Today, the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 press centre opened its doors for accredited members of the media to watch a closed full run-through of Semi-Final 1 from start to finish. Immediately after, we invited members of the press to vote in our annual Press Poll.
Press Poll 2025: Semi-Final 1
During the rehearsal, accredited members of the press were able to follow proceedings live from the arena in a closed set. No streams were made available to the online press or in the press centre itself. After today’s acts took to the stage, we invited members of the media to vote for their THREE favourite rehearsals of the day.
The Press Poll results for the dress rehearsal of Semi-Final 1 are:
Each member of the press was asked to vote for their favourite three rehearsals of the day (excluding the automatic qualifiers). Thank you to the 37 of you who voted!
The 2025 Press Poll and Eurovision Audience Poll
We will be running the same poll for Semi-Final 2 on Wednesday 14th May, and then for the Grand Final dress rehearsal on Friday 16th May.
In addition, we will be working with ESC Insight, 12 Points From America, Eurvoix and That Eurovision Site to conduct The Eurovision 2025 Audience Poll. Members of the six participating platforms will be approaching audience members leaving the St. Jakobshalle after each evening preview show to ask them who their favourite of the night was.
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Cyprus is criminally underrated by this so called press who voted!
I WANT TO VOTE FOR THE SEMI-FINAL EUROVISION 2025 MY VOTE IS FOR ESTONIAAA
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