- Written by Spiridon Kitsos
Allocation Draw 2018

A few minutes ago, this year's Allocation Draw was completed, a fair process of placing the countries into semi-finals. This year the draw was presented by two wonderful ladies, Filomena Cautela and Sílvia Albero.
After a few minutes the results were as follows:
First Semi-Final, First half
- Albania
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Bulgaria
- Czech Republic
- Estonia
- Iceland
- Israel
- Lithuania
First Semi-Final, Second half
- Armenia
- Austria
- Croatia
- Cyprus
- Finland
- F.Y.R. Macedonia
- Greece
- Ireland
- Switzerland
Second Semi-Final, First half
- Australia
- Denmark
- Norway
- Moldova
- Romania
- Russia
- San Marino
- Serbia
- The Netherlands
Second Semi-Final, Second half
- Hungary
- Georgia
- Malta
- Montenegro
- Latvia
- Poland
- Slovenia
- Sweden
- Ukraine
In the First Semi-Final except all other countries, the right to vote will also have Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal, as well as France, Italy and Germany in the Second Semi-Finals.
(source of images: Eurovision.tv)