Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

”I heard you on my wireless back in ‘52…”

Liking the photos from Emmy's first rehearsal, although hard to tell without seeing TV footage.

I think as long as the staging is on point and the vocals are solid then I feel Ireland has a really good chance of qualifying. Considering the countries voting in this SF such as the UK, Australia and Malta along with Eurodance loving countries like Germany, Denmark and Austria etc. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic....

Also 'Laika Party' is the only female banger in the first half so will stand out more while all the others are bunched together in the second half so could damage each other. I think Denmark and Luxembourg are most vulnerable.

I know he wouldn't be arsed, but if tobias forge wrote our next entry it would be amazing

I was lurking in the Eurovision sub on Reddit earlier, and reaction to the "first look" shots for Emmy is positive. Obviously, the fan bubble doesn't necessarily align with the public, but it's good to see some positivity about us out there! Better than two years ago anyway, when the world and its dog knew we were no-hopers.

What encourages me further is that we're in the "smutty" semi with Malta, Finland and Australia, and Emmy offers something for the families. I could see kids asking their parents to vote for Emmy.

The time for that stand was after the final last year, not now when it's a distraction and not going to happen

Was this on the Late Late last week? Performance from Trinity College Dublin.

I wonder what this is all about:

https://eurovoix.com/2025/05/07/eurovision-2025-new-semi-final-qualifiers-announcement-format-planned/

An X-Factor style announcement was tried in Liverpool during rehearsals, and was quickly scrapped. Not sure what else they could try, unless some sort of dynamic scoreboard (without scores or the actual rankings ) that is loaded with all the points, then shuffles itself over the course of a few seconds with the top 10 highlighted (I've explained that really badly but it all makes sense in my head.)

Aye…my first thought on seeing this was "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

The news reminded me of the very first semi-final in 2004, when they showed the scores of the countries that hadn't qualified at the end of the qualifiers announcement:

The next day it emerged that these scores were wrong, though conveniently, it didn't impact which countries had qualified.

Anybody know who the Irish Jury Spokesperson is going to be yet?

Ryan Tubridy? 😲

Kneecap? 😲😲

That staging is simply glorious!!! 🥰🥰

According to the odds we have a 51% to qualify, I think we will qualify but maybe the 9th or 10th country to be announced in the final , last year bambi was in semi final 1 song 4 this year it's semi final 2 song 3 so let's hope anyway

Me neither unfortunately...

Loving Albania from yesterday, I'd love if they could somehow win it.

Apparently, it's going to be three countries called forward ahead of each announcement, with one then going through.

https://eurovoix.com/2025/05/09/eurovision-2025-new-qualifiers-announcement-format-revealed/

Sounds awful, and I'm sure that just like Liverpool, it'll be scrapped before the first semi.

The problem they have without release the scores you have no real tension. They only way would be to have the scores removed and the countries not going forward to the final in moving in and out of that group on each successive vote. but even then any country in the bottom group is saddled with being in the bottom group, going into the final.

Kind of a reverse scoring.

And here are the results of the Irish jury, we did not vote for …

Each time your mentioned your score is reduced by 1. You start of with a total of however many country are voting. Countries vote in the normal way but state, we didn't vote for the following countries.

This should bring their score down with out reveling their actual score, e.g. if 1 point is awarded from every country you never have reduced score. A tie would be resolved by who got the highest actual score.

Of course a country get 10, 12 points could would be doing better than a country getting 1 point from every jury. So you'd probably change the scoring the semis to avoid this.

Either way perhaps just announce them quickly for the semi-finals. Blunt but honest.

Yes, a different way of announcing the qualifiers from the semis was trialled during one of the rehearsals in 2023, but feedback was so bad that it never made it to the live shows. The proposed new way was very "X-Factor" style, with all the semi-final performers on stage, then they're called out as qualifiers one by one. Those not going through would have been left standing on stage, their disappointment in full view of the public…whereas keeping the singers in the green room during the reveal means we don't see the disappointed acts and they're not seen crying in front of viewers.

I remember someone posting on Twitter at the time something along the lines of: "Eurovision should influence X-Factor, not the other way around" which I thought was a good way of putting it. That style of "cruel" reality TV was popular in the first 15 years of the 21st century, but it (thankfully) has had its day. Trust Eurovision to be 10 years behind or so in realising it.

Don't forget though, that Eurovision in a TV show first and foremost. Until 2003, the rules said that the purpose of the contest was “to promote high-quality original songs in the field of popular music, by encouraging competition among artists, songwriters and composers through the international comparison of their songs.” From 2004, the contest was described as “a state-of-the-art, world-class television production of a competition between musical acts representing countries of the Members of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).”