ESC 2011 - The final. Tonight

So, here it is again. The 56th Eurovision song contest final with 38.000 people inside the arena, some 125 million in front of the TV live in 45 countries. Stefan Raab, Anke Engelke and Judith Rakers are hosting the show that starts at 9pm CET. If your country doesn't show it, you can watch it live on eurovision.tv .

And I have done my prediction - based on pure instinct and reason, but mainly on my own feelings. I'm just too emotional to think things in cold facts so I may get it all wrong. Just for fun I have thrown in a couple of wild guesses to mess it up a bit. In my opinion there is no obvious winner here like in 2009 for example when I had no doubts Norway would walk it and it did. I was also pretty sure about Russia and Serbia the previous years. I think this year the voting will be very close, and not only because of the compurized voting order! My pre-contest winner candidate United Kingdom hasn't totally convinced me on stage, so... Are we in for a 2003 like finish? Here goes:

1-5: Bosnia-Herzegovina, France, Germany, Ireland, United Kingdom

6-10: Finland, Hungary, Moldova, Russia, Sweden

11-15: Austria, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland

16-20: Georgia, Greece, Italy, Serbia, Slovenia

21-25: Lithuania, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine

I will be here right after the show with the results and comments as always. Have fun, enjoy the show and comment below what you think will happen!

And you can spot many Eurovision stars as spokespersons, like Dima Bilan, Safura, Sofia Nizharadze, Aisha, Ruslana, Piret Järvis of Vanilla Ninja and Susan Aho of Kuunkuiskaajat. Sweden gives the job again to Melodifestivalen runner up so Danny Saucedo will get the honor.

Comments

Kalevi said…

I think Spain will be in 6-10 rather than Hungary, which will be in 1-5 instead of Germany or Ireland. I'm not really expecting the United Kingdom to do quite so well either; I think Estonia might be able to get into the top 10 at their expense. I'm also a little biased in favor of the entries that I like.

11:34

Ilkar Blogilkar said…

Well, indeed this year it is more difficult thatn ever I think... Quite frankly I have no idea how this will go! Maybe we will have a real surprise winner after all?

19:05

Anonymous said…

Ya,a surprise!!I only hope that Saade doesn't get to finish on top places.
He is hot and I think that counts but his song is written by a cursed composer who always fails in Eurovision.....So,we'll see happens what happens....
Maybe Moldova will win or the annoying romanian song....doubt that.
Do u think that it counts when selecting the Eurovision winner if the country can afford hosting the contest next year??!!!
I mean.....I'm sure it's not 100% fairplay...it can't be!What do y think???

20:12

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