Ryan.

9 out of the iTunes top 10 being female vocal tracks, can't remember last time we had such female domination! :o

I think it's worth the €25 definitely, although the €17 shipping (to the UK) makes it less desirable! I certainly enjoyed playing it although I think it works best when you are playing with people with similar amounts of Eurovision knowledge as yourself. I've just written a full review here! https://www.escxtra.com/2018/05/20/review-e...ion-board-game/

Unfortunately only left myself with 10 minutes to do this so this isn't as thought through as I'd have liked! Final Overall - Televote - Jury Vote 01 02 01 Israel // Netta - Toy 02 05 03 France // Madame Monsieur - Mercy 03 01 08 Cyprus // Eleni Foureira - Fuego 04 10 02 Bulgaria // Equinox - Bones 05 03 11 Norway // Alexander Rybak - That's How You Write A Song 06 09 04 Sweden // Benjamin Ingrosso - Dance You Off 07 08 10 Lithuania // Ieva Zasimauskaitė - When We're Old 08 04 19 Moldova // DoReDoS - My Lucky Day 09 06 13 Estonia // Elina Nechayeva - La Forza 10 12 07 Germany // Michael Schulte - You Let Me Walk Alone 11 14 06 Australia // Jessica Mauboy - We Got Love 12 18 05 Ireland // Ryan O'Shaughnessy - Together 13 13 09 Czech Republic // Mikolas Josef - Lie To Me 14 07 18 Ukraine // Mélovin - Under The Ladder 15 11 20 Hungary // AWS - Viszlát Nyár 16 19 12 The Netherlands // Waylon - Outlaw In 'Em 17 15 14 Italy // Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro - Non Mi Avete Fatto Niente 18 17 15 Albania // Eugent Bushpepa - Mall 19 16 21 Serbia // Sanja Ilić & Balkanika - Nova Deca 20 22 16 Austria // Cesár Sampson - Nobody But You 21 23 17 Portugal // Cláudia Pascoal - O Jardim 22 20 23 Finland // Saara Aalto - Monsters 23 21 24 Denmark // Rasmussen - Higher Ground 24 24 22 Spain // Alfred & Amaia - Tu Canción 25 26 25 United Kingdom // SuRie - Storm 26 25 26 Slovenia // Lea Sirk - Hvala, ne!

Imagine if you’d said in 2014 that just 4 contests later we’d have a top 5 in the odds of Cyprus, Israel, Ireland, France and Germany/Lithuania!

same 10 as me~

Jessica missed a few notes last night and put her mic out to the crowd a few times at the end of the song presumably because her voice was almost gone. Her voice has sounded more and more tired as the week has gone on. Nevertheless, I still think it was easily competent enough to get the jury support it needs! In this afternoon's rehearsal though she sounded pretty great. I'm sure she'll be fine!

Predictions~ Semi Final 2 Overall - Televote - Jury Vote 01 01 02 Norway // Alexander Rybak - That's How You Write A Song 02 04 01 Sweden // Benjamin Ingrosso - Dance You Off 03 02 06 Ukraine // Mélovin - Under The Ladder 04 03 07 Moldova // DoReDos - My Lucky Day 05 08 03 The Netherlands // Waylon - Outlaw In 'Em 06 09 04 Australia // Jessica Mauboy - We Got Love 07 06 08 Poland // Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer - Light Me Up 08 13 05 Malta // Christabelle - Taboo 09 05 15 Hungary // AWS - Viszlát nyár 10 07 12 Denmark // Rasmussen - Higher Ground 11 11 11 Montenegro // Vanja Radovanović - Inje 12 10 16 Russia // Julia Samoylova - I Won't Break 13 14 10 Romania // The Humans - Goodbye 14 12 13 Slovenia // Lea Sirk - Hvala, ne! 15 18 09 Latvia // Laura Rizzotto - Funny Girl 16 15 14 Serbia // Sanja Ilić & Balkanika - Nova deca 17 16 17 San Marino // Jessika ft. Jenifer Brening - Who We Are 18 17 18 Georgia // Ethno-Jazz Band Iriao - For You

This is the best semi-final in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest, the stage productions are amazing and the songs are amazing - and the results are totally unpredictable. Enjoy everyone!

I've seen around 147 run-throughs (actual: 9) of each of these rehearsals so this may actually play against me... but final predictions! Semi Final 1 Overall - Televote - Jury Vote 01 01 04 Cyprus // Eleni Foureira - Fuego 02 04 02 Israel // Netta - TOY 03 07 01 Bulgaria // Equinox - Bones 04 02 05 Estonia // Elina Nechayeva - La Forza 05 03 03 Czech Republic // Mikolas Josef - Lie To Me 06 05 08 Lithuania // Ieva Zasimauskaitė - When We're Old 07 08 11 Armenia // Sevak Khanagyan - Qami 08 06 15 Finland // Saara Aalto - Monsters 09 11 10 Switzerland // Zibbz - Stones 10 14 07 Austria // Cesár Sampson - Nobody But You 11 16 06 Belgium // Sennek - A Matter Of Time 12 13 09 Albania // Eugent Bushpepa - Mall 13 09 16 Greece // Yianna Terzi - Oniro Mou 14 12 12 Azerbaijan // Aisel - X My Heart 15 10 17 Belarus // Alekseev - Forever 16 15 14 Ireland // Ryan O'Shaughnessy - Together 17 17 13 Croatia // Franka - Crazy 18 18 18 Iceland // Ari Ólafsson - Our Choice 19 19 19 F.Y.R. Macedonia // Eye Cue - Lost And Found

I think they’d have to host in their JESC 2008 venue in Limassol!

Press poll part 1 (semi-finalists) https://www.escxtra.com/2018/05/04/press-po...-day-6-results/ Press poll part 2 (big 5+portugal) https://www.escxtra.com/2018/05/04/eurovisi...part-2-results/

Day 4 press poll! https://www.escxtra.com/2018/05/02/daily-eu...ess-poll-day-4/

Day 3 press poll for you guys! https://www.escxtra.com/2018/05/01/daily-eu...ess-poll-day-3/

Press poll day 2! https://www.escxtra.com/2018/04/30/daily-eu...ess-poll-day-2/ FUEGO!

Day 1 press poll results: https://www.escxtra.com/2018/04/29/daily-pr...oll-2018-day-1/ Lithuania was really stunning, slightly dodgy holograms aside

This is her best single yet.

29 :cheer:

Haha I panicked too, straight back into the store even though I have half my lunch break left :heehee:

I listened to the beginnings of Israel and Italy and both sound the same as normal studio versions to me, so looks like an issue confined to Australia (where the Twitter reports seem to originate)

I see this on Twitter, I work in HMV so will grab one and play it after my lunch break :D

Get your coins ready for the Eurovision official BOARD GAME! https://www.escxtra.com/2018/04/19/official...ion-board-game/

Riverdale fans vote for me please!

The second season was much better now that we're into books that weren't adapted into the Jim Carrey film as most of season one was just a poor rehash of the film for me. The Lemony Snicket character has THANKFULLY been massively toned down in how much it appears, the absolute worst element of season one. Overall much much improved on season one and I'm now properly looking forward to the ending!

I guess her back story massively helped her then :blush:

Julia performed this live for the first time tonight in Moscow: https://www.escxtra.com/2018/04/07/julia-samoylova-live/ I'm not one to slam vocals but if that performance comes across anything like that in Lisbon it is getting nowhere near qualification. I presume they will just turn off her mic (Samra-style) and let the backing vocals do the work but will it be enough... She won X Factor right?