Viewers, it has been a blast. We now have our second set of Eurovision finalists!

Join us back here on Saturday night for coverage of the live Grand Final which will be broadcast on BBC One from 8pm, with live text commentary starting up at 7.30pm. Dust off your wig, grab some glitter and get a big cheer ready for our UK finalist Lucie Jones who will be battling it out against an army of ladies in white dresses and men of all shapes and sizes (including Epic Sax Guy). 

If you want to get in touch before then we're on @BBCEurovision , external

See you Saturday. 

до побачення!

Here's the full list of the eight unfortunate competitors who have been booted out of the competition and who will be pushing on their dark glasses and running to Kyiv airport tomorrow morning:

• Serbia - Tijana Bogicevic 'In Too Deep'
• FYR Macedonia - Jana Burcesca 'Dance Alone'
• Malta - Claudia Faniello 'Breathlessly'
• Ireland - Brendan Murray 'Dying To Try'
• San Marino - Valentina Monetta and Jimmie Wilson 'Spirit of the Night'
• Switzerland - TImebelle 'Apollo'
• LIthuania - 'Rain of Revolution'
• Estonia - Koit Toome & Laura 'Verona'

Oh poor old Irish Brendan, whose giant balloon could not float him any further! He is the only person out of his impromptu boy band with Isaiah and Imri not to get though. 

A shout out as well to Claudia Faniello from Malta who fought TEN TIMES before this to represent her country and will now be going no further. This means that Malta will continue their record of never, ever winning Eurovision.

Jana Burceska now won't be the first pregnant lady to perform in a Eurovision final and Fusedmarc will be shuffling back to their studio in Lithuania to chat things through with their imaginary friend 'Marc.' 

Commiserations all round. 

6. Israel - IMRI 'I Feel Alive'

Imri's pyrotechnics and hours on the bench press finally paid off. 

7. Romania - Ilinca ft. Alex Florea 'Yodel It!'

THERE WILL BE YODELLING IN THE FINAL! Hurray!!! Serena Williams will be overjoyed. 

8. Norway - JOWST 'Grab the Moment' 

Masked LED man has made it. Daft Punk are screaming autotuned screams of unease at their televisions right now. 

9. The Netherlands - O'G3NE 'Lights and Shadows'

Ah the Vol sisters have made it - and their Dad Rick wrote the song! Ha, their Christmas card is going to be quite something this year.

10. Austria - Nathan Trent 'Running on Air' 

He'll be over the Moon if his stage set is anything to go by. 

1. Bulgaria - Kristian Kostov 'Beautiful Mess' 

17 year old Kristian Kostov storms though in his black turtle neck

2. Belarus - Naviband 'Story of My Life'

All aboard the Belarusian boat!

3. Croatia - Jacques Houdek 'My Friend'

Two voices for the price of one.

4. Hungary - Joci Papai 'Origo'

Brilliant news for the belly dancer

5. Denmark - Anja 'Where I am'

Well, Australia will be ecstatic. 

Also performing on Saturday night will be the Spanish competitor Manel Navarro with his catchy ditty 'Do It For Your Lover.' Here is giving the BBC team a few styling tips. 

News just in - Lucie Jones will be performing in the second half of Saturday night's Grand Final. GOOD LUCK LUCIE! 

To get you in the mood, here is a cover of 'Chasing Cars' Lucie did with Emmelie de Forest who won Eurovision for Denmark in 2013 earlier this week. 

That's it! Time's up! Put your pens down and stop writing now.

Voting has closed, and there's nothing more that our contestants to convince the continent.

Is Switzerland's Timebelle about to take us a step closer to seeing a first every yellow-clad Eurovision winner?

Will Belarus's Naviband pay the price for a distinct absence of lifejackets on the good ship Story Of My Life?

All is about to be revealed...

Remember, UK viewers you CANNOT vote tonight. Don't even try it. 

Instead why don't you sit back and enjoy the enthusiastic folkish stylings of your Ukrainian hosts (and stars of 'The Force') Volodymyr, Oleksandr and Timur. 

