Eurovision 2012!

[Herr Matzat]

Amazing how the stage show on that had several string instruments. I heared non.

[Katsuya]

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.

[Katsuya]

Loreen :wub:

[Monkey D. Lars]

Joan, our dutch hippie!

Go Joan go!

[Colly]

That was actual Borat surely?

[Herr Matzat]

WTF

[Katsuya]

Good old Max.

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

[Katsuya]

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.

[Katsuya]

LENA

[Colly]

Silly question, but is there a single 'winner' for the semifinals? Or to put it simpler, have Ladbrokes rinsed me for a non existent market? My bet on Sweden to win the semi is 'pending'.

Unless its an Intertoto Cup thing...

[lanky316]

I'm not sure exactly when they announce the "real" results. They put people through the semi finals in a random order and then they let us know who actually got the largest vote. As I say, can't remember exactly when that's announced. I know the Lordi year people knew they'd won their semi final by a land slide but not seen this years official results yet.

[Katsuya]

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

[Colly]

So my plan to boost my account prior to the final has backfired slightly...

[SRN]

Russia should win.

[Lineker]

Kats, there's a TOTP2 Eurovision special on tomorrow night, fyi.

[Katsuya]

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.

[SRN]

Russia should win.

[Katsuya]

Nah. Grannies got fucked by the draw.

[Lineker]

I don't think that anything's fucked them for a good while.

[Katsuya]

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