LexC

Intriguingly close so far...

Ready to be very. very wrong about this but I predict: 01 Sweden 02 Finland 03 Israel 04 France 05 Austria 06 Slovenia 07 Australia 08 Croatia 09 Spain 10 Belgium 11 Czechia 12 Italy 13 Cyprus 14 Norway 15 Ukraine 16 United Kingdom 17 Armenia 18 Switzerland 19 Estonia 20 Lithuania 21 Serbia 22 Albania 23 Poland 24 Germany 25 Moldova 26 Portugal

Voted.

You can JUST ABOUT give the four big tracks in the first half all a decent draw but it's incredibly stacked!

My annual late night attempt at programming a running order (This is not the official order dolls x) 01 Poland 02 Estonia 03 Portugal 04 Switzerland 05 Serbia 06 Italy 07 Austria 08 Albania 09 France 10 Spain 11 Finland 12 Cyprus 13 Sweden - BREAK - 14 Germany 15 Moldova 16 Croatia 17 Lithuania 18 Israel 19 Ukraine 20 Belgium 21 Slovenia 22 Norway 23 Czechia 24 Australia 25 Armenia 26 United Kingdom

First Half Spain France Italy Switzerland Finland Portugal Sweden Serbia Albania Cyprus Estonia Austria Poland Second Half Ukraine United Kingdom Germany Croatia Moldova Czechia Israel Norway Belgium Lithuania Australia Armenia Slovenia

So glad that Greece couldn’t diaspora their way out of the semi. Georgia is a weird one - my main theory for why it didn’t take off is that it probably felt very “style over substance” to your average televoter.

Sent in tactical votes for Albania, Belgium and Armenia

The 'A' countries really carried this semi!

Always got a weakness for some Albanian ethnic wailing!

bless them we love a tryer

Okay I feel like Poland is really needed at this point in the running order.

Former ESC mod Ryan must be writing the script with all these Diana Vickers references!

Belgium understood the mothertucking assignment!

...is it over?

Denmark was insipid. Armenia, however, was glorious *.*

Feel like I'm not going to beat my 8/10 from Tuesday but here goes Definite IN Austria Australia Likely IN Cyprus Armenia Belgium Poland Lithuania Slovenia Borderline IN Either Denmark OR Greece Either Albania OR Georgia Borderline OUT Either Denmark OR Greece Either Albania[ OR Georgia Estonia Likely OUT Iceland Definite OUT Romania San Marino

After my ‘out there’ prediction of Serbia NQing went amazingly, I’m throwing Georgia out there as this year’s shock non qualifier!

Noa, Mae and Alessandra all in the second half is going to leave somebody disappointed. Sweden's bolted on to be singing 13th so they can wheel the box off (I'd imagine)

Sweden, Finland and France all in the first half is going to really stack the opening of the show!

They're doing the first/second half draws on TikTok live at the moment, currently stands at: First Half Spain France Italy Switzerland Finland Portugal Sweden Serbia Second Half Ukraine United Kingdom Germany Croatia Moldova Czechia Israel Norway

Can't really argue with these results, everything essential made it through and I will fully admit that I got it wrong on Switzerland after that performance - they're the ones that probably elevated themselves the most through their performance (good old reliable Sacha Jean Baptiste hey x)

Random last minute twist - could Moldova be a shock non-qualifier?

Poor Azerbaijan suffering from "death by Loreen"

Glittery cameltoe obviously very on trend in Ireland!