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My guess for 11 and 12 points is that the flags will be either blue, white, or red

With The Netherlands quickly gaining steam, perhaps I was the witch all along?

By that logic, France is doomed

Everybody say thank you to @Federer91 for single-handedly keeping @dcro in the TISC family

Every single time a contest starts, I eagerly wait to hear what Slovakia, Argentina, Bulgaria sends. For Slovakia and Argentina, it's because it's been a long time since I last scored you and I still believe that one contest I will be pleasantly surprised and proudly give points to you, but at the end of the day it's all about taste, so you really needn't think of songs that I would like, it's just a fun bonus if our tastes align and I'm patiently waiting for that day again. As for Bulgaria, I've scored them twice recently, but they tend to not be well received during contests, so I'm glad every time they land in my top 12. I also feel bad for the handful of countries that I haven't scored in 19 contests still, Greece, Egypt, Venezuela and Tunisia. But it's only a matter of time, hopefully

Most of us didn't need to wait for the Bulgarian vote

Thanks a million @amen09 for the 11 points!!!

Perhaps this is where my royalty money went to after all

What the actual fuck

My bigger question is that sure, we have some huge groups at the top, but what about all of the middle of the pack and lower tier bands. What kind of sum of money do you have to charge for a live performance to make it profitable for the guys/girls? Let's be real, they're probably not getting much if any writing credits. If you're not popular, you probably can't really have a huge price. So they probably have to do shows nearly every day to stay afloat.

Wow @Cobi You ended the worst year for Lithuania just like that Thanks a bunch for the ten points! Lithuania has a medal in 2022!

She was absolutely huge and the biggest & youngest Lithuanian prospect back in 2017-2018. Her biggest hit "Superstar" has 20 mil views on Youtube and that is absolutely massive for a Lithuanian. Even other radios from Europe picked her up. She was 18-19 at the time and even got to sing in a packed arena at the Lithuanian Music Awards. Seeing so much success so quickly probably really helped her believe that an international career was possible, so she signed a contract, moved abroad and got stuck in absolute contract jail, releasing like 2-3 songs in the span of four years till everybody forgot she existed. She released an EP last month, I thought about running it back with her in TAISC 2023, because I really love one of the songs in it, but people here don't seem to like her all that much What's scary is that she hasn't hit 10k views on Youtube on any of the songs yet, from 20 million to 5k views, that's a huuuuge drop in interest. One of the biggest what ifs in Lithuanian history, but she's only 24, so she has her entire life ahead of her. Three of our famous artists right now hit their peak at 30+, so even I have a chance to be popular still

Or you can go with the Japanese and Korean approach of just adding more boys. Eventually someone will find a boy they like. Problem solved.

Most of the hate for boy bands comes from men and boy bands are not marketed towards men. Well, used to be anyways, in the very early straight days. If you think that boy bands get a lot of hate, you're mostly hanging around men that would gobble up at the opportunity to get that much attention, look as good and make the money that they are making. Edit: forgot to add "I'm not like the other girls" category to boy band haters.

I predicted very early on that Caro Emerald would win for NED. I kind of figured that it would fight for the same points together with France, but seeing that Caro was a proven winner before and that the song stayed in the entirely same lane, I thought it would be a one-sided wash. I did not expect that France would be such an attractive choice for many nations, but I'll be a man of my word and stick with NED for a never before seen epic last session with 70 points.

Do you know what happens to people without a prayer?????? No soul for you. This is third evidence of you being a witch, get him Mariah!

So, how many thousands of points do I need to collect to get our team to bronze?

And miss out on the memes and fruit discussions? You wouldn't dare

It was this one @mrv86 but now when I think of it, Mas de la Mitad was better than this one

Nope, definitely not this one

Seriously, @OlympicIRL is a witch. He should answer to that lady from the US leading the campaign against Hocus Pocus 2

Kensington is playing. Twelve points to NED.

Oh god I have Mexico with 7 points in that edition. So which other Chilean song did I score? I was so confident too

Thank you @Belle for the 6 points!

I'm so confused. It wasn't entered for Chile?