Terence

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Agreed with the two above, no :P

1. Serbia (225) 2. Ukraine (202) 3. Spain (179) 4. Iceland (171) 5. Italy (162) 6. Turkey (128) 7. Azerbaijan (128) 8. Moldova (124) 9. Slovenia (118) 10. Ireland (116) 11. Georgia (99) 12. France (88) 13. United Kingdom (88) 14. Bosnia Herzegovina (82) 15. Russia (81) 16. Norway (72) 17. Sweden (58) 18. Greece (51) 19. Denmark (47) 20. Belarus (47) 21. Hungary (41) 22. Netherlands (40) 23. Finland (32) 24. Germany (29) 25. Cyprus (21) 26. Switzerland (7) EEK Sweden flopped.... I wouldn't be surprised to be honest. Germany, Norway, France and Georgia finished where I predict them to do so. Russia is low though. 1. Ireland (156) 2. Denmark (135) 3. Iceland (132) 4. Cyprus (126) 5. Russia (103) 6. Greece (92) 7. Moldova (91) 8. Finland (68) 9. Switzerland (67) 10. Hungary (67) 11. Israel (51) 12. Romania (43) 13. Albania (35) 14. Belgium (24) 15. Latvia (22) 16. San Marino (3) 17. Austria (2) 18. Montenegro (1) EEK Romania! 1. Serbia (164) 2. Ukraine (136) 3. Bosnia Herzegovina (127) 4. Slovenia (120) 5. Norway (115) 6. Turkey (96) 7. Sweden (72) 8. Belarus (69) 9. Netherlands (67) 10. Georgia (64) 11. FYR Macedonia (54) 12. Lithuania (44) 13. Estonia (32) 14. Slovakia (21) 15. Bulgaria (20) 16. Croatia (16) 17. Portugal (1) 18. Malta (0) Somehow this semifinal result looks credible to me.

Estonia is growing on me... I will definitely vote for Ott in the semifinal!!! Even Albania and Georgia sound less painful now! 01. (01) Iceland 02. (03) Bosnia & Herzegovina 03. (07) Serbia 04. (04) Italy 05. (08) Cyprus 06. (06) Spain 07. (05) Romania 08. (12) Estonia 09. (02) Slovenia 10. (10) Hungary 11. (09) Norway 12. (11) Sweden 13. (18) Latvia 14. (13) Greece 15. (15) Russia 16. (14) Denmark 17. (16) Croatia 18. (19) Germany 19. (17) Portugal 20. (25) Netherlands 21. (24) Azerbaijan 22. (20) France 23. (22) Malta 24. (27) Israel 25. (34) Austria 26. (21) Moldova 27. (35) United Kingdom 28. (36) Finland 29. (26) Switzerland 30. (29) Bulgaria 31. (31) Turkey 32. (39) Georgia 33. (30) Ireland 34. (37) Albania 35. (23) Belgium 36. (32) Ukraine 37. (38) Slovakia 38. (28) Belarus 39. (33) FYR Macedonia 40. (42) Montenegro 41. (41) San Marino 42. (40) Lithuania Lithuania is horrible, no structure, no feelings... just a cold entry!

Great great song, and considering how well it did without a video, that is such a feat. It would be pointless if a video is ever shot now!

psssssssssssssssssst :)

GREAT 01. (01) Iceland 02. (03) Slovenia 03. (02) Bosnia & Herzegovina 04. (06) Italy 05. (07) Romania 06. (05) Spain GOOD GOING ONTO GREAT 07. (04) Serbia 08. (09) Cyprus 09. (10) Norway GOOD 10. (11) Hungary 11. (08) Sweden 12. (13) Estonia 13. (14) Greece 14. (12) Denmark DECENT 15. (15) Russia 16. (17) Croatia 17. (16) Portugal 18. (18) Latvia LISTENABLE 19. (21) Germany 20. (23) France 21. (20) Moldova 22. (24) Malta 23. (22) Belgium 24. (19) Azerbaijan 25. (25) Netherlands 26. (26) Switzerland 27. (28) Israel 28. (27) Belarus HMM.... ONLY JUST 29. (35) Bulgaria 30. (31) Ireland 31. (32) Turkey 32. (33) Ukraine 33. (37) FYR Macedonia 34. (30) Austria 35. (29) United Kingdom 36. (39) Finland MY EARS START HURTING 37. (34) Albania 38. (36) Slovakia 39. (38) Georgia PAIN 40. (40) Lithuania 41. (41) San Marino 42. (42) Montenegro

It's released sometime around May1st I think... too late for me! They should just release it now!

13th May... that's less than a month... almost 3 weeks! Can't wait!!!!!!!

On and yes, awesome job Pavel, and thanks for reminding my lazy mind about this. (Yohanna is still mad at you btw :P)

ANI!!!!!!!!!!!!! My babe, goddess! Eat it, Lena! And I am NOT liking those comments against Yohanna, poor girl... come to daddy!!!!!

Ouch at San Marino scoring! And 'classic-sounding' songs like Azerbaijan not...

