37 countries are participating in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest, with 26 making it through to the Grand Final on May 11th - the "Big Five" (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and United Kingdom), last year's winner (Sweden), the 10 best from Semi-Final 1, and the 10 best from Semi-Final 2.
Today we had the first semi-final where 15 countries, determined by draw, were whittled down to 10. There were also performances by the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden who prequalified for the Grand Final.
We decided to play along and used the scorecard from Mission Eurovision which has four criteria to judge (each scored out of 10):
- BOP-ABILITY: How much of a bop, a banger, a CHOON the song is! Makes you wanna (dirty) dance!
- GIVES ME ALL THE FEELS: Does it make you all warm and fuzzy inside? Does it make you delirious with joy? Does it make your heart ache – and not just because you ate ALL the sausage rolls?
- OUTFITS BE SNATCHED: Category is: FIERCE! Dressed to impress, and not a nip-slip in sight.
- FLAWLESS PERFORMANCE: On a scale of Jemini to Conchita, how much did they NAIL IT?
We then worked out our ranking from our scores:
SEMI-FINAL 1 | ARTIST | SONG | OUR RANKING | QUALIFIED | |
🇨🇾 | Cyprus | Silia Kapsis | Liar | 1 | |
ðŸ‡ðŸ‡· | Croatia | Baby Lasagna | Rim Tim Tagi Dim | 1 | |
🇱🇹 | Lithuania | Silvester Belt | Luktelk | 3 | |
🇮🇸 | Iceland | Hera Björk | Scared of Heights | 3 | |
🇫🇮 | Finland | Windows95man | No Rules! | 3 | |
🇺🇦 | Ukraine | alyona alyona and Jerry Heil | Teresa & Marie | 6 | |
🇦🇺 | Australia | Electric Fields | One Milkali (One Blood) | 6 | |
🇵🇹 | Portugal | Iolanda | Grito | 8 | |
🇵🇱 | Poland | Luna | The Tower | 9 | |
🇲🇩 | Moldova | Natalia Barbu | In the Middle | 9 | |
🇱🇺 | Luxembourg | Tali | Fighter | 11 | |
🇷🇸 | Serbia | Teya Dora | Ramonda | 12 | |
🇸🇮 | Slovenia | Raiven | Veronika | 12 | |
🇦🇿 | Azerbaijan | Fahree feat. Ilkin Dovlatov | Özünlə Apar | 14 | |
🇮🇪 | Ireland | Bambie Thug | Doomsday Blue | 15 | |
Our favourites from the first semi-final are Cyprus and Croatia.
Unfortunately Australia, Azerbaijan, Iceland, Moldova, and Poland all failed to make it through to the Grand Final.
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