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QUALIFIED 9 Republic of Adonia // Minnie Riperton \\ Les Fleur g1kDd6yBQZ4 OUT 30 // 7 East Rukahavian // Pyra \\ Let It Go TJB_qefz26k 26 // 30 Land of DW // Karakaz \\ Teatro Dell'Assurdo fXQ38RjHxHQ Republic of Adonia overcome their deduction to qualify anyway! The same can't be said for the other two, although the mathematicians among us would be able to spot that it wouldn't have mattered anyway. Land of DW's pre-deduction score of 46 was 3 points off qualifying. Let's flick back to SF1 where Utopia, Ojnoj and Hendinia are against each other.

Our next trio are our SF2 late or non-voters: Republic of Adonia (-15%) vs East Rukahavian (-33%) vs Land of DW (-33%) I was able to accept Adonia's late votes so the penalty is smaller. How might their deductions have affected the results?

QUALIFIED 4 Danæviia // BLACKSHAPE \\ ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL RXqNwcrVq_Q 16 Cadelicia // Charlotte De Witte \\ Pria MlfSD0yyJj8 OUT 22 // 40 Singerpurear // Two Door Cinema Club \\ Sure Enough GFUUUUxUFxI

Our first trio in SF1 will be Singerpurear vs Danæviia vs Cadelicia!

QUALIFIED 38 FARC // Ofenbach \\ Overdrive (feat. Norma Jean Martine) 1sM89qLmd9Y 30 Sandénia // ASHWARYA \\ Up In My Head fEgnz3IwVDo OUT 24 // 34 Aelandor // Nanashi Mumei \\ mumei oA0CpI0vCK4 So for DNQs, that's your position in the semi followed by how many points you got.

And for our first trio, we will go to semi 2 where FARC, Sandénia and Aelandor will face off against each other. Two qualifications, one DNQ.

So I've put you into groups of (mostly) three, which works well with a qualification rate of roughly a third. Each group will be announced to face off against each other and then the result of revealed in the following post. Feel free to predict their fate before I reveal them! I did each semi separately but I may as well weave both semis together for the actual announcements. I'll try not to go too slowly but I've done 0 prep for the actual posts oops (so unfortunately no word art tonight) so bear with while I make more posts in a few hours than I usually do in a month. Let's announce our autoqualifiers, Skall and Summerica, first: tnQpYijJjf4 7Ihsi19xrS0 QUALIFIED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Skall // John Talabot \\ Destiny (feat. Pional) 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Summericia // Blutengel \\ You Walk Away 41 42

I try to avoid it but I've self-recycled four times before: Animal Collective, Air France, Korallreven and Teengirl Fantasy. I can definitely justify the latter because the two tracks I entered are very different, the others are because I loved them at the time. To be fair I've been doing this for basically 15 years and the lineup of participants has changed a lot in that time so they might feel different to others. I doubt anyone notices or cares too much if there is a long enough gap.

Will your entry have scored the 43 or 49 points necessary to qualify from semi 1 and semi 2 respectively? Find out here from very approximately 7:30pm GMT!

Also he voted 10 hours ago???

No probs doesn't matter if you get a deduction because 66% of 0 points is still 0 x

I thought it's just in the spring when you do it at a different time! (except Arizona who don't do it at all)

Waiting for: Aesthetica Hendinia Taahino Cadelicia New Lexico République d'Áskorza Utopia East Rukahavian Jupiterdonia Kluminican Republic Greenfroze Aelandor Zanmatony Quintessa Land of DW Persephonia Sandénia Beaverdonia Republic of Adonia Trifoski Not able to accept late votes!

28 votes to go! Not sure how much I'll be working tomorrow which will affect whether/for how long I can accept late votes (I believe the protocol is only 15% deduction), if it comes to it.

Keep the predictions coming! They'll affect to some degree how I'll reveal the final and semi-final votes.

Just over 24 hours to go and by my count I'm waiting on 39 votes!

