Posted May 6, 201411 yr http://www.eurovision.tv/save-files/resizes/04/ed/e6/89/75/d9/0b/b9/60/12/fd/9e/a6/63/25/97/ESC2014_TV_Graphics.jpg God, that hashtag really does make us sound like a CULT (WE ARE) So, we're HERE. Four months of mincing, crying, spilt milk and accusations of it being the worst year since [x] (in fairness most of that from me so we'll MOVE ON) and we've reached the PINNACLE OF ANY YEAR: EUROVISION WEEK. Don't forget to put in your advance notice to all friends to not set any PLANS for this evening, Thursday or Saturday (take off Sunday too, you'll need to recover). For newcomers, this year we're a little depleted due to the global recession and last year's semi-finals hitting a lot of the Balkan television stations where it really hurt, so we're down to 37 entries. This is the larger semi with 16 entries, and 10 of these will graduate to the final on Saturday. Sadly for UK viewers we can't vote until Thursday's semi, but if you're in Spain, Denmark and France then this semi is your oyster to spend INORDINATE amounts of credit on this eve. So, who's in the firing line? 01 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Armenia.png Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Latvia.png Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Estonia.png Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Sweden.png Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Iceland.png Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Albania.png Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Russia.png Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Azerbaijan.png Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Ukraine.png Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Belgium.png Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Moldova.png Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/San_Marino.png San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Portugal.png Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Netherlands.png The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Montenegro.png Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 http://www.eurovision.tv/img/upload/flags/mini/Hungary.png Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running PREDICT, MINCE, SPECULATE
May 6, 201411 yr Definitely tuning into this tonight, most looking forward to Sweden, Latvia and Armenia tonight :cheer:
May 6, 201411 yr 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running In bold are the 10 i predict will progress to the final. Edited May 6, 201411 yr by pippa
May 6, 201411 yr By the time Suzy comes on enough Absolut will have be consumed I'll be Suzy-shaking on the coffee table!
May 6, 201411 yr As usual all my favourites (top 5 in this year) in one semifinal. Sanna would qualified from third place [behind Ukraine and Azerbaijan]. Another 4 will fight for non-last position in this semifinal with Albania.
May 6, 201411 yr Don't forget to put in your advance notice to all friends to not set any PLANS for this evening, Thursday or Saturday (take off Sunday too, you'll need to recover). I pretty much have no plans any saturday ever but this saturday I'm seeing Katy Perry live :lol: Sad I'm missing out on ESC but still very excited..
May 6, 201411 yr Author For my PINK POUND I reckon it'll be the following: 01 Sweden 02 Armenia 03 Ukraine 04 Hungary 05 Russia 06 Azerbaijan 07 Belgium 08 Netherlands 09 Montenegro 10 Portugal - 11 Estonia 12 Iceland 13 Moldova 14 Latvia 15 San Marino 16 Albania I'd say Sweden, Armenia, Ukraine and Hungary are all dead certs to go through. I'm fairly confident Russia and Azerbaijan will be through as well (particularly if the Aliyevs are still speed dialling from Estonia). I'd love Belgium to go out but I think there's enough vox there for the juries and enough saps out there to vote for it even though it's totally the MALE SUUS (but obviously not as fabulous). I think the juries will have the Netherlands through, but 8th through 14th up there for me feels totally interchangable. The only ones I'm really confident in saying they won't make it are San Marino and Albania, but even then neither feels like an obvious last placer. Montenegro will come down to whether it turns on enough juries and enough of the Balkan diaspora - I'm not keen to rule out a sound which has been popular before, even when you take out most of the Balkans. Portugal will come down to whether it gets the party vote. There's nothing else really like it in here in terms of light-heartedness, except maybe Iceland and Latvia, so I'm thinking it'll scrape through off the Solayoh voting audience. Estonia comes down to whether or not the juries raise their eyebrows at flagrant plagiarism, as I'm sure the voters will. She has vox though, which gives her a shot. Iceland feels like a potential surprise package, but this sort of thing hasn't really got a record for success. Moldova could've been in with a big shot had they kept the NF costume, but without it the song's just a bit of a dirge. Vox again, but is it enough? Latvia all depends on how the novelty vote deploys. It doesn't sound like jury bait, so it'll be relying on televoters, and we all know Latvia hasn't got the best form for that. A potential last placer, but it could go either way.
