Holy shit, Altyr got three 12s. What’s the record for a DNQ? :o

12 POINTS | Dobago: Clara Cuvé - 4 am

10 POINTS | Q

08 POINTS | Q

07 POINTS | Q

06 POINTS | Q

05 POINTS | Q

04 POINTS | Q

03 POINTS | Cheiron: INJI - TEEN ANGST

02 POINTS | Q

01 POINTS | New Lexico: Eli - Like A Girl

few faves aside and me getting through these results were GOD AWFUL so hopefully semi 1 has some gems

Didn't expect to be in but nice that it came so close. Thanks to Dan for the 12 and Wardy/Rich for the 10's. The latter of whom I settled on sending trance knowing their documented love for trance!

All my votes through woo. Was a great semi!

4 minutes ago, matto said:

Yes, I definitely didn't mean it was anyone's fault or that the announcement should've been made at a different time, I just felt a bit bad for Persephonia 🤭 I didn't realize it was 4 or 5 songs that were kinda overshadowed by the announcement, I guess it might be a bit much to replay that many songs haha. If it was just during one song that might be different.

Yeah for sure something to think about in the future. Although people often go off topic and speak over songs on there so hard to know where to make the call.

Edited Saturday at 22:085 days by gooddelta

Me when I am yet again a single digit number of points away

Just realising I lied about this being 3 years in a row with 8/10 qualifiers, I only got 7/10 last year, still an improvement then! But yes, all of my DNQs both last year and this year were very close - 21st and out on a tiebreak, 21st 1 point behind the lowest qualifier, 23rd 2 points behind, 22nd 3 points behind and now 22nd 5 points behind, so I come away with only a 75% qualification rate for 2024-25 but just the tiniest changes in fate would have made it 100%. Woe is me. (My last truly uncompetitive entry remaining Slauson Malone 1 in BJSC 159 which was 29th and a whopping 32 points behind the lowest qualifier x).

tbf it would probably have been further off if everyone voted as there's no chance I'd have got points from either Lex or Jafet x (to say nothing of Bøtanikkä's withdrawal)

Well thank you to Pavi and RFC for the medals and Savan, Jacob, Doctor B, Harve and uhsting for the other points - that's not toooo bad of a hit rate of the people in the semi that I hoped would be fans (I recall uhsting declaring this song to be 'decent' on SyncTube so the 2 points there are somewhat of a pleasant surprise) but some others there are still dead to me. x (also thanks to Cow for the moral points from the other semi, I am living vicariously through your entry in the final now!)

48 minutes ago, jimwatts said:

I remember Trifoski had a DNQ with three 12s not long ago - Cadelicia maybe had one more recently although that also had a deduction

Have checked now and indeed the last two times it happened were Trifoski and then Cadelicia post-deduction (they'd have qualified reasonably comfortably without it) so your memory is on point.

Specifically it was Trifoski 157 (Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Dough-Nuts Town's map) - which got only 1 other point outside of its 3 12s and only came 26th in the semi! - and Cadelicia 173 (BENNETT and Timmy Trumpet - Diamond Heart).

Another recent-ish one that hasn't already been alluded to was Kyriatine 152 (Raissa - I Will Wait). I'd need to dig through every spreadsheet to confirm but think it's very unlikely there's ever been a song with 4 12s that DNQed, 48 points is enough to qualify most of the time after all.

Can we have a Q streak update please 🙏🏼@Michael Bubré

Whoop! Very happy to have made it through here with so many DNQs in each semi, the fact it’s a rap song, AND that it extends my Q streak to a whopping 6 in a row! Hendinia you will be dealt with - Mother is coming!

14 minutes ago, Michael Bubré said:

I'd need to dig through every spreadsheet to confirm but think it's very unlikely there's ever been a song with 4 12s that DNQed, 48 points is enough to qualify most of the time after all.

And you just know I couldn't leave that hanging and had to go do this anyway. There are indeed none that got 4 12s.

I can't think of a way to cleverly search Excel to spit out the list so I have just manually clicked through and glanced over all the semi-final spreadsheets, so there's some chance I may have accidentally missed some. But here is what I hope is an exhaustive list of DNQs which got 3 12s, give or take the handful of early contests for which detailed spreadsheets were either never posted or were lost to time before I could archive them thus preventing any semi-final stats ever being fully complete (edit: after already tediously searching through everything manually I did think of a way to quickly double check so can confirm there's none missing):

(The first two on the list could have had the potential to be DNQs with 4 12s, as the BJSC 5 semi was its own unique thing that doesn't follow any of the rules and the disqualified entry could theoretically have got any number of 12s and technically been on this list though as it happens it also got exactly 3. Also Lisa Lougheed and Plus-Tech Squeeze Box could have got a whole extra 18/12 points and both still DNQed without a deduction! So it could happen one day...)