With 9 and 7 votes from the semis, some tracks have now reached the threshold (45 points) where they are quite likely to qualify even if nobody else points them! Whereas four tracks are yet to score anything.

Very very fun to read this speculation when you can also see the results!

I've noticed that I much prefer semi 1, and 11 out of my 15 votes would be from there if it was a one big final format. I promise that it was all randomly sorted with Google sheets (I remember using Excel last time for scoreboards but absolutely no idea why I previously used random.org to draw semis which takes a fair bit longer). Other than the two long songs which may have had my intervention to separate them.

That is a trippy interaction then and also how do you even have that post to hand.

Early voting shows Ultraviolenceland winning 96.47% of possible points and Cor Lupus failing to live up to expectations.

Same! I keep going back to it and for some reason I long thought it'd been entered specifically by N DNTN but I realised last month that it hadn't? I don't know where I invented that memory from?

For the long tracks, don't feel that you have to listen to the tracks in the order that they were randomised for the listenthroughs.

Autoqualifiers 1 Summericia // Blutengel \\ You Walk Away 2 Skall // John Talabot \\ Destiny (feat. Pional) Semi Final 1 1 Cumulonimbia // Memphis LK \\ Closer To You 2 Dobago // SHEE \\ Am I Just Living 3 D'yermak'er // Elliphant \\ THERAPY 4 Aeroche // Patrick Topping \\ Whisper (feat. Raphi) 5 FSR Rontvia // The Rhythm Method \\ Please Don't Die 6 Flynnonda // PARISI \\ Tease (feat. Jelani Blackman) 7 Ultraviolenceland // Yakult \\ Little Bottle Big Difference 8 Numayania // Win \\ You've Got The Power (U.S. Dance Mix) 9 Scotland 2 // TwerkNation28 \\ #TWERKNATION28 1☺☺TH TRACK MEGAMIX #WEDOITFORTHECLOUT 10 Neliönoir // Brimheim \\ Literally Everything 11 Eastovka // LONGMAN \\ spiral 12 Cor Lupus // Baby Storme \\ This City Is A Graveyard 13 Altyr Muunilinst // WARGASM \\ Modern Love 14 Pestolia // SIMONA \\ PLUSH 15 Séyetana // Blackbriar \\ Fairy Of The Bog 16 Aesthetica // SOFIA ISELLA \\ Everybody Supports Women 17 Hendinia // Yaeger \\ Ciao 18 Danæviia // BLACKSHAPE \\ ITIIITIATIIHYLIHYL 19 Taahino // Meet Me @ The Altar \\ Take Me Away 20 Lotunia // Awich \\ Queendom 21 Cadelicia // Charlotte De Witte \\ Pria 22 Singerpurear // Two Door Cinema Club \\ Sure Enough 23 Conoria // Debbie \\ I'm Different 24 New Lexico // Chrissy Chlapecka \\ BRAT 25 République d'Áskorza // Molly Sandén \\ Vi Ska Aldrig Gå Hem 26 Fljótavík // Argy & Omnya \\ Aria 27 Kathaldazia // L.S.G. \\ Hearts 28 Ojnoj // AMAKA \\ Unfamiliar 29 Jadakissnia // Kap Bambino \\ Forever 30 Tartford // Pet Shop Boys \\ Radiophonic *100th anniversary entry* 31 Utopia // Dead Pony \\ COBRA Semi Final 2 1 FARC // Ofenbach \\ Overdrive (feat. Norma Jean Martine) 2 East Rukahavian // Pyra \\ Let It Go 3 Bøtanikkä // U96 \\ Das Boot 4 POPHub // Paperwing \\ Coward 5 Niceland // Limoblaze & Ada Ehi \\ Talk & Do 6 Bronzil // Mozey \\ Tell Me 7 Jupiterdonia // SISTRA \\ Lost My Way 8 The Spodic Empire // Neutral Milk Hotel \\ Two-Headed Boy 9 Kluminican Republic // Baby Queen \\ All The Things 10 Sovarasma // Yikii \\ Angel Fossil 11 Greenfroze // SUNMI \\ STRANGER 12 Oslol // Chappell Roan \\ Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl 13 Aelandor // Nanashi Mumei \\ mumei 14 Lookylion // Stefanie Joosten \\ Tryouts For The Human Race (feat. Giorgio Moroder) 15 Rolloland // Marillion \\ Gaza 16 Zanmatony // Quinn Erney \\ Sleeping With My Eyes Open (feat. Jonie) 17 Wholune // The Beths \\ When You Know You Know 18 Thelonia // VTSS & Boys Noize \\ Steady Pace 19 Suedeonia // Sharon Shannon \\ The Galway Girl (Jen Payne Remix) (feat. Mundy) 20 Quintessa // Fanera \\ Euforija 21 Land of DW // Karakaz \\ Teatro Dell'Assurdo 22 Persephonia // Slauson Malone 1 \\ New Joy 23 Terra Avium // films \\ into the vervet storm 24 Ramrynia // Ana Mena \\ Madrid City 25 Abeltesfayeton // Aaron Hibell \\ destroyer of worlds 26 Sandénia // ASHWARYA \\ Up In My Head 27 Beaverdonia // Anilah \\ The Loom 28 Republic of Adonia // Minnie Riperton \\ Les Fleur 29 St. Burbia // Say Now \\ S.I.N.G.L.E 30 Trifoski // DOOPEES \\ TIME AND SPACE 31 Harmonica // Leadley \\ Love For The Last Time

