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Starting to feel nervous? Relief to the following three: 29. Hendinia // La Beba - SANTUARIO CLUB 30. Land of DW // RMB - Experience (Follow Me) 31. Jadakissnia // tlen - patnik

He has already started his boycott as he didn't vote 🤭

26. Aeroche // EV - Thierry Henry (Modeā Remix) Already most successful BJSC x football crossover of all time. 27. Freidland // Lena Leon - Chemical 28. New Helvetica // Serafina Steer - Night Before Mutiny Certainly a contrast in sounds there!

Moving on to brighter pastures: 23. N DNTN // YENA - Catch Catch 24. Sovarasma // Shye - Smoke 25. Fljótavík // Cain Culto - a plague, a pestilence Well done you three!! ❤️

Saying nothing about what is to come but I fully randomised it so no deliberate manipulation of the running order this time! DNQs: Numayania // KomeAnime - Aeropickles You finished 30th and received (brace for it) 3 points. To add insult to injury that rounds down to 2 points with the non-voting deduction. Kylienips // Millionaire Muses - Morning Magic The AI slop fared surprisingly well, finishing 29th with 19 (??) points. Scotland 2 // Still House Plants - M M M On 0 points for the longest time, you were saved last night from an (undeserved!) terrible result to a slightly less poor one: you shot up from the last few voters to 28th with 23 points.

Yes I really should have added a helper column to keep check of which semi each finalist originated from. Too late to easily do that now that everything is randomised. At least the next 3 are all from SF1: 20. Aesthetica // Kyra Machida - Control 21. Altyr Muunilinst // Mae Muller - Wheels Come Off 22. Kathaldazia // Dev Lemons - eat the pavement The bottom 3 SF1 finishers next! We certainly do have a low point total to be announced - any quick guesses who?

Next 3: 17. Deandria // Collide - Freak Like Me 18. POPHub // EVAN GIIA - AS WE DANCE 19. Cor Lupus // Wolf Cutt & Muki - STARSEED And there we have our surefire Cor Lupus DNQ making yet again their monthly qualification.

I'm potentially not going fast enough I'm now realising so lemme try to speed up procedures. 14. The Spodic Empire // waist - bravado 15. Greenfroze // ANRI - I CAN'T STOP THE LONELINESS 16. Zanmatony // Black Mighty Orchestra - Ocean Beach (Cybophonia Cinematic Remix) Long song alert!

SEMI 2 - DID NOT QUALIFY 😔 Flynnonda // In Color - High 30th with 11 points. Lotunia // Jenna Raine - Roses 29th with 13 points. Zephyra Continuum // atmos bloom - It's Enough 28th with 20 points.

Don't be babe ur up next ❣️ 11. Elëdan // Roly Porter - An Open Door 12. Kluminican Republic // Alewya - Maktoub 13. Danæviia // Liminal - The Crop Congrats to all! Time for a trio of DNQs next I think!

Next 3: 8. FSR Rontvia // HENGE - Mushroom One 9. Neliönoir // Sophia Stel - Molly In The Club And with 8 SF2 qualifiers in a row, I really did have to stop and check that this had indeed randomised correctly, or worse hadn't somehow inadvertently revealed the result. I can confirm that neither is true as we do finally have our first SF1 qualifier now: 10. Terra Avium // The Haunted Youth - falling to pieces Congrats to all!

Oh gosh THANKYOU / how could I have forgotten?! Any other iconic visual reactions to my text blocks and YouTube embeds are welcome, including to the next 3: 5. Bøtanikkä // Natalie Jane - dance til i die 6. Taahino // Stand Atlantic - LUCID 7. République d'Áskorza // Ambre Vallet - Ambre Another full set of SF2. I believe that these had 100% predictions between them!

First 3 qualifiers here and they just happen to all be from SF2. Say hello to our finale opener: 1. Séyetana // Portraits Of Tracy - Caught In A Jam 2. Bronzil // Isabel LaRosa - Her Face 3. East Rukahavian // Chayla Hope - Love In Lo-Fi

To reduce any unnecessary suspense, let's get started with the autoqualifiers! 4. FARC // Lee Jung Hyun - Wa 39. Skall // Domenique Dumont - Visages Visages The number is of course the running order in the final. This has been completely randomised so SF1 and SF2 will in effect be announced together.

There is certainly a very close result, and one good thing about the new forum is that I can search PMs which I've just used to double check that result in particular to make sure I got it right (the check tells me that I did!). At least in the final if I make a mistake then it's obvious/pointed out to me pretty quickly, but I dread misattributing points to the wrong entry in the semis! We also have a case of a nation giving their 8 and 7 points to the same entry. I have asked for clarification but in the absence of a reply I've just bumped up all the others below and left them without voting for a 1-pointer.

Lowkey a little bit but it's my fault for not doing earlier and hedging against the expected unexpectedness of my job which is like 50% just dealing with random badly timed events lmao. But all good.

Since we are speculating about point totals: I can reveal that: The final qualifier of SF1, in 20th place, got 54 (!) points. SF2's 20th place got a much more reasonable 41 points.

Hiya, Do bear with me as I've only just finishing inputting all of the votes so I am finding out who has qualified barely before any of the rest of you have! There sure are some numbers that have been produced 👀 We will get started in 20-30 minutes when I've rested my eyes a wee bit from looking at spreadsheets. I don't even have time to be clever with the results presentation I'm afraid/you will be grateful to know, I will simply reveal the qualifiers in the order that Google Sheets has randomised the final running order. This is a mixture of Thursday me's fault for procrastinating and trusting that I had all of this afternoon but also a client's fault for hospitalising herself today x

Indeed - too late now for votes from Numayania and Baleghde. Hoping to be go around 19:30 BST but cannot promise there won't be a delay due to Ongoing Outside Events.

Don't think it's news but it's at least confirmation that many right wing voters don't care about right wing corruption. I mean it took a LOT of sleaze and chaos (+ cost of living pressures/actual governmental mismanagement) to finally bring Boris Johnson down.

Still missing votes from Baleghde, Wholune and Numayania. Realistically I'm not going to be able to add up the last votes until the afternoon so if you are able to send me them before 14:00 UK time then I'll still accept.

Waiting for just 12 voters now! Hopefully I will wake up to 12 PMs.

2/3ish voted now!

Any votes sent my way in the semi final will simply be added to Skall's final tally as bonus points xx

I assume that Sunny Beach and surrounding places have enormous tourist bed capacity which helps here. Still far bigger than Millstreet, Ireland (population less than 2000) which hosted in 1993, although I'm not sure if that was a good idea.