Wonderful winner! (13 points from moi)

6th place for 'Nosedive' is fantastic. I knew it sounded like it needs to be sent to BJSC. Could've been entered a couple of months ago but that didn't happen so here we go. 🛬

I definitely need to rest now. LMAO. Been feeling the exhaustion for the past many days (I will be updating what needs updating soon).

Aircraft Left:

1	Sovarasma	Von Quar - Kraft / Idiot	134
2	Neliönoir	IKARVS - explozja	116
3	Skall	Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore - Perpetual Adoration	115
4	Kathaldazia	yaego, jsn & Tamashī - Life*	105
5	Lentyll	Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Nosedive	92
6	Jadakissnia	Ok Goodnight - Spiral	87
7	FARC	Dani Sylvia - Retribution	84
8	Cor Lupus	Chloe Jane - Middle Man	77
9	Freidland	Tiscore - Red Card	69
10	Cheiron	Chibi Ichigo - Paranoia	68
11	Cumulonimbia	Awwful - Ride	63
12	Kluminican Republic	Elderbrook - Is It Over Now?	61
13	The Spodic Empire	Cediv - Endless	60
14	Trifoski	tsubi club - BURNMATERIAL	57
15	Greenfroze	sasane - mosi mosi?	57
16	Terra Avium	Future Islands - One Day	56
17	New Helvetica	Alana Henderson - Wax & Wane	56
18	A-Konohagakure	んoon - SEE YA	56
19	Ajanaeda	Mikayla Geier - HOTLINE	49
20	N DNTN	Six Sex - LOVE ME HATE ME	49
21	Zanmatony	Patriarchy - Bite Marks	43
22	Jupiterdonia	WARGASM - Pyro Pyro	42
23	Vaskla	Emily Makis - Too Fast	41
24	Ennea	MYDY - Terrace Of 57th	33
25	Scotland 2	babyMINT - 2023:BBMeme ODYSSEY	32
26	Dalisska	Wildermiss - W.I.F.I.	30
27	Numayania	Astels - Workin' All Night	25
28	Baleghde et al	Marcus & Martinus - Wonder	24
29	Séyetana	Saint Agnes - The Father, The Son And The Holy Beast	17

Aircraft Right:

1	Aeroche	Orchid - heaven/jealous (Crybaby's Angel Edit)	119
2	Lookylion	Norma Jean Martine - ENCORE! (BIG DREAMERS)	115
3	République d'Áskorza	YAKAYA - PRYPYNDA	113
4	Juranabaijan	Florrie - The Times	112
5	Bronzil	Baby Jane - Midnight Highway	93
6	Danæviia	Thy Catafalque - A Gyönyörű Álmok Ezután Jönnek	82
7	Ojnoj	BAYLI - Passenger Princess	80
8	Taahino	Against The Current - Dead Man Walking	75
9	Land of DW	Juhlat - Aallonmurtaja	74
10	Yehesi	XO - Hotline	73
11	Elëdan	Paul Jebanasam - search another 3Hφ˙ = lose you i), place i=0 doubt I V (φ) am ∝ exp( √ 16π to meet you again pm² P φ	70
12	Herbilore	Anne Hathaway - Holy Spirit 2	60
13	Aelandor	The Strike - Overtime	59
14	Fljótavík	Rare DM - Honey	58
15	Aesthetica	Meg Stalter - BRR	52.7
16	Flynnonda	Sub-Radio - Wait A Minute	52
17	Ben's Sanctuary	The Bausa - Magnetic	49
18	Pestolia	AKRIILA - suave (feat. Jane Remover)	48
19	Zephyra Continuum	María Peláe - No Estoy Católica	47
20	Dobago	J.K. - You & I (Classic Remix)	47
21	Altyr Muunilinst	W O L F C L U B - Break This Heart	47
22	Mothertopia	Sophie Powers & Lexie Liu - klepto	46
23	POPHub	Avantgardey & Night Tempo - Work It	45
24	Persephonia	Butch Kassidy - Killakee	41
25	Harmonica	The Motels - Suddenly Last Summer	37
26	Deandria	Poe - Wild	34
27	Lotunia	HWASA - Good Goodbye	29
28	New Lexico	annie omalley - frends with my ex (fml)	19
29	FSR Rontvia	Esther - Savage Love	12

Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by Bror
added Aesthetica's deduction & 4 additional points to République d'Áskorza which were missing from spreadsheet + broken ties

so the lore in Semi 1 was that after Vaskla notified us that the order he submitted votes were in the opposite way, Jupiterdonia got kicked out of qualifying threshold :( and Ajanaeda got in last minute!!!

