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And another two qualifiers make it through - only two spaces left! Who will make it? Suedeonia 131 // The Shoes and Anthonin Ternant - Time To Dance bYMVs-0f9PI Quintessa 132 // YOASOBI - Yoru Ni Kakeru x8VYWazR5mE

And the home crowd go wild as New Lexico qualify for the semi finals! Oh and also Skall are through. Skall 136 // Burial - Space Cadet 6qWCGbMvFxw New Lexico 135 // Emmi - Drum N3_y0Uev9WE

Now two of your alt darlings take us to 14 qualifiers Terra Avium 139 // Vancouver Sleep Clinic - From A Distant Dream... PfxWGdx8QfQ Rolloland 137 // All India Radio - Monsters OwavBFVfIKI

Two more of this years semi finalists now revealed! Vülkyria 132 // Sofia Kourtesis - La Perla WY1bZjXKKWA Mosquetania 135 // Ruben - Running yukbBUe6Fu4

Aquafina and Singerpurear take us to the halfway point for semi final one! Aquafina 135 // PAWSA - The Groovy Cat vj_TYIjCMzw Singerpurear 133 // Buffy Sainte-Marie and Tanya Tagaq - You Got To Run (Spirit Of The Wind) o5zb0WTSLsY

The next two have got through despite both receiving deductions! #00274E 137 // Hanne Mjøen - Emotional Fever JDabNZ7Jx0Q Caerfyrddia 137 // Casi & The Blind Harpist - Rooted 4YFhIfvqBgQ

Now for qualifiers 5 and 6 Arcodesia 135 // Lost In Kiev - Insomnia hHikRDGgrBU Sovarasma 140 // Tale Of Us and Pete Tong - Time (feat. Jules Buckley) 6dE0a8nHHNA

The 3rd and 4th qualifiers from quarter final 1 Mulgracia 137 // Ariana And The Rose - Every Body SE0dHOUjOOs Utopia 138 // piri and Tommy Villiers - soft spot yi3nHujpoFM

We begin with Semi Final One Kingdom of Horanius 133 // SUPER-Hi and Neeka - Following The Sun uZsY4S4ckMU Zanmatony 133 // Mint Royale and Lauren Laverne - Don't Falter tX1DWlKmMoE

Now since I'm not one of those girls who gonna turn tricks, the qualifiers for the semi finals will be revealed in pairs one post at a time - so 20 posts, each one with two qualifiers - no more, no less! So who y'all cheering for tonight?

So 40 songs are going through to face these 40 songs in the semi finals - consider this your sneak preview of Rob's round! Aeroche 135 // Chariot - Sky Wheel Bøtanikkä 132 // Cam - The Otherside Danæviia 139 // Reba McEntire - Fancy (Dave Audé Remix) D'yermak'er 134 // Postiljonen - Atlantis Flynnonda 138 // UNIIQU3 - Microdosing Hendinia 133 // Ulrikke - Falling Apart Kluminican Republic 137 // Ben Böhmer, Nils Hoffmann and Malou - Breathing N DNTN 140 // Juliette Armanet - Le Dernier Jour Du Disco Summericia 131 // VNV Nation - When Is The Future? Trifoski 136 // DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - Try Not To Be Afraid (feat. Delilah Brao, Luke Markinson and Anyelisax) Cumulonimbia 138 // CLUBKELLY - DO YOU EVEN BLISS ? FSR Rontvia 134 // ishi vu - This Is Your Life Hendinia 140 // Ayesha Erotica - Literal Legend Ojnoj 131 // Charlotte Sands - Dress Republic of Adonia 136 // Magdalena Bay - Chaeri Séyetana 135 // Sewerslvt - Jvnko Still Loves You St. Burbia 137 // Alewya - Spirit_X Summericia 133 // Xenomania pts. Paige Cavell - Red Is The Way Terra Avium 132 // Rein - OFF THE GRID Thelonia 139 // Futuristic Polar Bears - No Tears Allowed (feat. Franky) Aeroche 133 // DJ Seinfeld - Dreams Of U And Me Above The Mezcal Moon Aeroche 139 // Ewan McVicar - The Rhythm (feat. Trinere) The Actual Republic of Bellamia 134 // Robin Packalen - Hard To Love (feat. Alex Mattson) Cumulonimbia 132 // Elaine Mai - No Forever (feat. MayKay) FARC 140 // Wind Rose - Diggy Diggy Hole Fljótavík 131 // Namasenda - Wanted Jupiterdonia 136 // Majid Jordan - Waves Of Blue Kathaldazia 137 // SWIM - No More Tears St. Burbia 138 // Amber Van Day - Touch Varakë 135 // Hanne Mjøen - Hell With You Altyr Muunilinst 140 // The Brides Of The Black Room - Sirens Cumulonimbia 135 // Daniel Bortz - You Can Stay Forever FARC 133 // ASHS - Don't Call Me Hendinia 137 // Loren Gray - Piece Of Work Jadakissnia 131 // Trudge - strast' Land of DW 132 // Aspyer - Symphony Republic of Adonia 134 // Grimes - REALiTi (Demo) République d'Áskorza 136 // Minelli - Rampampam Rolloland 139 // Blanck Mass - D7-D5 Wholune 138 // Greta Van Fleet - Heat Above

Okay we're prepped and tiebreaker free! Reveals in 15 - BYOB (p.s. drink responsibly)

Gut feeling is that Ronela has more of the momentum behind her BUT Festival i Kenges likes to throw "interesting" choices out there some times so who knows what'll take the win!

