Re: POLAND 2018
Well, Poland has two major obstacles in ESC...
...the first one is obviously with TVP that are clueless about how to handle this, they did it right in 2014 but since then we got one lame amateur ballad after the other (and no, I'm not saying they are lame because they are ballads, simply they are lame because they are badly produced, boring, messy and/-or dated). The National Selection is a big mess just like it was when the concept was used before the come back, simply a bunch of amateurs with an amateur show and songs that all sounds like they're demos. TVP really need to re-think this, I think they should have the mindset as in 2014 and as Bulgaria currently has, to really try to find and convince popular acts with hit songs to take part and choose internally, because none of them would want to humiliate themselves by taking part in the awful national selection show only to loose out to something worse (hello Margaret!) and that's one of the reasons the national final is filled with a bunch of no-name amateurs.
The second obstacle is the obvious bias from the juries in ESC that are systematically and purposely voting down Poland, surely the low quality entries don't help, but it's not as if Poland is always in the bottom bunch as the juries think (I'd say more in the middle), so there's something fishy here aswell, it was certainly apparent in 2014 and 2016, but also the other years.