I like the fact that even when he was sick, Artem was able to pull out a long note and sing well. We hope he will be better by Saturday and he will do even better. Go Ukraine!!!
Yeah … I mean she needs a stage performance and for now the only amazing performance is Spain and Ukraine … and POLAND 😅😅 YEAH … I feel like her songs is amazing as it is but the dating is disappointing
@KatarínaBotlóová-y5u everytime someone tries to give me a good reason ehy portugal needs a stage, they always give the spain and ukraine being the "amazings" arguement, get over for god sake. Im tired. Everyone has their budget and way to represent whatever they want. Is upnto the spectators if they like it or not, they can give a stage and give 0 energy or vocals, or vice versa. This a kids contest. And im not changing my opion abt portugal rather it is kacking or stagr or not. But anyways hoping u having a nice day :)
@@ESCNORKS sorry but the juries don’t care about a budget or anything … They care about the stagings the songs and the vocals (they don’t have to be amazing like we saw last year ) Portugal is amazing !!! Never said it wasn’t it’s just not a winner package for me … The winner should have staging (that needs to be provided by her team ) vocals (she had them!!) and a song (her song is a ballad so I don’t know how that will do with the televote ) It’s just the reality … Spain or Ukraine is winning this
ESCNORKS - nothing to add to your comment .....Portugal has the total package. I think it will be a very tight race between Ukraine and Portugal for the win this year.
Artem Kotenko is sick right now so hopefully he will get better and another thing... Hopefully EBU fixes the glitching screen like we can see at Spains rehearsal
The best song Cyprus have sent to junior eurovision if your coming back to junior eurovision that is how you do it. So proud of Cyprus 🇨🇾 ❤️ and Ukraine is doing amazing he is not feeling very well but giving it everything. Love Ukraine song for junior eurovision. Love Portugal song. Malta has surprised me great stageing. Loving Armenia and Spain 🇪🇸and France 🇫🇷 ❤️.
Artem is the clear winner since the moment was released, i think he might win with this performance een on grown eurovision lol, Albanian Nicole maybe is the best vocalist
Estonia Annabelle is my winner her Tanavad song and her staging performance shes very amazing and my best song and staging performance my very like it so much and Estonia best of luck from me from Greece 🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🏆🏆🏆💯💯💯👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Armenia, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Spain all have winning vibes. Armenia (my personal winner) is kinda like Let's Count the Smiles with Qami Qami's production values, Ukraine is just really well choreographed, Cyprus is full of ambition, and Spain is a nice nod to how Chloe is already quite the little TikTok star. Kinda wish Portugal had better staging but I'm super happy with her performance - I was really worried we were going to have an Italy 2022 disaster with the high notes. Kinda bummed with Estonia's crummy staging considering it's such a neat song - I'm not gonna judge the rehearsal vocals too much since these kids probably don't wanna wear out their voices too hard :P
Bjarne is so cute and loves being on stage. You can feel that. That's why Germany has gone up in my rating. 1. Estonia 🇪🇪 2. Ukraine 🇺🇦 Germany 🇩🇪 3. Germany 🇩🇪 Ukraine 🇺🇦 4. Cyprus 🇨🇾 5. Portugal 🇵🇹 6. Netherlands 🇳🇱 7. North Macedonia 🇲🇰
I think Stay Tuned’s prop is to change behind it, and also they’re mirrors. I think they sing into the mirrors during the slow section as it says « but what is a world without sound », « no one can hear me ».
Yes I think that is the moment they change their outfit. Chiara sings ‘Niemand meer luistert naar elkaars verhaal’ which translates to If nobody listens to each other’s story anymore
The striped coats for the Netherlands are bringing back the 2009 winner 'Click Clack', and if I'm not mistaken, I think it was the Netherlands that won that year as well. I think the stage this year is just not versatile enough to do much with, someone said it's very dark as well. Poland's smoke thingys, Italy's bed, Ukraine's rectangles and Georgia's house seem to make the best of it to me. So excited, its so close now!
