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Final votes on BuzzJack 1.0 are in Fairly certain the top two of my votes are not normaly among the countries I usually vote for.

Mans won the heat to everyone's shock! [YouTube]IhPRo-zLuKY[/YouTube] Very clearly winning Melfest and I am not ruling this out for taking the crown in Basel - as a whole package I think this is the most likely to be able to score the 500ish points needed across both juries and televotes of anything that's been released as of tonight. To make the obvious comparison, Heroes wasn't a nailed on definite winner until the live performance brought it all together and I think there could be a similar dynamic going on here.

Cloudy June's song is my new obsession of the season. I've seen enough German selection shows though to be certain they won't pick it! [YouTube]K5qV0OdiQQg[/YouTube]

The live version is giving very "Kyle Alessandro on steroids! @1891159556954247464

PARG's completely authenticly Armenian song written by Thomas G:son wins the ticket to Basel

Selection show is on in around an hour if anyone feels like some Sunday afternoon entertainment. Odds/Fan favourite is Athena Manoukian with this load of camp nonsense T0gplWDPhMM Other ones to look out for are Flora and PARG aeIqTqCqC_4 zySCY9ZY3Ks

01 Finland: Erika Vikman - Ich Komme 02 Belgium: Red Sebastian - Strobe Lights 03 Malta: Miriana Conte - Kant 04 Albania: Shkode Elektronike - Zjerm 05 Spain: Melody - Esa Diva 06 Luxembourg: Laura Thorn - La poupee monte le son 07 Ireland: Emmy - Laika Party 08 Poland: Justyna Steczkowska - Gaja 09 Italy: Olly - Balorda Nostalgia 10 Norway: Kyle Alessandro - Lighter 11 Slovenia: Klemen - How Much Time Do We Have Left? 12 Greece: Klavdia - Asteromata 13 Montenegro: Nina Zizic - Dobrodosli 14 Latvia: Tautumeitas - Bur men laimi 15 Ukraine: Ziferblat - Bird of Pray 16 Estonia: Tommy Cash - Espresso Machiato 17 Lithuania: Katarsis - Tavo akys

Shows how much I know - Olly wins! Nd9S0E2Qwao

This load of moody indie dreck won olLb08K2rXo

Six finalists have qualified and I think this is the best option that Iceland has available Ew2jcSIkk-c Studio of the English version which I think she'll switch to for the final brYYdqsXTJI

I just...don't get it. Unless there's something truly off the wall that Tommy Cash has planned for the performance in Basel, I don't really see anyone getting it outside of Estonia and its immediate neighbours...all of whom (Finland, Latvia, Lithuania) are in the other semi final.

In case anyone doesn't feel like slogging through all the finalists in full: U_SYNx3jWJE What a load of dreck! Black Biceps are the only vaguely interesting ones but they were tanked by the jury in the heats so not expecting that one to go through.

Team anyone but Tommy Cash tonight!

Tone Damli and Erika Vikman both in Eurovision in the same year would be a major battle of the BJSC darlings (which Erika would win hands down sorry Phil!) Nataleen or Tone are the best competitive options but I feel like Norway are going to go with Kyle Alessandro.

The performance is a bit #TeamTooMuch but earth mother is earth mothering!

Justyna takes the win! ON92aOS8QQ8

It was in BJSC 124 Spreadsheet's here (plus it only DNQ'd by virtue of non-voting so I guess that's a great "what could've been" counterfactual of BJSC history!)

So Sanremo is the same exhausting mess it always is (sorry I know some fans love it but give me a tightly produced nordic production any day of the week). Some good tracks in there as always but the most likely winner is probably Giorgia. lYrjLt9cn0Y With Achille Lauro (of San Marino 2022 fame) a possible dark horse -VDE0aoVDxo

Pink Pony Club DNQing in early 2020 is probably the biggest post-BJSC blow up if we're comparing contest performance and size of the eventual smash into consideration.

New Lexico are back and we are hungry!

01 Finland: Erika Vikman - Ich Komme 02 Belgium: Red Sebastian - Strobe Lights 03 Albania: Shkode Elektronike - Zjerm 04 Malta: Miriana Conte - Kant 05 Spain: Melody - Esa Diva 06 Luxembourg: Laura Thorn - La poupee monte le son 07 Ireland: Emmy - Laika Party 08 Slovenia: Klemen - How Much Time Do We Have Left? 09 Greece: Klavdia - Asteromata 10 Montenegro: Nina Zizic - Dobrodosli 11 Latvia: Tautumeitas - Bur men laimi 12 Ukraine: Ziferblat - Bird of Pray Ukraine is the only one so far that I actively dislike.

KANT is being SERVED!

(he says in full knowledge that someone might find that the drummer once bought a pink of milk in Russia and they're therefore disqualified or something)

Easily Ukraine's weakest entry for a while - will be interesting to see if just "being Ukraine" is enough to get this higher than five other songs in Semi One.

Erika absolutely killed it - surely the obvious winner!