The bookmakers currently have Australia as one of the top qualifiers from the second semi final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. Jessica Mauboy is listed as one of their top-ten acts
, after the running order for the show on Thursday the 10th of May has been released.
The bookies* say that Sweden, Australia, The Netherlands, Ukraine, Norway, Russia, Poland, Denmark, Latvia and Moldova will make the cut. However, the odds for countries like Serbia and Hungary are pretty close to the last three mentioned nations. Especially when we compare this to the odds for the first semi final.
Odds probably change during the rehearsal weeks
Of course this is a first indicator of how well the songs from each nation will perform in Lisbon. Sometimes the bookmakers make a mistake, like with Finland last year, but usually they are pretty close to call the actual result. However, this goes for the odds in the final week, when we have seen and heard all performances in the rehearsals.
ESCDaily will also be at the scene, covering all the news and rehearsals for you. We will keep out an eye at these odds as well, to provide you with the best preview of the biggest music competition in the world. For now, you can watch the recap again and let us know if you have the same ten qualifiers at this point:
*For this article we have used the odds generated by Eurovision World from Betfair, Bwin, Unibet, Betsson and 888Bet.