Sabrewulf

They are not, Azerbaijan and Georgia are ten a penny.

For me I'm hoping for: 01 Latvia: PeR - Here We Go 02 San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Crisalide (Volá) 03 Macedonia: Esma & Lozano - Pred da se razdeni 04 Azerbaijan: Farid Mammadov - Hold Me 05 Finland: Krista Siegfrids - Marry Me 06 Malta: Gianluca - Tomorrow 07 Bulgaria: Elitsa and Stoyan - Samo shampioni 08 Iceland: Eyþór Ingi - Ég á lif 09 Greece: Koza Mostra & Agathon Iakovidis - Alcohol Is Free 10 Israel: Moran Mazor - Rak bishvilo 11 Armenia: Dorians - Lonely Planet 12 Hungary: ByeAlex - Kedvesem (Zoohacker Remix) 13 Norway: Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love 14 Albania: Adrian & Bledar - Identitet 15 Georgia: Nodi & Sophie - Waterfall 16 Switzerland: Takasa - You and Me 17 Romania: Cezar - It's My Life Azerbaijan or Georgia for a shock exit please.

I could swear the woman hosting the press conference is Meryl Streep. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RayN-xHtEyQ

The Netherlands X3 Montenegro x2 They were my two favourite performances and I felt like they needed the help (seems Montenegro needed more help than I could give....)

The performance last night was a lot better than I expected actually. I'm thinking we might not completely flop on Saturday, but I can't see a top ten happening. We could get a mid table (12th-17th) result.

That was pretty mean leaving The Netherlands until last. Random order, yeah right.... I think I celebrated as much for the Netherlands as I did for Ireland last night.

We're lucky here in Ireland we always get to watch the show and Marty knows when to talk and when not to talk. It always annoys me watching shows when the commentators or the hosts don't know when to shut up and let us watch what we came to watch. Or they think the show is all about them.

This changed to this during the actual show: 01 Austria: Natália Kelly - Shine 02 Estonia: Birgit - Et uus saaks alguse 03 Slovenia: Hannah - Straight Into Love 04 Croatia: Klapa s Mora - Mižerja (Safura Butcher Discotits Remix) 05 Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teadrops 06 Russia: Dina Garipova - What If 07 Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich - Gravity 08 Netherlands: Anouk - Birds 09 Montenegro: Who See, Nina Žižić - Igranka 10 Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something 11 Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh 12 Moldova: Aliona Moon - O mie 13 Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives 14 Cyprus: Despina Olympiou - An me thimásai 15 Belgium: Roberto Bellarosa - Love Kills 16 Serbia: Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda Austria and Serbia weren't great performances last night. They were a let down (although I wasn't that crazy about them to begin with) So Moldova and Russia surpassed them in my preferred qualifiers. Cyprus in particular pleasantly surprised me. Sad that it didn't qualify....but probably more sad that Montenegro didn't qualify. They really deserved to qualify this time. :( Don't really understand how Lithuania made it through. (Estonia and Belgium I kinda get) Lithuania seems to have a knack for inexplicably qualifying. Voted three times for the Netherlands and two times for Montenegro.

Surely one of them will be San Marino? San Marino and then either Bulgaria or Hungary and I'll be happy.

Happy with those results. My points for the ones that didn't qualify: 4 - Austria 2 or 3 - Serbia 1 - Cyprus

01 Austria: Natália Kelly - Shine 02 Estonia: Birgit - Et uus saaks alguse 03 Slovenia: Hannah - Straight Into Love 04 Croatia: Klapa s Mora - Mižerja (Safura Butcher Discotits Remix) 05 Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teadrops 06 Russia: Dina Garipova - What If 07 Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich - Gravity 08 Netherlands: Anouk - Birds 09 Montenegro: Who See, Nina Žižić - Igranka 10 Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something 11 Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh 12 Moldova: Aliona Moon - O mie 13 Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives 14 Cyprus: Despina Olympiou - An me thimásai 15 Belgium: Roberto Bellarosa - Love Kills 16 Serbia: Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda I'd like these to qualify.

You got my votes right?

1. The Angels Take Manhattan 2. Hide 3. The Snowmen 4. The Crimson Horror 5. Asylum Of The Daleks 6, A Town Called Mercy 7. Nightmare In Silver 8. The Rings Of Akhaten 9. Cold War 10. The Bells Of Saint John 11. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS 12. The Power Of Three 13. Dinosaurs On A Spaceship The latest episode was pretty good although I have to say I didn't feel the desperation that usually follows Cybermen around. Not enough people being converted into cybermen for my liking.

I just can't see Estonia having a hope on Tuesday. A very pleasant but middle of the road song performing 2nd (supposedly the death slot) and will likely have been forgotten by most voters by the time the last song has been performed. It couldn't possibly have much more going against it. On one hand I feel bad for Estonia....but on the other hand they only have themselves to blame for not picking Grete Paia instead.

I'll be bragging here on Saturday about how Italy made it the final. How about that for confidence? B-)

Is there anywhere online I could watch this? I'm not sure if living in Ireland I'll be able to use the bbc iplayer.....

Oh I see. Gee I got Italy....I don't have much of an opinion on that song either way.....but yay Italy I guess. I suppose it will do fairly well though.

Uh can I have #19? Not sure what this is even about but whatever....

