[OFF TOPIC] Eurovision Song Contest 2021

[heywoodu 16,182]

Just finished semi 1, what a results  

 

Before watching the results, I had listed the songs in three categories...I know ten would go through, but I really couldn't find two more which should not be in 'Definitely not'  (the + indicates the nation qualified)

 

Definitely will qualify:
IRL
CYP +
NOR +
AZE +

 

Might qualify:
RUS +
SWE +
CRO
ROU

 

Definitely won't qualify:
LTU +
SLO
AUS
MKD
BEL +
ISR +
UKR +
MLT +

 

I really can't, for the life of me, understand how Israel, Ukraine and Malta qualified. I mean, they were incredibly out of tune and the decisive parts were basically...screaming. Especially the 'highlight' of Israel's song, it's not like singing a high tune, it's screaming like the neighbour girls...
 

Oh well, hopefully semi 2 will be better  

[NikolaB 452]

Our girls did great job last night and it was well deserved qualification. San Marino was great too, Albania was amazing, Finland too. Bulgaria with really great staging, Greece...

[Vektor 3,326]

On 19/05/2021 at 14:06, Vektor said:

A ranking of the SF1 performances based on the amount of YouTube likes.

 

  124,297

 

  93,320

 

  54,754

 

  36,378

 

  34,905

 

  27,855

 

  25,042

 

  18,304

 

  18,151

 

  10,862

 

  10,531

 

  9,972

 

  7,346

 

  7,292

 

  4,693

 

  4,359

 

  3,196

 

  2,947

 

  2,841

 

 

The ESC hype is still strong in Russia, many of those likes most be from their home country. Ukraine is also a country that always does well on YT because they care about the show, but that's still a promising number. I would say that this is looking good for Italy, not so much for Malta, they might have some big issues in the televote. 

To get a comparison, here are the SF2 YouTube likes after a similar amount of time. 

 

  120,974

 

  35,173

 

  25,204

 

  22,485

 

  22,182

 

  17,192

 

  15,443

 

  11,383

 

  8,874

 

  8,017

 

  7,509

 

  6,538

 

  5,701

 

  3,902

 

  3,509

 

  2,956

 

  2,459

 

  2,366

 

  2,783

 

A lot of support for Serbia, they can get a lot of televotes from the Yugoslav/Slavic countries. 

 

And this looks really bad for Bulgaria. I guess there's a good reason why they are falling behind at the bookies. 

[Grassmarket 4,128]

17 minutes ago, Vektor said:

  To get a comparison, here are the SF2 YouTube likes after a similar amount of time. 

 

  120,974

 

  35,173

 

  25,204

 

  22,485

 

  22,182

 

  17,192

 

  15,443

 

  11,383

 

  8,874

 

  8,017

 

  7,509

 

  6,538

 

  5,701

 

  3,902

 

  3,509

 

  2,956

 

  2,459

 

  2,366

 

  2,783

 

A lot of support for Serbia, they can get a lot of televotes from the Yugoslav/Slavic countries. 

 

And this looks really bad for Bulgaria. I guess there's a good reason why they are falling behind at the bookies. 

As a political movement, pan-Slavism died in 1917. Eurovision has revived it!  

[Makedonas 2,239]

Seems like a lot of people here didn't like Greece and didn't want us to qualify. Weird. I actually was very impressed and pleasantly surprised with our performance yesterday. I thought it was our best performance since 2008, even though I don't really like the song.

 

Of course if she was from Sweden it would automatically make the top 5 and everyone would be calling it a "masterpiece"

 

Also the Cyprus singer is fully Greek born and raised in Athens, and the Albanian singer lived in Thessaloniki for 10 years and has a Greek grandparent and speaks fluent Greek, she was on one of our TV shows a few weeks ago. Happy that they all qualified.

 

Also not sure why they keep making a big deal out of our singer being born and raised in the Netherlands. Yes that is true and the contest is in the Netherlands, but she is a Greek girl. Both of her parents are Greek, she speaks the language and her grandparents still live in Greece. The presenter yesterday made it seem like Greece just randomly selected a Dutch singer for no reason 

[Federer91 3,089]

Damn, that 16-21 order of  -  -  -  -   is brutal. Heck, you can even add AZE to that. It's going to be a bloodbath. There could be trouble for France sandwiched between 2 visually great up-tempo songs. 

 

 with the pole-position and rightfully so. Between 3 complete bores and the mediocre SMA it will vividly stand-out. But honestly, it would have stand-out anywhere else on the order either way. 

 

In the first half only  keeps it's chances for a top 3. I already knew on Wednesday that they will use  El Diablo as a flashy opener. The usual solid fan-favourite that gets top 10, but nothing more.  at 5 is about right with it's uniqueness, but when the second half heavyweights hit, it will be lost. The 10-15 spot beckons.

 

I hope this is a sign that Malta is flopping hard and i pray it flops hard. I will laugh my ass off.

[Federer91 3,089]

3 hours ago, Vektor said:

 

And this looks really bad for Bulgaria. I guess there's a good reason why they are falling behind at the bookies. 

 

Not necessarily. There is usually a large home nation influx of views, when they upload the videos. And BGs are amongst the least Eurovision invested people, if we are going south-east from Hungary. Today in the office, from around 20 young people, only one other person cared that we made the final   It's no surprise that Serbia and Greece have big views. Crazy, wacky, entertaining entries always do well, because people are re-watching for the lolz. You won't get multiple replays for a hard ballad. But you will need only one showing to grab the casual watchers on Saturday.

 

I think the views are good. They are on the same level as  ,  and  , which are the ones we should be looking at. We won't be winning, that was clear, when the song was announced, but i still see a top 5 position. If we are looking at the odds, half the nations before us have a problem with one of the voting wings, while i think we would have a strong balanced showing on both sides. Juries will sink Finland (sadly), San Marino, maybe even Ukraine, while Lithuania, Portugal will struggle with the popular vote. Iceland is a mystery for me and can't wrap my finger how popular will it be with the audience. And Malta could flop too. 

[Makedonas 2,239]

 

So interesting to see this from the perspective of the crowd

[Agger 1,721]

38 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

 

So interesting to see this from the perspective of the crowd

Must be a competitor for most clothing changes!

[heywoodu 16,182]

For what it's worth, my same list for SF 2

 

Definitely will qualify:
EST
GRE
POR
FIN

 

Maybe:
AUT
POL
ISL
ALB
BUL
DEN

 

Definitely won't qualify:
SMR
CZE
MDA
SRB
GEO
LAT
SUI

 

Where I must say I added San Marino not because of it's performance, but because I didn't expect them to get enough votes. Mixed feelings about that one personally: it starts nice, but I found to go downhill to the depths of earth when that dude appeared and started...I don't know what he was doing, but not singing  

 

At least I had 6 of the 10 right in terms of who I thought could qualify  

 

And much to my surprise I noticed Ukraine is actually one of the favourites...how?!