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You seem to be trying very hard to manifest it for some reason so let's hope so x

YouTube playlist Made this last night but forgot to post it! It is the Nuggets deadline tonight and I was going to relisten to that so wouldn't be able to join a BJSC final listenthrough for today - was going to say Wednesday for that.

Qualification streak update (underlined nations have matched or beaten their longest streak to date, streaks that are longer when counting non-consecutive participations are in italics where applicable): 01 68 Hendinia (non-consecutive: 73) 02 33 Aeroche 03 30 Danæviia 04 25 Neliönoir 05 24 Cor Lupus 06 13 Fljótavík 07 11 The Spodic Empire 08 8 Bøtanikkä (non-consecutive: 9) * 08 8 Trifoski 10 7 Freidland 11 6 Jadakissnia 11 6 Skall 11 6 Terra Avium 14 5 Elëdan 14 5 Land of DW 14 5 Sovarasma 17 4 Herbilore 17 4 N DNTN 19 3 Lentyll 19 3 Lookylion 19 3 New Helvetica 19 3 Ojnoj 23 2 Altyr Muunilinst 23 2 FSR Rontvia 23 2 Harmonica 23 2 Jupiterdonia 23 2 New Lexico 23 2 POPHub 23 2 Séyetana 30 1 Aelandor 30 1 Ajanaeda 30 1 Daehun 30 1 Dalisska 30 1 Ennea 30 1 Flynnonda 30 1 Lotunia 30 1 Persephonia 30 1 Ramrynia 30 1 Scotland 2 30 1 Thelonia (non-consecutive: 2) 30 1 Vaskla 30 1 Zephyra Continuum xx (22) Kluminican Republic xx (5) Bronzil xx (5) République d'Áskorza xx (4) Kathaldazia xx (3) Greenfroze xx (2) Aesthetica (non-consecutive: 3) xx (2) FARC xx (2) Taahino xx (2) Yehesi xx (1) Deandria xx (1) East Rukahavian (non-consecutive: 5) xx (1) Pagasa xx (1) Zanmatony * Bøtanikkä's mid-contest withdrawal from BJSC 180 is not counted as a DNQ for the purposes of this list We do lose one of our 2+ year long streaks this month as Kluminican Republic fall short to end their national record streak of 22, although that was the shortest of the 6 such streaks so the top 5 remains unchanged: Hendinia's bulletproof record run goes onto 68 (73 in non-consecutive contests), Aeroche stay 2nd on 33, Danæviia are still bronze and expand their national record to 30 now making it the whole top 3 with at least 3 unbroken years of qualifiers (they become the 6th country ever to achieve 30 qualifiers in a row, matching Cumulonimbia's record of 30 and only beaten by Hendinia, FSR Rontvia (42), Aeroche (36) and Cor Lupus (33)), Neliönoir in 4th expand their record to 25 and Cor Lupus stay 5th. As Fljótavík move up to 6th they also match their national record of 13 qualifiers in a row, previously achieved in BJSCs 111-123. The Spodic Empire and Freidland further expand their current records to 11 and 7 respectively with the latter now moving into the top 10 of this list. Below the top 10, Herbilore and New Helvetica extend their current records to 4 and 3 respectively (the latter still with a 100% qualification record to date). Lentyll make it to 3 in a row again matching their previous record set in BJSCs 182-185 and Vaskla make it onto the board for the first time after DNQing with their first two entries, kicking off of course with a new 'record' of 1.

I want to say my artist choice this time might be a bit less obviously me than the last one but a) it might still be obvious anyway depending on who else shows up and b) I think more people thought ROSALÍA was Jade last time anyway despite me feeling it was super obviously me. x

My department at work does dewaxings, come visit me xo

The two songs with the initials CC being next to each other x

4 songs that got 10/11 votes but didn't qualify (and Kath DNQing with 2 12s and an 8), the bloodbath is real x

