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Luxembourg

I mean, awesome from a 'yay small countries' point of view, but come on  

Cyprus? The fuck.

Luxembourg at least wins the San Marino Award  

Pretty sure this isn't going to advance, because the song might be nice but the performance just isn't up to the level, but at least great to see a country come back instead of leave  

6 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I know they get better every year, but the LEDs are ridiculously good this year.

There is definitely too much of a stroboscope effect hype though...

Just now, Federer91 said:

They will have more trouble with Finland's pants-less guy and UK's almost orgy.  

UK shouldn't be a problem, much less visibility than Slovenia and if all the females we have seen throughout the years are ok, UK 2024 very surely is too  

Finland made a great act by always having a different way to cover the whole thing as part of the act  

Finland  

Slovenia's song reminds me of that neverending GIF of a truck about to hit a concrete post without actually ever hitting it, it feels annoying  

0.5% more visibility and all of Slovenia's performance would be censored in the US  

Croatia absolutely rocked it!  

Getting my phone ready to vote already  

Poland's singer apparently performed in the Warsaw opera, but I do assume (and hope) her strength in classical music is better than in pop music?  

Ukraine was going quite well, and then came the rapping part  

Ah yeah, that Ukrainian yelling of 2021  

1 minute ago, Federer91 said:

Are we sure the postcards show the countries 2 best results, because it's always an old and a new song being featured?

I don't think they're supposed to show the 2 best results, just two previous performances.

UK singing in the bathroom of the first Saw movie.

Ireland sent everyone on a bizarre LSD trip  

As a TISC participants, it's so weird to hear Ireland having only made the final once in ten years  

Not saying Lithuania is performing great, but at least it's the first song of today that stands out in some way (fun)  

Looks like it will be a Saturday without Serbia.

Cyprus started with a rather basic pop song, performed....well, not so well  

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Oh, I really like the style of the postcards this year 

Yep, had totally forgotten that....interesting Serbian thing from two years ago  

How I love Eurovision, there's always something....interesting  

35 minutes ago, dodge said:

Presumably down to 1/1000ths

 

But I’d imagine it won’t matter either way with improvements to come before the end of June

Yeah, I think and hope so. And if they take the 1/1000ths into account, they should really stop putting the times on the lists without them. Give us the time that's measured.

27 minutes ago, dodge said:

They do, but they’re behind Trinidad & Tobago on the world athletics list, so they’ll have to go faster 

Based on what, do you know? I only know this one, where I assume in case of a tie it's simply 'whoever did it first, is on the line above the other':

https://worldathletics.org/records/all-time-toplists/relays/4x100-metres-relay/all/men/senior?regionType=world&timing=electronic&page=1&bestResultsOnly=true&firstDay=2022-12-31&lastDay=2024-05-06&maxResultsByCountry=all&eventId=204593&ageCategory=senior

Well, the Dutch 4x400m men missing out on the Olympics (because making it by time is not nearly going to happen) is a bit of a bummer. Same for the 4x100m, really would have wanted to see Martina make his 6th Olympics.

15 hours ago, dodge said:

4 heats in round one - top 2 in each qualify = 8 total 

 

3 heats in round two - top 2 in each qualify = 6 total

 

8+6=14

Oh, duh, of course. How on earth did I think it's only 2 per event on day 1 instead of 2 per heat  

I'm still confused

I assume the rules are the same for all events, so: team X gets a top-2 in one of the Saturday heats, and is qualified for the Olympics, right. But team X does not get a top-2 on Saturday...then what? Repechage, where only the top-2 qualifies? But then how do they get to a total of 14 teams qualified at the World Relays per event