THE RUNNING ORDER

 

1. Israel

2. Poland

3. Belarus

4. Austria

5. Armenia

6. The Netherlands

7. Moldova

8. Hungary

9. Italy

10. Denmark

11. Portugal

12. Azerbaijan

13. Croatia

14. Australia

15. Greece

16. Spain

17. Norway

18. United Kingdom

19. Cyprus

20. Romania

21. Germany

22. Ukraine

23. Belgium

24. Sweden

25. Bulgaria

26. France

Italy and Portugal so close omg. Poor Denmark lmao. Literally nobody will care

 

Yasss at Israel opening.

Not great slot for Netherlands ffs. Bulgaria still very much in with a chance being 25th!

Just realised the closer in sf2 was the final opener last year too oops

For the first time since Francesco was selected, I now don't have Italy as my predicted winner. I think this is Bulgaria's to lose!

Sweden thrown to the lions between Belgium and Bulgaria, maybe they won't come top 10 after all? (*.*)

Croatia going as late as possible :D I am actually feeling a top ten for that at the moment - in my totally biased hype mode of course.

 

Good opener and closer, very thematic for both. Not sure that's the best for Bulgaria, a bit late for a slow ballad, although if he gives another performance like he did in the semi it shouldn't harm him too badly.

Good position for Lucie, I think! :o

I would've preferred UK after Bulgaria but anyway I won't quarm over being sandwiched between two entries that were tipped as very borderline qualifiers.

I mean if you want to spin it some type of way there is a lot of "naff" stuff to varying degrees around the UK.