As we could see recent years, Czech Republic could qualify with either massive support by juries (2016, 2019) or being super fan favorite like 2018 which can qualify without diaspora/neighbor voting. This year I don't see any of the groups would go with this song high and I am sure it would not qualify.
Personally I usually like such kind of songs but particularly this one feels like it lasts 10 minutes and bores me
The "7 points for Czechia" moment from the finals often gets interpreted as "the juries had to push Czechia to get into the finals"
, but it is not true. In 2019's semifinal, we had been 6th in the televote and 2nd overall.
*Insert a very angry rant about Bjorkman unfairly screwing us with the final's running order for the second time in a row*
As much as I expected our NQ in this game (thank you very much for the organisation, once again!), I would see our chances very differently for the real thing. I don't think the perspective of "
has to pretty much top the juries/televotes to qualify" is correct. We can easily do above average with both, all the diaspora issues be damned.
Another thing to consider is the understandable general fatigue of (not only) this forum with all the Kemama revamps, as has been pointed out already. But the casual viewer is different. Based on the generally positive and much improving opinion right after the Vidbir performance (which is
the only relevant live version to base our predictions on), I still believe Benny would've sold the song live as an uptempo party song. There aren't many songs of that kind in this semi. I don't say he'd suddenly become a huge fan favourite like Lie to Me, but a 6-7th televote placement (in the semi) would've been entirely plausible.
Alltogether, I don't say Benny would 100% qualify, but he'd have a very decent shot. The pre-cancellation odds also see us as borderline, placing Czechia around 9-11th place together with Finland and Latvia (not that that would be a very important indicator, but it remains a good argument against dismissing our chances entirely).