Before this my top countries were Armenia, Germany, North Macedonia, & Ukraine. Armenia could just use some more vocal range/quality, but it's great. Germany is good, I had a very similar reaction to the extra german part. Not bad at all, but not particularly for me. Excited for the full one. North Macedonia has a similar problem to armenia combined with lack of staging. Ukraine is the exact same as the music video just a weirder outfit. All in all excited for my 1st JESC.
Hoping Spain, Portugal or Germany will win. But Ukraine also has a huge chance of winning! I don’t really understand why Netherlands chose to have a outfit switch mid performance 😅
I will vote 🇦🇲🇨🇾🇵🇹 + 🇲🇰🇦🇱🇮🇪 I need to watch jury show I hope esc BTW jesc fans can make great air video for this please do not let my favourites dirty. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ They all give their best I mean Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Spain 🇪🇸 are in my top 10 BTW. Ukraine was so near to my vote but Spain not. I am Still thinking by the way to change my top until the vote BTW if I have luck to see the jury show live.
My prediction about voting: Jury 1. Portugal 2. Ukraine 3. Spain Online vote: 1. Spain 2. Ukraine 3. Portugal Overall 1. Portugal 2. Ukraine 3. Spain Overall Portugal will win in the loreen and nemo way. Landslide jury vote, struggle in online vote but still win thanks to the juries
I would not mind if either Portugal, Ukraine or Germany win this year contest. All three deserves to be up there and deserves to be a contender to win. As for my favorite to win is definitely Portugal. Portugal is long overdue and deserves to finally win this year contest.
ITALY: its really fun! i predict it will do pretty good, but i jsut wish he had more stage presence ESTONIA: im so sad. i love her voice, but im so bored with the staging. this song has too much going on in it to have a stage this empty. the lack of people couldve been easily made up for if it was more flashy with lights everywhere flashing, strobes, yk? couldve been a lot better, without much change in price. ALBANIA: she sells this song. though not my favorite, she makes me want to like the song. i think she will do better than we expect. ARMENIA: i like the staging and outfit lolll. he really fun to watch and listen to. the only thing holding it back for me is the song. i like the post-chorus, but like idk about the rest of it. will probably do pretty good. is a contender for the win to, even though its not really what i want, but kids will like it, itll get a lot of votes (jury AND televote),budget. CYPRUS: this song is really nice omg. love the outfit and staging. i wish the vocals were a bit stronger, but i really did enjoy this. is a contender for the win imo. FRANCE: im kinda disappointed lol. i liked the song, but idk. it will be liked, but i can't see it winning. the staging was kinda boring, even with all the people there. the solid colors on the background doesn't work for this song imo. NORTH MACEDONIA: bring back the balkan ballads. ik they never do good, but those are the entries that i love from north macedonia (2018, 2023). i doubt this will do much better. POLAND: i really like the concept, with the visuals, and stuff, the mv included. the chereo. everything is there but the song sadly. GEORGIA: i really really like this song and how atmospheric it is, and the staging is very nice. i doubt it will win, but i really do hope it does well. his vocals are very nice. SPAIN: idk what to say abt it. i enjoy her stage presence. will probably do well. GERMANY: im not ruling this out for the win. i wish the staging wasnt so.. colorful. i wish it was more like the music video. like... a lot more like this mv. i dont understand why theyre all wearing beige with the rainbow background. but i think it will do very good with juries. the song is ok. hes a good performer. the staging bothers me a lot though. NETHERLANDS: i just find this song basic and boring. i really like the staging though. idk how itll do in the contest. it'll probably be like middle of the board.. or like top 10. idk. im just not a fan. SAN MARINO: song goes nowhere, and theyre not that fun to watch... but i like the staging. they sound fine. UKRAINE: hes an excellent performer, perfect vocals, perfect staging. everything a winner will need. a very high contender for the win! PORTUGAL: great song, excellent performer, maturity, its great. love the song, and others seem to as well. will perform well in the televote bc portugal tends to do well in the televote lol. high contender for the win as well. if it doesnt win, it'll probably perform similarly to spain in 2019. IRELAND: this song is sooooo underrated. i think its so fun and very catchy. nice staging. hope she does very well! MALTA: another very underrated song. i enjoy it. i hope he does better than we expect bc i dont take issue with the song at all. EXCELLENT staging and good vocals! the winner is either PORTUAL or UKRAINE. and the producers know it too. it makes sense that they would both be in the second half of the running order. love both songs personally, i think ukraine is a more likely outcome..but im hoping for portugal
I like the fact that even when he was sick, Artem was able to pull out a long note and sing well. We hope he will be better by Saturday and he will do even better. Go Ukraine!!!