Oh that is a fantastic outcome, my 18 winning! <3 Congrats Harve, I only saw the discussion about it today and would've never thought it could win, it's my favourite discovery in BJSC in a long time and I really must check out the full album. Some of my big pointers from Sovarasma, Jadakissnia, Eledan and Lentyll in the top 10 too is great to see. I didn't like this one as much as her last entry, but quite neat that Dani Sylvia got another 2nd place right after her last one.

33rd for a sixth (!) time it is then, again I knew this one could well get lost in the fray so I'm just glad it wasn't lower, thanks to all who voted, especially @Colm for that top pointer <3 If you don't already know them and liked this one, I would also recommend Sail and Find Love which were new releases this year (this one is an older track finally made available on streaming from their compilation of non-singles and fan favourites From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth, which was a pretty good introduction to them for me x).

Thank you Addy, always a great flight experience! Unusually for me, I do actually have a song lined up for next time and it's got a familiar Terra Avium style to it, so let's see if it can break my middling streak x

Well that 5th place in the semi does mean I've now finished in every top 10 semi final position at least once! Just 11th-13th missing from the top 20 in fact.

1 hour ago, Addy! said:

so the lore in Semi 1 was that after Vaskla notified us that the order he submitted votes were in the opposite way, Jupiterdonia got kicked out of qualifying threshold :( and Ajanaeda got in last minute!!!

Justice for Jupiterdonia

Ok now that I've eaten and had a glass of wine, I just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who took part in BJSC186. Your support, enthusiasm, and conversations are what make this contest so much fun every edition.

Also an extra special thank you to everyone who voted for Little Sis Nora "Cool Like That" . Taking her all the way to 14th place is a result I'm genuinely delighted with. I really just wanted to sent this entry simply because it was fun, energetic, and impossible not to dance to, so seeing so many of you enjoy it as well means a lot.

Congratulations to @Harve once again, after all we're coming To France and visit you as you have already extended the invitation to us lol. Oh and two duet winners back to back a new trend alert anyone?!!

Thank you all for flying with Bøtanikkä Airways, and I hope to see you on board again for the next adventure!!!

Edited yesterday at 02:491 day by Addy!

death, taxes, and Cor Lupus finishing 12th 🤪

anyways, I didn’t vote for the winner but it was giving Dance Moms energy in a fun way and it’s always nice to see a different genre get the crown, so congrats Harve! My predicted top 2 battle was Aeroche vs Hendinia, and it was great to see them top 5 🥰 most of my votes ended up in the bottom though, justice for Klum Rep/Flynnonda/Yehesi in particular. I’m surprised Yehesi did so badly, I felt like it had a lot of fans???

thanks to everyone who voted for Chloe Jane, really glad to see my pop onslaught this year is still paying dividends 🥰 and thank you to Addy for hosting!

If everything goes right my next entry will be the furthest from pop since Zanias last year but still somewhat pop 🤔 and it’s non-English so we’re finally switching it up lol

Checking in from my nocturnal catchup (I'll go try and get a couple more hours' sleep in a minute x) - I think the only correction to the final scoreboard is that Bronzil should indeed have 1 more point (as Jim already pointed out, between scoreboards 9 and 10 Bronzil got 24 points (3 from Yehesi, 8 from Aeroche and 13 from N DNTN) but only went up 23 points on the scoreboard so the spreadsheet may be missing 1 point from one of those nations, ofc the 1 extra point doesn't change their position). That and the tiebreak for Cor Lupus should say 3 18s. x

Based on what's been posted in the thread I also have both Aelandor and Trifoski 18 points lower than in your final scoreboard - you posted that both got no 18s but you only announced 57/59 of the 18s, leaving out Jupiterdonia and N DNTN. Neither of them gave 1-15 points to either Aelandor or Trifoski (or included commiserations) but I'm assuming Jupiterdonia gave 18 to Aelandor and N DNTN gave 18 to Trifoski? Could be the other way round but that seems less likely.

I'll comment more tomorrow anyhoo (and belatedly write up my usual voting highlights as I didn't get around to doing that) but well done @Harve on finally joining the 2 wins club over 13 years after your first win! I'm now 3 for 6 on voting for winners this year yay ~ And thanks Addy for the hosting efforts even though I missed them live again, this was a cool twist on the reveals, I did clock that Skall were going to have a massive boost from the 18s being added on but still wasn't exactly obvious that they'd hold on until the last moment!

(also can we please have the spreadsheets from the semi-finals when you have a moment to post them @Addy! )

20 minutes ago, Bror said:

Checking in from my nocturnal catchup (I'll go try and get a couple more hours' sleep in a minute x) - I think the only correction to the final scoreboard is that Bronzil should indeed have 1 more point (as Jim already pointed out, between scoreboards 9 and 10 Bronzil got 24 points (3 from Yehesi, 8 from Aeroche and 13 from N DNTN) but only went up 23 points on the scoreboard so the spreadsheet may be missing 1 point from one of those nations, ofc the 1 extra point doesn't change their position). That and the tiebreak for Cor Lupus should say 3 18s. x

Based on what's been posted in the thread I also have both Aelandor and Trifoski 18 points lower than in your final scoreboard - you posted that both got no 18s but you only announced 57/59 of the 18s, leaving out Jupiterdonia and N DNTN. Neither of them gave 1-15 points to either Aelandor or Trifoski (or included commiserations) but I'm assuming Jupiterdonia gave 18 to Aelandor and N DNTN gave 18 to Trifoski? Could be the other way round but that seems less likely.

