In the semi-final against Great Britain they scored 208 points against the British 202, securing their spot in the final.

The Barons were awarded the league title, won the Provincial Junior C quarter-final against the Great Lakes League's Essex 73's, but dropped the semi-final to the Niagara & District League's Norwich Merchants.

The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) repeated the same format that had been used over the past few years: a radio semi-final was held, with 8 songs competing, which selected 4 songs to compete in a televised final, where the final winner was selected through televoting.

The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) continued to use a national final, A Song for Europe, to select their entry for the Eurovision Song Contest, continuing with the format of a radio semi-final with eight songs, with the top four songs, selected by televoting, progressing to the televised final.

Young sang the British national anthem, " God Save the Queen ", at Wembley Stadium before England's Euro ' 96 semi-final match against Germany.

He also lost 5 – 6 to Bond in his 1996 British Open semi-final less than two weeks earlier.

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.

:" For the record though, here is an abridged version of one of the most impressive curriculum vitae in British rugby ; Hastings captained the first Scottish schoolboys ' side to win on English soil ; he captained the victorious 1985 Cambridge University side ; he won the Gallacher Shield with Auckland University during his sabbatical year ; he was a central figure in Scotland's 1990 Grand Slam ... he captained Scotland in one World Cup, and played in two others, including a semi-final ; he captained his country and scored the winning try when Scotland registered their first win at the Parc des Princes ... he played for the World XV in the New Zealand Centenary Celebrations ; and he holds the British points-scoring record with 733 points in tests for Scotland and the Lions.

This was followed by his first ranking semi-final, at the British Open, where he was whitewashed 0 – 6 by Higgins.

Ingfield has staged many cup finals and representative games, including the Northern Counties East League cup finals in 1991, 1993 and 1994 ; various West Riding cup finals, Wakefield Sunday League finals, Garforth Junior League finals, Heavy Woollen FA finals ; in 1995 a match between the British Army and the All England Fire Service and in 1999 the Women's FA Cup semi-final between Croydon and Leeds United.

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Benny appeared briefly in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled " Our Last Video ".

For the 2004 semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest, staged in Istanbul thirty years after ABBA had won the contest in Brighton, Lyngstad appeared in a special comedy video made for the interval act, entitled Our Last Video.

On 22 February 2008, he performed as an interval act at the semi-final of Dora 2008, the selection of the Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.

The début single from her album, Hard Not to Fall, was released on 11 May 2009, one day before the first Eurovision Song Contest semi-final.

In 2009 Keating co-wrote the song " Believe Again " sung by Niels Brinck, who won the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix and represented Denmark in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow where it qualified for the final from the second semi-final and finished in 13th place with 74 points.

The semi-final of A Song for Europe 2002 was held on 1 February 2002 on BBC Radio 2, hosted by Terry Wogan and Ken Bruce.

The Eurovision Song Contest semi-final is broadcast on NDR Fernsehen, and the final is broadcast on Das Erste, the flagship channel of ARD.

RTS was the host broadcaster of the semi-final and finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2008.

Despite a fourth consecutive semi-final failure, as well as increasing pressure to withdraw from the Contest SRG SSR has confirmed that they have no current plans to withdraw from the contest, claiming that " the Eurovision Song Contest costs the broadcaster less than some entertainment shows ".

* Capacity: 10, 000 people for both the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final and final in 2005.

With the introduction of the semi-final in 2004, France 4 ( part of France Télévisions ) from the 2005 presents the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final, with France 3 continuing to organise a selection for the participant song and present the Eurovision Song Contest final.

Due to Spain's role as one of the leading financial contributors to the Eurovision Song Contest, Son de Sol were one of fourteen entries with a bye directly into the grand final in Kiev on 21 May, in which they also competed against ten qualifiers from the semi-final.

Global Kryner were the first band to perform in the semi-final of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, opening the show, but did not receive enough televotes to progress to the final, coming 21st out of 25 countries.

Ryan represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with " Je t ' adore " coming in 12th place in the semi-final.

They were the first ever Irish act to take part in a Eurovision Song Contest semi-final.

Their aim in the Eurovision Song Contest was to finish in the top ten at the semi-final stage, and thus qualify for the final on 21 May 2005.

At her 11th attempt she finally won the 2007 festival, held in Ta ' Qali on 3 February 2007, with the song " Vertigo " and represented Malta at the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest held at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland, on 10 May 2007.

