{"id":13250,"date":"2017-01-25T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T10:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=13250"},"modified":"2017-01-30T13:46:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:46:02","slug":"indeling-halve-finales-op-donderdag-31-januari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/kiev-2017\/indeling-halve-finales-op-donderdag-31-januari\/","title":{"rendered":"finals on Tuesday 31 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The random allocation of countries in the semifinals of the Eurovision song contest in Kiev will as usual be done by means of a draw. The ceremonial draw will take place on Tuesday, January 31 at 11:00 in the Column Hall of Kyiv&#8217;s City State Administration. The organization provides for the final order of occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>During this ceremony, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oU6-80sPdfc\">will be streamed live on Youtube<\/a>, the chairwoman of the City Council of Stockholm, Eva-Louise Slorach Erlandsson, the famous <em>Host City Isignia<\/em> formally hand over to Vitaliy Klychko, the Mayor of Kiev. It is a symbolic <strong>key chain<\/strong> to which the host city a symbol can add. The event will take place in the State administrative centre (photo) of Kiev.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Country more in second semifinal<\/em><\/strong> <strong>Switzerland<\/strong> will take part in the second semifinal, at the request of broadcaster SRF. In it, <strong>Germany<\/strong>will also automatically qualified for the final, vote. ARD has therefore asked. The Organization has also announced that there are <strong>18<\/strong> countries in the first semifinal and <strong>19<\/strong> in the second. In other words: statistically you have as a country more likely on a place in the grand final if you addressed in semifinal 1. From each semi go there namely <strong>ten countries through<\/strong> to the show from Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Belgium and Netherlands<\/strong> down together in &#8216; pool 6 &#8216;. With this distribution tries the EBU so-called neighbors vote. Countries that together in such a pool are often votes on each other. Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland also are in our pool. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/news?id=251653\" target=\"_blank\">More info about those groups<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13251\" src=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16195242_10154962996108007_3372484694063470074_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16195242_10154962996108007_3372484694063470074_n.jpg 669w, https:\/\/songfestival.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/16195242_10154962996108007_3372484694063470074_n-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceremony will take place at 11:00 in Kiev.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":13256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999,2121],"tags":[1053,2603,254,2130,830,2117,66,2983,19,1834,1052],"class_list":["post-13250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algemeen","category-kiev-2017","tag-allocation-draw","tag-blanche","tag-eurosong","tag-eurosong-2017","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-kiev","tag-loting","tag-overhandiging","tag-songfestival","tag-songfestival-2017","tag-trekking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}