FrankLuck

Voted, at this point I'm just crossing my fingers for my 12-pointer as it has a couple of NQ predictions + I hope I'll also finish in the top 30 of my semi somehow. Would be interesting to see how often people lose their semi winners, as I feel it happens to me uncomfortably often.

OMG, I thought 'Rave Angel' is going to be my pop moment, I didn't submit it last month because I wanted something Utopia-friendly and I didn't submit it now because of Sanremo, etc., and I thought there's no chance of me standing out with a pop song in a most likely pop-heavy contest. I'm very happy with my entry though, we'll see if it finds its fans. A couple of vetoes are 'borderline okay-to-enter' for me, I hope the next batch will include all the PJSC medalists :P

Can't wait to start my lil listening session (most likely tomorrow), thanks Kath for the playlist!

Wanted to write that 'after a long hiatus I'm back', but it turned out that I didn't even skip the previous UP (maybe Nuggets?). Anyways, enjoy, came to finish not-bottom-5 for a change.

Uhh, same here, even the song I ranked 13th in semi 2 made my final votes. HOWEVER, In the middle of my super-stressful Thursday I went out for a walk to clear my head while catching up on semi 1. I fell in love with Summericia's entry in 10 seconds and I kept listening to it on a loop until I got back to the office. Thanks Rob for sending 'Yarilo', you 100% made my day! :heart: :heart:

+ 1 vote for tomorrow (today)

Went with my most Utopia-compatible potential (well... we'll see).

Voted! Very happy with my top 10. :heart:

Sometimes I'm Alone :lol: :lol: Heard it 100 times and I'm happy to listen to it again. Semi 2 is great for my entry btw

I bring the epilepsy warning to this month's contest B-) (Thanks for the extension!)

:lol: My winner is Aesthetica :wub:

Voted, great final!

Sorry, I won't be able to vote, as I don't have internet since the early afternoon (+ my mobile data is not that great). Will definitely vote in the final!

POPHub was my fave BY FAR in semi 2 :blink: (Yay, I Qd)

What if THEY ARE in the Other Timezone?? :o

Yay, I can be there tonight too, after 100 years :w00t:

My streak :cry: .... :lol: Thanks All! Definitely the least Land of DW-sounding entry of the year, but not being myself might be the key to success, I guess :lol:

Oh, Flynnonda was one of the highlights for me, I thought it's a Q Now let's see if me forgetting to change my placeholder to a proper Land of DW entry would break my glorious streak...

Voted! That prediction for Semi 1 needs a small update though, not a fan of losing my standout 12 for a change.

Sorry for failing to vote, last weekend I thought we still have this weekend too... oops. If there's an extension I'd be happy to submit my votes tomorrow in the morning (I've already listened to the entries a couple of times but didn't rank them properly).

Voted! Didn't know PS5 (I'm not really on the top of my music-game this year), but I think it's not as bad as my top 3, all could make the 'I deserve punishment'-playlist.

Voted, great final!

Oh my, I have competition! :lol: First of all, even as a DNQ queen I appreciate BJSC, all the countries and the people behind them - a lot more than I show it. Since my time in the DW group (when Land of DW was born) my life's changed a lot (many times), but I love that no matter what happens in my 'real' life, I can 'take' BJSC with me anywhere. Like for many others, my main goal is discovering music, gems I wouldn't get to know without you all, but I do think that a bit of success doesn't hurt every now and then. There were times when I wasn't feeling the best mentally and 's¤cking even at my hobby' was just another kick in the teeth, but skipping some competitons did help and I could get back when I was in a better headspace. To the DNQ discussion: I know that it's a lot more work but I do miss the EOY DNQ competiton a lot. I do think that it helps celebrate the 'losers of the wrong semi', for example I'm sure Bellamia's current DNQ would do very well there and it would get the fame it deserves. With mixing DNQs with all the rest of the songs (even the winners) we don't 'celebrate' the best of the unlucky ones that much, '2 DNQs made round 3 then flopped' is really not the same as winning a contest (even if it's only a top of the flops). Semis: I know that listening to 30-32 songs can be a lot sometimes, but I see only disadvantages of having 3 semis. It would be too easy to end up in a semi where noone appreciates your riskier entry or where you'd need to vote for all the fillers to have a top 10. If we'd have labels, I'm sure I'd simply target 5-6 people with my entries knowing that I will be (most likely) in the same semi as them and I would definitely not send anything remotely poppy as even though I find some pop gold in pretty much every contest, I wouldn't want to end up in a pure pop semi (and I'm sure many others would think the same way).

Okay, I'm not too surprised, Kaltes Klares Wasser's been a potential since forever and after reconfirming it I realised that I didn't send it as it's very similar to 'Missy Queen's Gonna Die', another huge flop of mine that I thought that will qualify easily (tbh I still don't understand how pretty much noone appreciated it). 4/4 DNQs this year though, only the strong can handle this :P

Confirmed! For the 3rd time in an hour (went back to my original entry), I really need some offline time. :lol: