Well if Kathaldazia didn't even qualify then I had no chance as we were likely fighting for the same target audience.

(That said I didn't actually vote for them )

I’m quite chuffed to make it through this month. i do prefer the original to my entry but it’s prompted me listen to Juno Reactor quite a bit this past week and I’ve enjoyed being reacquainted

Thunder Bae was just outside my votes, I did prefer the one in PFSC, but this one was also quite interesting too. Not the best week for her for song contest results oops x

All my votes qualified! Coupled with the surprise Q for me, that's a great night's results, if Semi 2's as good as people were saying, then this could be a tough final x

Kathaldazia still in the mix to be in my top 10 of semi 2 after I do my second listen (I currently have them ranked 11th) so still a shame to lose them especially by such a tight margin but yay for Sovarasma x

Thanks for the hosting Izzles <3 bring on the final x

From my semi 1 votes/rankings:

12 Q

10 Q

8 Q

7 Q

6 Q

5 Q

4 Q

3 Q

2 Mulgracia

1 Q

13th Taahino

15th Pestolia

16th Greenfroze

17th Kluminican Republic

20th Aesthetica

21st A-Konohagakure

25th République d'Áskorza

26th Juranabaijan

28th Beaverdonia

30th East Rukahavian

Will edit in my finalised ranking of semi 2 after listening again but per my posts earlier in the thread I've currently lost my whole top 3 (Pagasa, Dobago, Deandria) as well as FARC from my top 10 and Kathaldazia from just outside it so that's all not great. I had been thinking my final votes might be quite dominated by semi 2 so I guess this is the universe trying to help balance it out :'( (although I thought something similar last month and the semi I enjoyed less had a few big growers and it ended up being a more even split than I expected anyway).

edit: DNQs in my final semi 2 ranking:

1st Pagasa

2nd Dobago

5th Deandria

8th FARC

15th Kathaldazia

18th Cheiron

19th Zanmatony

22nd Yehesi

26th Bronzil

30th Mothertopia

31st Ben's Sanctuary

Semi 1

Semi 2

As expected with my 3-4 losses

12pts QUALIFIED

10pts QUALIFIED

8pts QUALIFIED

7pts QUALIFIED

6pts QUALIFIED

5pts Bronzil | Divorce - Lord

4pts Mothertopia | Wild Orchid - Talk To Me

3pts Ben's Sanctuary | Stress & ZIAN - How To Heal

2pts Zanmatony | Petrojvic Blasting Company - Princess Andy

1pt QUALIFIED

Although from my 11th-14th positions, 3 of them survived!

I only lost Pestolia but unfortunately my long list of commiserations mostly didn't qualify

Totwlly OUT OF SYNC with this cintrst TODAY!!!

Indeed I lost two of my top 10 and both are, at least half of it, the language I sent the previous contest.

Unfortunate for the two German tracks as well in Semi 2 to not score enough.

3 NQs with 11 votes though. =o

4 songs that got 10/11 votes but didn't qualify (and Kath DNQing with 2 12s and an 8), the bloodbath is real x

SF1 votes

03 | Mulgracia | Thunder Bae - GAY ALICE IN WONDERLAND

SF2 would-be votes

12 | Deandria | Fiolka - Komu Ja

04 | Pagasa | Eldritch Anisette - Dissection Of Silence

Deandria is a particularly gutting loss but overall I didn't lose too many across both semis so this final is still going to be a blood bath!

Thanks Iz for the presentation of these results tonight

Thanks for all the votes! I must admit I couldn’t bear to watch the video (though did after I knew the result haha). When I saw we were up against Aesthetica I wasn’t confident at all as I thought that’s the kind of thing that does well even if it’s not so much to my taste.

We lost:

6 A-Konohagakure: still very much a novice with this genre but this sounded like a really lovely one to me

2 Kluminican Republic: I thought this was really fun and didn’t deserve to be a streak ender

Glad that none of the late votes cost anyone a place but sad particularly for Pegasa as well as A-Konohagakure. That’s a rough one for Kathaldazia too - really enjoyed the song.

Well at least Ben's Sanctionary flopped just as badly

Amma tske it like the UK in eurovision. Y'all liked it, as it was inoffensive pop, but not an enough for top10!!

Haven't had a flop this big for the toilet simce Sirens, which was a cool summer bop that none of y'all APPRECIATED!!! Just had to give it a chance by listrning on a earm summer's day and focusing on the BOMBASTIC SMOOTH OF THE CHORUS!!!

Only 5 voters for Divorce - wow I got this one totally wrong.

Thanks for hosting so far Iz

the fact that all of the qualifiers from Semi 2 (save for Lotunia) lost at least two of their votes shows how spread out the voting actually was

such a competitive semi

kath :( farc :( klum :( taahino :(

Many congratulations @FrankLuck

Oh well, not to be for East Rukahavian. Not sure the Myles Smith sound will return for us.

Ooft! THANK GOD I qualified! Thank you to those who voted!

GUTTED at Mulgracia being the final non-qualifier though. They were my 8 pointer :(

Oh no! I did have a feeling this one was on shaky territory. Thank you for the points I did receive, especially Friedland for their 10 points. I still love the song so I’ll hold on to that! Pressure is off now I don’t have a streak to maintain!

Shame Taahino and Ashton DNQ’d also this month!

Apologies to all of the DNQs and anyone who I psychologically tortured a bit too much with the reveal.

Big losses for me were of course A-Konohagakure and Pagasa with 8 points and 7 points respectively, but also Dobago and Cheiron, and Bronzil/Greenfroze quite close to my votes also.

Final thread is now up, so votes are open for that x