the crowd goes shockingly MILD for south korea ijbol

oh I liked Nepal, what brilliant dramatics

great performance and vocals for nepal, even though the song is a bit weak. hope they don't end up last!

malaysia

Not an ad with ai in it. ugh

the philippines won! shockingly thailand came 2nd

Good if expected winner, possibly a bit too similar in style to Dara and I definitely hear a song I recognise in it but can't place so hardly the most original winner, but in the top half of this offering, so I'll take that.

Decent if endearingly amateur production for the first runthrough of this, I hope this is a good sign for repeat editions, this is a great slot in the calendar for a November production on the other side of Eurovision much more interesting than Junior ever was.

I’m not mad at Philippines winning, Carmelle is a charismatic performer that should have a big future ahead so that is a good platform for her.

Thailand getting so many points for that borefest was a jump scare. Vietnam deserved so much more but I’ll take 3rd place, by far the best package for me here.

Funny how all women dominated the top 4 here and poor Bangladesh getting almost the absolute minimum score possible from juries :’)

Just finished watching this and quite enjoyed it! A lot of the songs did sound quite Eurovision-y (including the winner) so there's clearly been some inspiration taken there.

My favourites sound-wise were Bhutan and Cambodia. I was worried South Korea were going to completely dominate so glad that's not the case. Poor Bangladesh - I did fear for them as their song was quite different to everything else!