DIVINE 01. (01) Bosnia & Herzegovina 02. (04) Iceland 03. (03) Slovenia 04. (05) Spain 05. (06) Serbia GREAT 06. (02) Italy 07. (07) Cyprus 08. (08) Romania 09. (11) Norway 10. (12) Sweden 11. (09) Greece 12. (14) Denmark DECENT 13. (19) Russia 14. (29) Portugal 15. (17) Germany 16. (10) Croatia 17. (13) Azerbaijan 18. (18) Hungary 19. (15) Latvia OOOOKAY 20. (20) Moldova 21. (16) Belarus 22. (25) Estonia SLIGHTLY IRRITATING BUT TOLERABLE 23. (33) Israel 24. (21) Ireland 25. (23) France 26. (30) Bulgaria 27. (28) Malta 28. (27) Netherlands 29. (32) Switzerland 30. (26) Belgium 31. (35) Austria 32. (34) Finland 33. (22) Turkey JUST... 34. (24) United Kingdom 35. (38) Slovakia 36. (40) Georgia 37. (31) Ukraine 38. (36) FYR Macedonia HORROR 39. (37) Albania 40. (**) San Marino 41. (39) Lithuania 42. (41) Montenegro

Second try! 1. Bosnia Herzegovina (206) 2. Switzerland (178) 3. Russia (171) 4. Ireland (168) 5. Azerbaijan (156) 6. Greece (152) 7. Spain (133) 8. United Kingdom (125) 9. Denmark (115) 10. Lithuania (112) 11. Turkey (110) 12. Norway (99) 13. Iceland (78) 14. Ukraine (76) 15. Romania (72) 16. Estonia (67) 17. Sweden (65) 18. Latvia (62) 19. Germany (58) 20. Albania (56) 21. Serbia (49) 22. Slovenia (44) 23. Belarus (43) 24. Moldova (22) 25. Italy (19) 26. France (0) Bosnia winning would be awesome. Serbia and Sweden flopped! France - nil points!! Switzerland and Ireland are WAY TOO HIGH for me! Semifinal 1: 1. Russia (181) 2. Iceland (118) 3. Denmark (114) 4. Switzerland (110) 5. Ireland (106) 6. Greece (99) 7. Romania (77) 8. Albania (67) 9. Moldova (59) 10. Latvia (57) 11. Cyprus (54) 12. Finland (46) 13. Belgium (41) 14. Hungary (35) 15. Austria (23) 16. Montenegro (18) 17. Israel (8) 18. San Marino (5) Semifinal 2: 1. Bosnia Herzegovina (155) 2. Turkey (139) 3. Norway (95) 4. Slovenia (94) 5. Ukraine (89) 6. Lithuania (86) 7. Sweden (84) 8. Belarus (83) 9. Estonia (75) 10. Serbia (70) 11. Georgia (66) 12. Netherlands (52) 13. Slovakia (30) 14. Bulgaria (28) 15. Croatia (25) 16. Portugal (22) 17. FYR Macedonia (19) 18. Malta (6)

My first try... Sweden won, as expected. Estonia and Malta are way too high. I WISH Slovenia will finish that high and no way Bosnia will miss out! 1. Sweden (286) 2. Russia (242) 3. Estonia (168) 4. Turkey (162) 5. Malta (160) 6. Slovenia (158) 7. Serbia (137) 8. Norway (127) 9. Azerbaijan (110) 10. Italy (96) 11. Denmark (92) 12. Moldova (89) 13. Germany (85) 14. Romania (64) 15. Lithuania (55) 16. Ukraine (55) 17. Iceland (52) 18. Switzerland (51) 19. Greece (45) 20. United Kingdom (44) 21. Ireland (41) 22. Cyprus (37) 23. Georgia (30) 24. Belgium (29) 25. France (11) 26. Spain (10) Semifinal: 1. Russia (192) 2. Denmark (134) 3. Iceland (116) 4. Ireland (103) 5. Greece (97) 6. Romania (90) 7. Moldova (88) 8. Belgium (65) 9. Cyprus (58) 10. Switzerland (51) 11. Finland (51) 12. Hungary (45) 13. Albania (44) 14. Austria (32) 15. Latvia (23) 16. San Marino (15) 17. Israel (9) 18. Montenegro (5) 1. Sweden (193) 2. Estonia (148) 3. Norway (120) 4. Serbia (116) 5. Turkey (104) 6. Slovenia (87) 7. Malta (83) 8. Georgia (56) 9. Ukraine (50) 10. Lithuania (49) 11. Portugal (45) 12. Bosnia Herzegovina (43) 13. Belarus (39) 14. Croatia (24) 15. Bulgaria (21) 16. FYR Macedonia (20) 17. Netherlands (14) 18. Slovakia (6)