On 10 May 2007, Olivia and her team participated in the semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Vertigo ".

Kivilaan mostly only provided backing vocals and basic instrumentation during live performances, and was essentially separated from the other three members during their semi-final and final performances at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005.

Estonia performed in twelfth position in the semi-final of the 2005 Contest which was held in Kyiv, Ukraine on 19 May 2005, but failed to qualify for the grand final after finishing in 20th place.

As Israel had not qualified for the final at the 2004 Contest, the song was first performed in the semi-final.

At the 1999 World Cup, Cronje finished with 98 runs at 12. 25 as South Africa was eliminated after the famous tied semi-final against Australia at Edgbaston.

The team were also defeated in a FA Cup semi-final replay against Manchester United in April 1999.

At the beginning of 1999 Graf played the warm up event to the Australian Open in Sydney ; she defeated Serena Williams in the 2nd round and Venus Williams in the quarter-finals before losing to Lindsay Davenport in the semi-final.

Seven games of the 1994 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament were held at Giants Stadium ( including the Italy v Bulgaria semi-final ), along with several games of the 1999 Women's World Cup.

In 1999 South Africa suffered their first World Cup loss when they were defeated 21 – 27 by Australia in their semi-final ; they went on to defeat the All Blacks 22 – 18 in the third-fourth play-off match.

Second round defeats followed in 1997 ( to Marshall James ) and 1998 ( to Raymond van Barneveld ) before he made it a hat-trick of semi-final defeats in 1999, this time to Ronnie Baxter.

The sides met again in their next match, this time in the semi-final at Edgbaston on 17 June 1999.

Nardiello lost the WBC title in Milan, Italy, later in 1996, when he was stopped by Robin Reid After winning three more bouts, Nardiello was unsuccessful in his final world title bout, getting stopped in the sixth round of a WBC World Super Middleweight title bout against Richie Woodhall ( who had lost the ' other ' 1988 Olympics semi-final bout to Jones ) on February 13, 1999.

Higgins and Williams met in the Grand Prix final in 1999, where Higgins came from 2 – 6 down to claim a 9 – 8 victory ; the World Championship semi-final in 2000, where Higgins was defeated 15 – 17 after surrendering a 14 – 10 advantage in the final session ; and the UK Championship final in 2000 – Higgins winning by a margin of 10 – 4 to earn his second UK title.

In 1999 the format was amended to match that of the FA Cup, with six rounds prior to the semi-final stage, albeit without qualifying rounds.

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.

James made his Villa debut on 7 August 1999, and kept a clean sheet in a 1 – 0 away win over Newcastle United in the opening Premier League game, and was decisive in a penalty shoot-out against Bolton Wanderers in the 2000 FA Cup semi-final, but then was at fault for Chelsea's winning goal in the ensuing final, the last to be staged at the old Wembley.

In the second part of the 1990s, South Africa had the highest winning percentage in ODIs of any team, but they were knocked out of the 1996 World Cup in the quarter-finals, and then were eliminated on countback after tying their semi-final against Australia in 1999.

At the 1999 Cricket World Cup, South Africa played against Australia in the last Super Six match as well as the knock-out semi-final.

Zimbabwe excelled at the 1999 ICC Cricket World Cup coming in fifth place in the Super Sixes, only missing out on a semi-final place due to having an inferior net run-rate than New Zealand.

The 1999 semi-final was the first football match to be televised live from Terryland Park on national television.

In August 1999, Rugby Park was used for a fictitious Scottish Cup semi-final in the Robert Duvall film A Shot at Glory.

* In the 1999 Super Six Stage, Herschelle Gibbs dropped eventual centurion Steve Waugh in the first innings, then a shambolic run-out in the semi-final ended South Africa's second innings against Australia with the scores tied ; Australia progressed on the basis of its superior run rate through the tournament.

Cas had another good Challenge Cup run 1999 campaign knocking out Hull, York and Salford before finally being beaten by London Broncos in the semi-final with a last minute try.

City's unsuccessful semi-final FA Trophy appearance in 1999 suggests that, given time, a new record could be set in that competition.

He ended the season with five goals in 28 league appearances as Bayern Munich were crowned champions of the 1999 – 00 Bundesliga season, Santa Cruz had also made consecutive Champions League appearances until the semi-final stages where Bayern Munich were knocked out by Real Madrid.

He made five appearances in the All Blacks ’ 1999 World Cup campaign, which included the game against England and the amazing semi-final with France that took place at Twickenham.