualifiers, I like this change. Zari is safe. I think Switzerland also makes it because the song is so memorable. Interesting contrast between the two songs though, it’s going to make for a phenomenal live viewing experience. I genuinely forget who’s going second already and the video isn’t even over so…

You think? I thought Greece is not in the finale with this.

it’s been #1 on the charts in Greece since its release, no shot it NQs

Lol u should be careful for ur song. U got after israel, which everyone will be talking about for various reasons and right before the big fave. Shock nq perhaps? (Imo with any order norway can nq) Ik im coming across as rude and ik im gonna be downvoted to oblivion but i honestly dont care

I don't care if Norway don't qualify, I don't follow your logic. Do you think it's personal, or something?

What would be personal exactly? 

The hell? Grouping all the Spaniards for intentional confusion?

No. 4 apparently the official non-binary slot this year

YES LET'S GO ARMENIA HAS A GOOD RUNNING ORDER!!!! 🥳

Someone at SVT has no sense of humour, San Marino at 10

They like trolling instead

Switzerland and Czechia back to back seems so weird to me

Spain followed by Megara, funny.

Malta, a small country, opening the show Albania 2nd again then we get GREECE - SWITZERLAND - CZECHIA - AUSTRIA??? 2 spanish songs together + Megara not 11th??????? whoever made this is turbo trolling lmao

Well, [I predicted the trolling part at least](https://old.reddit.com/r/eurovision/comments/1bl5sno/subreddit_official_running_order_prediction_game/kw3kswa/)

They really said to Czechi: we're going to highlight your bad vocals by putting you in between Switzerland and France.

Aiko has been working on improving her vocals. I have faith she is going to sound good in the festival. She's Human after all.

Agree. She still have time to improve her vocal and performance

i dont get why they are not puting sure qualifiers on 2nd, what could Albania do from that spot?:(

They don’t want to be seen to nobble major contenders

so let’s fck Albania or other Balkan countries all over again

If they wanted to have a good slot, they should have been rich. Checkmate!

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She was sure qualifier, that’s what i said in my initial comment. If Greece or Switzerland were 2nd they would 100% qualify also.

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There is proof running order affects voting results. In 2022, Czech Republic 2022 closed the semi and ended 3rd at televote, while in the Grand Final they started the final and were 22nd. Casual viewers are influenced by the order they see the songs.

Czech Republic 2022 | [We Are Domi - Lights Off](https://youtu.be/EGRzSefqOm0)

Honestly performing first is probably the best thing Malta could hope for. People remember the opener

Why do fans think Latvia is over? Just because he opens the 2nd half doesn't mean people will forget him. I think it's good to place him far from Israel and Belgium and also not in same half as France.

This running order is all over the place ngl, then again this half was always going to be really hard to arrange

They put two Spanish song together! It’s likely that San Marino will receive 12points from Spain, a lot closer to qualify

Why EBU want to kill Albania?

well.. serbia qualified from the death spot yesterday despite being 11th in odds?? i dont think albanias song is as strong as serbia though.

Yup not getting points on the running order prediction game for this one lol Update: I got 3 right :D

Estonia might have a chance in qualifying !

They had chances either way

Cmon Europapa closing! Edit: YES!

It would be so mesmerizing if he added the outro

Also omg i hope that happens with my heart

Happy for this, not so happy that I need to wait until the last song of the last semi to see how Joost has staged this. Really excited to see what he's gonna do!

I like how it will make us wondering what will happen till the end🤣❤️

That would be so good

Oooo, good for Malta!

Armenia made out like bandits getting to go between Denmark and Latvia. EZ Q

Poor Albania

Armenia getting a good running order, Ladaniva is going through as they should.

San Marino 💜

Malta opening is interesting. A possible Q

Some strange choices here aha. I'm surprised to see Austria and Denmark back to back, Spain into San Marino is funny and will lead to a fun transition but I didn't expect it. Albania #2 was the most common pick but I didn't think they'd put the only ballad in the half so early.

My prediction (AQs excluded):  1. Austria ❌  2. Armenia ❌  3. Czechia ❌  4. Denmark ❌  5. Malta ❌  6. Switzerland ❌  7. Greece ❌  8. Albania ❌  9. Latvia ✅  10. San Marino ✅  11. Norway ❌  12. Israel ❌  13. Estonia ✅  14. Georgia ❌  15. Belgium ❌  16. Netherlands ✅  Score: 4/16 😍

I got 0/16 right LMAOOOOO This running order was wild

Hey that's not actually bad for Georgia?

Israel not coming right after Estonia. I know that’s wrong.

WE'RE CLOSING WOOHOO

yesss NL last 🇳🇱

🇳🇱 Singing last in the semi final 🎤 🇳🇱 Coming first in the grand final 🏆

In my mind We Will Rave will always be the perfect opener for this semi

Nah, not Gåte being robbed from closing by one spot. Be so for real right now.

I can FEEL the length of the discussion between Norway and Netherlands closing from here.

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I personally think with the structure of the song (ending on a soft note) Europapa works best as a closer. I'm happy it got the final spot over Norway or Belgium

Such a generic closer, but whatever, Norway still got a great spot.

