Today, it will be decided, which country will compete in which one of the two semi finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2010. The event will be streamed live on eurovision.tv.

• You can follow the semi final allocation draw here (requires Octoshape plugin).

Based on the countries' voting patterns, evaluted by the contest's voting partner Digame, the 34 countries competing in the two semi finals will be drawn from five pots, in order to decrease the influence of neighbour and diaspora voting.

• Pot 1: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland
• Pot 2: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden
• Pot 3: Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Israel, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine
• Pot 4: Armenia, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Malta, the Netherlands, Turkey
• Pot 5: Bulgaria, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia

The big four countries France, United Kingdom, Spain and Germany as well as host country Norway are directly qualified for the final. It will also be decided tonight, in which semi final those five countries are going to vote.