Katsuya

In good news, the Mexican GP is returning next year by the sounds of it. The even better news is that it's replacing Valencia.

Doing a proper BR map would be epic. Community build~!

One of my favourite moments from the recent episodes:

The juries vote on the jury rehearsal the night before, because if the phone lines went in to meltdown/something happened that meant the contest wasn't shown in a country on the Saturday, they would have the jury's votes anyway. It happened with the Netherlands when there was the fireworks disaster and in Semi Final 1 this year with Albania. But for someone as seasoned as Humperdinck, asking him not to fuck up on two consecutive nights doesn't seem particularly unfair.

The head of the Spanish jury said that while they all respected Engelbert and wanted to give him points, they couldn't after his jury rehearsal. He fluffed notes on every performance he gave, live or in rehearsal. Ultimately it was a case of a bad draw and an average performance by an artist completely wrong for Eurovision. The BBC approached Hurts at least this year (and rumour has it, Pixie Lott too). They both would have done a much better job, especially Hurts who are pretty damn big in a lot of Northern Europe. That's a fanbase to rely on, not Humperdinck's "legions of fans", most of whom probably weren't going to watch the contest.

She was #1 in Sweden, Norway and Finland after MelFest, yeah. She's #1 on UK iTunes too, pretty sure that even Rybak didn't manage that. I hope she's top 5 this week. Genuinely excited about her album too. MelFest 2013 will be epic, as will the contest itself. I'm planning on going too!

SHE DID IT!!! I'm going next year!!!!

Between Sweden a d Spain, without a doubt.

I love France and Estonia.

Engelbert was average. Hungary were good. Rona alienated everyone at the party and people liked Donny until he took the blindfold off. And everyone's talking over Bosnia.

Fucks sake Michael

That's unfortunate

I have a feeling it's going to be Lotus vs. Sauber this weekend.

One of them's only 43. The full draw, by the way: Final Draw 1. United Kingdom 2. Hungary 3. Albania 4. Lithuania 5. Bosnia 6. Russia 7. Iceland 8. Cyprus 9. France 10. Italy 11. Estonia 12. Norway 13. Azerbaijan 14. Romania 15. Denmark 16. Greece 17. Sweden 18. Turkey 19. Spain 20. Germany 21. Malta 22. Macedonia 23. Ireland 24. Serbia 25. Ukraine 26. Moldova

Nah. Grannies got fucked by the draw.

Eurovision day!!!! Some drama at the jury rehearsal last night (the performances the juries watch and vote on). Engelbert fluffed a few notes (seems to be the habit for our Eurovision entries these days), the singer from Romania forgot her words and Loreen nearly choked on a bit of fake snow in the middle of Euphoria, but apparently saved it. It's still going to be a four horse race I reckon, but I think it's between Spain and Sweden.

They reveal the semi final results and the jury/televise split after the final, usually by the Sunday morning

LENA

Serbia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Ukraine, Slovenia, Sweden, Georgia, Turkey, Estonia and Norway are my 10 for the night. Doubt that some of them will make it though.

Good old Max. Kuula was very good. In fact, all the entries tonight have been good at least. Even Georgia.

Loreen :wub:

Malta was gay and Belarus were shit. And now Portugal with a song that sounds so very Portuguese. Joy. Gaitana needs to appear sooner rather than later.

Double post, yes, but, meh. I so so so so SO hope that Joan makes it through. One of the nicest songs from the entire contest.

Zeljko is so smarmy and I hate that I love this song.

Semi Two!