How do you know that he was sick?
@4gamezz155 from Ukrainian vlogs
@@4gamezz155 In the Ukrainian Eurovision diaries on their UA-cam channel
@@4gamezz155 We have video diaries from Suspilne
@@4gamezz155he is really sick
malta surprised me in such a good way! also germany is criminally underrated
Stage empty or not, Portugal songs is just mesmerizing and so well made, winning or not this song is the best jest entry from Portugal ❤
Yeah … I mean she needs a stage performance and for now the only amazing performance is Spain and Ukraine … and POLAND 😅😅
YEAH … I feel like her songs is amazing as it is but the dating is disappointing
@KatarínaBotlóová-y5u everytime someone tries to give me a good reason ehy portugal needs a stage, they always give the spain and ukraine being the "amazings" arguement, get over for god sake. Im tired. Everyone has their budget and way to represent whatever they want. Is upnto the spectators if they like it or not, they can give a stage and give 0 energy or vocals, or vice versa. This a kids contest. And im not changing my opion abt portugal rather it is kacking or stagr or not. But anyways hoping u having a nice day :)
@@ESCNORKS sorry but the juries don’t care about a budget or anything …
They care about the stagings the songs and the vocals (they don’t have to be amazing like we saw last year )
Portugal is amazing !!! Never said it wasn’t it’s just not a winner package for me …
The winner should have staging (that needs to be provided by her team ) vocals (she had them!!) and a song (her song is a ballad so I don’t know how that will do with the televote )
It’s just the reality … Spain or Ukraine is winning this
ESCNORKS - nothing to add to your comment .....Portugal has the total package. I think it will be a very tight race between Ukraine and Portugal for the win this year.
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Portugal and Ukraine are the biggest contender for the win BY FAR!!!!
OMG Ukraine, Portugal and Germany❤
🥰🥰😍😍
I really love Germany! But at this moment i vibe the most with Cyrpus!
Thank you for your reaction! Really hope that Ukraine will win 🏆
Artem Kotenko is sick right now so hopefully he will get better and another thing... Hopefully EBU fixes the glitching screen like we can see at Spains rehearsal
What does glitching screen mean?
@mariamkatcharava4648 it flickers into black colour like it has been badly connected
FYI: Artem is/was sick during these rehearsals and he NAILED IT!!!
How he was sick I thought nobody was sick during the week why ebu didn't told that
In the video of Artem's vlog they explained how it happened here on UA-cam on Eurovision Ukraine channel
@@Karl-f6zhe was a bit sick, but now it’s better
He really did it.
Thank you so so much from Ukraine!!❤❤❤
Portugal ❤❤❤soo amanzing ❤❤❤ thanks from Portugal
love ya from UA :) kiitos
Portugal ❤️🇵🇹
My Portugal and Ukraine ♥️
GUYS, let's just get it off our chest, either 🇺🇦 or 🇵🇹 for the win. And BTW 🇨🇾 is just 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Also Ana (🇲🇰) is shining like a star! 😀✨
Go Ukraine❤❤❤
Not expecting Germany woah! ❤
P❤rtugal...yesssss🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
i believe germany cyprus, spain, portugal and ukraine will be in the top 5
Your reaction is amazing 🎉. Thank you!🎉
UKRAINE ❤❤❤
Me and noosh share the same brain cell when it comes to Artem 😂😂
I hope Ukraine will win ❤,
But Portugal also like. They both winners for me.
I guess, if Ukraine wins and Portugal is the runner up (2. place) .....then Portugal will host it.
