Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

To finish my post from earlier. I have mixed feelings about the new qualifier announcement. From what I can see on social media, this particular split screen sent fans into a frenzy, as it meant a country considered unlikely to qualify had made it through:

Giving us a split screen like this, which no expected, was a great outcome.

The flip side of the coin is that you guess some of the qualifiers before the reveal. The producers said no country would appear in the split screen more than three times, so when Estonia appeared for the third time, it meant it was probably going through. And as I said earlier, why did they save Ukraine for last? It took away all the tension.

But the change still just feels like a change for the sake of change. I say, bring back the envelopes!

I thought the performance of Ne Partez Pas was really boring. Wasn't Celine supposed to be there? Maybe they were stand ins in case of a no show.

The show was absolutely awful from start to finish. The wooden unfunny presenters were terrible. The green room basket thing was so stupid and went on far too long. Is that girl meant to be a comedian? I would have rathered a recap or something else to fill the time. There was no cohesion in the show. The Swiss are a dull and boring nation if that's their idea of entertainment.

The highlights for me were Albania and Poland. I really hope either win as I'd love something different next year. Hoping Sweden don't win.

I thought the Céline Dion tribute was done quite well, considering the singers chosen probably didn't have a huge amount of time to prepare, and that the song itself isn't really a natural fit for either Silvester Belt (too high for his range) or Marina Satti (too low for her range).

Collectively I think they held back somewhat to avoid belting it out and risk being out of harmony with each other, which I think is fair enough tbh; better to undersing it than oversing it.

Well we'll be the 1st split screen for qualifying, its songs 1 ,2 and 3 then 4 5 and 6 etc , I seen isreal got great response in their rehearsals today :/ I feel it's just Ireland that are pro Palestine

I'm hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. The camera shots show too much of the stage and not enough of Emmy but then again the bloggers said the same about San Marino and they Q last night. The song will have an audience but will we see if it is big enough to get us through. We have a lot of our traditional voting allies there so all is not lost.

No, the 3 countries are not selected based on running order so, for example, you could see Ireland, Georgia and Finland on the same spilt screen group

Yes and Australia will most likely get it and then we will have to be added a second time I'm guessing , I'll be shocked if it's us 1st time although they left Ukraine quite late yesterday thought they wouldn't get through but they did on the 2nd go

Is that how it works? I thought it was in order first 3 countries on so on, whoops 🤭 my bad :/

Not sure how relevant but an audience poll

We're sixth in the exit poll which is positive…but Belgium was sixth in the SF1 poll, and look what happened there.

Not much to be happy about when reading some (most) of the social media reviews of last night regarding Ireland, but then again, pretty of acts over the years have been mediocre in rehearsals, then they turned the sparkle on for the live shows. And, for the first time, I think I'm glad there's no juries in the semi-final, a weak performance last night won't affect Emmy's result.

I won't lie, I'm not confident. But if SF1 showed us anything, it's that the public are in a mood to surprise this year. Portugal was at the bottom of most people's qualifier predictions.

Albania has really been building up momentum. It won't win, but it could match Suus as the country's best result. Conversely, it feels like Sweden is losing momentum. I still haven't seen all the SF1 performances, but some fans online said it somehow didn't come across as well as it did in Melodifest. Some are even saying it no longer sounds like a winner. Considering what we see at Melodifest is a ready to go Eurovision staging, it's odd that it doesn't seem to have translated well.

Perhaps KAJ are better at being underdogs?

Looking forward to seeing the French staging tonight, finding out if the German singer can sing and if the Austrian singer can own the stage.

I’m not hopeful for Ireland especially if she stays stuck on the rocket thingy.

6 countries that won’t make it:

Montenegro

Ireland :(

Armenia

Georgia

Luxembourg

Serbia