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🇨🇭 Live from Basel: Dress Rehearsals & Jury Voting for Eurovision 2025 Semi-Final Two

The live jury show of Eurovision 2025 Semi-Final Two took place on May 15 in Basel, Switzerland, featuring 19 performances.
This event followed dress rehearsals and voting procedures involving juries from competing and automatic qualifying countries under strict evaluation criteria.
Performances showed influences from the 1970s-80s era and included artists like Go-Jo from Australia with a retro infomercial act and Nina Zizic of Montenegro in a white dress blindfolded.
Juries assessed the acts based on vocals, originality, stage performance, and overall impression, while the Rest of the World online vote opened after the jury show at a cost of 0.99 Euro per vote.
The event advanced Eurovision 2025 towards determining the 10 additional finalists for the grand final scheduled for May 17, underlining the importance of jury and online voting in the contest.

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