Please, vote for Ukraine tomorrow and today (21:00 CET)🙏🏻 Artem deserves to win! 🇺🇦🏆
Germany is unbelievable
Wow, wow, wow 🐻😊👍🫶
My ranking:
1. Portugal.
2. Ukraine.
3. Spain.
4. France.
5. Georgia.
6. Cyprus.
7. Germany.
8. Armenia.
9. Italy.
10. Netherlands.
11. Estonia.
12. Ireland.
13. Malta.
14. Poland.
15. North Macedonia.
16. Albania.
17. San Marino.
Hi! Please, vote for Ukraine tomorrow and today (21:00 CET)🙏🏻 Artem deserves to win! 🇺🇦🏆
Portugal 🇵🇹
Do you also feel that a Cyprus 🇨🇾 girl has vibes of Marina Satti?
The best song Cyprus have sent to junior eurovision if your coming back to junior eurovision that is how you do it. So proud of Cyprus 🇨🇾 ❤️ and Ukraine is doing amazing he is not feeling very well but giving it everything. Love Ukraine song for junior eurovision. Love Portugal song. Malta has surprised me great stageing. Loving Armenia and Spain 🇪🇸and France 🇫🇷 ❤️.
Artem is the clear winner since the moment was released, i think he might win with this performance een on grown eurovision lol, Albanian Nicole maybe is the best vocalist
Estonia Annabelle is my winner her Tanavad song and her staging performance shes very amazing and my best song and staging performance my very like it so much and Estonia best of luck from me from Greece 🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🏆🏆🏆💯💯💯👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷
Malta is very much underrated this year. Deserves to do well.
P❤ RTUGAL 1-LUGAR MERECIDO 😊
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Definitely PORTUGAL 🇵🇹 🏆
Portugal ❤❤❤🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹
I don't know if you noticed it or not, but Maria Pissarides of Cyprus has a very British accent when she speaks English.
I cant wait
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Germany🇩🇪💪
The netherlands are going to bring a party!🎉
Armenia, Ukraine, Cyprus, and Spain all have winning vibes. Armenia (my personal winner) is kinda like Let's Count the Smiles with Qami Qami's production values, Ukraine is just really well choreographed, Cyprus is full of ambition, and Spain is a nice nod to how Chloe is already quite the little TikTok star. Kinda wish Portugal had better staging but I'm super happy with her performance - I was really worried we were going to have an Italy 2022 disaster with the high notes.
Kinda bummed with Estonia's crummy staging considering it's such a neat song - I'm not gonna judge the rehearsal vocals too much since these kids probably don't wanna wear out their voices too hard :P
We French will focus on the next competition in 2025!
I guess France will bring a girl again next year. I would love to see a group ....but that's only my opinion.
Victoria for Portugal 💚❤️
Georgia 🇬🇪 Spain 🇪🇸 Portugal 🇵🇹 Ukraine 🇺🇦 Germany 🇩🇪!! But all of them are great!
Portugal for the win 🏆🇵🇹💕
Netherlands will have costume change during the performance, they posted it on the official tiktok of junior song festival
Bjarne is so cute and loves being on stage. You can feel that. That's why Germany has gone up in my rating.
1. Estonia 🇪🇪
2. Ukraine 🇺🇦 Germany 🇩🇪
3. Germany 🇩🇪 Ukraine 🇺🇦
4. Cyprus 🇨🇾
5. Portugal 🇵🇹
6. Netherlands 🇳🇱
7. North Macedonia 🇲🇰
Ukraine or Portugal should win. Both entries are phenomenal but I do love Germany very much too
Ukraine 12/12 ❤
I think Stay Tuned’s prop is to change behind it, and also they’re mirrors. I think they sing into the mirrors during the slow section as it says « but what is a world without sound », « no one can hear me ».
Yes I think that is the moment they change their outfit. Chiara sings ‘Niemand meer luistert naar elkaars verhaal’ which translates to If nobody listens to each other’s story anymore
The striped coats for the Netherlands are bringing back the 2009 winner 'Click Clack', and if I'm not mistaken, I think it was the Netherlands that won that year as well. I think the stage this year is just not versatile enough to do much with, someone said it's very dark as well. Poland's smoke thingys, Italy's bed, Ukraine's rectangles and Georgia's house seem to make the best of it to me. So excited, its so close now!
yesss portugal ❤️
Malta 🇲🇹 Winner 🏆
not a winner but with that super staging good for a TOP 6 finish. Malta and Germany are the "dark horses" this year.
