f***ing finally!!!! Congrats Rich

So close but so far on a unique position for Rd‘Á

omggggg yasssss congratssss Rich and omg at an Estonian entry winning BJSC the OGAE minds cannot comprehend

FINAL SCOREBOARD

1	309	FSR Rontvia • SADU - Luukered
2	265	FARC • ORKID - Steep Hills 🥈
3	240	Hushkanukia • Maria Sur - Is It Love? 🥉
4	227	POPHub • Jane Inc. - what if
5	225	Elëdan • holybones - These Are The Rooms
6	219	Cumulonimbia • Ushko - COMET
7	206	Kathaldazia • Promis3 - Danijehelia
8	199	Terra Avium • Bambie Thug - REDRUM
9	196	Skall • Rochelle Jordan - Doing It Too
10	190	Danæviia • Flawed Mangoes - Surreal (22 votes)
11	190	Fljótavík • Balu Brigada - Backseat (19 votes)
12	189	Mothertopia • Lexie Liu - X
13	186	Cheiron • Mercy Girl - No Sound
14	179	Hendinia • FELICIA - Sugar High
15	177	Persephonia • VACUUM MAN - Alimut
16	170	Sovarasma • Lemondaze - o(type)
17	166	Jupiterdonia • The Aces - Gold Star Baby
18	153	Aeroche • 1111 - Wicked & Crisp
19	152	Bøtanikkä • Kat Cunning - Dancer (22 votes)
20	152	Cor Lupus • Ashley Sienna - REBORN (19 votes)
21	150	Land of DW • Alice Sno - DREAM (19 votes)
22	150	Deandria • Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms (17 votes)
23	147	Neliönoir • Nightbus - Angles Mortz
24	143	Greenfroze • NOMELON NOLEMON - SAYONARA MAYBE
25	140	Baleghde • TSHA - In The Night
26	135	Zanmatony • Sara Landry - GIRLBOSS
27	131	The Spodic Empire • Tracey Thorn - It's All True
28	128	A-Konohagakure • Worakls - Red & Gold (feat. Ekaterina Shelehova)
29	127	République d'Áskorza • Maggie Lindemann - one of the ones
30	125	Kluminican Republic • FAANGS - Better Off Alone
31	122	Summericia • copperplate - you overwhelm me
32	112	Jadakissnia • Sara Zozaya - Blu
33	111	Pestolia • Pearly Drops & Cub Sport - Mermaid
34	108	Flynnonda • bby - Fuggit
35	103	Aelandor • Phantogram - In A Spiral
36	99	N DNTN • Planningtorock - Get Your Fckin Laws Off My Body
37	95	Taahino • LEW - WAIT ON ME
38	90	Séyetana • Yuko Suzuhana - SAMURAI DIVA
39	82	Altyr Muunilinst • flowerovlove - shady
40	80	Dobago • Pendulum - Vault (100th anniversary entry) (16 votes)
41	80	Lookylion • Mikayla Geier - diva (13 votes)

Thank you Roba for taking me over 300 ❤️

Really happy to see FSR Rontvia win again! Congratulations @gooddelta and thanks to Jade for being a wonderful host as always

Not 40th for like the 6th time...

Congrats FSR Rontvia for a LONG overdue victory!

Congratulations Rich, so very well deserved after an incredible entry run over the last few years and many times where I really thought you should have won it, brilliant song to do it with too! I love voting for the winner!

thank you those who got me to the final - I really want to get a good result sooner or later. Thank you Jade for being an amazing host and everyone else for making this such a fun contest.

best finish since bjsc 169 i'll TAKE it x how's flynnonda languishing in 34th bffr

Rich 🖤

Huge congrats!

GGWP @gooddelta!

Edited Sunday at 22:382 days by CowTzy

Here's one I made earlier as I knew a 3 hour 30 minute show would batter my brain:

First and foremost, a huge congratulations to @gooddelta! I think it's been 11 years since you last won BJSC, so before my time competing. I must be your lucky charm at the moment as you won my edition of the Pop Forum Song Contest this year too The return of FSR Rontvia at the top is a story to root for in itself, but I really liked 'Luukered' as a song too, gave it 10 points. You of course mentioned that you were one of the people who originally tried 'Fleeting' this time, so hooray that your back-up still went on to smash instead!

