Lizzie enters into semi-final while Peter also manages to reach semi-final but with difficulty.

If, using the above example of four open seats in the finals, there is a question where eight players are left in the semi-final round and three players get the question right, those three advance to the finals.

He lost in the first round of the UK Championship and in the German Masters reached his first semi-final since the 2006 Northern Ireland Trophy, but could not get past Ronnie O ' Sullivan who won 6 – 4.

Entering week 14, the last round of the regular season, the Bulls were chasing an unlikely 72-point win over the Queensland Reds in order to move into second place and get a home semi-final.

As the Danish national stadium Idrætsparken in Copenhagen was being rebuilt, the club found no other way to host the games, but to get a dispensation to use scaffolding stands, which boosted the stadium capacity to 18, 000 in the semi-final leg of the tournament, a 0 – 0 draw with AS Roma.

Despite being one of the favorites to win the contest according to many bookmakers, the song failed to get past the semi-final stage on May 12.

Leigh were forced into a knock-out semi-final to try to get through to the Grand Final – a play-off match they ultimately won.

Due to injuries received at the hands of Vader in their semi-final match that night, Austin easily defeated him and mocked his recital of the biblical passage John 3: 16 by saying " You sit there, and you thump your Bible, and you say your prayers, and it didn't get you anywhere ... Talk about your Psalms, talk about your John 3: 16 ... Austin 3: 16 says I just whipped your ass !".

However, they failed to get past the semi-final round.

After the disappointing result in 2007, Romania hoped to get another comeback, and decided to sent Nico and Vlad and the Italian and Romanian song " Pe-o margine de lume " to Belgrade, but failed to help Romania into the top 10, even though they qualified from the semi-final, it all ended by a 20th place with 45 points.

His 12 goals in the First Division in 1989 – 90 were an important part of Palace's creditable showing, it was Bright's crashing drive at the start of the second-half that began Palace's recovery against Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final and ultimately helped them to get to the final.

On 16 April 1963, an astonishing game at Filbert Street against Manchester United, which saw both Ken Keyworth and Denis Law score a hat-trick each, ended in a 4 – 3 victory for Leicester, which meant Leicester sat top of the First Division and 11 days later Banks put in one of the performances of his career to keep out Liverpool as Leicester beat them 1 – 0 in the FA Cup semi-final despite being completely outplayed all game.

On 27 April 1963 a crowd of 68, 000 at Villa Park saw them lose 1 – 0 to Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-final.

The 2007 season saw them finish 6th on the ladder at season's conclusion, and in the finals they knocked out the grand finalists of the past two years, Sydney, in the elimination final and then West Coast in an overtime thriller at Subiaco Oval in the semi-final.

The team turned the corner with a thrilling 3 – 2 FA Cup win over Newcastle United, going on to lose just two of their 20 league games after this, securing them 5th place and a play-off semi-final clash against newly promoted Reading.

The 1912 – 13 season saw them win promotion to the First Division once more, as well as reaching the FA Cup semi-final, only to lose to Sunderland.

They shocked the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks in the semi-final round of the playoffs, sweeping them in three games, and then defeated the Gary SouthShore RailCats three games to one to win the Northern League championship.

He has appeared on television speaking about the club, and tabled an early day motion in the House of Commons congratulating them on their reaching the semi-final of the 2008 Scottish Cup.

Guus Hiddink was caretaker manager of Chelsea in 2009, leading his team to the semi-final of the UEFA Champions League where they shut out FC Barcelona at Nou Camp and tied them back at Stamford Bridge ( the latter being a very controversial game, the match official being Tom Henning Øvrebø ), with Chelsea eliminated on away goals ), and finished off his tenure with the team as they won the FA Cup The club was reported happy to have Hiddink as manager even on a temporary basis.

* 1998 – The club reached the FA Cup quarter-final but were denied a semi-final appearance as Sheffield United ( a league below them ) won the replay at Bramall Lane on penalties.

This qualified them for the 2007 playoffs, where they defeated the Columbus Cottonmouths 3-1 in the semi-final series, vaulting Jacksonville into the SPHL Finals for their first time.

In the semi-final Sweden met their archrivals from Denmark beating them 4 – 2.

Merseyside rivals Liverpool and Everton won through to the final, but with both these clubs being involved in a battle for the league championship and both of them also reaching the FA Cup final ( as well as Liverpool being involved in the semi-finals of the Football League Cup ), fixture congestion became a problem, with Liverpool's semi-final second leg having to be delayed until the final week of the season, two days before the FA Cup final.

Cup action in the form of the final round of EDF Energy Cup pool stage games, where Saracens failed once again to win away in Wales, but taking a losing bonus point and a try bonus too was enough to see them qualify for the semi-final stage for the first time in their Anglo-Welsh cup history, ahead of their opponents Llanelli Scarlets.

Perhaps the team were trying to save the supporters the trauma of a trip to Peterborough ( the scene of the 1972 – 73 FA Trophy semi-final defeat ) who awaited them in the next round.

They equalled there 1996 performance in 2005, although there was a very poor start to the season, it was followed by six straight wins to earn them a semi-final berth, where they were defeated by the New South Wales Waratahs.

The Bulls, already qualified in first position, fielded a weakened line-up and the Stormers duly beat them 38 – 10 for their first home semi-final since 1999.

The Czechs convincingly beat in the quarter-finals meaning a semi-final against awaited them.

Australia defeated the Proteas in the Super Six match and recorded a thrilling tie in the semi-final, which was enough to knock the Africans out of the tournament since Australia had previously beaten them ( in the match immediately beforehand ).

