Former Junior Eurovision winner, and this year’s Maltese representative Destiny dominated the first semi-final. Meanwhile Australia struggled with both juries and televoting. Montaigne finished in 14th place over-all.
The split results revealed that Ukraine topped the televote with 164 points, with Malta sitting in second with 151 points. Lithuania, Russia and Israel rounded out the Top 5 with the televote. In the jury results, Malta topped the table with 174 points, with Russia in second with 117 points. Rounding out of the Top 5 in the jury vote was Ukraine, Israel and Cyprus.
One of the most interesting results of the semi-final was Croatia, who finished 9th in the televote, and 10th in the jury vote, yet failed to qualify to the final. Norway qualified in 10th place, and achieved just 5 points more than Croatia.
Montaigne finishes last in televote
Australia achieved their worst result yet, finishing in 14th place with just 2 points in the televote. This placed them last with the televote, with their jury vote placing them in 14th.
Here are the results of the first semi-final of Eurovision 2021:
- Malta – 325 points
- Ukraine – 267 points
- Russia – 225 points
- Lithuania – 203 points
- Israel – 192 points
- Cyprus – 170 points
- Sweden – 142 points
- Azerbaijan – 138 points
- Belgium – 117 points
- Norway – 115 points
- Croatia – 110 points
- Romania – 85 points
- Slovenia – 44 points
- Australia – 28 points
- North Macedonia – 23 points
- Ireland – 20 points