[Benjamin]

All my votes sent.

[Kate!]

@Vanessa

Just reminding you love that voting for the semi final closes tomorrow.

[Benjamin]

@Barry. @jones89 @Nicky91 @Vanessa

Just in case you forgot voting closes tomorrow.

[Barry.]

Thanks

[jones89]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

@Barry. @jones89 @Nicky91 @Vanessa

Just in case you forgot voting closes tomorrow.

Yeah i’m almost done

[Josiah.]

Voting closed at 6pm. Results will be tomorrow at 8pm.

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Josiah.

Voting closed at 6pm. Results will be tomorrow at 8pm.

Did everyone vote?

[Josiah.]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Did everyone vote?

Unfortunately no. Vanessa and Nicky did not vote, though Vanessa did have a good reason as to why she didn't vote (Kate told me Vanessa's reasoning through text right after I got home from work).

[Benjamin]

Oh, I hope she is ok

Tbf all her songs are in the final, so I guess it didn’t matter as much.

[Ammi]

…good luck everyone....I don’t anticipate final qualifying entries but I do enjoy the search and finding great songs for the first time..

[Kate!]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Oh, I hope she is ok

Tbf all her songs are in the final, so I guess it didn’t matter as much.

She's OK Ben. She had to go to Italy at short notice.

[Ammi]

…a good thing that Josiah televises this festival across the world…?…so authentic, and now we go to Italy to speak to Vanessa for her votes…buonasera Italia….

[Ammi]

…sending positive thoughts to Italy, Vanessa……

[Josiah.]

Results coming at 8pm tonight. See you then!

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…a good thing that Josiah televises this festival across the world…?…so authentic, and now we go to Italy to speak to Vanessa for her votes…buonasera Italia….

[jones89]

Originally Posted by Ammi

…good luck everyone....I don’t anticipate final qualifying entries but I do enjoy the search and finding great songs for the first time..

Do you have New Zealand in the final already? I like that song.. also, i think Nigeria should 100% be in the final

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by jones89

Do you have New Zealand in the final already? I like that song.. also, i think Nigeria should 100% be in the final

…yes, yes…I do have New Zealand as a qualifier …I think that it might be my first automatic qualifier of any season so bear that in mind that it’s a very special time for me and give generously with your voting……

…I agree with you, I do love Nigeria’s entry too…it has a very joyful beat and Elestee seems an absolute darling…so that’s worth lots of votes also……


…my promo of the day is done…

[Josiah.]

1 hour until the Semi-Final results!

[Benjamin]

[jones89]

[Benjamin]

Interested to see how the votes went. Hard one to call this time.

[Josiah.]

I can tell you that it was close with quite a few countries, with 1 point separating 14th and 15th places.

No results of the semi-final points until after the final results next week.

[Josiah.]

Kia ora. Who did you send to the final?


(click the picture to watch the results video, and then come back to this post)

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@Ammi @Barry. @Benjamin @jones89 @Kate! @Nicky91 @Vanessa

The qualifiers have been announced! And as mentioned in the video, the running order for the final will be announced later tonight into the overnight hours of tomorrow.

And huge props to Kimbra for performing her song "Replay!" before the results.

[Josiah.]

And for those of you who don't feel like watching the video, the qualifiers are...

Spoiler:

• Austria
• Poland
• Norway
• Canada
• Denmark
• Nigeria
• Sweden
• Montenegro
• South Korea
• Mexico
• Finland
• Scotland
• Australia
• Japan

[Benjamin]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Ok, so these odds are not a prediction of who will win, that usually changes drastically once we know the finalists. These are also not an indication of my voting. These are purely how likely I reckon each song is to make the finals.

They may change over the next week or so as it’s quite hard to call this one.

To make the final:

Austria - 2/5
Finland - 4/5
Australia - 1/1
South Korea - 2/1
Poland - 2/1
Sweden - 3/1
Norway - 3/1
San Marino - 4/1
England - 4/1
Nigeria - 4/1
Canada - 4/1
Scotland - 5/1
Mexico - 5/1
Montenegro - 6/1
Czechia - 6/1
Denmark - 7/1
Germany - 7/1
Netherlands - 8/1
Mali - 9/1
Barbados - 10/1
Japan - 12/1
Egypt - 15/1
Taiwan - 20/1
Turkey - 25/1


Highest placing auto-qualifier in the final results:

Italy - 1/1
Liechtenstein - 2/1
New Zealand - 3/1
Ireland - 5/1
Greece - 8/1
USA - 12/1


Winner to be a song in English:

Yes - 4/5
No - 4/1


Winning country to have won the contest before:

Yes - 2/1
No - 5/1

Not bad