Year 8 IT lesson vibes INFO YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNOW Hi. Pls listen to the songs of the semi-final that you've been randomly allocated to and pick your top 10, scoring them using the Eurovision format (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1). The deadline for this is 23:59 GMT 29th October. If you vote after this then your entry will be subject to a 33% deduction. Your country's colour will be changed when I've received your votes. I will tot up the results and, all going well, on Monday evening will reveal the top 20 from each semi who will advance to the final. Myself and Summericia automatically qualify for the final and will be voting in both semis. Please vote by clicking the link in the image above . I will try not to embarrass myself by PMing you back asking which country you are if you don't put your country name in the PM title. AUTOQUALIFIERS 1 Summericia // 2 Skall // SEMI FINAL 1 1 Cumulonimbia // 2 Dobago // 3 D'yermak'er // 4 Aeroche // 5 FSR Rontvia // 6 Flynnonda // 7 Ultraviolenceland // 8 Numayania // 9 Scotland 2 // TwerkNation28 \\ #TWERKNATION28 1☺☺TH TRACK MEGAMIX #WEDOITFORTHECLOUT 10 Neliönoir // 11 Eastovka // 12 Cor Lupus // 13 Altyr Muunilinst // 14 Pestolia // 15 Séyetana // 16 Aesthetica // 17 Hendinia // 18 Danæviia // 19 Taahino // 20 Lotunia // 21 Cadelicia // 22 Singerpurear // 23 Conoria // 24 New Lexico // 25 République d'Áskorza // 26 Fljótavík // 27 Kathaldazia // 28 Ojnoj // AMAKA \\ Unfamiliar 29 Jadakissnia // 30 Tartford // *100th anniversary entry* 31 Utopia // Missing Ultraviolenceland and Scotland 2 SEMI FINAL 2 1 FARC // 2 East Rukahavian // 3 Bøtanikkä // 4 POPHub // 5 Niceland // 6 Bronzil // 7 Jupiterdonia // 8 The Spodic Empire // 9 Kluminican Republic // 10 Sovarasma // 11 Greenfroze // 12 Oslol // 13 Aelandor // 14 Lookylion // 15 Rolloland // 16 Zanmatony // 17 Wholune // 18 Thelonia // 19 Suedeonia // 20 Quintessa // 21 Land of DW // 22 Persephonia // 23 Terra Avium // 24 Ramrynia // 25 Abeltesfayeton // 26 Sandénia // 27 Beaverdonia // 28 Republic of Adonia // 29 St. Burbia // 30 Trifoski // 31 Harmonica // Good luck!