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Are the 'socials' in your countries also full with people saying the running order is to prevent country X from winning, help country Y and so on?

Moldova would compete this year, but pulled out due to a lack of qualify (officially). But yeah, it would be good for Eastern European countries' chances if more of them are back again.

First time since 2013 not to have a single former Yugoslav country in the final.

I'm just fully on the Sweden train now

Well, this was a disappointing few minutes. One of only two songs I actually liked (together with Sweden) during my Spotify listens is out now

Very possible they invited some, but many couldn't now due to scheduling issues. Who knows.

Cheese fondue is definitely one of my all time green room highlights

I like the German song. However, the last time Germany was represented on the European stage by an Austrian didn't end up very well....

Luxemburg with a nice song, but sadly it doesn't sound nearly as good as it does on spotify.

The constant interruption of the word "hallucination" is somewhat annoying me....

Oh they absolutely did I don't think it's a secret they turn down audience sound for specific performances...(Israel as well)

And now they turned down the audience sound again during the song

Discount Nicki Minaj?

Serving Kant

Lithuania might well be one of the six NQ's.

UK is lucky it pays for a spot in the final, holy moly.

Hazel is quite fun, loved the 60+ party

What rhymes on "staying alive"? Ah, "survivor".

The Latvian voices aren't working so well

Montenegro with a very disappointing performance, she was off almost everywhere...

Milkshake Man My favorite of the entire contest

Pedersen seems to win stage 5 despite being nearly killed off on the short final climb by teammate Vacek

Impressive job mate, well done

Much as I agree with this wholeheartedly, one remark out of fairness on the broadcast: instead of on some channel, TCR TV actually broadcasts the races live (and of course on-demand) on YouTube, the single best way for basically any sport to stream their events But besides that, yeah...it's unbelievable. ETCC was awesome, then it became WTCC and that was still cool with lots of hard racing. Now it's mostly just a few riders that make you think "why are you not going for something more relevant, you have talent?!" plus a huge bunch of different locals every round.

Belgium. Like it or not (I didn't, particularly ), but it was one of the favourites. 5th or so at the bookies before the SF.