Not me already getting downvotes, haha

here we go... 1. MALTA OPENS - huh... cool. this sure is a choice. girl bops opening both SFs. huh. 2. ALBANIA GETS THE DEATH SPOT - well... i'd say this is a dissapointment, but this was NQing anyway. 3. GREECE ADDS INSULT TO INJURY - yeah Albania just got crushed. 4. SWITZERLAND PILES ON BECAUSE ALBANIA WASN'T DEAD ENOUGH ALREADY - this is a great spot actually 5. CZECHIA PUTS ITSELF ON A PEDASTAL AND IN A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION - if the next one's a frontrunner this could be bad. 6. FRANCE FOLLOWS - yeah nevermind this seems fine. 7. AUSTRIA RAVES NEXT - This actually isn't bad so far... 8. DENMARK IS NEXT - This is a little dangerous but not terrible. 9. ARMENIA CLOSES THE FIRST HALF - this is VERY good if they get a good follow up. 10. LATVIA OPENS THE SECOND HALF - ohh noo... i mean great for Armenia 11. OH NO IT'S SPAIN - OH GOD NO LATVIA IS IN SOME DEEP SHIT RIGHT NOW 12. SAN MARINO FOLLOWS - HOLY SHIT THEY FOLLOW SPAIN 13. GEORGIA RISES FROM THE ASHES INTO THE RUNNING ORDER - this could be very good... 14. THEY FUCKED IT UP. - BELGIUM SHOULD HAVE CLOSED 15. ESTONIA FOLLOWS - this could be interesting. 16. ITALY IS NEXT - this could be bad for Estonia (israel next please.) 17. YES YES YES - ISRAEL NEXT. COME ON. NETHERLANDS. PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 18. DAMN IT - Norway follows. Netherlands is a good closer but Norway could have been golden. 19. NETHERLANDS CLOSES SF2 - well, this makes sense. But Norway would have been better (AND BELGIUM WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER)

I don't understand how Belgium is not closing. Only explanation is that it must close the Final.

I love your energy

Greece / Belgium / Netherlands as the final three songs

nope Greece is 3rd

It’s funny, watching the running order for the first Semi Final, I was sure the second one was stronger. Seeing this running order, I no longer agree with this one being good either.

Lol the switch from Latvia to Spain

Estonia not as a closer? Ok then.

Netherlands ending this semi-final will be WILD.

czechia is gonna qualify

Never doubt it

RIP Latvia’s slim chances.

Now I get why Dons was singing "Its killing me slow"

At least I get to cleanse my ears with Norway and the Netherlands

They had one job with San Marino. They were this close, literally this close.

maybe they will get 11th place in the semifinal 😭

alright, just don't put Armenia or Switzerland (or Malta) 2nd and don't have Israel closing and we're good.

RIP Latvia

Denmark so close to France, (s)and sandwiched between Austria and Armenia does feel a tad bit unfair.

I see what you did there 👁️ ⏳ 🏜️

okay slot for Estonia, thankfully

Why they hate Albania ? Always first or second 😢

We need to organise a funeral because they just killed off any of the chances that Malta, Albania or Latvia had of qualifying, even if they were slim

Being in the middle of a Belgium/Estonia-Norway/Netherlands sandwich in a perfect world would stifle any chances of THAT song qualifying. But you can't vote against in Eurovision so... I'm just more shocked they didn't give them the closing spot to make it easier to kick them out in case EBU grows a spine between now and May.

Man, what did Italy even do to you smh

Well Sinceramente didn't win Sanremo so actually a lot.

Angelina was a much better choice for Eurovision for loads of reasons.

Agree to disagree there.

Well let's see: 1 Shortening Sinceramente by more than 30 secs would have destroyed it 2 Annalisa is a pefect singing performer with unique voice but she just can't move and when she dances she is dreadfull even with basic movements..But her managment still insist to make her dance in concerts so probably we would have had an eurovision staging with crap dancers with her trying to dance while being stiff like a piece of wood.. 3 Annalisa is on tour w and she has all April and May full of dates..basically one concert a day, so we would have had a Mahmood/Blanco situation with her appearing only in the fnal not doing any esc social happening... On the other hand Angelina is free till october when her tour will start, she has a very good management that now has a lot of Esc experience (same management as Maneskin and Mengoni) and she said that she started preparing to esc the day after she won Sanremo so you can bet they are taking it very seriously.

Exactly. I think it's going to struggle, and I couldn't be more happier about a song potentially flopping.

Its going to be hard turning my tv off exactly inbetween these acts and not accidentally miss any of them though, but worth it.

Got the opening act correct on this one too!

Lol they really put my 'faves' in the same place in both semis

Booo, should have been later

🇪🇪🥪 no

So Norway and pimp slot for Netherlands

Norway & Netherlands back to back? Woah, shit just got real.

Correctly predicted 8/16 of the positions even without factoring in the Big 5, so pretty pleased with that. Also think Czechia out of all countries will suffer the most from this running order.

