My pre-performance ranking

 

Brilliant and I would be so delighted if it won

 

1 Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl - Sebi

2 Italy: Mahmood - Soldi 

 

Very good

3 Russia: Sergey Lazarev - Scream

 

Quite good

4 Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity

5 Greece: Katerine Duska - Better Love

 

Good

6 Czech Republic: Lake Malawi - Friend Of A Friend

7 Cyprus: Tamta - Replay

8 The Netherlands: Duncan Laurence - Arcade

9 Serbia: Nevena Božović - Kruna

10 Malta: Michela - Chameleon

 

Ok

11 Norway: KEiiNO - Spirit In The Sky

12 Iceland: Hatari - Hatrið Mun Sigra

 

Awful

13 North Macedonia: Tamara Todevska - Proud

14 Sweden: John Lundvik - Too Late For Love

15 Belarus: Zena - Like It

16 Azerbaijan: Chingiz - Truth

17 San Marino: Serhat - Say Na Na Na

18 United Kingdom: Michael Rice - Bigger Than Us

19 Estonia: Victor Crone - Storm

20 Switzerland: Luca Hänni - She Got Me

21 Albania: Jonida Maliqi - Ktheju Tokës

22 Denmark: Leonora - Love Is Forever

23 France: Bilal Hassani - Roi

24 Spain: Miki - La Venda

25 Germany: S!sters - Sister

26 Israel: Kobi Marimi - Home

 

I've kind of factored in performance into this but tried not to let it affect too much - Better Love is still definitely one of my favourite songs but maybe outside of my top 10 performance wise, so I've tried to "combine" all aspects of how I feel.

 

01 Switzerland: Luca Hänni - She Got Me

02 Cyprus: Tamta - Replay

03 Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity

04 Norway: KEiiNO - Spirit In The Sky

05 Belarus: Zena - Like It

06 The Netherlands: Duncan Laurence - Arcade

07 Greece: Katerine Duska - Better Love

08 Czech Republic: Lake Malawi - Friend Of A Friend

09 Spain: Miki - La Venda

10 Malta: Michela - Chameleon

 

11 Albania: Jonida Maliqi - Ktheju Tokës

12 Iceland: Hatari - Hatrið Mun Sigra

13 Sweden: John Lundvik - Too Late For Love

14 Estonia: Victor Crone - Storm

15 Azerbaijan: Chingiz - Truth

16 United Kingdom: Michael Rice - Bigger Than Us

17 Italy: Mahmood - Soldi

18 Russia: Sergey Lazarev - Scream

19 Serbia: Nevena Božović - Kruna

20 Denmark: Leonora - Love Is Forever

 

21 North Macedonia: Tamara Todevska - Proud

22 France: Bilal Hassani - Roi

23 San Marino: Serhat - Say Na Na Na

24 Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl - Sebi

25 Germany: S!sters - Sister

26 Israel: Kobi Marimi - Home

 

This might be the first time ever I've not lost a favourite in the semis. My top 8 of Semi 1 made it through and all my top 10 from Semi 2 made it - I'd probably like to see Poland here and that's it.

Full ranking after seeing all performances etc! Finalists in bold.

 

1. Spain: Miki - La Venda

2. Sweden: John Lundvik - Too Late For Love

3. Switzerland: Luca Hänni - She Got Me

4. Cyprus: Tamta - Replay

5. Italy: Mahmood - Soldi

6. Belarus: ZENA - Like It

7. San Marino: Serhat - Say Na Na Na

8. Estonia: Victor Crone - Storm

9. Malta: Michela - Chameleon

10. Belgium: Eliot - Wake Up

11. France: Bilal Hassani - Roi

12. North Macedonia: Tamara Todevska - Proud

13. Azerbaijan: Chingiz - Truth

 

14. Norway: KEiiNO - Spirit In The Sky

15. The Netherlands: Duncan Laurence - Arcade

16. Russia: Sergey Lazarev - Scream

17. Czech Republic: Lake Malawi - Friend Of a Friend

18. Denmark: Leonora - Love Is Forever

19. Slovenia: Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl - Sebi

20. Greece: Katerine Duska - Better Love

21. Ireland: Sarah McTernan - 22

22. Serbia: Nevena Božović - Kruna

23. Moldova: Anna Odobescu - Stay

24. Armenia: Srbuk - Walking Out

25. United Kingdom: Michael Rice - Bigger Than Us

26. Australia: Kate Miller-Heidke - Zero Gravity (performance elevates this, I'm just not into the song)

27. Latvia: Carousel - That Night

28. Finland: Darude ft. Sebastian Rejman - Look Away

29. Lithuania: Jurijus - Run With The Lions

30. Austria: Paenda - Limits

 

31. Poland: Tulia - Pali Się (Fire Of Love)

32. Albania: Jonida Maliqi - Ktheju tokës

33. Croatia: Roko Blažević - The Dream

34. Romania: Ester Peony - On A Sunday

35. Germany: S!sters - Sister

36. Montenegro: D-Moll - Heaven

37. Hungary: Joci Pápai - Az én apám

38. Israel: Kobi Marimi - Home

39. Georgia Oto Nemsadze - Keep on Going

 

40. Portugal: Conan Osiris - Telemóveis

41. Iceland: Hatari - Hatrið Mun Sigra

I've done a complete re-ranking of 2019 because I wasn't really into Eurovision as much that year and the semi-final was the first time I had heard most of them.

 

My top 5 on the night of the final were 1 Slovenia, 2 Italy, 3 Russia, 4 Netherlands, 5 Australia

 

All time great

1 Netherlands

2 Switzerland

3 Norway

4 Italy

 

Amazing

5 Russia

6 Slovenia

 

Very good

7 Hungary

8 Cyprus

9 Czech Republic

10 Sweden

11 Australia

12 Spain

 

Good

13 Azerbaijan

14 Iceland

15 Albania

16 Malta

 

Average

17 Serbia

18 Croatia

19 Belarus

20 Israel

 

Not for me

21 North Macedonia

22 San Marino

23 Latvia

24 Greece

 

Quite weak

25 Moldova

26 Armenia

27 Germany

28 Romania

 

Poor

29 Finland

30 Lithuania

31 Georgia

32 UK

33 France

 

Irritatingly Bad

34 Austria

35 Estonia

36 Ireland

37 Denmark

38 Montenegro

39 Poland

40 Belgium

 

Cannot process

41 Portugal

Edited November 5, 20213 yr by Colm