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cegs5

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Woah, thank you! It's great to return with a qualification to the Grand Final! Feeling Luxembourg vibes.

I really love these shows where I can also learn somethimg new about the host country!

:pe: votes

:8: :it:
:7: :lv:
:5: :rs:
:1: :lond:

I had a tough time shortlisting as I really like some other songs too.
 

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I genuinely thought my entry was a strong, well-produced and thrilling song. I’m honestly shocked and utterly disappointed that it didn’t make it to the final. It’s a major let-down - not only did I not expect to get stuck in the semi-final, but I actually believed it had a solid shot at placing in the top 10 in the final. Clearly, I was wrong. Moreover, this marks my 9th non-qualification out of the 12 entries I’ve sent while playing for Spain. I truly believe something isn’t working here, and I don’t think I’m the only one who needs to take a moment and reflect.
 

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Omg im sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo happy that I qualified ayhhhhhhh good luck to everyone in the finalsiessss
andddd thank yall for amazing announcement style hehehe loooooove everyone mwah mwah mwahhhhhhhh
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hijirio

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oh btw what we lost from :ru: votes:

12 Serbia
10 Tajikistan
8 Spain
7 xcheer
6 xcheer
5 xcheer
4 İstanbul
3 Ukraine
2 xcheer
1 Italy

hope there will be good hits from sf2 cuz i dont even remember my 7 pointer ngl
 

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I genuinely thought my entry was a strong, well-produced and thrilling song. I’m honestly shocked and utterly disappointed that it didn’t make it to the final. It’s a major let-down - not only did I not expect to get stuck in the semi-final, but I actually believed it had a solid shot at placing in the top 10 in the final. Clearly, I was wrong. Moreover, this marks my 9th non-qualification out of the 12 entries I’ve sent while playing for Spain. I truly believe something isn’t working here, and I don’t think I’m the only one who needs to take a moment and reflect.
WV does change quite a bit over time of course. Like two years ago we saw people like Nelisa and hjarnskakning enter, John1 returned, then last year Celka and Hamster joined, so that made pot C/D songs a lot more viable. Now lately there's a lot of pot E/F returnees like lavie, Lupus, Zobz and Eula is also back so suddenly sending grannie songs is viable again etc. There's a cost to this and it's in pot A/B, more specifically those who tend to sit on the D-side of pot B. Fierro and Ana Raquel also are having more trouble than they usually would and I was able to ride that C/D wave very well but my times as a high flyer are probably over as well now that the meta shifted to E/F by quite a bit.

Als keep in mind that the contest getting larger punishes niche songs in general. You'll have more people in that safe space sending inoffensive songs that vacuum up those 1-3 points before niche songs do and more people voting for those too. Like the maths are just against you when you're trying to get creative while competition grows.

Then as a third argument some of the newer people are absolute power players. Nelisa, John1 and hjarnskakning almost always filter for songs they can win with. I have brought this up with them before, but you can't blame them for doing what they do. It has a price in other people though, qualifying gets harder for everyone and there's less room for playing around.

But yeah this is all text, I agree that your low score this edition in particular is bullshit at face value. Top 10 is pipe dreams, but I did expect you to be in the convo for a Q this edition and we had Gabor doing pre-contest predictions and he had you in the final, so I mean your disappointment is entirely valid.
 

hjarnskakning

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Then as a third argument some of the newer people are absolute power players. Nelisa, John1 and hjarnskakning almost always filter for songs they can win with.

just to clarify, this is not correct in my case - i like to pick entries that I imagine would "look good and competitive" if worldvision was a real contest with real stage, real stagings and stuff. something that screams eurovision-ish, but polished. full fantasy in my head.

but yeah, I'll take power player as a compliment lol. i'm super glad people enjoy my songs as I myself have them on repeat for most of the time. Uto does have a point that some adaptability is required to do good in the contest - the art is to know your fellow players taste, but also to send something true to you. or at least this is what I do 🦮
 

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YEAAAAAHHHHHH WOOOOOOO

(thank you)
 
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