Peter30

What a shame, I thought Kylienips had a way better song :( Oh well I'm still hoping Same Difference make it through overall.

Their excuse seems to be that we have 3 ballots to count whereas Wales and Scotland only had two, but that makes no sense whatsoever, as counting for our council elections don't even start until Monday! The ultimate embarrassment was on the 10 O'Clock news when Jeremy Vine was talking about the AV results and standing on a map of the UK with the 12 different regions on it: "The 11 regions who voted "no" are shaded, and Northern Ireland is still counting." :rolleyes: They also say that because we have proportional representation, it's more complex and will take longer, which once again is rubbish because we're talking about 10 hours to simply count the first preference votes, which is the equivilent of just counting an "X"...something that takes considerably less than 10 hours during general elections.

It was ridiculous, 10 hours before we even got the first set of first preference results!! They're still only trickling in. That being said, it was the most entertaining television I've watched in a long time, we really are CRAP in Northern Ireland. From the ballots in Omagh that came in soaking wet and had to be dried with a hairdryer, to the resorting that had to be carried out when votes for the two candidates whose names began with "W" got mixed up, to the constituency that had to start from scratch when a table in the sorting office collapsed, to my personal highlight of the evening, a deputy returning officer's mobile phone going off while he was reading the results live on air :lol: He could have acted like nothing was happening and carried on, but instead he apologised, turned it off and went crimson. Only in Northern Ireland...you just couldn't make it up :D

In the case of Lena, it's not as if she's known for anything else :lol:

Hmmm actually I've just seen you can get 7/2 on Wolf Kati not reaching the final...

Hmmm I dunno, each way bets on Slovenia or Austria are tempting me, but then again they're not quite as surefire as Romania was last year.

Oh John you DON'T do you?!?!

It's really to avoid the hassle of having to have 2 voting windows. In Melodifestivalen there are 4 duels of two, with the winner of each making two duels of two, with the winner of each of those qualifying. That's how it's working here, but by grouping them into two groups of four and asking people to vote accordingly, it means after the winner of each of the four duels has been announced, instead of re-opening the voting, we can use the votes we've already recieved to determine the winners.

I was going to stick an each way bet on Russia at 28/1 but made the fatal mistake of thinking it can wait until tomorrow. Cue next day and a drop to 16/1 :angry:

6 points.

Yep, one song from each half goes through to the final.

:cheer:

Uh oh...never thought I'd say this but I'm bloody worried for Kopecka!

You're allowed to reveal the points you gave to the 4 songs that didn't qualify, in line with how (I think) it's done in regular contests.

:o :o :o

Come on September :(

I'm liking this 4 sets of results in one night business I have to say :D

And so to recap the results of the Herzebanian heat: DIREKT TIL FINALE: Batidas: Ani Lorak - Dlya Tebya Unovia: Emily Osment - Double Talk ANDRA CHANSEN: Kylienips: Soko - Take My Heart Numayania: Orange Caramel - Bangkok City OUT: 5. FYR Vojvodina-on-the-Wold: Charlotte Perrelli - Not Alone - 40 points 6. Aquafina: Rock Mafia feat. Miley Cyrus - The Big Bang (Smash Mode Remix) - 38 points 7. Kluminican Republic: Clokx - Catch Your Fall - 36 points 8. Espen: RITUALZ (†‡†) - GHETTO ASS WITCH - 6 points Thank you for watching, and we'll leave you with the finalist from Herzebania, Sibel's "Wake Up" Goodnight!! :D WlybYQSd5gk

The second country making it to the final of the first ever BJFestivalen is..... to be...... the song from............ UNOVIA!!! :party2: MELODI NUMMER 6, Double Talk by Emily Osment has qualified directly to the final. tjMYoubRCrU Unfortunately that means that Charlotte Perelli has finished 5th with Not Alone and is out of the competition.

So with Batidas in the final with Ani Lorak and Numayania and Kylienips making it to the second chance round, only two songs await to learn their fate. Melodi 05 || FYR Vojvodina-on-the-Wold: Charlotte Perrelli - Not Alone and Melodi 06 || Unovia: Emily Osment - Double Talk One of them will make it straight to the final, and for the other, the road ends here, with a 5th place finish. ....

The next song that JUST missed out on the final, but gets a second chance, from these three: Melodi 05 || FYR Vojvodina-on-the-Wold: Charlotte Perrelli - Not Alone Melodi 06 || Unovia: Emily Osment - Double Talk Melodi 08 || Numayania: Orange Caramel - Bangkok City is..... *drumroll* ............ NUMAYANIA!!!!! MELODI NUMMER 8! Congrats to Orange Caramel whose song Bangkok City makes it to the Andra Chansen stage on home ground. NgrVdLAJstg

Actually it got three 2's ;)

So qualified we have: Melodi 04 || Batidas: Ani Lorak - Dlya Tebya And out of these four, it's time to find out which two songs have just missed out on places in the final, but will still make it to the Andra Chansen round: Melodi 02 || Kylienips: Soko - Take My Heart Melodi 05 || FYR Vojvodina-on-the-Wold: Charlotte Perrelli - Not Alone Melodi 06 || Unovia: Emily Osment - Double Talk Melodi 08 || Numayania: Orange Caramel - Bangkok City THE FIRST SONG IN ANDRA CHANSEN FROM HEAT 2 IS..... KYLIENIPS!! MELODI NUMMER 2 by Soko, Take My Heart, makes it to the second chance round! :cheer: eXoIbbE1KXs

So out of the following Top 5: Melodi 02 || Kylienips: Soko - Take My Heart Melodi 04 || Batidas: Ani Lorak - Dlya Tebya Melodi 05 || FYR Vojvodina-on-the-Wold: Charlotte Perrelli - Not Alone Melodi 06 || Unovia: Emily Osment - Double Talk Melodi 08 || Numayania: Orange Caramel - Bangkok City Two will go straight to the final, two will go to Andra Chansen and one will miss out completely. It's time to find out which! First of all, I'll announce the first of the two countries to make it directly to the final. It is.... the following....... Congratulations to....... BATIDAS!!! :party2: MELODI NUMMER 4, Dlya Tebya by Ani Lorak makes it to the final! T9e8EmJi56U

This means we're left with the following four songs, and only room for one more in the top 5. Melodi 01 || Aquafina: Rock Mafia feat. Miley Cyrus - The Big Bang (Smash Mode Remix) Melodi 02 || Kylienips: Soko - Take My Heart Melodi 03 || Espen: RITUALZ (†‡†) - GHETTO ASS WITCH Melodi 07 || Kluminican Republic: Clokx - Catch Your Fall The final song in the top 5 of heat 2 is.... .............. MELODI NUMMER 2 from KYLIENIPS It's Soko with Take My Heart!! eXoIbbE1KXs Comiserations to the remaining three, who are unfortunately out of the competition. Here are the scores of the bottom 3: 6. Aquafina: Rock Mafia feat. Miley Cyrus - The Big Bang (Smash Mode Remix) - 38 points 7. Kluminican Republic: Clokx - Catch Your Fall - 36 points 8. Espen: RITUALZ (†‡†) - GHETTO ASS WITCH - 6 points