I'll comment more tomorrow anyhoo (and belatedly write up my usual voting highlights as I didn't get around to doing that) but well done @Harve on finally joining the 2 wins club over 13 years after your first win! I'm now 3 for 6 on voting for winners this year yay ~ And thanks Addy for the hosting efforts even though I missed them live again, this was a cool twist on the reveals, I did clock that Skall were going to have a massive boost from the 18s being added on but still wasn't exactly obvious that they'd hold on until the last moment!

(also can we please have the spreadsheets from the semi-finals when you have a moment to post them @Addy! )

Thank you Bror for cross checking me <3.

Yes, indeed, both Aelandor and Trifoski received 18s from Jupiterdonia and N DNTN. My eyes were probably crossed as I was rushing through those results. 😅 I'll edit the original post and the 18s score table to show both countries correctly.

That said, I do know for a fact that the final scoreboard was copied and pasted from the original results spreadsheet, not from the version I was editing live while revealing the 18s.

So the final standings themselves were always correct <3.

Final Scoreboard + Semi's

https://www.icloud.com/numbers/0b2nmqs3pjns_MJameS5MroZQ#BJSC186

I hope the link works for everyone!!!

Addy you smashed it again bestie! The reveal twist gave ESC drama and the airline theme is as authentic and fun as ever

Best winner in a while! Congrats Harve Checked out Julianna and Mary’s album off the back of hearing this song, and just wow… can they be a permanent duo please.

17th is a great finish for yaego - ty for those that pointed our angelcore tripbanger, especially the gods of music taste blacksquare and Jerd for the 18s 🤍 Also super happy to see Alana Henderson as high as 13th, like Skall, a great standout from what we’ve became accustomed to hearing in the contest

Congratulations @Harve for winning this. Thank you @Addy! for the great presentation of the results. Thanky you Lookylion for the 18 points.

28 is a good placing considering place 19 in the semi with equal points to the 21st. I think for the next contest I will step away from pop and try something different.

Well done Harve! I’m definitely not the main audience for this kinda song but I understand its appeal for sure and it’s always nice, as I said with Joshua Idehen, to see a song with a lot of 18s win and not just be polarising, but genuinely the most popular song so can’t be argued with. Excited to see you host!

4th was EXACTLY what I predicted for myself in the end so I’m thrilled to have racked up another top 10, with what I now assume is my record of 5 in a row, going off what Pav said last contest. It seemed to grab so many 5-1s which probably speaks to it being a genuinely appreciated song rather than one people are wildly excited for so 4th feels appropriate for that.

Pleasantly surprised about FARC - a very good shout from Leww out of nowhere there. Another solid pop song from Dani Sylvia, who I obviously enjoy having sent her twice, although her newest material kinda isn’t giving so makes sense that this was from a previous era. And YAY for not being way out for Leww this time - I was hesitant to predict you to win because of how it’s gone for you so far this year but there was no way this banger wasn’t gonna resonate.

Loved the hosting Addy, I always do, you’re a very trusty host and I’m always here for a new hosting idea ❤️

Final spreadsheet has my score from Yehesi as 2 instead of 3, so that's where I should be 1 higher with a final score of 181. Doesn't change where I finish (though it does mean I was 10th as on more votes than Jade before the 18s were added).

Third time I've 1 had point from Lotunia in the semi, the two before were for DNQs so we're getting closer. Thank you Lindsey for the 12 ❤️

congratssss skall on the win!! i’m very happy to come 5th and i won another semi again 😮😮😮thanks for all the votes and the 2 18s!!

A hit tastes so much sweeter when I still like the song by the end of the contest, it's been a while! Thanks everyone, congrats Harve, and well done Assy for another inspired concept 🖤

Reading this morning and seeing everyone fall asleep mid-results was a scream though

Omg Skall winning with a former Elëdan DNQ in the end, amazing stuff!! Alt bloc rejoicingggg

Thanks everyone for the votes, beyond happy to finish top 10 twice in a row; I don’t think I’ve had that in YEARS.

Great hosting Addy! Got that shit down like a pro, even the insufferable boarding delays felt authentic :D xx

Congratulations @Harve - my favourite winning is amazing to see, such an inspired choice!

And OMG we finished 23rd!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been waiting for that position for what feels like 10 years to complete my top 30 positions