Results be starting at 9PM tonight

Gonna be doing results tomorrow so there aren't like 10 sets of results on tonight so y'all have got an extra day to get those last minute votes in!

Thank you for your votes - I'll accept late votes that come in by a reasonable hour during the day tomorrow.

Just over 24 hours to go - more votes please!

More votes please!

All fourteen songs are out on the RTVE website. Overall it seems to be a big step up from the usual Spanish NF fare, particularly this one from Rayden; PVxSKymmqzY

Armenia have won!

This be happening now.

Thank you to our esteemed colleagues in Persephonia for the first round of TBO XIV and welcome to the Quarter Finals round hosted in New Lexico. Here, the best of this year's non qualifiers have moved up to face off against every participating country's best performing non-top 5 entry and some additional entries that Bre can/will give you the full breakdown of that means everyone has at least 2 entries in this end of year celebration. Your line-up for the two rounds are as follows; QF1 01 Thelonia 136 // 02 Rolloland 137 // 03 Buzzjack Mountain 137 // 04 Suedeonia 131 // 05 Kathaldazia 135 // 06 Jupiterdonia 137 // 07 Quintessa 132 // 08 New Lexico 135 // 09 Scherzland 132 // 10 Aquafina 135 // 11 Trifoski 140 // 12 Lotunia 138 // 13 Chestoria 134 // 14 Cumulonimbia 134 // 15 Arcodesia 135 // 16 Hushkanukia 134 // 17 Mosquetania 135 // 18 Persephonia 131 // 19 Mulgracia 137 // 20 Zanmatony 133 // 21 #00274E 137 // 22 Kingdom of Horanius 133 // 23 Tartford 135 // 24 Sovarasma 140 // 25 Vülkyria 132 // 26 N DNTN 135 // 27 Caerfyrddia 137 // Casi & The Blind Harpist - Rooted 28 Sandebörg 135 // 29 Yehesi 138 // 30 Terra Avium 139 // 31 Utopia 138 // 32 République d'Áskorza 137 // 33 Danæviia 134 // 34 Dobago 138 // 35 Ultraviolenceland 136 // 36 Singerpurear 133 // 37 Holland-Oats 134 // 38 Skall 136 // 39 Pestolia 140 // 40 Kylienips 135 // QF2 01 Lotunia 137 // 02 Dobago 133 // 03 Harmonica 138 // 04 East Rukahavian 135 // 05 Numayania 133 // 06 Land of DW 133 // 07 Jadakissnia 137 // 08 Eastovka 139 // 09 Vülkyria 133 // 10 Arcodesia 134 // 11 Aelandor 139 // 12 Quintessa 135 // 13 Fljótavík 136 // 14 Beaverdonia 133 // 15 Sovarasma 133 // 16 Altyr Muunilinst 137 // 17 Elëdan 133 // 18 Taahino 140 // 19 Holland-Oats 135 // 20 N DNTN 134 // 21 Suedeonia 132 // 22 Bhangra 136 // 23 POPHub 136 // 24 Skall 132 // 25 Yehesi 139 // 26 Persephonia 139 // 27 Varakë 137 // 28 Mosquetania 137 // 29 Wholune 131 // 30 Sergeistan 138 // 31 Caerfyrddia 136 // 32 New Lexico 140 // 33 Greenfroze 138 // 34 Oslol 132 // 35 Niceland 137 // 36 Danæviia 140 // 37 Cor Lupus 132 // 38 Utopia 133 // 39 Pagasa 140 // 40 Aquafina 139 // The top 20 of each QF will progress to the Semis to take on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th placed hits of 2021 so your odds of making it through are 50/50. Anyone who participated in at least one BJSC contest in 2021 is welcome to vote in this round in either QF using the 18 points system. Failure to vote in a round where one of your songs is competing, however, will incur a penalty of 15 points. PM your votes to me, LexC by 23:59 GMT on Monday 27th December (i.e. you've got a week plus the Xmas period so plenty of time to fit it around/in stead of seeing and talking to your loved ones this year x) Let the Quarter Finals begin!

Qami Qami is a total bop, verging on being a banger! I'd personally add France, Italy and Ukraine to Jahq's list of good songs. I'm liking the look of the staging/lighting from these rehearsal clips; fUzq-Ecp50A

Nice to get retribution for that DNQ mere weeks after the fact (also, two entries in a TBO round is a new occurrence for me I think?) so ty for that - even though I didn't manage to vote lel!

We Are Domi appear to have won what has turned out to be a messy result reveal mMesI3_LprY I think was the best of their selection so no complaints from me!