Eurovision 2022: The semifinals overall and split results

• Ukraine with Kalush Orchestra won the 66th Eurovision Song Contest coming first among 25 competing finalist. However the semifinals results that led to the final are always interesting to look at after the contest. 

  With the lights going off and the glitter and dust settling down, the Eurovision aftermath is always a field of interest and ongoing talks after the contest. The analytical semifinals results that determined the finalists are some of the figures that always attract the attention and raise discussions among the fans.

  Two semifinals took place before the semi-final from which 10 qualifiers from each semifinal advanced to the Grand final. Lets go an see which countries were on the borderline of qualifying and what happened for others that were favorited to qualify but never made it through. 

  The Eurovision Song Contest concluded with the following overall scoreboard: 

  

   

  Semi-final One analytical results

  The first semi-final took place on May 10, 2022  with 17 countries competed there and also France and Italy voted . Here is how the overall score turned out once the televoting was added to the jury results. 

   

  The Overall score

  

  As one can see Croatia was the closest country to qualify to the grand final from the non-qualifiers but having a significant distance from the last qualifier. Albania who were one of the favorites to qualify eventually finished 12th in the semi-final. Lets go and see the breakdown of results in the semi-final and how the split vote between the jury and the public vote justify the final score of the semi-fina one. 

   

  The First Semi-final Split vote

  

  Croatia came close to qualifying as the juries ranked them at the 10th qualifying position but lost the train after been placed 12th. On the other hand, one of the fan favorites to qualify, got a 9th placing in the televoting while the juries ranked her 14th eliminating her chances of qualifying to the final.  Greece topped the jury voting but came 8th in the jury ranking placing then at the 3rd qualifying spot. Another controversial results is that of Switzerland who got a 5th placing in the jury show but the public place Marius Bear second last in the 16th position, but managed despite the low televoting performance to qualify in the 9th spot. 

   

  Semi-final Two analytical results

  The second semi-final took place on May 12, 202 with 18 countries competing in it and Germany , the United Kingdom and Spain also voted .

   

  The Overall score

  

  In the second semi-final as we can see from the overall scoreboard North Macedonia was the closest country to enter the top-10 qualifying spots as Andrea was place 11th but 20 points away from Azerbaijan which qualified 10th. Cyprus with Adromache, who the betting odds predicted her as potential qualifier was placed 12th in the overall score. Lets go and see the split votes in order to understand further how the overall score came out. 

   

  The Second Semi-final Split vote

  

  Taking a look at the split votes between the juries and the televoting, Sweden was the clear winner in both bodies while Serbia came second on the televoting but was ranked 8th by the juries. Australia came 2nd in the juries but the public gave Sheldon Riley an 8th place in the televoting. The most surprising result though is Azerbaijan which was placed 6th in the Jury voting bit got nul points in the televoting finishing in the last place but however managed to reach the final. The opposite happened for Cyprus who got zero points in the Jury voting but got a 9th qualifying ranking by the public, which wasn't enough for Andromeda to go through to the final. 

   

  Overall Impression

  The overall impression is that like all years the jury votes and the televoting for most of the countries show a slight or wider difference between them. However there are cases where the different ranking between juries and televoting raise lot of questions and arguements on how a committee of five people erase the verdict of thousands of public votes in a very contradicting way. Well it is what is it and we can make hours of discussion on the matter but somehow this element is what makes Eurovision unpredictable and the results exciting. 

   

  News Source: Wikipedia

  Image: EBU/SARAH LOUISE BENNETT

   

   

   

AUTHORS

Angelos D.
Loyal follower of the Eurovision Song Contest since 1987, I've made the competition one of the stories of my life. After attending as accredited press the event for 13 consecutive years along with the 2017-2024 JESC editions, I also enjoy the last three years sharing more Eurovision music through the Eurofans radio's project.