So many underdogs are knocking down favourites. Like you say STAGING is so important.
Before this my top countries were Armenia, Germany, North Macedonia, & Ukraine. Armenia could just use some more vocal range/quality, but it's great. Germany is good, I had a very similar reaction to the extra german part. Not bad at all, but not particularly for me. Excited for the full one. North Macedonia has a similar problem to armenia combined with lack of staging. Ukraine is the exact same as the music video just a weirder outfit. All in all excited for my 1st JESC.
Ireland, Ukraine and Germany are brilliant 👏
Hoping Spain, Portugal or Germany will win. But Ukraine also has a huge chance of winning! I don’t really understand why Netherlands chose to have a outfit switch mid performance 😅
I will vote 🇦🇲🇨🇾🇵🇹 + 🇲🇰🇦🇱🇮🇪
I need to watch jury show I hope esc BTW jesc fans can make great air video for this please do not let my favourites dirty. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
They all give their best
I mean Ukraine 🇺🇦 and Spain 🇪🇸 are in my top 10 BTW. Ukraine was so near to my vote but Spain not. I am Still thinking by the way to change my top until the vote BTW if I have luck to see the jury show live.
Hi! Please, vote for Ukraine tomorrow and today (21:00 CET)🙏🏻 Artem deserves to win! 🇺🇦🏆
Its defenently between Portugal and Ukraine.
My Top 17 after 2nd rehearsal:
1. Portugal 🇵🇹
2. Georgia 🇬🇪
3. Ukraine 🇺🇦
4. Albania 🇦🇱
5. Malta 🇲🇹
6. Estonia 🇪🇪
7. Germany 🇩🇪
8. Armenia 🇦🇲
9. North Macedonia 🇲🇰
10. Ireland 🇮🇪
11. Spain 🇪🇸
12. France 🇫🇷
13. Poland 🇵🇱
14. Cyprus 🇨🇾
15. Netherlands 🇳🇱
16. San Marino 🇸🇲
17. Italy 🇮🇹
My prediction:
1. Ukraine 🇺🇦
2. Spain 🇪🇸
3. Portugal 🇵🇹
4. Armenia 🇦🇲
5. Cyprus 🇨🇾
6. France 🇫🇷
7. Ireland 🇮🇪
8. Georgia 🇬🇪
9. Albania 🇦🇱
10. Germany 🇩🇪
11. Netherlands 🇳🇱
12. Estonia 🇪🇪
13. Poland 🇵🇱
14. Malta 🇲🇹
15. Italy 🇮🇹
16. North Macedonia 🇲🇰
17. San Marino 🇸🇲
Not Georgia being the dark horse of the year
Portugal will win for sure! Thats a big difference from the others!
It will definitely go between Ukraine and Portugal and both would be fine with me 😊
Ukraine stole my heart😍
Portugal, Ireland, Malta , Netherlands.....😊🌟
Ukraine just slayed it completely
Cyprus 🎉🎉🎉
I hope Ukraine will win 🏆❤️
Please, vote for Ukraine tomorrow and today (21:00 CET)🙏🏻 Artem deserves to win! 🇺🇦🏆
You should react to the Montenegro songs for Eurovision 2025!
Georgia🇬🇪🇬🇪🇬🇪❤️❤️❤️
One single question: will France win the jury vote again or will a completely unexpected new winner await us? I hope it will be Portugal this time 🇵🇹😍
For once I don’t think they will.
OMG CYPRUS🇨🇾❤🇦🇿😁
Ireland 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪💯💜❤️💜❤️💜
Portugal is gonna win noosh
❤🇩🇪🥇🙏🙏
Are u planning on reacting to Montesong ?
