We love this for you Rob <3

Not me bagging a default top five due to a deduction ages ago

poor brave hendinia x

Well there’s no way we’re top 3 so if I’m understanding this correctly, I am thrilled to bits with 4th 🥰

fsr rontvia the better country in the top 5 wbk

f-liyo-ti-vick haha!!

WHY IS THE COVER ART A CAT WITH A KNIFE 💀

Also thank you for choosing this one, it’s one of the most special songs of the year for me <3

6 1741 Hendinia

15-08-14-15-28-09-21-05-14-16

212 votes / 12 18s / 15 15s / 10 13s

biggest fans: Baleghde [103 points] / Altyr Muunilinst [84 points] / Ajanaeda [78 points]

biggest hater: their own failure to vote on time in BJSC 171 [-30 points]

songs played: samxemma - HOT BOYS MAKE HOT MUSIC (5th, BJSC 178) + Jessica Winter - L.O.V.E. (8th, BJSC 172)

5 1746 FSR Rontvia

42-24-19-29-08-13-02-39-01-13

198 votes / 19 18s / 12 15s / 13 13s

biggest fans: Skall [101 points] / Jadakissnia [96 points] / East Rukahavian [70 points]

songs played: SADU - Luukered (1st, BJSC 179) + She Past Away - İnziva (8th, BJSC 175)

Sorry for that cockup, tssk tssk at myself. I just remembered I noticed a small glitch recently with my spreadsheet that was caused by the edge case of Zephyra Continuum being a new last country alphabetically and that was causing the sheet to not capture the deduction numbers so I think the list I sent to Rob was before I fixed that!

Hendinia alas not quite making it to a 6th straight year in the EOY top 5 (after an amazingly consistent run of 2-3-3-2-3 in 2020-2024), missing out by just 5 points. Instead FSR Rontvia bounce back to make it 2 of the last 3 years in the top 5, a run of 4-11-5. It's the 11th time in total they've ranked in the EOY top 10, only topped by Hendinia's 13 times and Aeroche's full house of 14 times.

Jade's quadruple 18 masked the fact that Skall gave me over 100 points this year - thank you Harve, and Jade for that unprecedented support. And Mack, who is always very generous to us!

So we know the top 2 so next up we must have Cor Lupus finishing a flop year in the lowly 3rd

Just now, gooddelta said:

Jade's quadruple 18 masked the fact that Skall gave me over 100 points this year - thank you Harve, and Jade for that unprecedented support. And Mack, who is always very generous to us!

Oh yes I meant to say I was shocked to see someone topping Jadakissnia as your biggest fan of the year (and for it to be Skall of all countries seems very unexpected!)

(FLJ stat post coming up, I've thrown myself off a bit trying to figure out the stats error hehe)

Oh good choice for Cody here

yay for Serpentsmile getting a play here!

Rob that’s the wrong song again

I guess I’m playing Taylor instead 🥀

4 1774 Fljótavík

03-29-10-(23)-xx-01-06-14-11-03

197 votes / 13 18s / 23 15s / 16 13s

biggest fans: FARC [91 points] / Jadakissnia [71 points] / Jupiterdonia [65 points]

songs played: Delaporte - Rendición (3rd, BJSC 171) + Tori Amos - Spark (3rd, BJSC 180)

FLJ being 4th for the year despite a DNQ and a subsequent one contest ban is some crazy work (Ninajirachi alone getting enough points to basically cover that setback). This is FLJ's 4th EOY top 5 finish, they peaked at #2 in 2012 and last made it when they were also #4 for 2019.

I'm not sure what the raccoon is playing in place of ALT BLK ERA!! (it's kind of a banger though x)

cmiiw but this is the first year in a while where this year's top 3 is all new faces?

when the raccoon plays THIS