ESC 2025: Switzerland will perform from spot #19 in the final

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With the head of delegation meeting finally taking place, we have also reached other deadlines. There might still be 2 months until the grand final, but there is also a reason why the deadline is as it is.

Head of delegation meeting

To begin with, representatives from each delegation travel to the host city, to be briefed about the progress regarding how the upcoming contest is coming all together. This can be done in various ways, with a presentation, a trip to the hosting venue, a small tour of the host city and so on.

Very soon, the host venue, which will be the St. Jakobshalle, will be restructured on the inside, in order to set up the stage for the contest. This will take a few weeks, in order to check if lights, screen and any component of the stage is fully functional.

When the stage is ready to go, all the staging ideas by the delegations will be tested out by replacement singers and dancers, who all will be practicing the full on staging ideas, while the stage is being built. Then, the stage will be tested with these singers and dancers before the full delegations starting arriving in May.

This is why the head of delegation from each of the 37 countries are briefed about these things, and why they need to submit their songs and ideas by now.

Switzerland’s drawing number

As we’ve seen for more than a decade now, the running order is randomly selected by the producers, in order to create the best flow in the show – song wise, that is. This is why the running order is carefully considered.

However, there is always one country who is never included in this process, and that is the host country. Switzerland will host this year’s contest as we all know, so therefore, their position in the running order, is randomly decided by a draw.

Here it was decided that Switzerland will perform from slot number 19 in the grand final.

The running order for the semi-finals will be decided in the coming weeks instead, now that all the 37 acts and songs have been revealed and decided upon.

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Source(s): Eurovision.TV