Haven't updated in a while. Brilliant 1. The Netherlands: Anouk - Birds 2. Norway: Margaret Berger - I Feed You My Love 3. Israel: Moran Mazor - Rak bishvilo 4. Spain: ESDM - El Sueño De Morfeo - Contigo Hasta el Final 5. San Marino: Valentina Monetta - Crisalide 6. Montenegro: Who See - Igranka Great 7. Ukraine: Zlata Ognevich - Gravity 8. Iceland: Eyþór Ingi Gunnlaugsson - Eg a Lif 9. Ireland: Ryan Dolan - Only Love Survives 10. Bulgaria: Elitsa & Stoyan - Samo Shampioni 11. Slovenia: Hannah Mancini - Straight Into Love 12. Greece: Alchohol Is Free - Koza Mostra feat. Agathonas 13. Belarus: Alyona Lanskaya - Solayoh Good 14. Austria: Natalia Kelly - Shine 15. Hungary: ByeAlex - Kedvesem 16. Serbia: Moje 3 - Ljubav je svuda 17. Denmark: Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops 18. Sweden: Robin Stjernberg - You 19. United Kingdom: Bonnie Tyler - Believe in Me Average 20. Cyprus: Despoina Olympiou - An Me Thimase 21. Albania: Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko - Identitet 22. Switzerland: Heilsarmee - You and Me 23. Italy: Marco Mengoni - L'essenziale 24. Finland: Krista Siegfrids - Marry Me 25. Germany: Cascada - Glorious 26. Russia: Dina Garipova - What If 27. Croatia: Klapa s Mora - Mižerja 28. Moldova: Aliona Moon - O Mie Poor 29. Belgium: Roberto Bellarose - Love Kills 30. France: Amandine Bourgeois - L'enfer et moi 31. Armenia: Gor Sujyan - Lonely Planet 32. Macedonia: Lozano & Esma - Pred da se razdeni 33. Estonia: Birgit Õigemeel - Et uus saaks alguse 34. Lithuania: Andrius Pojavis - Something 35. Azerbaijan: Farid Mammadov - Hold Me Awful 36. Romania: Cezar - It's My Life 37. Malta: Gianluca Bezzina - Tomorrow 38. Latvia: PeR - Here We Go 39. Georgia: Nodi Tatishvili & Sophie Gelovani - Waterfall Coloured the qualifiers I'm hoping for too. Blue = Semi One Green = Semi Two Orange = Pre qualified I'll probably end up voting for the Netherlands and Montenegro (maybe Ukraine but I feel the previous two need my help more) on Tuesday, unless I get really wowed by something else.

He was a good bit better on the late late show last week. I think we have a fair shot at qualifying on Tuesday (after all we're in a perfect performing slot too) but I'm not sure if we'll get that good a result in the final.

I'll be very shocked if the Netherlands doesn't qualify on Tuesday.

The last episode made me wish that Jenny Flint was the doctor's companion and not Clara. I'd love to see a spin off show with Madame Vastra, Jenny and Strax.

My thoughts right now for the semis: Semi One 1. Ukraine 2. Denmark 3. Netherlands 4. Russia 5. Belarus 6. Moldova 7. Ireland 8. Austria 9. Lithuania 10. Montenegro ------------------ 11. Serbia 12. Estonia 13. Croatia 15. Slovenia 16. Cyprus 17. Belgium I think Montenegro could slip through but it'll depend on the live performance. (I haven't seen rehearsal yet so I don't know what it's like) I think songs like Russia, Belarus and Moldova will be inoffensively nice and benefit from the new voting system. Belarus in particular. Semi Two 1. Norway 2. Greece 3. Azerbaijan 4. Georgia 5. Israel 6. San Marino 7. Malta 8. Finland 9. Iceland 10. Hungary -------- 11. Switzerland 12. Bulgaria 13. Romania 14. Albania 15. Armenia 16. Macedonia 17. Latvia I think Hungary could be a bit of a dark horse in the semis....the one that lands in 10th place that nobody thought it would qualify. (There always seems to be at least one) As much as I like Bulgaria I feel the song might end up being too polarizing and be hurt by the new voting system. :( I think Norway and Greece have the top two in the bag. It's harder to call this year though, the new voting system could turn everything on it's head.

Just watched the last episode. Personally I thought it was extremely messy and chaotic and not in the good way......and the storyline itself wasn't particularly interesting. The main plotline seems to be going nowhere apart from the doctor orgasming over Clara's existence in each episode. 1. The Angels Take Manhattan 2. Hide 3. The Snowmen 4. Asylum Of The Daleks 5. A Town Called Mercy 6. The Rings of Akhaten 7. Cold War 8. The Bells of Saint John 9. Journey to the center of the TARDIS 10. The Power Of Three 11. Dinosaurs On A Spaceship Was expecting a lot more from this episode. :( Next week sounds very interesting though! I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's time for the 12th doctor?

Brilliant episode and next week is looking great too. The episode felt very Doctor Whoey. Finally things are starting to look up. :D 1. The Angels Take Manhattan 2. Hide 3. The Snowmen 4. Asylum Of The Daleks 5. A Town Called Mercy 6. The Rings of Akhaten 7. Cold War 8. The Bells of Saint John 9. The Power Of Three 10. Dinosaurs On A Spaceship Also....was the Tardis implying that Clara was a narcissist? I could believe that actually....