How to Support Bulgaria’s Entry and Equinox in Tonight’s Eurovision Grand Final

The Grand Final of the 2018 Eurovision song contest will take place tonight, 12th of May in Lisbon’s Altice Arena, Portugal...

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The Grand Final of the 2018 Eurovision song contest will take place tonight, 12th of May in Lisbon’s Altice Arena, Portugal.

It will be broadcast live on BNT1 and BNT World at 22:00 local time.

Bulgaria will be represented by the band ‘Equinox’ and the song ‘Bones’’.

‘Equinox’ will be performing the song under #18 in the strong competition of 25 other countries.

‘Bones’ was one of the 10 songs to reach the final from the semi-final on 8th of May.

A total of 26 countries will participate in the final – the 20 winners from the two semi-finals, the representatives of the host country Portugal and the so called ‘big five’ (founders and main sponsors of the competition), which automatically qualify for the Grand Final - France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom

All 43 countries participating in the 2018 Eurovision contest will have the possibility to vote at the Grand Final.

According to the voting rules of the contest, viewers in the countries of the participating broadcasters can vote for their favourite songs, without the possibility of voting for the song representing their own country. Therefore it will not be possible to vote for the Bulgarian song from Bulgaria, but only for the rest of the participants.

All Bulgarians in the countries allowed to vote will have the possibility to cast their vote for the Bulgarian entry ‘Bones’ and ‘Equinox’.

If you are in a country where voting is allowed, please, make sure you follow the voting details on how to vote, which the local broadcaster will display on the TV screen.

If you wish to support the Bulgarian entry, you can send number 18 via SMS to the number of the mobile operator specified on the screen of the local broadcaster. Viewers have the right to vote up to 20 times on a mobile number. The cost of the SMS is different for each country.

The voting window opens after the last song has been performed and ends 40 minutes later.

Professional juries in each of the 43 countries decided their vote based on the dress rehearsal, which was held the night before the main show. They account for 50% of the overall total.

After all 43 countries have revealed their jury points live on air, the viewers’ votes from each of those countries will be added up and then the acts with the lowest to highest scores will be revealed, eventually revealing the winner in the 63^rd Eurovision Song Contest.

Bulgaria reached the Eurovision final three times before: back in 2007 with Elitsa Todorova and Stoyan Yankulov and their entry Water, when they took 5th place; in 2016, when Poli Genova performing the song If Love Was a Crime, was voted into 4^th place at the Grand Final of the 61^st edition of Eurovision in Stockholm, Sweden; and in 2017 when Kristian Kostov and the song ‘Beautiful Mess’ took 2^nd place in Kiev, Ukraine.

Tonight's running order is:

01. Ukraine

02. Spain

03. Slovenia

04. Lithuania

05. Austria

06. Estonia

07. Norway

08. Portugal

09. United Kingdom

10. Serbia

11. Germany