The Grand Ultimate is ready to happen Saturday, following the second one of 2 semifinals, which is ready to occur on Thursday in Turin, Italy.
After Tuesday’s pageant, musicians representing the next counties are nonetheless in competition: Switzerland, Armenia, Iceland, Lithuania, Portugal, Norway, Greece, Ukraine, Moldova and the Netherlands.
Again in February, organizers for Eurovision caved to public drive and made up our minds that Russia would no longer be allowed to compete within the pageant. The Eu Broadcasting Union, which organizes the competition, had to start with made up our minds it will permit a performer to constitute the rustic, in spite of the rustic’s invasion of Ukraine. It modified route lower than 24 hours later.
Ukraine and others had petitioned to the Eu Broadcasting Union to bar Russia from taking part.
Kalush Orchestra had completed 2d within the nationwide Ukraine ultimate however gained the general public vote. They had been in the long run decided on to exchange Alina Pash, who dropped out of the competition amid controversy over a shuttle she made to Russia-controlled Crimea.
Seventeen international locations carried out within the first spherical of semis and 18 are set to take the degree subsequent.
Within the ultimate, the qualifying 20 international locations will carry out in conjunction with the so-called Large 5 (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK), the international locations that acquire automated access into the general. The host nation could also be given a place within the ultimate, however this 12 months’s host, Italy, was once already integrated.
