Entente stay top of Group A on goal difference, while Enppi leap from fourth to second and both teams will contest the semi-finals.

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Or have an 8-team playoff where the Rose, Sugar, Orange, and Fiesta Bowls are annual quarterfinal sites, and then use Qualcomm, Cowboy Stadium, and the Cotton Bowl as warm weather venues to contest the semis and finals.

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This year's contest, which will hold its finals in Washington, D.

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Just as Eurovision's organisers are planning a two-tier song contest from next year, with only those countries that survive a qualifying round going through to the finals, the convention has been discussing a two-tier European Commission, in which smaller countries would lose their automatic right to nominate a commissioner.

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