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I think Armenia have done enough to go through there - the straight normies will be going for it.

Ireland feels very lightweight and could easily be outgunned by the other competitors I fear

Ready to be entertained once again. This semi seems to be a lot more up in the air in terms of qualifiers especially around the borderline so ready to be raging at an injustice tonight (already resigning to the fact that the Czechs are probably out </3)

One possible take I have is that the votes could have been very concentrated at the top of the scoreboard. Sweden, Estonia and probably one or two others like Albania or, lets be realistic, Ukraine swallowed up so much of the public vote that Portugal as something niche but has a core audience found a way through the middle to sneak over the line in 10th. Sad for Belgium as I really believed that was a quality song but glad Cyprus's style over substance but hold the style flopped from the pimp slot.

Okay so qualifier predictions: In SWEDEN ESTONIA ALBANIA BELGIUM NETHERLANDS NORWAY POLAND SAN MARINO UKRAINE CYPRUS Out SLOVENIA ICELAND CROATIA AZERBAIJAN PORTUGAL

CROATIA AND THIS GLORIOUS CAMP TRAINWRECK MUST QUALIFY!

San Marino qualifying now I think!

Glad my unwavering belief in Belgium is paying off - DNQ predictions be damned

Norway's performance is the most elevated version of it I've seen so far I think.

We're really testing the "the diaspora will vote for anything" theory with Ukraine tonight.

Estonia doing well is proof that straight people are sick

Poland giving lowkey Wild Dances 2025 energy!

I am ready and waiting to be entertained. Going into tonight with probably the least amount of time following the build up in over ten years so in a way I'm more excited for some potential surprises tonight. One of the ones I'm most looking forward to seeing the staging of tonight though is Switzerland with the magical camerawork they've got. Shock non qualifier if there's going to be one...I'd probably go for one of Cyprus or at an outside chance Norway if there's not enough room for them and Belgium. Maybe Ukraine but realistically their diaspora is still going to show up no matter what (and lowkey we need them to help suppress the Israeli televote on Saturday so I don't begrudge that too much).

I mean reacting to my last post with a sadness emoji kinda spoiled the result for me babe not gonna lie x

Feeling like I might've been Semi draw screwed... EDIT: Okay so I wanted the gif of this but actually lowkey enjoying it as a standalone pic!

New Lexico votes be in

In it to win it come 23rd

Qualified with a deduction along with all 10 of my votes - your faves could never are statistically highly unlikely to achieve this!

Only bad bitches rock purple

Anyone following 48? Loving Sai and Mary's sworn enemies arc and the complete disaster that the green tribe has been in the first three weeks! Wanted to check out the OG series after seeing some of the players who've been on US Traitors and thought that the flop UK version showed some promise despite generally being pretty dull. Got myself a source using a VPN to get into Survivor over the last month or so and I am loving it. Binged 47 over a few days and loved the fluidity and the shifting power dynamics compared to the "floptina but showed some promise" UK version, then peeped 44 after loving Carolyn on Traitors and have since seen The Amazon, Pearl Islands, Palau, Panama, Cook Islands, China, Micronesia (ICONIC), Gabon (I know lots of people aren't keen but on that one but thought it was an iconic hot mess), Tocantins, Samoa and Heroes vs Villains (Almost as ICONIC as Micronesia if it weren't for the presence of THAT person (#hobbitoncrack)

Did wonder if we forgot to do the thread for this around upgrade time! I disagree with my learned friend Liam - I think this is brilliant and IMO is more likely to be the big jury favourite than Austria (said in a pre-France dropping their entry world) and has the potential to get a good televote too.

Silas stop trying to send Tone Damli challenge is a separate challenge.

BJSC participants stop trying to send Dagny challenge

Adding onto what's been said already, I think there's a sliding scale between "novelty" and "camp" where at one end you've got those late 00s entries where people had stopped caring/treated the whole thing as a joke like Irelande Douze Points, Leto Svet or Baila Chiki Chiki (all conveniently 2008 examples since that year was the worst for it I think) and then on one end there's songs like Europapa, Cha Cha Cha and, I would argue, Bara Bada Bastu where they lead with the silliness but ultimately are strong, well crafted pop songs underneath the campery. My gut is we're in an era now where televoters (and juries too to a lesser extent) are looking more to those latter kind of entries rather than the safe, slickly produced numbers that Sweden are usually the masters of. Will be interesting to see how KAJ's result at Eurovision, whatever it is, influences whatever comes through in Melodifestivalen 2026 and if this is a blip or the start of a new trend.

New Lexico have come to play!