March 5, 20169 yr Moment of Silence won the semi :o Oh gosh. I hope that puts it in with a good chance of being the entry, I haven't properly adored a Romanian entry in years.
March 5, 20169 yr Czech Republic tried and failed to succeed going down that route last year so this would be tragic First Romania DNQ. I say GO FOR IT
March 5, 20169 yr I was put in mind more of Hour Of The Wolf melodically (especially in the verses) than Hope Never Dies. Plus he has a striking voice. It might have a hard time, true, but I would prefer this to Mihai tarnishing his legacy.
March 5, 20169 yr Author Well Ovidiu won the jury vote in the semi-final, he hasn't yet faced a televote as the top 4 jury favourites automatically qualified. Televoting has been Ovidiu's downfall in previous years so we'll have to see if it is again this year!
March 6, 20169 yr Author TONIGHT'S NATIONAL FINAL... http://i1186.photobucket.com/albums/z369/RC741/Eurovision%20Logos/Romania_zps146ddc85.png ROMANIA Selecția Națională 6th March 2016 Begins at 6.30pm in the UK, 7.30pm in Central Europe and 8.30pm in Romania The show is scheduled to last 2 hours 20 minutes Watch the selection on Eurovision.tv or via the official TVR webcast Running Order Click ♫ to listen to each song! 01 | Florena - Behind The Shadows 02 | Doru Todoruț feat. Irina Baianț - The Voice 03 | Dream Walkers - Let It Shine 04 | Vanotek feat. The Code & Georgian - I'm Coming Home 05 | Ovidiu Anton - Moment Of Silence 06 | Mihai - Paradisio Voting There will be a single round of voting and, unlike the semi-final, the result will be determined by 100% televoting. Potential Winners? Ovidiu Anton won the semi-final by being the top jury qualifier and could therefore be considered the favourite to win but as the final is televoting-only, the result is hard to predict. Most fan forums believe it will be between Ovidiu as well as Florena and Mihai so we shall wait and see! Guest Performances During the show, there will be a number of guest performances. The two most high profile of which will be 2013 Romanian representative Cezar performing 'Rise Like A Phoenix' and 2016 Moldovan representative Lidia Isac performing 'Falling Stars'. Further details available at ESC Today
March 6, 20169 yr M I H A I currently second last in the live televoting, Ovidiu winning by twice as many votes to the 2nd place song :')
March 6, 20169 yr Author It's just baffling really. They had Vanotek and Florena 2nd and 3rd that were both great representatives of the Romanian music scene, shown by the fact they have one of the country's biggest music labels behind them, and they pick this which you'd find in a bad musical theatre production. That said Romania had nothing amazing to offer, but there were better choices than Ovidiu. He'll get through to the final as it's in the second half of the second semi, but if this was in the first semi it'd be Romania's first DNQ. Thankfully, bar absolute craziness, next week's national finals should provide two solid entries at the very least so there will be no repeat of this weekend (bar Juri who was a good pick). Hopefully the internal selections over the next week can provide the 3 or so more amazing songs that this year is missing!
March 6, 20169 yr Author And you can't just blame the televoters as the juries thought this was the best choice the other night too!
March 6, 20169 yr :D I don't even care what any of you say, it's a total tune, his voice is captivating, they're gonna glam it up, and I'm still going to have them on to qualify. (also I think this is the one time in 2016 NF season where my favourite actually won so, let me have this)
March 7, 20169 yr TWIST: Portugal didn't withdraw and is competing disguised as Romania. This is awful in a way the Portuguese "expert jury" would be completely cumming all over it.
March 7, 20169 yr I can't remember Portugal ever sending anything remotely like this? Even accounting for the different language. Unless you're just equating awfulness with Portuguese in which case, accurate for them (not for this).
March 7, 20169 yr I can't remember Portugal ever sending anything remotely like this? Even accounting for the different language. Unless you're just equating awfulness with Portuguese in which case, accurate for them (not for this). There's plenty of this all over our National Finals. We just never got round to send it.
March 7, 20169 yr Maybe there IS a reason for me to ever bother with a Portuguese selection then :kink:
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