Bad Omen? This is Austria's Starting Number in the ESC Final 2025
There are a few supposedly ironclad rules at the Eurovision Song Contest. And one of them is that you don't win the ESC with one of the early starting positions in the final. At least, except for Loreen's victory in 2023, all winners of the past 20 years had at least a double-digit starting number. 13 even performed in the second half of the music competition.
Austria's Starting Number for ESC Final 2025 Set
In this respect, the now fixed final starting number 9 would rather be a bad omen for Austria's top favorite JJ with his counter-ballad "Wasted Love." Especially since the presumably strongest competitors Sweden (starting number 23), the Netherlands (12), Finland (13), or France (24) have drawn higher positions. But who believes in number oracles anyway?!
An overview of the starting positions of the winners in the past 20 years:
- 2024 Schweiz 21
- 2023 Schweden 9
- 2022 Ukraine 12
- 2021 Italien 24
- 2019 Niederlande 12
- 2018 Israel 22
- 2017 Portugal 11
- 2016 Ukraine 21
- 2015 Schweden 10
- 2014 Österreich 11
- 2013 Dänemark 18
- 2012 Schweden 17
- 2011 Aserbaidschan 19
- 2010 Deutschland 22
- 2009 Norwegen 20
- 2008 Russland 24
- 2007 Serbien 17
- 2006 Finnland 17
- 2005 Griechenland 19
- 2004 Ukraine 10
(APA/Red)
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