7 minutes ago, Brer said:

First since 155-157 (+ 160 after a two contest gap x)

Tbh I've been away for a while as well, but it's been a long time coming regardless

16 minutes ago, CowTzy said:

Karma served. Sorry for betraying y'all alt/indie bloc. We promise we'll send one next month x

Thanks for the votes, anywayyy

me asf unless pfsc theme fits the entry i have in mind

I qualified!? Cmon genre shift

I knew I didn't have a competitive entry this month so I was prepared to DNQ, honestly I'm thrilled to get as many as 27 points! Thanks to the 6 countries who gave me points, that's enough for me to not regret sending it.

7/10 of my votes made it through, I'm particularly shocked at New Lexico not qualifying and disappointed at Macromia missing out.

I've prepared a song for my country and NQ next time

Just followed this in bed yesterday, so did not comment yesterday. So happy to be in the final for the first time. It was such a big competition with 12 great songs dropping out. From my votes only one song did not receive a sufficient amount of points: +05 Persephonia: Sr. Falla de Origen - Sqfml. However, some songs, which were close behind the 10, did not made the cut. Looking forward to the final.

Thrilled to have woken up to a Q! Thank you for voting Hushkanukia! 🩵

Didn’t really take much notice of the Semi 2 songs but just noticed that the First Aid Kit song is actually “Out of My Head”, a song which I adore !!! In fact, that whole era racked up 100s of plays for me. So yay for that!

Damn, I said it somewhere in a recent contest that I will start always listening to the opposite semi's DNQs but I forgot and still haven't done so for any of the recent contests (unless I heard some on SyncTube) I guess it's okay to just let those contests be (unless I feel like diving deep sometime) and start doing that in this first contest of the year then. Will get round to it very soon. Coz I sometimes wonder what I've missed out on song-wise from the opposite semi... Y'all probably not be letting masterpieces thru 😅

Gutted to have lost my top two votes, semi 1 better have brought it to make up for such a hit

12 Aelandor :: Pom Pom Squad – Villain

10 Altyr Muunilinst :: RABO – Stuck In November

08 QUALIFIED

07 QUALIFIED

06 QUALIFIED

05 QUALIFIED

04 QUALIFIED

03 New Lexico :: girlish figure – Please Her For Pleasure

02 QUALIFIED

01 Ojnoj :: Déyyess – Lips Like Sugar

Relieved to be through after scanning the thread and it was getting closer and closer to the end!

FSR Rontvia and Kathaldazia are two huge losses for me, can’t believe that they didn’t make it as I thought both would be comfortably in 😢

30 minutes ago, matto said:

Damn, I said it somewhere in a recent contest that I will start always listening to the opposite semi's DNQs but I forgot and still haven't done so for any of the recent contests (unless I heard some on SyncTube) I guess it's okay to just let those contests be (unless I feel like diving deep sometime) and start doing that in this first contest of the year then. Will get round to it very soon. Coz I sometimes wonder what I've missed out on song-wise from the opposite semi... Y'all probably not be letting masterpieces thru 😅

Hear, hear!

2 minutes ago, dandy* said:

FSR Rontvia and Kathaldazia are two huge losses for me, can’t believe that they didn’t make it as I thought both would be comfortably in 😢

I’m still so shocked by Kathaldazia that I haven’t had a chance to process DJ Suzy! 🥺

Spodic entry not being on Spotify wasn't fatal after all. Still kinda shocked at a few of the NQs from nations that hardly ever fail.

Before the listenthrough I hadn't really conisdered DJ Suzy to be at risk at all, but the semi was super strong and competitive and it got lost in a quiet section, which is a shame because it's quite a beauty.

But I'm at peace with the DNQ because it didn't get any 12s or 10s in the semi so wasn't exactly robbing anyone of their main favourite (in that semi anyway, I think it could have got 70-80 points in Semi 1).

Altyr, Kathaldazia and FARC are bigger shocks to me though, as well as the double from Persephonia, and just shows, you can never predict BJSC. And also you can't assume somebody is always definitely safely in due to their past results, if the semis stay this big then even those countries that always manage to qualify will either send a song that doesn't quite connect enough or land in the wrong semi.

The benefit of 'big' countries going out is that others get their well deserved spots in the final. It's a song contest and no country should be judged on anything other than the song they have sent that month.

37 minutes ago, Colm said:

Spodic entry not being on Spotify wasn't fatal after all.

I don't think this is much of a factor in qualification chance tbh, both songs not on Spotify made it in.

If anything I'm more likely to pay attention to the songs not on there because they've not blended into a background listen of all the entries on a playlist, I've actively had to click somewhere else to check it.

farc not going through is wilddd

32 minutes ago, gooddelta said:

I don't think this is much of a factor in qualification chance tbh, both songs not on Spotify made it in.

If anything I'm more likely to pay attention to the songs not on there because they've not blended into a background listen of all the entries on a playlist, I've actively had to click somewhere else to check it.

Yeah I'm exactly the same, plus there's always the subconscious distraction of actually seeing the accompanying video which I wouldn't for the Spotify entries (although I try and lock screen my phone to avoid this bias but sometimes I forget). Although I do remember a couple of times where people have literally forgot to even listen to an entry because it wasn't on the Spotify/Apple playlist so there's always that risk!

1 hour ago, gooddelta said:

Altyr, Kathaldazia and FARC are bigger shocks to me though, as well as the double from Persephonia, and just shows, you can never predict BJSC. And also you can't assume somebody is always definitely safely in due to their past results, if the semis stay this big then even those countries that always manage to qualify will either send a song that doesn't quite connect enough or land in the wrong semi.

The benefit of 'big' countries going out is that others get their well deserved spots in the final. It's a song contest and no country should be judged on anything other than the song they have sent that month.

Hendinia making it to BJSC 300 with their streak intact

I have (at least) one potential that I don't think is on Spotify or AM and I've been wondering if it would make any difference