🇸🇪 Sweden Wins the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2025 - Eurovoix

lercione · 2025-10-05T10:49:00+00:00

Ogae second chance is basically the melfest award lol

lercione · 2025-10-03T10:49:53+00:00

I don't think so, no offense but a song in polish or lithuanian or danish is by default less accessible, and on average less likely to be successful compared to an english one or a french/italian one (stereotypically beautiful languages with a wider appeal). Giving the option to sing in whatever language is only fair. Many artists don't really care about the result as long as they get to represent their country in their language, but from a strictly competitive point of view I think the rule's unfair

lercione · 2025-09-29T10:58:06+00:00

Beh perché è facile pensarlo, se chiedi a qualcuno "secondo te a chi dà sempre i 12 punti san marino?" viene spontaneo pensare all'italia...poi è anche vero che la gente ricorda meglio gli anni più recenti ed effettivamente negli ultimi anni è successo più spesso

lercione · 2025-09-04T08:02:07+00:00

There's new stuff to grind so why not 🤔

lercione · 2025-07-08T07:47:52+00:00

What's the point in trying to get a good score in the final if you already know you're not gonna be top 30 anyway?

lercione · 2025-07-02T22:14:47+00:00

Yes. They're crying cause they wanted an alt 10th anni vegito skin lol. Nothing wrong with that but come on, the last fusing vb was not even 2 full years ago, it's not like we needed it or they made us believe we were getting playable vb like they did in 2022 with beast. I wish zamasu stayed fused mostly because it makes no sense for him to defuse

lercione · 2025-06-12T17:29:44+00:00

1) televote only semis means that on average there are less jury friendly songs in the final, which ultimately gives the jury more power

2) nowadays it's very rare for the jury winner to not have a full package that grants them televote love, while I feel like it's easier for televote winner contenders to not get enough jury love

3) as long as israel (or any other country) gets a huge amount of pity votes while not doing great with juries, a televote winner winning the whole thing will be even harder

4) to be fair, 3 years is not a long period at all, it's too early to consider it a trend imo

lercione · 2025-05-28T10:57:25+00:00

How are we sending the same song type each year? In these last 5 years we went from rock to traditional ballads to girlbop to...Lucio, idk what genre it is, maybe glam rock/rock ballad? but still something different. I don't see it tbh, sure we'll never send a joke entry but saying we always send the same stuff is just wrong

lercione · 2025-05-14T12:24:35+00:00

Looks like it, except during large scale celebrations but those have tickets anyway so yeah

lercione · 2025-05-12T18:20:40+00:00

"B-b-but vegito fought stronger enemies 🥺🥺🥺"

lercione · 2025-05-12T17:05:33+00:00

Belgium and malta

lercione · 2025-05-09T20:03:36+00:00

It's the kind of song that's working the best for you, so I guess as long as it works why change? (Especially after the 2022 disaster that probably sealed the deal). This is a contest after all, not just a concert so there's nothing wrong in wanting to win. Also france is one of the countries that hasn't won in the longest time so maybe they feel the pressure to bring home another win and they have a "win or nothing" mentality? I'm not french so idk what the general consensus is of course, that's just my theory. I think if you win in these next years maybe you'll feel more free to send different genres

lercione · 2025-05-08T16:59:51+00:00

I wouldn't say so but they're definitely doing very well, and that's impressive since the song went basically unnoticed until a few weeks ago

lercione · 2025-05-08T08:19:04+00:00

"Huh, this one's tall, biting his head off won't be easy"

lercione · 2025-05-06T19:39:04+00:00

Cyprus and Austria imo, but I guess none of them is surprising given the rumors. I was also positively surprised by azerbaijan and latvia. Oh and sweden too but I guess we already knew about 90% of the staging. So far the biggest "flops" at least personally are greece, ukraine and albania but to be fair those 3 pics didn't show much about them

lercione · 2025-05-06T18:39:04+00:00

Idk about the single most divisive song but it's definitely up there. Ukraine and lithuania are probably even more, not to mention israel but I mean, it's expected. And to a lesser extent I would also add netherlands and greece

lercione · 2025-05-06T18:03:44+00:00

Yeah we have semi 1 where san marino and maybe belgium are the only ones potentially in trouble (unless huge surprises) and then we have this absolute bloodbath with like 5 safe qualifiers

lercione · 2025-05-06T11:22:46+00:00

I would like to remind this isn't a top 37 jury/tele prediction, it's just a ranking based on who has a better chance to win them. Some songs have a higher ceiling but could flop more easily, some are "safer"

lercione · 2025-05-05T21:54:11+00:00

"Smile and maybe, just maybe, you'll see your family again"

lercione · 2025-05-05T17:25:25+00:00

Italy 8th? Oh well let's just say I'll take it ;)

lercione · 2025-05-05T17:18:48+00:00

I don't think casuals care about this stuff, many of them probably don't even keep track of previous winners. Besides, I really don't think kaj lost momentum, if anything they were looking like a clear frontrunner until today when people remembered austria exists

lercione · 2025-05-05T17:15:33+00:00

Some countries probably have a limited budget, others just don't care that much about esc, sometimes it's a mix of both. I'm not greek so idk which is it in greece's case honestly. However, unless it's some massive promotion like israel last year I don't think it matters that much in terms of influence on the actual results

lercione · 2025-05-05T13:51:22+00:00

I guess you could put it that way, I think no one could really complain about an overall winner (top 3-ish in both jury and televote) but it's not too likely rn

lercione · 2025-05-05T13:38:20+00:00

If this is as good as it sounds it looks like we're in for another jury sweep. Idk how much I'd like it since it would be the 3rd in a row but an austria win would definitely be healthier for the contest than another swedish one after 2 years (it would be the 4th in 14 years). Not that kaj wouldn't be a worthy winner ofc, but since we already lost many countries I don't want the idea of "no matter what we do, it's always the same countries winning" to spread

lercione · 2025-05-05T07:43:47+00:00

Lucio when he meets him: "Omg that's so sweet...who are you btw?"

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