We are now less than 12 days away from Sandhja taking to the Stockholm stage and getting rehearsals underway! Through various sources including SVT, Eurovision France and ESC Forum I have compiled what should be this year's rehearsal schedule and you can see this below. Worth noting that the automatic qualifiers have both of their rehearsals prior to the dress rehearsals which hasn't been the case in previous years, presumably to cater for their performances in the semi-final dress rehearsals.

For those unfamiliar with the workings of the Eurovision fortnight, each country has a 30-minute first rehearsal followed by a 20-minute press meet & greet. They then return a few days later for their 20-minute second rehearsal which is followed by a 20-minute press conference for each country. In previous years it is during the press conferences for the automatic qualifiers, all on Sunday 8th May this year, where they draw their halves for the final running order. All the times below are in Central European Time, so remember everything happens an hour earlier than the times shown on my little creation in the UK.

ESC Xtra will once again be running a live stream from the press centre during the Eurovision fortnight and will offer live reactions to every single first rehearsal and live audio for every single second rehearsal and all the dress rehearsals, jury finals and so on. This stream can be found here from May 2nd onwards. Eurovision.tv will also upload 30 second videos of all first rehearsals and full-length videos of the second rehearsals. The reason for the difference here being that first rehearsals are closed and can only be viewed by press on a TV in the press centre, whereas second rehearsals are open to everyone.

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Our first major prop?

 

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Not quite sure what it's meant to be though if it is!

The people in charge of the stand-in rehearsals that have been going on for the last couple of days have said there are several Mans-type performances in terms of using lots of technology. They also say the most technological performances are Russia, Australia, Belarus and Malta!

Ira bringing the Mediterranean with her *.*

You can see part of the televote scoreboard here: https://scontent-cdg2-1.cdninstagram.com/t5...106824194_n.jpg

 

So there is 2494 televoting points up for grabs, can't quite tell at what stage of the reveal that is. Maybe that is the televoting points for 14th to 26th that they are flashing up together and then we'll get the top 13 individually?

 

Or it could be the full scoreboard with some of the televote points added on, for example the top 3 on the right-hand column have had their televote points revealed and added on?

Full scoreboard here: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgwQ5GtW4AA6BQp.jpg:large

 

So yes it seems like the first picture shows all the televote points placed straight onto the scoreboard except for the top 10 which are yet to receive their televote points - one of which is the UK!!!11

They also say the most technological performances are Russia, Australia, Belarus and Malta!

 

Yes to these two :yahoo:

Belarus are intensely adding as much shine to that turd of a "song" as possible then...

Updated rehearsal schedule has been edited into the first post, following Romania's removal and confirmation of meet & greet and press conference timings!

Rehearsals have kicked off with Finland :cheer:

I assume this isn't her stage costume is it? :kink:

 

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Moldova have brought their astronaut! :cheer:

I've read Lidia Isac said that her stage perf will be very much similar to her official video.

Somebody getting fired

Vodim te na igranku na na na na igranku

Vodim te na igranku na na na na igranku

 

*.*

 

The second time astronauts-on-stage fail to make a song qualify?

 

lol Greece, go home you're drunk.

 

I'll have a watch through those in a moment but Nina has apparently gone with an awful dress and a costume change, Croatia going with unneeded gimmicks yet again - did they not learn from Celebrate? Then again maybe Celebrate was so bad it needs gimmicks, but this certainly doesn't!