'Eurovision' and 'obsession' - two words that go together like salt and pepper, Batman and Robin or United Kingdom and 'douze points' (or so we hope).

The fact is that we just can't get enough of it. But how well do you really know the ESC?

Our friends at Radio 2 have put together a quiz about the daftest, most ridiculous moments ever to take place on the Eurovision stage. Give it a go, and let us know how you got on using #Eurovision.

Take the quiz here.

As many of you have remarked, there's every possibility that the Kyiv branch of Brides R Us has had a sale on.

We only count the five white dresses in semi final number two. Can't remember how many there were on Tuesday night, but it was a similarly large number.

They'd better watch themselves in the backstage canteen, mind. That's a serious accident waiting to happen!

IMRI claims that he knew all the words to 'We Are the Champions' at the age of 2. He also claims he used to sing it in front of friends and family at every possible occasion. Cut to Imri in a nappy screaming 'NO TIME FOR LOSERS' at his grey-haired, sleep-deprived parents.

Here is IMRI crooning out a Sam Smith song in a (completely spontaneous) set up with fellow competitors Isaiah from Australia (who's already in the final) and Brendan from Ireland (who has this highest voice in show business). 

When IMRI's not inflating his biceps to the size of small dolphins, he studies HARD like the HARD MAN he is at university. 

He is currently in his second year of a Bachelor's Degree studying Visual Communications - a useful topic for a Eurovision entrant. It also probably explains the incessant pyros which are probably there to back up his (somewhat ominous) promise that his song "is going to set the stage on fire." 

GET THOSE EXTINGUISHERS AT THE READY.

NOBODY puts IMRI in the corner! Just like Serbia's Tijana earlier on in the night, this brawny hunk (who thinks sleeves are for wimps) started out as a Eurovision backing singer. If you squint really hard you can see him strutting his stuff and trying to pull focus in Nadav's 'Golden Boy' in 2015. 

Estonia's song 'Verona' was written by Sven Lohmus who says it is a modern take on the 'Romeo and Juliet' story which he was inspired to write after a trip to the city. 

Viewers watching from Stratford-Upon-Avon, that loud whirring sound you can hear is Shakespeare spinning in his grave.

Koit has already had a bite at the Eurovision apple and competed in 1998 in Birmingham with his grammatically-inaccurate song 'Mere Lapsed.' It looks like dressing all in white was all the rage back then as well:

Next up is Estonia who are comprised o- 

WHITE DRESS ALERT! WHY ARE THEY ALL WEARING WHITE DRESSES? 

…sorry, comprised of Koit Toome and 'Laura' who like Madonna, Prince and Rihanna feels that surnames are only for mere civilians.

Either way, Fusedmarc are really giving it their all and with good reason: Lithuania have never even made it to the top 5 of Eurovision. 

The closest they ever got was in 2006 when LT United came 6th with the unfortunately titled 'We Are The Winners.' This perplexing entry was comprised of a bunch of men who looked like Top Gear presenters (no, not in a good way) who chanted a song which wouldn't sound out of place on a football pitch. They even brought along a megaphone. 

It also involved a bald man in a suit completely losing his mind at the sight of a violin (fast forward to 1.30, trust me it's worth it): 

Yes, all things considered, Fusedmarc are probably infinitely preferable - GO VIKTORIJA!

Fusedmarc are nothing if not uncoventional:

1. For a start the lead singer Viktorija is probably the only lady in the entire room arena who isn't wearing a white dress. 

2. They have said (without a shred of irony) that their two main inspirations are Bill Gates and Jesus Christ. Care to comment Bill, external? 

3. Their band name is a mashup of the words 'Fusion' and 'Marc.' 

Marc, in case you were wondering is (oh god this it too good...) their "imaginary friend" who "hangs up on their wall in their studio." Apparently he's very good at "electronic devices."

Hmmm, sounds like you need to stop tying your sound technician to the wall, Fusedmarc.