I'm very late in the day with this annual ritual, so it'll have to be a bare-bones prediction. Here are the ten countries I think will make it through tonight...
Russia
Malta
Armenia
Czech Republic
Cyprus
Hungary
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Netherlands
Iceland
Austria
Probably Austria is the most doubtful of those ten, but I certainly hope it sneaks through for the sake of variety - it's one of only three songs tonight either wholly or partly in a language other than English. (It's in French, strangely enough.)
It'll be interesting to see how all of the entries come across on screen, but at the moment I'm struggling to see past Russia as the overall winner of the contest. Some people think France are in with a shout, but as much as I like that song, it reminds me of entries that have finished well outside the top ten in the past. It's pleasant, but it doesn't jump out of the screen and demand attention.
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