I had no expectations for my own entry this time, no shocks that it's my worst performing of the year so far, but thought I might as well take more of a risk with the safety net of an AQ. I’ve been so absorbed in the process on the whole that my own result didn’t really matter. Thank you to everyone who pointed it though - especially Chez, Jacob and Mattias for the medals, glad you enjoyed ‘Blu’ so much <3

As for my own medals... I'm pleased Sovarasma climbed into a respectable top 20 position in the end and Cumulonimbia finished top 10, was particularly exciting when the latter was in the top 2 at one point. Justice for Pestolia but at least I got to finish next to them *.* I voted for 6 of that top tier this time - with the aforementioned Rontvia and Cumulonimbia, plus POPHub, Elëdan, Kathaldazia and Danæviia, so plenty to be pleased about up there. I was a bit sad when Persephonia departed the top 10 after spending a while in there, but top 15 is nothing to be sniffed at of course.

I was nervous about hosting this time, as it had been a good 4 years and I can be a bit of a stresshead perfectionist, but I think this contest has finally made me feel more secure in my hosting abilities. I wanted to be an organised, hands on host but tried to take it a bit slower behind the scenes this time and thankfully had a lot of fun with it in the process. Thank you to everyone who entered! I loved observing the discussions (and joining in where appropriate) while watching the results unfold. It will of course feel like a relief to have completed the work that goes into hosting but overall it was a positive, unforgettable experience for me.

Bring on the final contest of the year ❤️

Congrats Gooddelta! Looking forward to visiting you next contest with (hopefully) an entry that has more success

There are things on BuzzJack that only come around once in a lifetime, and this is now Zanmatony's first chance to see the Rontvians lift the gold medal in a contest we have participated in! Tremendous congrats to FSR Rontvia for an excellent winner. Delighted for you.

Scotland 2 coming through with that last minute 18

Omg omg it finally happened #19

Thank you Jade for all your hard work!

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^ omg how fancy is that embed box thing on the new site

A few observations off the top of my head:

• Elëdan actually beating Rontvia in the semi o:

• Summericia's late votes were important as they got 55 points before deduction, so 15% was enough to keep them afloat, but they would've been out with 33%

• It was surreal to see Worakls get winner hype during the semis while he was in the DNQ zone for a short while, the last couple of voters got him back in there

omg so many things to unpack! first off - congrats Rich, such a well deserved win!!

i was praying for 4th as it came down to the wire as that’s a position i’ve never gotten before and as luck would have it… 4th place!!! thank u to everyone who supported Jane Inc. this month, the reaction has surpassed my expectations a million times over

also: amazing hosting Jade, will miss the chaos of our time in Jadakissnia ❤️

Edited Sunday at 22:462 days by calxyum

Congrats Rich! It’s been a long time coming. The relics still got it! :D

Impeccable hosting Jade!

It was also really fun to be a contender, I forgot how exciting it is to be in the top 5, last time I was 5th was with Jon Hopkins. This month it feels even better as this wasn't a recycle. Glad people liked it so much, I barely had any low points, most were in the 8-13 point range.

All in all, the quality was really good, great result and the winner. It is bound to go down in herstory books as one of the most iconic contests.

Yassssssss! I'm shocked! I know it had lots of contender hype but it's so against the grain of the winners we usually get (both in terms of genre and repeat artists) that I didn't really expect more than 6th-10th! Thank you so much everyone who voted for it, that's a great margin too as I expected this contest to be so close but a few songs did break away from the pack.

I was one of many to try and confirm Fleeting, and had it got through it may have won, but it's a lot more satisfying to win with something that nobody (apart from I believe @uhsting and @matto ) already knew. Also the first Estonian language entry becomes the first winner for the language, which is crazy!

I have sent some incredibly niche stuff over the years, trying to explore new genres and languages, for my own amusement as much as anything else, and you just never know what is going to hit and miss, so it's very satisfying that one of them finally went all the way! ❤️ Two months after Korku came quite close.

Thanks so much @Jade for amazing hosting and presiding over this memorable month.

Will comment on the other results shortly but yes, I will do my best to host it, even though December is manic, so it might be a bit less of a spectacle than if I'd won in the summer, but will see what I can do! If mods could let me know what I need to do r.e. Google Forms for confirmations and dates, that would be great because it's just been so long...but I will start it soon so it doesn't too close to Christmas, so get your final entries ready. And it's BJSC 180, so as Matto said somewhere else, do something different if you want, do a complete 180!