u/Pr__Farnsworth

Each year, when the running order is revealed, there are reactions saying "(Country) has a bad slot, it should have flopped" or "Good RO for (Country), maybe it has won its semi". So I wanted to check if there were correlations between the results of the semi-finals and the given slots in the running order.

The table shows:

• for each year since 2013 (when the running order ended to be drawn) and each slot in the running order, the semi-final rank of the country in that slot (or if it's an auto-qualifier),
• for each running order slot, the average and median rank in semi-final and the number of occurrences for each semi-final rank.

I let you dig into the data. Don't forget that from 2023 to 2025, semi-finals were televote only and that until 2023, there were no producer's choice (the fact that 73% of the countries that were 10th in semi-final got a slot in the second half is mostly due to chance).