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Qualified with a deduction along with all 10 of my votes - your faves could never are statistically highly unlikely to achieve this!

Only bad bitches rock purple

Anyone following 48? Loving Sai and Mary's sworn enemies arc and the complete disaster that the green tribe has been in the first three weeks! Wanted to check out the OG series after seeing some of the players who've been on US Traitors and thought that the flop UK version showed some promise despite generally being pretty dull. Got myself a source using a VPN to get into Survivor over the last month or so and I am loving it. Binged 47 over a few days and loved the fluidity and the shifting power dynamics compared to the "floptina but showed some promise" UK version, then peeped 44 after loving Carolyn on Traitors and have since seen The Amazon, Pearl Islands, Palau, Panama, Cook Islands, China, Micronesia (ICONIC), Gabon (I know lots of people aren't keen but on that one but thought it was an iconic hot mess), Tocantins, Samoa and Heroes vs Villains (Almost as ICONIC as Micronesia if it weren't for the presence of THAT person (#hobbitoncrack)

Did wonder if we forgot to do the thread for this around upgrade time! I disagree with my learned friend Liam - I think this is brilliant and IMO is more likely to be the big jury favourite than Austria (said in a pre-France dropping their entry world) and has the potential to get a good televote too.

Silas stop trying to send Tone Damli challenge is a separate challenge.

BJSC participants stop trying to send Dagny challenge

Adding onto what's been said already, I think there's a sliding scale between "novelty" and "camp" where at one end you've got those late 00s entries where people had stopped caring/treated the whole thing as a joke like Irelande Douze Points, Leto Svet or Baila Chiki Chiki (all conveniently 2008 examples since that year was the worst for it I think) and then on one end there's songs like Europapa, Cha Cha Cha and, I would argue, Bara Bada Bastu where they lead with the silliness but ultimately are strong, well crafted pop songs underneath the campery. My gut is we're in an era now where televoters (and juries too to a lesser extent) are looking more to those latter kind of entries rather than the safe, slickly produced numbers that Sweden are usually the masters of. Will be interesting to see how KAJ's result at Eurovision, whatever it is, influences whatever comes through in Melodifestivalen 2026 and if this is a blip or the start of a new trend.

New Lexico have come to play!

Never change San Marino!

John Lundvik has been the only skip so far - gotta be the highest quality final in years!

Twenty minutes until showtime, anyone who wants the link can find it here There should be English language commentary available as an option if you want it

Laughing that the songs currently in both first and last place were my two nearly votes!

Intrigued to see how they stage this one - could potentially be a showstopper. Definite potential winner if it can landslide the juries and get a top 5 televote - another similarity to "The Code" since we're going all in on the comparisons.

It's out there if you know where to look for it ~~

A call needs to be made to give the girl some staging but there should be enough in this song to qualify.