NEARLY A JACK POT! :-)

Well, what can I say? I got 8+2 right in my prediction. Only Georgia missed the final and I can only be happy for that, lol! Out of my three reserves for the last spot two made it replacing Georgia and the 10th place. So, pretty much a jack pot. I still got it! ) Actually I changed Malta as a reserve and Georgia in the very last minute so it was pretty close being 9+1.

As for the performances I think this one had much shakier ones compared to the semifinal one. The Netherlands, Ukraine, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Estonia and Bosnia & Herzegovina clearly were not at their best. Still some managed to reach the final which is good and we can only hope better performances from them come Saturday's final.

The interval act with the former winners was painfully bad. Did they have any rehearsals? All of them sounded pretty awful and over performed their entries... and we don't even talk about the version of Waterloo.... And why did they perform Waterloo in the first place? Offcially because it was voted in some poll as the best Eurovision entry ever but I think it was because nearly one quarter of the songs this year were written by Swedes...

Stay tuned for the drawing of the starting order for the final....
The press conference was the usual rather awkward itself until we got to Kaliopi who totally stole the show. She took charge by introducing Lys Assia who was in the audience I will update here until it's done.... The she fished out her ex-husband to thank him and then she was interviewed by Terry Vision and another devoted fan in love with her (I can relate to that!). Before Kaliopi only Loreen caused a little stir but only for the question about her political affairs in Baku but she managed to answer very well the question saying pretty much nothing. And then Kurt did a very nice thing: he let Can draw his number and it was 21!

01. United Kingdom
02. HUNGARY
03. ALBANIA
04. LITHUANIA
05. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
06. RUSSIA
07. ICELAND
08. CYPRUS
09. France
10. Italy
11. ESTONIA
12. NORWAY
13. Azerbaijan
14. ROMANIA
15. DENMARK
16. GREECE
17. SWEDEN
18. TURKEY
19. Spain
20. Germany

21. MALTA

22. FYR MACEDONIA

23. IRELAND

24. SERBIA

25. UKRAINE

26. MOLDOVA

Comments

Kalevi said…

Once again, I knew Ukraine would probably qualify, but I'm seriously angry that Slovenia lost a place to them...seems like most of the non-qualifiers in this semi were the ones I liked.

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