Holy moly, was definitely not expecting a top 10 tonight!
I mean it did seem like the kind of song juries would like in theory, but those EuroJury results and odds and predictions didn't seem overly hopeful. Well, I'm certainly glad they were wrong this time around!
And we weren't even bottom 5 with televoters either.
Awesome result in the end, to go from borderline qualifier to top 10 after all!
And wonderful job Alika! Tonight was probably our most polished performance yet. It was lovely to have a singer whose vocals and performance you didn't need to worry about, staging was also good and everything came together well in the end.
Even if we had ended up 20th, would have still been a very solid performance and result, but top 10 was a very unexpected icing on the cake!
Perhaps next year we'll find a crowd-pleaser of a song, or better yet one that both juries and televoters will love (if they are both still around anyway)!
But for now, I think we can consider this a rather successful Eurovision season after all.
Well done everyone involved!