I’m excited to listen to all the songs once all finalised.

If you have not submitted entries yet, now would be a good time to do so.

Sorry Josiah. I'm out tonight.
I've already picked my songs. Will send them tomorrow.

Time for a new entry josh?

We’re just doing all songs in the final right?

Yes.

Good luck with the setting it all up. I appreciate it’s a lot of effort.

If everyone's okay with it, I'm contemplating pushing this back a week; just so I can really get my head in gear and get all the graphics and stuff made, because 32 songs is gonna be a lot of work to do.

Of course :love:

…it’s a huge amount of work, Josiah and that’s so very much appreciated, you take the time you need …:love:…I know it’ll be fabulous, it always is…it’s a bit of a mixed thing when you get a lot of entries because it must feel YAY!!! followed quickly by eeeeeeek!!!!!….:laugh:….

Of course. Is it easier if we do a semi final round to reduce the number in the final? Or would that actually give you more work to do?

A semi-final might do, but just to reduce my workload, I might keep the semi-final to here on the forum with a YouTube playlist and a Spotify playlist. Also keeping the voting to just 1 set of votes for each country in the semi might work. No-one has to do a butt-load of votes either.

It's decided. The semi-final will be on Saturday the 15th, the semi-final results on the 20th, the final recap on the 22nd, and the results on the 28th.

Perfect. Great job Josiah.

Perfect. Hopefully that makes it less work for you. :love:

…superb…:love:…

All the songs are in now.

BenjiBet odds

Please note this is not a reflection on how I would rank the songs, but how likely they are to make the final based on past forum voting.

To make the final

Ireland - 1/2
Puerto Rico - 2/1
Scotland - 5/2
Greece - 3/1
Liechtenstein - 7/2
New Zealand - 4/1
France - 9/2
England - 5/1
Italy - 6/1
Wales - 7/1
Zimbabwe - 8/1
Barbados - 8/1
Iceland - 9/1
Malta - 10/1
Bosnia & Herzegovina - 11/1
Denmark - 12/1
Canada - 14/1
Finland - 15/1
Spain - 16/1
Netherlands - 17/1
Türkiye - 18/1
Mexico - 18/1
Colombia - 20/1
Ghana - 25/1
Slovakia - 33/1
Albania - 50/1


I’ll do odds for the final once we know the 20 finalists.

Ok so just one set of votes from each country in the semi-final?

Correct.

Also for those wondering, to do the odds I have listened to each song all the way through several times. I didn’t skip through any part way through.

Glad I did too as some initially I wasn’t sure on but after a few listens they grew on me (and been added to my own personal Spotify playlist) :clap1:

Looking forward to doing my own personal ranking.

…oh I didn’t know that the songs were up to listen to yet…how can I do that, I can start listening now…?…

…so we’ll lose 6 songs in the semi final and 20 through..?…

Yes

…:love:…it’s exciting to have a semi final as well as the final this year…we’re being spoilt…:love:..