For one more year, esctoday.com is organizing BigPoll 2013, the prediction tool that reveals the Eurovision community’s prediction for each show of the Eurovision Song Contest. Tonight, the first semi-final is taking place in Malmö and millions of viewers will be called to watch, judge and vote their favourite songs. But what have our visitor predicted?

BigPoll 2013

For the first time in the history of esctoday.com, BigPoll2013 has become a social game. Our visitors were asked to participate on the Facebook application (can be found here) and using a user friendly panel, to cast their predictions for each poll. Their votes were immedately been published on their Facebook profile, making them accessible by their friends. The viral game asked around 3000 unique users to predict the outcome of the first semi-final by casting more than 30.000 points.

The results

Only 10 countries will make it to the final this year, and accordingly here are the lucky countries (in alphabetical order) as they are predicted by the visitors of esctoday.com:

[Austria]	Austria	[Russia]	Russia
[Belarus]	Belarus	[Serbia]	Serbia
[Denmark]	Denmark	[Slovenia]	Slovenia
[Ireland]	Ireland	[The Netherlands]	The Netherlands
[Moldova]	Moldova	[Ukraine]	Ukraine