Thank you for the info Nicky.

can already say based on one photo i saw from Ireland, they are going reduce a lot of people to tears

omg Israel's staging is an absolute SLAY i can tease





#ProudToStanIsrael :love:

Oof, Croatia and Azerbaijan crashing to 750/1 in the odds.

Not surprised, probably the staging

It all starts next week. :amazed:

i'm voting for San Marino on tuesday (two years in a row voting for them, how iconic)


and in the grand final Israel

odds update for semi 2 post first rehearsal

Australia climbed to 7th place, over Lithuania which dropped to 8th place


the percentage gap between Luxembourg (10th) and Ireland (11th) is only 6% (57 and 51 percentage of qualifying chances)

Armenia climbed over Latvia from 14th to 13th

where?


not where i am looking


Azerbaijan is still borderline q/nq at 11th in the semi 1 odds, and in 31st place in the odds to win



Croatia on the other hand yes they look chanceless (tbh Poison Cake was not the best option in this years Dora, my fave was more a traditional ballad by Marko Skugor, maybe oldfashioned for some, but still better than something this weird)

glamourlicious :love: am looking forward to the whole performance now :cheer:

last years Rave Queen for Austria Kaleen is now part of Armenia's delegation :)

some shameless promo maybe, but i found these semi final scorecards this morning

https://euroalfa.eu/scorecards-for-e...5-semi-finals/

might be fun for some of you as well, to give scores for song, staging, live vocals, artist overall, as well as filling in who qualified to the final


@Vanessa @Kate! @Barry. @Benjamin @Black Dagger

San Marino have dropped drastically to 750/1. Guessing their dress rehearsal was no good.

i really have no idea where you are looking?


San Marino are in 21st place in the odds to win

i always check here

https://eurovisionworld.com/odds/eurovision

which has from betting odds combined



oddschecker is only one betting site, and not everyone bets there





Netherlands dropped from 2nd to 3rd in the semi 1 odds, seems their rehearsal wasn't that good or people disappointed about the staging (like me, i am disappointed how dark, depressing it looks, for a otherwise cheerful uplifting song)

It is a gathering of all bookies. It shows you the best bet you can get. If you’ve click a country it shows you the odds from various sites.

I find San Marino and Iceland are really similar to Sweden and it seems everyone prefers Sweden

they aren't similar to Sweden though


San Marino is a tribute to Italy, with traditional italian instruments



Iceland though might be a bit similar to a swedish dansband maybe but not entirely, since it is very ethnic icelandic music

you also see those instruments in their staging btw, the dancers from the NF got replaced by musicians with traditional instruments doing a little choreo instead, something i was hoping for, to go similar to Moldova 2022 Trenuletul


and there will be quite some pyro's as well, as for Gabry's lipsync to the song, this is just his performing style

i also think people underestimate San Marino since they think it's mainly something for italian diaspora, but this is from the same DJ whose had a major hit throughout with I'm Blue (Da Bee Da) and which is still a regularly played hit song on many radio channels nowadays

and vocally wise, they have people with sanremo performing and composing experience respectively from Andrea Bonomo (Sanremo 2008, as well as a songwriter for music stars like Eros Ramazzotti, Alessandra Amoroso) and Edwyn Roberts (the composer for Diodato's intended esc2020 song Fai Rumore) to say who the singers with the masks are

Norway's Kyle Alessandro got green light by the EBU to playback during the first semi final

Can’t believe it. It’s like yesterday I was waiting for the songs to drop on YouTube.