{"id":424945,"date":"2026-05-13T03:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/424945\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:33:10","slug":"draws-for-the-running-order-in-the-grand-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/424945\/","title":{"rendered":"Draws for the running order in the Grand Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shortly after each of the Semi-finals ends, the Grand Final qualifiers will be part of a draw to determine which half of the Grand Final they’ll participate in.<\/p>\n

Each finalist drew for the running order in the Grand Final with three possible outcomes:<\/p>\n

First halfSecond half”Producer’s choice”<\/p>\n

If a country draws “Producer’s choice,” this year’s show producer, \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), can freely decide where in the running order they’ll put the country for the Grand Final.<\/p>\n

Based on the draw, the producer of Eurovision 2026 will decide the running order for the Grand Final. The running order will be decided and announced shortly after Thursday’s Semi-final 2 by the Austrian producer, \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), and approved by the EBU.<\/p>\n

It has already been decided via a draw that Austria will perform as song number 25 in the Grand Final. The draws of the Big-4 countries will be revealed after the Semi-final they preview their song and vote in.<\/p>\n

We will update this story with the results of the draws after the 2nd Semi-final on Thursday\u00b7\u00b7\u00b7<\/p>\n

What is “PRODUCER DECIDES”?<\/p>\n

If a country draws “Producer’s choice,” this year’s show producer, \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF), can freely decide where they’ll put the country in the running order for the Grand Final.<\/p>\n

\"Eurovision<\/p>\n

Related storyEurovision 2026: Semi-finals’ running orders determined<\/p>\n

<\/a>Eurovision Song Contest 2026<\/p>\n

The 70th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in May 2026. The contest will be held in Vienna, Austria and produced by \u00d6sterreichischer Rundfunk (ORF).<\/p>\n

Location<\/a>: Vienna, AustriaParticipants<\/a>: 35Semi-final 1<\/a>: 12 May 2026: The 10 best songs qualify for the Grand FinalSemi-final 2<\/a>: 14 May 2026: The 10 best songs qualify for the Grand FinalGrand Final<\/a>: 16 May 2026: 25 participants \u2013 Austria, Big-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom), 10 best from Semi-final 1, 10 best from Semi-final 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shortly after each of the Semi-finals ends, the Grand Final qualifiers will be part of a draw to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[40671,26175,156,26174,26173,111,139,69,217903,437,26178],"class_list":["post-424945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-draw","tag-ebu","tag-entertainment","tag-esc","tag-eurovision","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-running-order","tag-tv","tag-vienna-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}