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I've spent some time (too much time) over the last couple of days making a spreadsheet that takes some of the prediction metrics/proxies we have so far, and extrapolates from those to try and find the final results; thought I'd share them here! Details/methodology below for anyone interested...

I always feel iffy about grouping together huge gaps ("this country was my #2 last year and my #34 this year!") with slight gaps ("I gave this country a high 6 last year and a low 6 this year"), so let's do it like this... 2023 (clear preference): ::al ::cz ::is ::it ::lv ::mt ::md ::rs...

I honestly don't know what to make of that live snippet, lol. (And yes, yes, overanalyzing 10-second snippets can always be misleading, but it's all we've got for now). On one hand, Nemo's clearly able to give a powerful, clear vocal, even when moving around a lot. On the other, their...

Temporarily changing my vote from a ::5 to a ::6 to make a nice little ramp pattern of increasing scores in the poll. :lol:

Sigh. And so we have another case of Përrallë becoming Fairytale... More than a decade ago, perhaps. This is... kind of sad, though. Once again, we have Albania trying to give its entry a broader appeal by sanding away every edge that made it unique, without adding anything new to replace it...

As mentioned when the leak came out yesterday... yeah, this is generic and dated, though it's my kind of generic and dated. I'm a sucker for this kind of overwrought power ballad, and I genuinely think the chorus has a great melody. Vocals are obviously strong too. At the same time, the verses...

There's a much more plausible-sounding leak on Twitter now from last year's favourite Crystal Ball (not sure I can link it here?). Decent enough midtempo pop ballad / power ballad; as far as ESC-bubble comparisons go, the first thing that comes to mind is Israel's own NF entry Breaking My Own...

Happy to see this win! This was my narrow favourite of the selection, and it's very well performed. I'm not fully on the hype train like some people are - that seems to be a common occurrence with me and Portugal - but this is clearly a quality entry. The vocals are immaculate, and the quieter...

Happy enough with this! It's obviously nothing too original, and it won't be setting my world on fire, but I love that bassline and the staging is great. It all gives me "corny boyband does Tekken character select screen" vibes, and that's fine by me. A low :8: points, which puts it right on the...

The quality distribution of this final (and this year's MF overall) is kinda weird for me. I actually quite like almost every entry in the final (except maybe Cazzi's), which is very rare. But at the same time, nothing makes me go whoa, and nothing's going to be challenging my big group of...

Ooh. I don't know Rydman by name, but those are two nicely-staged entries. Looking him up just now, I saw a Reddit post from about a year ago with this graphic of apparently all the things he's staged at Eurovision & NFs: Which is... a pretty good resume! Pretty much all of those concepts...

This is a hard one to rate. In terms of genre, production, melody... this is not for me. At least on first listen, I simply don't enjoy listening to it, and it'd probably be headed to my last place. At the same time, there's clearly something here. The music video's a lot of fun, I'm interested...

It won't be everyone's cup of tea, it has some slight competition/overlap with other entries in the semi (Croatia as something loud and weird, Slovenia as something witchy), Ireland's struggled a lot recently, those sorts of "aggressive" acts/staging have often struggled to get votes, and the...

Aww. I was excited by the Electric Fields rumours, but does nothing for me. The didgeridoo sounds and vocals are nice, I guess, but the melody, the production, the lyrics, the structure... they kind of all feel either flat or bad. Giving this a :3: for now - which puts it somewhere in my bottom...

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