ESC 2019 General Discussion Thread

[Mainshow]

Stockholm 2016 had a lot of several Swedish interval acts as well.. . I don't mind seeing a worldwide/international act performing for 5 minutes to boost the contest and attract bigger viewing figures.

 

[Realest]

 

[esc87fan]

The big reason for Switzerland's pre-allocation request is the IIHF World Hockey Championship. Their team plays Austria in a match on the day of SF1, so as not to conflict with it SRF requested allocation to SF2

 

[Alaska49]

um. but austria is right there in the same pot as them and they didn't request anything lol. i am not sure this is good enough for ebu.

 

[Sammy]

um. but austria is right there in the same pot as them and they didn't request anything lol. i am not sure this is good enough for ebu.

Have you seen Austria‘s hockey-team?

 

[Realest]

The Most Objective Allocation would probably be:

Semi1:
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Semi2:
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[tuorem]

Anyone here who'll follow the Allocation Draw? I'm in.

 

[Schlagerman1]

A pretty tough semi for Sweden. But it will be interesting. Will look into stats now!

 

[JonnyWest]

Great draw for
2nd half, Spain and France voting, easier semi on paper, but I guess in the end it will be the strongest as usual

 

[FoxOfShadows]

Looks a bit like last year where semi 1 looked much weaker on paper but then ended up being the much stronger semi. There's a lot of nobodies in Semi 1, should be interesting to watch

 

[Realest]

I think and are the biggest Winners.

 

[Preuss]

2nd half for us
Now we have to send KEiiNO and GF here we come

 

[Citelis]

and always together

 

[vikis]

and always together

Just like and

 

[Charly]

A W for San Marino

 

[Ichbinjari]

So.. semi final 2 looks like the tougher one.

 

[Sammy]

Regarding only the qualification rate of the countries in the SFs, SF2 is the tougher one.

 

[Schlagerman1]

So.. semi final 2 looks like the tougher one.

Yes, but I would say that last year, semi 2 looked a lot stronger on paper....but in the end, it was semi 1 that had the toughest semi songwise ever.

So yeah, we'll have to wait, but it will be interesting for sure.

 

[BorisBubbles]

SemiFinal 1 is such a crapshoot lol. Ukraine and Australia are the only Overdog Nations in that semifinal and based on what we know about Australia Decides and Vidbir, both should be locks. I think Portugal could become locks as well, but only if they choose Conan. The rest, who the hell even knows, anything is possible right now.

SemiFinal 2 on the other hand is super stacked: There are seven clear faves: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden and Romania. But none of them are guaranteed qualifiers, all of them have NQ'd before; It will depend on how good their songs are and on how well they will be staged. Stacked semifinals always lead to shock NQ's and I would've be too surprised if at least ONE of the countries I just mentioned NQ'd in favour of a likable underdog.

 

[Sammy]

SemiFinal 1 is such a crapshoot lol. Ukraine and Australia are the only Overdog Nations in that semifinal and based on what we know about Australia Decides and Vidbir, both should be locks. I think Portugal could become locks as well, but only if they choose Conan. The rest, who the hell even knows, anything is possible right now.

SemiFinal 2 on the other hand is super stacked: There are seven clear faves: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden and Romania. But none of them are guaranteed qualifiers, all of them have NQ'd before; It will depend on how good their songs are and on how well they will be staged. Stacked semifinals always lead to shock NQ's and I would've be too surprised if at least ONE of the countries I just mentioned NQ'd in favour of a likable underdog.

exactly my thoughts.