Good Draw, Bad Draw?
The draw took place on Monday which nobody watched because YLE's webcast failed. Oh dear, not a good start.
Nevertheless, the draws have taken place and you can find them on the internet if you search hard enough! They're so long they'd eat into my blog if I published them, so instead I'm just going to highlight the main points that occurred
- Bulgaria will open the Semi-Final. This will doubtless scare the average televoter, but might scare them enough to vote for them.
- Cyprus and Belarus, both strong well-thought-of entries are on 3rd and 4th respectively. This won't help their cause.
- Portugal and Norway are not performing next to each other in the semi-final, but will be seperated only by FYR Macedonia which nobody will watch anyway cos they'll just presume it'll qualify (which it will).
- Four of the five wildcards chose postitions 25, 26, 27 and 28. Andorra, however, curiously picked position #21. This mere act of craziness just shows why they have picked up less than 50 points in three years.
- Latvia will close the semi-final and will probably qualify with knobs on cos Mums love opera.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina will open the final and will probably do OK from here, but not a potential winner. Spain are in the cursed 2nd spot and will probably come last.
- Potential winners Sweden will perform 12th, just before the break which isn't so bad, but it might have been better sandwiched between two poorer songs. Saying that, France were drawn 13th, which is probably about 11 places higher than it'll finish.
- Germany, Sweden and Armenia got the wildcards and chose positions 16, 18 and 23 respectively. That's a good draw for Armenia, a cunning choice from Germany (16 is a position songs do well from!) and 18... well that's late enough to be remembered. And Ukraine WON'T be forgotten anyway.
- Oddly, despite wildcards and all, final positions 21, 22 and 24 will be semi-final qualifiers. If Latvia are drawn 24th, run for cover.
- UK have been drawn 19th, and Wogan commented on this on his radio show this morning...
Wogan: "The UK have been drawn 19th, just behind the Ukrainian trasvestite"
Bruce: "Well, we'll all be behind that"
Comedy gold.
So that's it really. All the similar sounding songs have been set apart, and looking at the semi-final draw you can see just that all songs following on from the previous one are completely different from the one that's just preceded it. Lots of musical styles and all apart which is good. And the UK's draw of 19th isn't bad at all! Hooray :-)
Nevertheless, the draws have taken place and you can find them on the internet if you search hard enough! They're so long they'd eat into my blog if I published them, so instead I'm just going to highlight the main points that occurred
- Bulgaria will open the Semi-Final. This will doubtless scare the average televoter, but might scare them enough to vote for them.
- Cyprus and Belarus, both strong well-thought-of entries are on 3rd and 4th respectively. This won't help their cause.
- Portugal and Norway are not performing next to each other in the semi-final, but will be seperated only by FYR Macedonia which nobody will watch anyway cos they'll just presume it'll qualify (which it will).
- Four of the five wildcards chose postitions 25, 26, 27 and 28. Andorra, however, curiously picked position #21. This mere act of craziness just shows why they have picked up less than 50 points in three years.
- Latvia will close the semi-final and will probably qualify with knobs on cos Mums love opera.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina will open the final and will probably do OK from here, but not a potential winner. Spain are in the cursed 2nd spot and will probably come last.
- Potential winners Sweden will perform 12th, just before the break which isn't so bad, but it might have been better sandwiched between two poorer songs. Saying that, France were drawn 13th, which is probably about 11 places higher than it'll finish.
- Germany, Sweden and Armenia got the wildcards and chose positions 16, 18 and 23 respectively. That's a good draw for Armenia, a cunning choice from Germany (16 is a position songs do well from!) and 18... well that's late enough to be remembered. And Ukraine WON'T be forgotten anyway.
- Oddly, despite wildcards and all, final positions 21, 22 and 24 will be semi-final qualifiers. If Latvia are drawn 24th, run for cover.
- UK have been drawn 19th, and Wogan commented on this on his radio show this morning...
Wogan: "The UK have been drawn 19th, just behind the Ukrainian trasvestite"
Bruce: "Well, we'll all be behind that"
Comedy gold.
So that's it really. All the similar sounding songs have been set apart, and looking at the semi-final draw you can see just that all songs following on from the previous one are completely different from the one that's just preceded it. Lots of musical styles and all apart which is good. And the UK's draw of 19th isn't bad at all! Hooray :-)
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