My prediction about voting:
Jury
1. Portugal
2. Ukraine
3. Spain
Online vote:
1. Spain
2. Ukraine
3. Portugal
Overall
1. Portugal
2. Ukraine
3. Spain
Overall Portugal will win in the loreen and nemo way. Landslide jury vote, struggle in online vote but still win thanks to the juries
Spain deserve win One time please. We deserve it! 🙏🏼🇪🇸❤️🏆
Everyone deserves it
@@crabrave8979yes exactly 👍🏼
My ranking from Spain:
1 - Ukraine 💙
2 - Portugal 💚
3 - Spain ❤
The same top from Ukraine🫶
Everyday it's Saturday Yay 😂❤❤❤
Cyprus shocked me, its my winner
🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🇵🇹🎉
UKRAIN winner 🏆 🇺🇦💙💛
stay tuned is going to do a outfit chance
❤❤❤Love you Girl
🇪🇸🏆🙌🙌🙌
❤secons
Armenia 🇦🇲 has a lot charisma ❤
I would not mind if either Portugal, Ukraine or Germany win this year contest. All three deserves to be up there and deserves to be a contender to win. As for my favorite to win is definitely Portugal. Portugal is long overdue and deserves to finally win this year contest.
Spain for the win
Will you be reacting to Joker Out's new album - Souvenir Pop?
Malta to win!!!!😊
Go Ukraine!!!
Armenia for the win!!! (Or my country Spain hehe)
Ukraine ❤
Ukraine ❤❤🥰🥰🤗🤗
What about Montenegro national selection ?
Spain !
Please Ukraine or Portugal ! 🇺🇦🇵🇹
Spain for The win please 🇪🇸🏆
ITALY: its really fun! i predict it will do pretty good, but i jsut wish he had more stage presence
ESTONIA: im so sad. i love her voice, but im so bored with the staging. this song has too much going on in it to have a stage this empty. the lack of people couldve been easily made up for if it was more flashy with lights everywhere flashing, strobes, yk? couldve been a lot better, without much change in price.
ALBANIA: she sells this song. though not my favorite, she makes me want to like the song. i think she will do better than we expect.
ARMENIA: i like the staging and outfit lolll. he really fun to watch and listen to. the only thing holding it back for me is the song. i like the post-chorus, but like idk about the rest of it. will probably do pretty good. is a contender for the win to, even though its not really what i want, but kids will like it, itll get a lot of votes (jury AND televote),budget.
CYPRUS: this song is really nice omg. love the outfit and staging. i wish the vocals were a bit stronger, but i really did enjoy this. is a contender for the win imo.
FRANCE: im kinda disappointed lol. i liked the song, but idk. it will be liked, but i can't see it winning. the staging was kinda boring, even with all the people there. the solid colors on the background doesn't work for this song imo.
NORTH MACEDONIA: bring back the balkan ballads. ik they never do good, but those are the entries that i love from north macedonia (2018, 2023). i doubt this will do much better.
POLAND: i really like the concept, with the visuals, and stuff, the mv included. the chereo. everything is there but the song sadly.
GEORGIA: i really really like this song and how atmospheric it is, and the staging is very nice. i doubt it will win, but i really do hope it does well. his vocals are very nice.
SPAIN: idk what to say abt it. i enjoy her stage presence. will probably do well.
GERMANY: im not ruling this out for the win. i wish the staging wasnt so.. colorful. i wish it was more like the music video. like... a lot more like this mv. i dont understand why theyre all wearing beige with the rainbow background. but i think it will do very good with juries. the song is ok. hes a good performer. the staging bothers me a lot though.
NETHERLANDS: i just find this song basic and boring. i really like the staging though. idk how itll do in the contest. it'll probably be like middle of the board.. or like top 10. idk. im just not a fan.
SAN MARINO: song goes nowhere, and theyre not that fun to watch... but i like the staging. they sound fine.
UKRAINE: hes an excellent performer, perfect vocals, perfect staging. everything a winner will need. a very high contender for the win!
PORTUGAL: great song, excellent performer, maturity, its great. love the song, and others seem to as well. will perform well in the televote bc portugal tends to do well in the televote lol. high contender for the win as well. if it doesnt win, it'll probably perform similarly to spain in 2019.
IRELAND: this song is sooooo underrated. i think its so fun and very catchy. nice staging. hope she does very well!
MALTA: another very underrated song. i enjoy it. i hope he does better than we expect bc i dont take issue with the song at all. EXCELLENT staging and good vocals!
the winner is either PORTUAL or UKRAINE. and the producers know it too. it makes sense that they would both be in the second half of the running order.
love both songs personally, i think ukraine is a more likely outcome..but im hoping for portugal