Holidannii 5 (ayumi hamasaki - Mirrorcle World)

OMR Fortunia 16 (Kristinia DeBarge - Goodbye) (disqualified)

Quintessa 36 (Julie Atherton - Portrait Of A Princess)

Ojnoj 42 (Desire - Under Your Spell)

Vülkyria 58 (Night Drive - Drones) *

π 77 (Omar Souleyman - Enssa El Aaatab) *

Tartford 89 (BLKMGK - You Don't Deserve Me (feat. Amina Mine and Jayy Starr))

Cumulonimbia 100 (Lisa Lougheed - Run With Us) (3 18s)

Umiiruka 100 (Pixx - Waterslides) (3 18s) *

Ojnoj 111 (Jillian Jacqueline - Priorities) *

Scherzland 117 (Molly Hammar - Show Me (feat. Kim Cesarion))

Séyetana 134 (FAKE TYPE. - FAKE LAND)

Quintessa 145 (Simon Goff - Vale)

Kyriatine 152 (Raissa - I Will Wait)

Trifoski 157 (Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Dough-Nuts Town's map)

Cadelicia 173 (BENNETT and Timmy Trumpet - Diamond Heart) *

Altyr Muunilinst 180 (Metteson - Hunger)

* would have qualified without a deduction

Ojnoj 111 actually got 2 10s as well as 3 12s! (But then only 1 more point aside from that). Them and Quintessa appearing on this list twice with the latter having done it without the deduction both times, poor hen.

'Under Your Spell', 'Vale' and especially 'Enssa El Aatab' were all robbed. Pavita why did you not vote that one month xx

Regularly scheduled stats dump (i.e. qualification streak update) will come a bit later

decent

2 hours ago, gooddelta said:

13/20

Yehesi

From the Greek Eurovision national final to the BJSC final, is there nothing she can't do?

Omggggggg I finally made it

1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

Cheiron preventing another nul-pointer there in Baleghde. Points in the first vote and then it received no more.

Here are my votes for the final:

+18 Cheiron
+15 cHeiron
+13 chEiron
+12 cheIron
+11 cheiRon
+10 cheirOn
+9 cheiroN
+8 Chei Ron
+7 Cheir On
+6 Noriehc
+5 Scene
+4 INJI

+3 The country whose capital is named GLITTERSTOCK (iconic)
+2 This flag

+1 Member No. 5567

... is what I WOULD have said if y'all didn't have to deny me the chance to reward the one person with taste in this semi 😤

7 hours ago, Dobbo said:

More confident than average in my entry this time especially with the favourable semi draw but given how widely revered it was in quality I'm certainly not counting any chickens.

Said I shouldn't count my chickens!

If I'm not qualifying with a song like that from a favourable draw like that then I'm truly f*cked next year as that was probably the strongest song on my entire potentials playlist.

But I'm happy all my faves got thru phew.

I've actually did rankings as well (just for my own sake) and I don't know how it would have all played if I was still competing, but 3 of the DNQ's from semi 2 are in my votes ...8 pointer, 6 pointer and 3 pointer!!!

and @Michael Bubré, I am truly sorry that the whole bombshell news happen to be right at when your song was playing...I don't think I've even thought about the aspects of the impact that could have created...all I was thinking at that moment is that I need to step off the contest ASAP, and I know I wasn't feeling great about continuing with AY YOLA the more I was reading about it!!!

So my apologies!!!

And I know this is already closed chapter but I've actually done a research of the band sometimes in the summer when I discovered them first and I know there was nothing really news worthy at that time!!!

Also my Spotify Wrapped tells me that Homay ended in #57 spot on my Top Songs of 2025. Ouch!!!

3 hours ago, Addy! said:

Also my Spotify Wrapped tells me that Homay ended in #57 spot on my Top Songs of 2025. Ouch!!!

don’t be shy share the whole thing

6 hours ago, diva thin muffin said:

Here are my votes for the final:

+18 Cheiron
+15 cHeiron
+13 chEiron
+12 cheIron
+11 cheiRon
+10 cheirOn
+9 cheiroN
+8 Chei Ron
+7 Cheir On
+6 Noriehc
+5 Scene
+4 INJI

+3 The country whose capital is named GLITTERSTOCK (iconic)
+2 This flag

+1 Member No. 5567

... is what I WOULD have said if y'all didn't have to deny me the chance to reward the one person with taste in this semi 😤

This is the energy I needed in SF2! 🤣

Also bit late but BOO!!! Altyr not making it is criminal!! Lowkey glad I wasn’t really near the Q threshold.

CMON F5VEEEEEEE! WE ARE FINISHING THE STORY AND WINNING!!!!!!

NAH not me being 2 points away from qualifying

Just sharing a pattern I noticed when putting the final together now, before complaints roll in for those up early, the first nine songs in Semi 2 and first five in Semi 1 all qualified, which I doubt is very common but does show how little draw matters now I think. I did feel both got off to a blistering start this month.

Edited Sunday at 10:484 days by gooddelta