The stadium hosted five matches of UEFA Euro 2004, one of them being the semi-final between Portugal and the Netherlands, which Portugal won 2 – 1.

The Waratahs faced the Reds in the final round with a win securing second place and a home semi-final win over the Sharks moved them up to their first Super 14 final against the Crusaders which they lost by 12 – 20.

White recorded the most hit-outs in the league in 2002, with 561, playing in all of Melbourne's matches in a run that saw them narrowly lose to Adelaide by two goals in a semi-final.

An Andy Goode penalty gave them the lead and a drop goal for each team in the last ten minutes ( in which Lamb also missed a penalty ) meant that the Leicester Tigers became the first team in premiership history to win a semi-final away from home, and once again left Gloucester's fans heart-broken.

When Wimbledon went into administration, Shipperley chose to remain at Selhurst Park, transferring back to Crystal Palace ( Wimbledon had been groundsharing with the Eagles ), and during the 2003 – 04 season he captained them to promotion to the top level, scoring in the play-off semi-final home win over Sunderland, and the winning goal in the final victory over West Ham United.

Only a try from Harlequins ' Will Greenwood 12 minutes from time in the second leg of the semi-final denied them a place in the final.

In the other semi-final, the hosts beat Yugoslavia 27 – 23, before 7, 500 spectators littered the arena in Sevilla to watch the hosts go down by one goal despite the efforts of Talant Dujshebaev, a Kyrgyz-born back player who had played for Russia in 1994 but who now turned out for Spain.

Völler came back to play and star for Germany in both the semi-final and final, and he was the player brought down in the penalty area by an Argentinian defender, leading to Andreas Brehme's penalty kick in the final.

One of his finest performances in this campaign was an inspirational display against Juventus in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final, when he helped haul his team back from two goals down to win 3 – 2.

The latter run was noted for some outstanding comebacks, including final-frame wins over Graeme Dott and Shaun Murphy, a 13 – 8 win over John Higgins in a match where Doherty raced ahead 10 – 0 but Higgins fought back to 10 – 7, and a semi-final fightback from 9 – 15 to beat Paul Hunter 17 – 16.

Thuram scored only two international goals, both of which came in one game – the 1998 World Cup semi-final against Croatia, in which France came back to win 2 – 1 and advance to the final.

The Scot then came back from 7 – 5 behind in his semi-final to defeat then-World Champion Graeme Dott 9 – 7, but lost in the final, 6 – 10, to Peter Ebdon.

In the semi-final before the final he led Marco Fu 15 – 9 before being pegged back to 16 – 16 before Ebdon took the decider, at the end of which he shed tears of relief.

Following a short stay with German team Hamburger SV in 1988, he was back with Brøndby in 1990 where he took part in the club's successful 1991 UEFA Cup campaign which reached the semi-final of the tournament.

It was a sign that Kerry were on the way back, however, a defeat by Mayo in the subsequent All-Ireland semi-final highlighted the fact that the team was lacking in some quarters.

The following season, Blaze made a semi-final appearance in the 1999 – 2000 British National League play-offs, losing to eventual winners Fife Flyers, having finished in seventh position in their first year back at British National League level.

Later that season the club came within minutes of a Wembley appearance when they lost 10-9 to Leeds in a Challenge Cup semi-final before a 50, 000 crowd at the Odsal Stadium, featuring players such as the legendary Dick Huddart and full back John McKeown.

McMahon again played frequently as Liverpool won back the title in 1990 but lost out on another " double " when they were beaten 4 – 3 by Crystal Palace in a thrilling FA Cup semi-final, in which McMahon scored.

Following the club's semi-final defeat, Vuoso was sold back to Santos.

He helped Dublin to defeat Kerry — who had beaten Dublin in the 1975 final — in the 1976 final ( by 3-8 to 0-10 ) and again in the 1977 semi-final thanks to new tactics by manager Kevin Heffernan that hindered Kerry's tactic to pull defenders forward and take full advantage of the space behind the half back line.

O ' Leary ended up in Dixon's place at right back for the 1993 League Cup final against Sheffield Wednesday – Dixon was suspended, having been sent off in Arsenal's FA Cup semi-final victory over Spurs.

Hypno-Disc spent much of the battle trying to avoid the lifter at the back of Berserk II, but Berserk II was flipped over by the arena floor spike and Hypno-Disc won on a judges ' decision to qualify for the series semi-final.

In the play-off semi-final against Nottingham Forest, Sheffield United came back from a two-goal deficit to take the game into extra time.

The week of 25-29 May 2009 saw News at Ten gaining a huge increase in ratings, on the back of the Britain's Got Talent semi-final programmes which aired that week ; on 26 May, News at Ten received 6. 1m in comparison to 4. 1m for the BBC News at 10, but a ten-minute delay on 27 May ( due to ITV football coverage ) resulted in 2. 4m.

In 2005, Romania sent Luminița Anghel and Sistem in order to help the country back to the final, and as hoped they succeeded, but not only that, Romania also got their first top 3 place in the contest by ending on third place with a total of 158 points, only beaten by Greece and Malta in the final, but at the semi-final, 2 days earlier, Romania ended on first place, with a total amount of 235 points, which meant they won the semi-final with a margin of 28 points in front of neighbouring country Moldova.

United then knocked out Borussia Dortmund and Athletic Bilbao having come back from two goals behind against Bilbao, before losing to Real Madrid in the semi-final.

On 14 April 2012, he made a rare mistake in the FA Cup semi-final when a poor back pass gifted Luis Suárez the equalising goal for Merseyside rivals Liverpool.