Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Semifinal two was won by Sweden with a huge margin while Latvia and Israel battled it out for the second place. Azerbaijan nearly missed out the final and San Marino avoided the last place by beating Switzerland with 7 points.  Full results here .  01. Sweden  217 02. Latvia  155 03. Israel  151 04. Norway  123 05.  Slovenia  92 06. Cyprus  87 07. Lithuania  67 08. Poland  57 09. Montenegro  57 10. Azerbaijan  53 11. Malta  43 12. Ireland  35 13. Czech Republic  33 14. Portugal  19 15. Iceland  14 16. San Marino  11 17. Switzerland  4

After another great show, less spectacular by organizers but more stunning by the artists and Conchita always in top form and lovely Valentina Monetta in greenroom we have results. If I look at my Wish list I only got 6/10 but my prediction was pretty good: 9/10. Only Poland took Czech Republic's place and they still haven't made it to the final. Ever. Shame. But then, I was toying with Poland, too, so it's ok. Here are the qualifiers: Lithuania (first half) Poland (second half) Slovenia (first half) Sweden (first half) Norway (first half) Montenegro (second half) Cyprus (first half) Azerbaijan (second half) Latvia (second half) Israel (first half) Stay tuned for the press conference and their slots in the final. And the full line up looks like this:

As expected Denmark won also the first semifinal: Denmark 167 Russia 159 Ukraine 140 Moldova 95 Belgium 75 Netherlands 75 Belarus 64 Ireland 54 Lithuania 53 Estonia 52 Serbia 46 Montenegro 41 Croatia 38 Austria 27 Cyprus 11 Slovenia 8 As Azerbaijan was in the second. San Marino was the first to drop out :-)  Azerbaijan – 139 Greece – 121 Norway – 120 Malta – 118 Romania – 83 Iceland – 72 Armenia – 69 Hungary – 66 Finland – 64 Georgia – 63 San Marino – 47 Bulgaria – 45 Switzerland – 41 Israel – 40 Albania – 31 FYR Macedonia – 28 Latvia – 13 Full results country by country can be seen in eurovision.tv. I'm surprised Azerbaijan gave Finland 3 points despite the kiss! Yuhuu! But where did all the votes from Iceland and Norway etc vanish in the final?

Hungary, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania, Norway, Iceland, Armenia, Finland, Malta and Greece! It means all Nordic countries are in, all Ex-Yugoslavias are our and so is San Marino again! That is the shocker of the evening... Checking various bloggers and sites actually I got the best score, 9/10! Most got 7-8/10 so I guess I can congratulate myself here tonight! Alcohol is free, ding dong! Again a very good show from SVT. Somehow maybe not so funny as the first one, but good. Petra was solid and good, everything worked with no visible mistakes anywhere, the sound was fantastic. it is such a pleasure to see everyone sings and performs well, and doesn't fall a victim of nerves. I would say Iceland was stunning vocally, he gave me shivers. Hungary was very good, a bit nervous but in a very cute way that actually made it better perhaps? Georgia can do still better in final and Switzerland was much better than I expected after seeing their rehearsal. But whatever happened to San Ma...