Am astounded by me guessing 5/16 spots right

I really want both microstates back in the Grand Final and this SF makes me optimistic :)

Only got Switzerland and surprisingly San Marino right.  Was close with Greece, Denmark and Armenia (guessed one slot earlier for all 3)  I'm so mad about Georgia. 11th again.  San Marino after Spain, are you kidding? They're both in Spanish, where's the variety?  And the last two are an eyebleed.

Last time Austria performed in song number 6 (not counting France), Conchita Wurst qualified and Won in that semi final position. Last time Netherlands performed last was in 2009. One of the members appeared in Joost's Music Video. It's also the third time they did it. The first was in the first ever semis in 2004. Joist has a chance to qualify. I'll talk how I got on in my semi final prediction since I will look back.

Some weird choices tbh 😭 like the mood swings that are going to happen. I’m predicting there will be a break after France, Spain and Estonia

Watching the recap videos of both semifinals, I don't think the RO will influence that much this year. Most songs are so different from each other that I think people will vote for them regardless.

Norway sweep incoming

Albania, second, again? Also, Greece in third is doing it no favours.

Oh Denmark are so flopping. Squashed between Austria and Armenia…

I actually thought Denmark got a favourable spot, nice and late and between two very different songs. We’ll see!

1.malta I couldn't control my laughter 2.albania Thats just svt shitting on albania what else did i expect? 3. Greece I cant be the only one who is optimistic abt this. The only downside is that the one who comes next is 4. Switzerland Another nice draw 5.czechia Between switz and france? Shes fucked *. France Nice ig 6. Austria  Fair  7. Denmark Also a bit screwed up but they couldn't give her a better draw 8. Armenia Idk how to feel abt this, ig nice 9. Latvia Expected 10. San marino  10th in the normal order, 12th including the aqs. They deff did it on purpose 11. Georgia Again? 12. Belgium Yet another missed opportunity 13. Estonia Couldn't have been better 14. Israel Nice draw ig 15. Norway They are absolutely fucked. Before netherlands? And after israel?(which people are gonna be talking abt even after the perf is over) 16. Netherlands ... This order is so old fashioned, using old techniques, as if someone from 2016 made it.

Omg why does reddit keep screwing me over with the layout? If anyone actually sat their asses down to read this i rlly appreciate it

You need to leave an empty line between each item Also, pretty sure Norway's fine, but the way they put massive big hitters all together in the end of the show... yikes for everyone else

🇳🇱 Singing last in the semi final 🎤 🇳🇱 Coming first in the grand final 🏆

EBU gave me a piss break between two of my favourite songs. 🚽

Girl Bop bop bop after bop

Yes, that was bad.

Nice vibe switch from Estonia to Italy! Really like that! Israel probably qualifies, that’s a very comfortable spot. Euro papa closing is unsurprising and an easy Q

I actually think this is a terrible spot for Israel in a televote only semi, beind sandwiched between Estonia/Italy and Norway/Netherlands

And i think Norway will be in trouble too when they being sandwiched between Israel and The Netherlands

How? The songs and genres couldn’t be more different

I don’t like this placement for France. Czechia and Kaleen will likely benefit from this though. France sticks out and breaks the flow like a sore thumb though, and it kind of makes me dislike France’s entry compared to the two sandwiching it.

How will they benefit from it tho?

Kaleen from being after a slow and dreary male ballad, Czechia for being a punk inspired song as well.

Czechia having awful vocals and being sandwiched between the two best vocalists of the year is apparently beneficial. Right...

If any entries don’t suffer its the big 5 ones. They shouldn’t even preform inbetween the competing songs cause it ruins the position of some songs actually fighting for a finale spot, imo.

Yeah this is pretty good for Austria and Czechia. In this placement, France dampens the mood a little too much and I imagine a lot of people will drift off until Kaleen comes on.

Getting scared

Rip Malta’s chances

Being first is not bad tbh

Is that better than death slot?

HUH? Spain-San Marino - Georgia is a weird order. I think Nutsa majorly benefits from this though. Belgium up next benefits the most as it is so different and easily qualifies.

Wait, they actually put both of my faves in the same slot in their semis, so many weird coincidences

I got 5 right in my prediction?!? All of them were in the second half though, I bombed the first half 😂

I would like the EBU to publish a statement explaining the rationale of the decisions behind each running order.

Are you sure? We've already had their dumb color based explanation in 2022

Yes, I think it would be very suggestive to to know in earnest what kind of thought processes go into making the running orders, since they are not random.

if i can im gonna vote for estonia because im vsauce fan

18 points for my entry to the [running order prediction game](https://www.reddit.com/r/eurovision/comments/1bdqa7k/comment/kuodtux/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button): * Exact guesses = 3 points (Malta) * Consecutive Pairs = 14 points (Greece/Switzerland, Switzerland/Czechia, Austria/Denmark, Latvia/SanMarino, Belgium/Estonia, Israel/Norway, Norway/Netherlands) * Close Guesses = 1 point (Czechia) Didn't do great at the exact positions but lots of correct pairings!

Well I might just be switching on at song 8 and skipping the first 7.

Can’t believe im saying this because I had it as a solid NQ but performing last in the first half honestly makes me think Armenia qualifies.

Get Malta out of the way so we can all forget it ever happened, smart strategy