Umi

There is a difference between "I would like to leave the EU" and "I would rather leave the EU in any way possible than stay in". Just because 50%+ of voters wanted to leave the EU doesn't mean that 50%+ of voters are happy to leave with no deal.

Both of their last two entries were extremely polarising as well though. Just look at how strong your own views about them are.

Similar thoughts to the rest of you guys really. Map looks beautiful and I'm OK with the starter first stages but it's all about the gameplay at this point. A couple of generations ago I would have trusted the gameplay to be solid but I'm terrifed of a Sun/Moon rerun at this point.

What a joke and a huge disrespect to all of the artists who took part in the selection. How can you choose to withdraw rather than just sending the person the public chose? I just don't understand why they let people like Maruv take part if they weren't willing to send them. This whole debacle should have been dealt with long before the televised show.

The political shitstorm tonight was absolutely gross. MARUV didn't get the worst of it on the night but if she's robbed of her victory for being a ... normal artist from Ukraine, that's horrifying.

I have no idea what the competition for this entry was but as whatever as it is, it must be Germany's best entry in years. Their standards are bad enough that this is an improvement.

I don't think this is overly likely to be one of my favourites this year but I'm so happy with this choice anyway - it's so nice to see Italy choose something different when it would have been so easy to be pedestrian this year. Can't wait to see how this is staged in May.

This has been a ludicrously samey night, even for Sanremo standards.

I went into this with no real idea of what was to come and holy shit, what an abysmal heat. Worse than any of last year's by a mile.

If the jury hated it and the public hated it, maybe the song was just shit? I wanted 'Passio' through but it wasn't robbed just because everyone else realised it was a crap song.

Florina was dire in my opinion, yes, though maybe not the worst of the night? She was really stiff on stage, vocals were all over the place, and the song is pretty whatever. I was more surprised by the good televote.

Did anybody else absolutely despise 'Le Petit Nicolas'? I was horrified to see it go through, and mostly off of jury votes as well? Gutted for Aysat's televote, which I sadly did expect after what happened to Emmy Liyana last year.

Ugh, the selection is crap this year. I didn't expect it to go backwards but there is a huge amount of half-baked stuff here. 'Roi' is getting so much interest but it bores the hell out of me and Bilal can be much more interesting than that.

It's so hard to care about the bottom half of the women's draw at all, while the top half is positively mouth-watering. I can see both of those matchups being bloodbaths. Kerber and Halep both looked great today, but I can see Halep wilting against Kerber. Muguruza has looked comfortable all tournament, but Sharapova obliterated Pliskova. I can't see any way that the champion doesn't come from this half of the draw. In terms of the men, I am mostly excited for Thiem to have a shot at getting to the final before meeting Nadal. I really struggle to see Zverev stopping him, and I'm not sure I have too much faith in Djokovic either. And at the end of the day, getting to the final of Roland Garros is all that any man bar Nadal can ask for.

I mean, Spain weren't exactly doing well before OT either, were they? I think it's worth giving the format another chance.

Isn't the final on at the same time every year, and it's the host that adapts to that?

Australia's supposedly underwhelming televote is more than made up for by the juries being ridiculously biased in their favour.

The French HoD has specifically said that they're considering Paris, Lille and Lyon right now for potential host cities, but I'm sure a few more options would come up in the event that France wins. I can't realistically see the first French Eurovision in four decades being held outside of Paris, though.

Can anyone see Cyprus winning the jury? If so, why? I want to believe, but I can't quite see it.

Ha, f*** y'all who hated on Serbia. Balkanika cannot be stopped!

In what world is there any chance that Australia doesn't qualify? We saw last year that the jury will give them points just for existing and it'll be the same again for Jessica.

I think for the exact same reason that they won't leave. They gain all the legitimacy they want just from taking part in Eurovision, because all they need it to be is a yearly reminder that they exist, they're Europe-aligned and they are capable of enjoying a fun, campy song contest. If anything I think it's good for them that their record is gone, because being so randomly successful always aroused suspicion and made it easy to group them with Russia, which is bad for obvious reasons. Losing the record is bad for national pride but if their primary goal in taking part is international PR then continuing to enter is the only logical choice - it's not like doing badly in Eurovision actually makes anyone think badly of a country. All leaving does is remove the one chance they have to annually trick Europeans into thinking that they're just another random European country. Remove that and the only time anyone will ever hear about Azerbaijan again will be when one of their various issues is relevant.

This is literally me right now.

Ugh, I want to die. At least Estonia got through.

Belgium? I had no idea BuzzJack didn't like that but I'm gutted about it not making it. Sad for Serbia but not so surprised by that.