We're getting to the pointy end of the Eurovision Song Contest, with the grand final on Sunday morning AEST.
Here's everything you need to know to get yourself up to speed.
When is the Eurovision 2024 grand final?
It's being held in on Saturday night in Sweden.
But because of the time difference, it'll be early Sunday morning in Australia.
Where can I watch the grand final in Australia?
SBS will be broadcasting the final on free-to-air television.
The network will also be live streaming it on SBS On Demand.
As you've come to expect, we'll be live blogging the whole thing.
What time is the grand final in Australia?
The broadcast will kick off at:
- 5am AEST: ACT, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria
- 4.30am ACST: Northern Territory and South Australia
- 3am AWST: Western Australia
There are 26 countries in the grand final and they all have to perform, so this will go for a few (fabulous) hours.
Viewers will be able to vote for their favourites – more on that later – throughout the broadcast, with the results revealed after the performances.
This typically gets quite tense and usually kicks off at about 8am AEST, 7:30am ACST and 6am AWST.
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Is Australia in the Eurovision grand final?
No, unfortunately not.
Australia's act Electric Fields was knocked out after its performance in the semifinals earlier this week.
Which countries got through to the grand final?
This year, 37 countries entered the contest but only 26 of them are in the grand final.
- Sweden: Marcus & Martinus — Unforgettable
- Ukraine: alyona alyona & Jerry Heil — Teresa & Maria
- Germany: ISAAK — Always On The Run
- Luxembourg: TALI — Fighter
- Netherlands: Joost Klein — Europapa
- Israel: Eden Golan — Hurricane
- Lithuania: Silvester Belt — Luktelk
- Spain: Nebulossa — ZORRA
- Estonia: 5MIINUST x Puuluup — (nendest) narkootikumidest ei tea me (küll) midagi
- Ireland: Bambie Thug — Doomsday Blue
- Latvia: Dons — Hollow
- Greece: Marina Satti — ZARI
- United Kingdom: Olly Alexander — Dizzy
- Norway: Gåte — Ulveham
- Italy: Angelina Mango — La Noia
- Serbia: TEYA DORA — RAMONDA
- Finland: Windows95man — No Rules!
- Portugal: iolanda — Grito
- Armenia: LADANIVA — Jako
- Cyprus: Silia Kapsis — Liar
- Switzerland: Nemo — The Code
- Slovenia: Raiven — Veronika
- Croatia: Baby Lasagna — Rim Tim Tagi Dim
- Georgia: Nutsa Buzaladze — Firefighter
- France: Slimane — Mon Amour
- Austria: Kaleen — We Will Rave
How is the Eurovision winner decided?
By a vote, but it's a bit more complicated than a federal election.
Each participating country gives two sets of points to their top 10 songs:
- Top rated song: 12 points
- 2nd rated song: 10 points
- 3rd rated song: 8 points
- 4th rated song: 7 points
- 5th rated song: 6 points
- 6th rated song: 5 points
- 7th rated song: 4 points
- 8th rated song: 3 points
- 9th rated song: 2 points
- 10th rated song: 1 point
One set of those points come from the results of the public vote of viewers from that country.
The set is decided by a jury of five music industry professionals from that country.
The act with the most points wins.
To keep things fair, countries can't vote for themselves.
Can Australians vote in Eurovision?
Yes, but it costs 65 cents per vote.
How can I vote in Eurovision from Australia?
Viewers in Australia will be able to vote through the Eurovision Song Contest app and through an online voting portal.
There's a limit of 20 votes a person.
Why is Australia in Eurovision?
In short, because Australian broadcaster SBS has been such a big supporter of the event.
It's been covering the contest since 1983 – a whopping four decades – but Australian acts have only been taking the stage for 10 years.
It kicked off in 2014, when iconic Australian singer Jessica Mauboy was invited to be a guest singer during the interval.
The following year, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) invited Australia to compete as a wildcard entry.
This was back during the contest's 60th birthday and was all about "building bridges".
That year, we sent Guy Sebastian to compete and he came in fifth place.
After this success, the SBS struck a deal with the EBU for Australia to stay on the bill until 2023.
There was a question mark about Australia's future in the contest after Eurovision 2023, but in early December it was confirmed that Australia would take part this year.
