ESC United - Rehearsal and Live Show discussion megathread

[Sean]

It's time for the rehearsals to finally get underway for Eurovision 2024 at Malmö Arena! 37 countries will begin their preparations for this year's contest today, with over two weeks of coverage to come from the ESC United team on the ground!

The schedule for rehearsals is below (thank you Eurovisionworld! All times in CEST);

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You can check out Matt's pre-rehearsal live stream below in case you missed it;

DAY ONE

Eurovision 2024 Rehearsals - Day 1 Round-Up Live Stream

Join Matt and his team as they discuss the rehearsals of the day and answer your questions. The first dress rehearsal is closed to the press so we'll be here...

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Please also use this thread for any rehearsal coverage and discussion, including for jury shows, dress rehearsals and the live shows!​

 

[Ajeje Brazorf]

Israel now 2nd in the odds after Croatia (40%) at 15%

Betting odds should close the odds on Eurovision. Everybody Is putting money on Israel after the Italian leak. It's 39% to 17% right now.

...

Imagine if RAI was eventually hacked.

 

[EurovisionSmile]

Well done, !! Very underrated by the odds. I felt very happy when I saw that sweet little song, part of my top 10, qualifying!.
On the other hand, I felt very sad for Belgium...

 

[soulm8]

Let me quote this from other guy, sums it up well:

“Sum up of letting Israel participate: 1. artists, delegations and fans put in danger. 2. Love and peace but only for a country that is ebu’s sponsor (morrocan oil). 3. Shadowbanning P@lestine from even being talked about. 4. (potentially) having a politicial win once again, this time, with a bad song. 5. Countries withdrawing from the contest next year. Congratulations.”

 

[AlekS]

12 to Israel, 10 to Ukraine or vice versa. This will be Italian televote. Easy pick.

Italian Itunes right now:

#42 Israel
#62 Ukraine (not even our semi)
#63 France
#80 Croatia

 

[DanielLuis]

If Israel wins, I truly do believe it's the end for Eurovision, at least for a few years. There's absolutely no coming back from the reputation hit the contest will have if that happens.

 

[nofuxCZ]

To lighten up the mood a bit - this is so wholesome

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1788665275040112718

 

[GermanBango]

Imagine building up hype for an entire year, watching national finals, browsing through databases, creating rankings, watching rehearsals .... just to get the likely results leaked in advance by some Italian broadcaster who apparently gives a flying fuck about the rules of Eurovision.
This is outrageous and RAI should be banned for that. If there will be a contest next year that is ...

 

[AlekS]

Positions of Israeli song on Itunes as of now:

It's doing well, definitely could have won its semi. Not sure if it will retain those Italian 39% in the final tho.

 

[Anthony Tesla]

Eurovision will be fine.

If this season taught us anything, is that all those callings of boycotts and protests and petitions... don't really matter that much against the large mass that is the normie contigent.

 

[Miloutchi]

The 2nd semi was fantastic! But the leak kinda ruined the mood. Still glad it happened though, because now I know I don’t need to watch the final. Gonna spare myself that disaster.

 

[GermanBango]

My last hope is that the EBU found irregularities in the Italian televoting (I mean, 40% ... come on) and went with the backup jury vote instead.

 

[Etanna]

I wonder how the massive odd changes have influenced Christer Bjorkman's idea of who the potential winners are. It's ridiculous that he should take these things into consideration but since he does I wonder if he'll give Israel a good running order. Although I think he may try to put it into a bad spot to prevent a good result,

 

[slatka]

I woke up very late and planned on rewatching it on YouTube but It's not there to rewatch??

 

[Leydan]

I wonder how the massive odd changes have influenced Christer Bjorkman's idea of who the potential winners are. It's ridiculous that he should take these things into consideration but since he does I wonder if he'll give Israel a good running order. Although I think he may try to put it into a bad spot to prevent a good result,

Potentially, I had also thought maybe Bambie might be given a meh slot for the comments she made about the EBU. Bjorkman isn't averse to giving a fan fave a bad slot.

 

[AlekS]

Now, when I see Youtube streaming figures, I'm not even sure that she won the semi. Could have been 2nd behind Joost. Switzerland has more views, but not so many likes. Same for Italy.

 

[Realest]

WTH?

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1788714728375697843

 

[Gitte]

I am in Belgium. At least VRT showed 100% of Israel's performance.

 

[jatojo]

tbh I could see Denmark doing better than expected because there were so many intense and chaotic performances. I could totally see Saba getting votes from the average parents/grandparents

The grandmas and grandpas had unfortunately fallen asleep when the voting started.

 

[Loindici]

Eurovision will be fine.

If this season taught us anything, is that all those callings of boycotts and protests and petitions... don't really matter that much against the large mass that is the normie contigent.

I agree partly? Maybe Eurovision can be fine if somehow so little buzz was generated after the Grand Final, but I'd like to see the actual normal press and audiences' thoughts at the show. Nothing is surely fine without an actual reaction to validate this claim from.

 

[Etanna]

The grandmas and grandpas had unfortunately fallen asleep when the voting started.

or they voted for Dons instead