Kathaldazia still in the mix to be in my top 10 of semi 2 after I do my second listen (I currently have them ranked 11th) so still a shame to lose them especially by such a tight margin but yay for Sovarasma x Thanks for the hosting Izzles <3 bring on the final x From my semi 1 votes/rankings: 12 Q 10 Q 8 Q 7 Q 6 Q 5 Q 4 Q 3 Q 2 Mulgracia 1 Q 13th Taahino 15th Pestolia 16th Greenfroze 17th Kluminican Republic 20th Aesthetica 21st A-Konohagakure 25th République d'Áskorza 26th Juranabaijan 28th Beaverdonia 30th East Rukahavian Will edit in my finalised ranking of semi 2 after listening again but per my posts earlier in the thread I've currently lost my whole top 3 (Pagasa, Dobago, Deandria) as well as FARC from my top 10 and Kathaldazia from just outside it so that's all not great. I had been thinking my final votes might be quite dominated by semi 2 so I guess this is the universe trying to help balance it out :'( (although I thought something similar last month and the semi I enjoyed less had a few big growers and it ended up being a more even split than I expected anyway). edit: DNQs in my final semi 2 ranking: 1st Pagasa 2nd Dobago 5th Deandria 8th FARC 15th Kathaldazia 18th Cheiron 19th Zanmatony 22nd Yehesi 26th Bronzil 30th Mothertopia 31st Ben's Sanctuary

Bah semi 1 finishing on a bit of a low too - was so close to getting all of my votes through but Mulgracia falling at the final hurdle, they were my 2 pointer. </3 (hope you will still stick with us James x). Ojnoj's song is decent as well though! I was a fan of both of the last 2 songs from semi 2 but I probably marginally have to root for Sovarasma here x

Errrr at Dobago being out - well I've lost my entire (current) top 3 of semi 2 now, a state. (Really would not have predicted that to DNQ either) My 18 in the final very possibly going to only my 3rd or 4th favourite song of the month overall now!

Happy to see Harmonica through, a lot better than their UK #1 x Oops at The Beaches missing out again though, was not far off my votes - at least their best entry was the one that qualified for them, I've liked both of their other entries since but neither quite live up to 'Blame Brett'.

Well Mothertopia take over from Lotunia as the country who are most in need of a #justice campaign at least, rooting for you for next month x

Congrats Noche finally escaping the DNQ streak! I initially thought it was quite a bold decision to punt on another male K-Pop act but after seeing multiple people saying it's one of the best K-Pop songs of all time that did make it seem a little less doomed hehe People were too busy buying Nina Chuba's sticker packs and sports socks to vote for ha sang :'(

It definitely is 2 1st places and 2 3rd places - extreme example but if everyone except one person got the same number of points and the last person got 0 points it'd hardly make sense to say the person with 0 points came 2nd, the rankings are for the participants, not the scores. x Pet peeve aside ~ thanks Nine for a very fun quiz and the massive amount of effort put into the results, very much enjoyed reading through all of the writeups! And yay for a top 10 finish for me. Well done Chris and Rich on the wins x (as I said I knew I had Y wrong but didn't want to leave it blank just in case x to be honest I forget that Scotland counts as a 'national' team so I think if I'd tried to research that I'd be looking through all the other countries in the world first and never have found that haha)

Oops it appears the videos loaded incorrectly for me (they do do that sometimes... sometimes embedded videos in posts load as videos that are from the previous poster's signature!), you saw nothing in my post x Well glad New Helvetica are actually through then hehe. Oops Travis though!

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</3 FARC the third of my initial top 10 of semi 2 to DNQ (they are in 9th so they might be kicked out of my top 10 after a second listen anyway but still a banger).

Oh this one could definitely go either way (hoping for FARC but they didn't get the greatest reception on SyncTube).

Land of DW an absolute essential <3 Commiserations to East Rukahavian losing their Q streak, although this song has done better than I'd have expected really (not much of an audience on here for a Myles Smith-esque entry you'd have thought).

Hitbilore!

There's 1 of the 6 20+ Q streaks over then! (Still pending Danæviia). 'Call Me Babe' was quite a fun entry but I'm not too shocked to see it out.

Hmm I'm sure HMLTD must have got a few high scores so I have a feeling we may be about to lose a long Q streak here. (only 36 points for Pagasa pre-deduction is desgusteng x)

Looks like my 18 is up for grabs then, sadge x (but yay for Scotland 2 <3)

Will cola and cherry be an acceptable substitute? x

Well at least if Pagasa are out now that means they'd presumably have been out regardless x (can't really be having Scotland 2 DNQing either x) 0 is less than 1 so not necessarily