May 6, 201411 yr WANT 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running PREDICT 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother (god this shit isn't actually going to qualify is it??) 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running I bolded Suzy last, I worry for her but I'd be pleasantly surprised if Iceland make it...
May 6, 201411 yr Predict 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running Want 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running
May 6, 201411 yr WANT 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Cetkovic - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kallay-Saunders - Running
May 6, 201411 yr Want 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running Predict 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running
May 6, 201411 yr Author Oh, and in my DREAM of DREAMS 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running Talk about a REVERSE SOPHIE'S CHOICE 'you must pick ten' 'can't you kill ANOTHER TWO?'
May 6, 201411 yr Gonna hazard a guess at the following: 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running I really hope that Moldova can sneak in though. Hungary, Sweden and Azerbaijan are the essentials from this semi for me and I'm virtually 100% sure they're all going to be sailing through!
May 6, 201411 yr The way I see it Definite Qualifiers Armenia Sweden Azerbaijan Ukraine Hungary Reasonably Safe Qualifiers The Netherlands Estonia Montenegro Borderline Qualifiers Iceland Russia Moldova Portugal No-Hopers Latvia Albania Belgium (This'll be the one that suffers the most from the polarising opinions from the juries wich will really harm their chances under this scoring system. Plus I'm convinced that the target audience for this song won't actually be watching the Semi Final) San Marino 01 Hungary 02 Armenia 03 Sweden 04 Azerbaijan 05 Ukraine 06 Estonia 07 The Netherlands 08 Portugal 09 Montenegro 10 Russia 11 Iceland 12 Belgium 13 Moldova 14 Latvia 15 San Marino 16 Albania As much poetic justice as it would be to see a Russian song knocked out by Iceland, I'd call it like that at the moment (although who knows, either way there'll be a headline to make out of it!). Portugal's the one who will benefit most from the draw after the dreariness of Belgium, Moldova and San Marino.
May 6, 201411 yr Aside from Sweden (obv), San Marino, Russia (SONG ONLY) and Hungary I could not care less about this heat, really.
May 6, 201411 yr I predict these to go through: 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake (See this qualify easily. They will get some points from their friends Russia, Estonia, Armenia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and possibly Moldova) 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing (See Latvia) 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running
May 6, 201411 yr My prediction: 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running Really, aside from San Marino there isn't any country that I think couldn't possibly qualify. It feels very open to me. I think Iceland has a charming quality that'll make them a hit, I just can't see them not qualifying somehow. Who I want: 01 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 02 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 03 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 04 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo 05 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 06 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 07 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 08 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 09 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock 10 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother 11 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) 13 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 14 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm 15 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 16 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running I don't expect that to change tonight, but I haven't seen the rehearsals so seeing the performances live could change some of my lesser wants if they turn out to be poor. Edited May 6, 201411 yr by Sabrewulf
May 6, 201411 yr My SF1 Ranking HAVE to qualify - Amazing 01 Iceland: Pollapönk - No Prejudice 02 Sweden: Sanna Nielsen - Undo Will be really dissepointed if one of them don't make it. - Great 03 Armenia: Aram mp3 - Not Alone 04 Hungary: Andras Kalláy-Saunders - Running 05 The Netherlands: The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm Wouldn't take it too hard if they didn't qualify. - Good 06 Montenegro: Sergej Ćetković - Moj svijet 07 Estonia: Tanja - Amazing 08 Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk - Tick-Tock Can be switched with any in the next group, and I wouldn't really care. - Average part I 09 Portugal: Suzy - Quero ser tua 10 Moldova: Cristina Scarlat - Wild Soul See group above - Average part II 11 Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova - Start A Fire 12 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Maybe (Forse) Bye bye - Bad 13 Russia: The Tolmachevy Twins - Shine 14 Albania: Hersi - One Night's Anger 15 Latvia: Aarzemnieki - Cake To Bake 16 Belgium: Axel Hirsoux - Mother
May 6, 201411 yr I hope The Netherlands go through but I won't be surprised if we won't tbh (The Common Linnets are so confident they're aiming for top 7 :lol: Deluded much?) Guess I'll be skipping revision for a night tonight This is actually the first time I haven't listened to all of the songs yet Edited May 6, 201411 yr by *Tim
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