Semifinal 2: 01 Serbia Big star + ex-Yugos = qualifier 02 Macedonia She should get around 40-45 points from ex-Yugos, and Turkey. Probably not enough to make it! 03 Netherlands She could do a Tom Dice and win the whole thing but with such a lousy draw and so many block voting, I'm inclined to think otherwise 04 Malta Who will vote for this?! 05 Belarus First uptempo - that should help, along with Georgia and Ukraine but is it enough to qualify? 06 Portugal Another non-qualifier on the cards for Portugal 07 Ukraine First guaranteed qualifier 08 Bulgaria Will suffer following Ukraine, and can only rely on Macedonia, Turkey and possibly Serbia for votes. 09 Slovenia Qualifier. Can't see why not. 10 Croatia This will sound like Slovenia Part II. It will damage its chances but nonetheless it will score well enough to qualify 11 Sweden I think this is a tad overrated! Probably won't even finish top 2 in the semi but a qualifier that's for sure! 12 Georgia Another qualifier. I guess people are letting hatred blurring the fact that this will have enough support to qualify, sadly 13 Turkey Lucky draw for Turkey. They have Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany, UK, Macedonia, Bosnia... shall I continue? 14 Estonia Non-qualifier 15 Slovakia Another non-qualifier 16 Norway Qualifier. Only just. 17 Bosnia & Herzegovina Possible winner of this semifinal 18 Lithuania Running order has been kind to this, that's the ONLY reason this stands a chance of qualifying. Turkey Bosnia & Herzegovina Ukraine Sweden Serbia Slovenia Georgia Norway Croatia Lithuania 11. Belarus Eastern Europe will sweep the scoreboard!

My predictions as of now: Semifinal 1: 01 Montenegro Unluckiest country this year. No allies whatsoever, they're all in Semi 2 - non-qualifier 02 Iceland Bad draw, but with Denmark voting in this semi, they will just breeze through. 03 Greece Cyprus, Albania will help for sure, plus it's catchy so it will qualify for sure. Could even win this semifinal 04 Latvia Some help from Ireland but that's about it. End of the line for Latvia 05 Albania Greece, Switzerland, Montenegro should award points to Albania. Not ruling this out yet although can't see this one having a mass televoting appeal 06 Romania They have Italy, Moldova, Spain, Israel, Greece... how can they fail? 07 Switzerland Can't see this one qualifying, don't know why... (aside from the fact that it's Switzerland) 08 Belgium This will bomb because of... 09 Finland ...this. Both risk cancelling each other out. 10 Israel Pretty different, so even without France, they will qualify 11 San Marino I'd be shocked if this makes it! 12 Cyprus 12pts from Greece, could sneak some votes from the UK and Albania, but it will do a Kati Wolf (qualify and bomb) 13 Denmark Enough support from Iceland, Ireland, Latvia. Juries will like this one and it's doing well in polls! 14 Russia Novelty factor + Russia = guaranteed finalist 15 Hungary Helped by being sandwiched between Russia & Austria. Romania should help. Borderline qualifier (9-11) 16 Austria Lucky draw. Will qualify because of that 17 Moldova Again, draw has been kind to them. Add to that Romania and Russia and they'll qualify (albeit being a borderline one) 18 Ireland Qualifier of course So IMO: Greece Russia Denmark Ireland Romania Israel Iceland Austria Cyprus Moldova _______________ 11th Hungary

No way Turkey will fail to qualify... they have Belgium, Netherlands, France, Germany and the UK voting in this semifinal - so that's around 30-40 points guaranteed for them!

Did they announce between which songs the commercial break will be? That should make a difference I say!!

Personal current ranks: AMAZING None Really good: 01. Bosnia & Herzegovina 02. Italy 03. Slovenia 04. Iceland 05. Spain 06. Serbia 07. Cyprus 08. Romania 09. Greece Great 10. Croatia 11. Norway 12. Sweden 13. Azerbaijan 14. Denmark Decent, listenable 15. Latvia 16. Belarus 17. Germany 18. Hungary 19. Russia 20. Moldova Okay... can live without 21. Ireland 22. Turkey 23. France 24. United Kingdom 25. Estonia 26. Belgium 27. Netherlands 28. Malta 29. Portugal 30. Bulgaria So & so 31. Ukraine 32. Switzerland 33. Israel 34. Finland 35. San Marino 36. Austria 37. FYR Macedonia 38. Albania Bad: 39. Slovakia 40. Lithuania 41. Georgia 42. Montenegro

My WISHlist: Semifinal 1 Iceland Greece Latvia Romania Belgium Cyprus Denmark Russia Hungary Moldova (all songs mostly in English, grrr) Semi Final 2 Serbia Netherlands Portugal Slovenia Bulgaria Croatia Sweden Estonia Norway Bosnia & Herzegovina

Montenegro should be a contender for last place in semi-1. They have no allies + the song is very ESC-unfriendly. Serbia should be the Semi2 runaway winner I think, with Turkey second! Lots of friends!

Delayed... grr... and I actually had to put an alarm clock at 11AM for this, how sad is that?!

Underrated. Probably in my top 3 of 1981. May he RIP

Forgot to mention how AWFUL Estonia and Ireland were. Andorra was aesthetically brutal as well. Bosnia & Herzegovina gave us a lesson on how to do a comic/funny performance :D That Polish lady looked like a mannequin!