Eurovision

Grand final voting order revealed

The voting order has been revealed for Saturday’s grand final where 43 spokespeople will first reveal their respective countries’ jury vote before the televote decides the winner.

Voting order

1. Ukraine – Nataliia Zhyzhchenko
2. Azerbaijan – Asadov Tural
3. Belarus – NAVIBAND 
4. San Marino – John Kennedy O’Connor 
5. The Netherlands – OG3NE
6. F.Y.R. Macedonia – Jana Burcheska
7. Malta – Lara Azzopardi 
8. Georgia – Tako Gachechiladze 
9. Spain – Nieves Alvarez
10. Austria – Kati Bellowitsch 
11. Denmark – Ulla Essendrop 
12. United Kingdom – Mel Giedroyc 
13. Sweden – Felix Sandman 
14. Latvia – Dagmāra Legante 
15. Albania – Andri Xhahu 
16. Croatia – Uršula Tolj 
17. Ireland – NIcky Byrne 
18. Romania – Sonia Argint-Ionescu 
19. Czech Republic – Radka Rosická 
20. Iceland – Edda Sif Pálsdóttir
21. Moldova – Julieta Ardovan 
22. Belgium – Danira Boukhriss Terkessidis
23. Norway – Aleksander Walmann & JOWST 
24. France – Élodie Gossuin
25. Italy – Giulia Valentina Palermo
26. Australia – Ricardo Goncalves 
27. Estonia – Ott Evestus 
28. Serbia – Dragana Kosjerina 
29. Cyprus – Hovig 
30. Armenia – Arsen Grigoryan
31. Bulgaria – Joanna Dragneva
32. Greece – Olyna (Olympia) Xenopoulou
33. Hungary – Bence Forró
34. Montenegro – Natasa Sotra
35. Germany – Barbara Schöneberger
36. Finland – ABREU 
37. Russia – Alsou
38. Switzerland – Leticia Carvalho 
39. Israel – Lucy Ayoub 
40. Poland – Marcelina Zawadzka 
41. Lithuania – Eglė Daugėlaitė 
42. Slovenia – Amaya
43. Portugal – Pedro Ricardo Pacheco Fernandes 

Notable spokespeople

Unsurpisingly, a lot of countries will have their votes presented by someone related to Eurovision. Naviband from Belarus, OG3NE from The Netherlands, Jana Burcheska from Macedonia, Hovig from Cyprus, Aleksander Walmann & JOWST from Norway, and Tako Gachechiladze from Georgia all represented their respective countries last year.
Furthermore, Ireland will see their votes given by 2016 representative Nicky Byrne. Similarly, Russia’s 2000 artist Alsou will share the country’s votes.

Analysis

In previous years, the voting order left fans scrambling for clues on who’d win. The producers would make the voting order based on predicted televote and jury scores from each country, all to make the voting as exciting as possible. However, no such analysis can be made this year as the voting order was determined weeks ago.
Who do you think will win Eurovision Song Contest 2018? Do you think the voting will be exciting this year? 
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