Eurovision Song Contest 2026

Guessed Czechia would win the final place alright. Thought the Swiss staging looked too complicated but really like the song.

Non what so ever, why do you think I'm wearing Kylie inspired gold hotpants while I watch the Eurovision?

I'll youtube the winning song to see what it's like.

Each to their own but I don't want to add to the contest viewing figures on youtube.

I've probably never missed a contest since Nicole won in 1982. I feel a kind of anger at Israel that they have driven a lot of true Europeans to this. The hypocrisy of Russia being banned straight away also.

To all watching, enjoy😊

I really enjoyed that last night, with the exception of the Luxembourg entry, which was horrendous. I've had my eye on Delta for a while, and after seeing that performance last night, I think she's the one to beat. The bookies still have Finland as the favourites, but if she puts in another performance like that tomorrow night, it's hers to lose. I think Israel, Greece, and Denmark will make up the rest of the top five.

If Australia win, they are under no obligation to host it, so the contest would most likely still be held in Europe. It would be interesting to see who would be willing to host it. It's a very expensive competition to stage nowadays. I can't see Finland, Israel, Greece, or Denmark taking it on. It would probably be one of the bigger nations, the UK perhaps.

I don't even know what any of these songs sound like like (apart from Greece and the UK), everything I know about them has come from either here or Reddit…but even I think that running order is strange.

A lot of people said Denmark was gaining momentum these last few days, that's obviously crashed to a halt now. Germany, with its Fuego from Temu surely would have been a better opener. Israel early as usual. It's funny how the EBU are desperate to have Israel compete, but are also desperate for them not to win.

Greece was always going to struggle with the juries, but I suspect his televote will hurt now too. That said, Estonia last year finished 2nd in the televote from early in the r/o, and the lines opening at the start of the show should help a bit too. I don't Australia will be too harmed by going eighth - the jury was always where Delta was going to rack up the points, and they're less influenced by running order (Austria in 2018 and North Macedonia in 2019 both won the jury vote with early r/o appearances.)

I don't think it's a great slot for the UK. Moldova and Finland back-to-back surprised me as well…Moldova will likely take a lot of televote points, and Finland might suffer as a result. It's also early for a frontrunner, but as many online have pointed out, 17th is statistically the most successful running order position, with seven winners. Among them, Lordi from Finland in 2006.

Sweden on late, as usual. Good spot for Sal from Italy. Surprised to see Norway and Romania, two more rocky entries, back-to-back.

Austria chose its position though a random draw, so nothing could be done there. Fourth time in contest history that the host entry will be the last song of the night, after 1991, 2001 and 2023.

give over this absolute nonsense trying to shame people for watching a song contest. It doesn’t at all make you virtuous!!!

Romania is the dark horse with an excellent draw being second last.

Bulgaria was the big surprise for me, really excellent last night. Think the Australia performance is great but the song sounds really dated to me, a bit like a UK X Factor winner - there was one called 'A moment like this' (I think!) that it reminds me of. Would really like Finland to win at this stage.

Luxembourg, I meant. Delta was unreal last night. If she performs like that tomorrow night, she'll be hard to beat.