0 one of the two games that are played to decide who will take part in the final game of a competition: --
1 the game or set of games before the final game in a competition: --
France was eliminated in Saturday’s semifinal.
Two teams are eliminated at this stage, while the two winning teams advance to the semi-finals.
The band also participated in nationals in 2007, making semi-finals but missing finals.
A third place match was included and played between the two losing teams of the semi-finals.
However, in the semi-finals, he had the slowest time (10.20) of that round and was eliminated.
In the fourth semi-final, again the bottom song was eliminated and the three survivors went on to the final.
Preliminaries started at 14:00, quarterfinals started at 15:38, semifinals at 18:30 and the final at 19:53.
Six songs were voted by the public to go on to one of the two semi-finals.
Six songs were voted by the public and passed to the semi-finals of the contest.