Running order for Grand Final revealed!

[cassio]

Wow slovenia no. 1 and Latvia no. 19 + 5 of my favourites in a row Norway, Sweden, Cyprus, Australia and Belgium no toilet break until no 14

 

[GWTW1939]

Pretty much all the pre-contest favorites took some sort of hit except drum roll.........Sweden...what a shock

 

[lavieenrose]

Pictured below are Slovenia, France, the UK, Cyprus, and Albania.

 

[Terence]

Slovenia first :/
Italy last :/

My top 2 opening and closing. Both slaughtered!

 

[A-lister]

They need to effin change this corrupted producers choosing the running order. It's so blatant what's going on. As expected they now killed Israel's chances and boosted Australia's and Sweden's. It's all fixed. Broadcasters need to step up against this crap. The random draw needs to be re-introduced once and for all! I hate what Eurovision has become, it's not a contest for the public anymore but for EBU deciding what type of music and what countries that should be favored. The juries have de facto more power than the people and the running order crap can help make or break for some
entries and now Australia being couped in aswell opening up doors for finally killing the concept once and for all. All has gone down since Jan Ola Sand became the executive and now with Björkman adding crap aswell!!!

 

[Kaz]

Wow, Estonia's chances have just been destroyed. Bring back the random draw.

 

[esteurovision]

This draw was really really bad

 

[GRE]

Oh it seems that someone wanted to destroy chances of Italy & Estonia,
and made sure that Sweden will be the only up tempo song from the 1st half being between two ballads.

 

[carl1]

I dont get why people think Estonia got a poor draw. We got one of the betters.
This will absolutely stand out, it is classy, high quality and people will remember it. This will absolutely destroy the UK.

 

[Terence]

Unless RAI don't want to win this year, I just can't find a reason for Italy at #27.
Top 10 is possible but that's it.

 

[lizzy635]

ORF, who did the draw, knows the results of the semifinals? It's pretty obious from the draw who they are trying to help: Latvia, Belgium, Russia, Italy. But Norway and Sweden following each other? Then they weren't both so high in the semi. Seems very odd to have them together like that.

Estonia 4th sucks and we won't win with that draw. 1st half sucked already and now we didn't get the second part of the first part either. I hoped for the belgium position. That's way I think Belgium and Russia were 1. and 2. in the first semifinal. We'll be very lucky to get to TOP 5.

Who's gonna win i have no clue but those who are sure it's sweden, are setting themselves up for a fall.

 

[Franco]

They have killed and chances.
Considering they were in the 1st half, and got the best possible spots.
Good for and too, near the end of the 2nd half.
Good chances for , which comes after 2 slow ballads.
But the very best place went to , close enough to the end and right after .
After the sloooooow ballad "Wars for nothing", the drums of war of Nina Sublatti are going to leave an impression.

 

[aef]

The running order is just CRAP and nothing else. Why do they have to draw 1st half and 2nd half, this doesn't make any sense???

What came out is just soo bad:
- at #1
- 4 male solo acts from #10 - #13??
- I can basically switch of the tv after Austria as #14 because all my favourites are in the 1st half!

 

[SuperGirl]

ORF, who did the draw, knows the results of the semifinals? It's pretty obious from the draw who they are trying to help: Latvia, Belgium, Russia, Italy. But Norway and Sweden following each other? Then they weren't both so high in the semi. Seems very odd to have them together like that.

Estonia 4th sucks and we won't win with that draw. 1st half sucked already and now we didn't get the second part of the first part either. I hoped for the belgium position. That's way I think Belgium and Russia were 1. and 2. in the first semifinal. We'll be very lucky to get to TOP 5.

Who's gonna win i have no clue but those who are sure it's sweden, are setting themselves up for a fall.

What about Russia and Azerbaijan then?? They were also put together?? But Norway and Sweden together is odd but not Azerbaijan and Russia together?? Hm, your hate for Sweden has not stop I see.

Sweden got the best possible draw we could get. That tell me we won or was at least in top 2 in the semi.

I think Azerbaiijan, Russia and Italy will steal votes from each other.

Also it is very late for them. Will Europe like them after listening to 20+ songs and many vallades in the second half.

 

[randomlinkz]

i have a feeling cyprus actually got a good place considering how drastically different it is to the other two songs around them, georgia also got a good spot as there is only them and germany who is up-tempo in the second half so they have the reverse of the cyprus thing in my opinion

 

[FilipFromSweden]

Russia, Azerbaijan and Italy in the end .. wow .. never seen that one before

Not sure how to feel about Sweden's starting position, would've rather seen him in a later starting position but he does perform between two ballads and last year Conchita won with #11. I don't think nowadays starting positions are as important as everybody makes them, in 2011 Bosnia & Herzegovina had starting position #2 and got the most 12 points of the night. Why are so many complaining about Italy going out as last? That is the golden draw, people are going to have that song fresh in mind when it's time to vote.

And the winner is:

 

[GRE]

Producers should NOT learn the results of the Semis...
They push the favorites every year...
Sweden,Russia,Belgium this year...
Austria,Netherlands,Sweden last year...
Denmark,Ukraine,Russia in 2013...
It's obvious that they have been told the results of the Semis, so that they can give to the favorites the best draw.
And that's not nice.
Actually it's very Melodifestivalen...

 

[FilipFromSweden]

I'm not sure if I prefer the random draw or not. I mean, had it been a random draw there would've been a chance that 3 ballads would've opened the show and perhaps all the up-tempo in the middle of the show and ending with mid-tempo and more ballads, which is kind of bad. But on the other hand it is much more fair and honestly if a song is good enough it will get it's points no matter what starting position it has.

The guy who makes the starting position tweeted before revealing the starting order:

'' Nobody has ever won #eurovision starting second. Mh, thinking of trying to break that negative record... ''

and then he put France in second is he trolling?

 

[Laban19]

Here i was expecting to see Conchitas cleavage... im disappointed

 

[lizzy635]

What about Russia and Azerbaijan then?? They were also put together?? But Norway and Sweden together is odd but not Azerbaijan and Russia together?? Hm, your hate for Sweden has not stop I see.

Sweden got the best possible draw we could get. That tell me we won or was at least in top 2 in the semi.

I think Azerbaiijan, Russia and Italy will steal votes from each other.

Also it is very late for them. Will Europe like them after listening to 20+ songs and many vallades in the second half.

What does Azerbaiijan and Russia being together have anything do with it. They won't outshadow oneanother, they both get their votes from their diaspora and countries how usually vote for them. But Norway and Sweden are both there to cath the Western votes (they are the only Nordic countries after all, same kind of pop music). It really kills Norways chances or it brings Sweden out for the medicore song that it is. Perfect draw for sweden would have been armenia before them.

Feel really bad for Norway. I don't think it's good enough to bring out how awful Sweden is. Estonia would have done it better.