DV
Was that perhaps the best semi final in years? Really enjoyable despite the 13min overrun.
JT
Ireland song came alive being sung live (compared to recording I've heard). Didn't care for the choreography though.
Presentation by the four women was poor. Two too many.
Presentation by the four women was poor. Two too many.
TT
Eurovision Song Contest 2018 First Semi-Final Results
Here are the results, which were announced in a random order at 22:04 BST.
My desired qualifiers: Iceland, Lithuania , Estonia , Austria , Greece, Finland , Armenia, Ireland , Cyprus , plus one of Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Croatia.
Actual qualifiers (in order of announcement): Austria , Estonia , Cyprus , Lithuania , Israel, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania, Finland , Ireland .
Bold entries represent the actual qualifiers that match my preferences.
OUT: Azerbaijan, Iceland, Belgium, Belarus, F.Y.R. Macedonia, Croatia, Greece, Armenia, Switzerland.
My points of view about the countries that qualified to Saturday's Grand Final, and those which were eliminated, are available here:
http://nemesis-nick.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/eurovision-song-contest-2018-first-semi.html#ESC2018_SF1_results
Here are the results, which were announced in a random order at 22:04 BST.
My desired qualifiers: Iceland, Lithuania , Estonia , Austria , Greece, Finland , Armenia, Ireland , Cyprus , plus one of Azerbaijan, Belgium, Belarus, Croatia.
Actual qualifiers (in order of announcement): Austria , Estonia , Cyprus , Lithuania , Israel, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania, Finland , Ireland .
Bold entries represent the actual qualifiers that match my preferences.
OUT: Azerbaijan, Iceland, Belgium, Belarus, F.Y.R. Macedonia, Croatia, Greece, Armenia, Switzerland.
My points of view about the countries that qualified to Saturday's Grand Final, and those which were eliminated, are available here:
http://nemesis-nick.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/eurovision-song-contest-2018-first-semi.html#ESC2018_SF1_results
NG
Yes - App voting has been available in the UK since the EBU engineered an app that dialled the mobile shortcode for the UK. Can't remember if we started being able to app vote in 2014 or 2015 (but pretty certain we couldn't in 2013).
No IP or SMS voting in the UK - just phone calls. (Not sure what the app does in other countries)
noggin
Founding member
So we can vote by phone and the app. but yet we still can't text vote...Surprise surprise. Was app voting available to the UK last year?
Yes - App voting has been available in the UK since the EBU engineered an app that dialled the mobile shortcode for the UK. Can't remember if we started being able to app vote in 2014 or 2015 (but pretty certain we couldn't in 2013).
No IP or SMS voting in the UK - just phone calls. (Not sure what the app does in other countries)
NG
Yes, app voting was available last year.
Which in effect sends a text via the app does it not?
No - it dials the mobile short code phone number and makes a call.
noggin
Founding member
So we can vote by phone and the app. but yet we still can't text vote...Surprise surprise. Was app voting available to the UK last year?
Yes, app voting was available last year.
Which in effect sends a text via the app does it not?
No - it dials the mobile short code phone number and makes a call.
HC
No doubt the BBC will put up the caption
'This performance contains flashing and strobing images and a false techincal breakdown'
Actually, I'm guessing that the EBU/Eurovision head office overlords will issue an advisory to the broadcasters via the delegations before tomorrow evening, advising them that it's fake glitch, and not to yank the show off the air locally, at the first sign of picture breakups or dummy satellite/fibre testcards?
'This performance contains flashing and strobing images and a false techincal breakdown'
Actually, I'm guessing that the EBU/Eurovision head office overlords will issue an advisory to the broadcasters via the delegations before tomorrow evening, advising them that it's fake glitch, and not to yank the show off the air locally, at the first sign of picture breakups or dummy satellite/fibre testcards?