Eurovision in Baku (IV)

Romania, Moldova, Iceland, Hungary, Denmark, Albania, Cyprus, Greece, Russia and Ireland. These were the big winners of the first Eurovision semi-final, and thus secured their passage to the grand final on Saturday.

Despite the problems pointed out by many eurofãs, the no passage of Switzerland was the great disappointment of the night.

Here are my comments for the last night.

Add in the same semifinal Cyprus and Greece, Romania and Moldova, the countries of Scandinavia (particularly Iceland, Denmark and Finland) and Russia added to the mixture, is a nightmare for those countries usually have more difficulties in determining the final. Especially not having secured political televoting.

Firstly, the results were almost all according to the televoting (there was even vote jury in all countries in this semifinal?).
There was a small group of countries that had the move to final more than guaranteed. I speak, of course about Russia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Iceland and Denmark.
Then there was the group of countries that neither a miracle could put in the final: Montenegro, San Marino and Israel.

Then there was that group of countries that certainly would be among the most votes or by the jury or by the public, but its passage depended on what would the other half of the vote did: Albania, Moldova and Ireland.

And then there was the remaining group, where there was an unknown: it was difficult to predict if they will have good results in the televoting or juries, but whose chance of passage was really impossible to predict. The two most "controversial" were Hungary and Switzerland. But both the chances of passing to final of one or the other were increasing. And I confess that after the passage of Hungary, was after the passage of Switzerland.

Furthermore, Austria, after being ridiculed by most eurofãs for months, was much better than could be predicted, to the point that some bookmakers consider this country as a possible finalist.
I have to admit that the excitement caused by Switzerland and Austria will be missed in the final.
As for the others, Latvia, Finland and Belgium, the performances in the semifinal completely destroyed the chances (already very weak) to pass the final.

In fact, the cases more controversials were Hungary, Moldova and Switzerland. The first two cases passed through the televoting (for me the choreography took enormous quality from the Moldovan music), and the case of Switzerland, is the isolation that doomed this good performance. I completely disagree on who argues that if the singer had interacted with cameras  Sinplus will give to Switzerland a guaranteed place in the final. I remember Marija Šerifović, the winner of Eurovision 2007 for Serbia, that never looked at the cameras. It is true that the songs have very different styles and qualities - but is only one example of which is not feasible's argument does not interact with the cameras.

It is no longer new, the current of opinion which advocates the exit of Switzerland from Eurovision: and now more than ever I agree with this opinion. Humiliation so many years, beginning to be unbearable.

As for the future of these songs in the final the big surprise will continue to be Russia. Everything depends on the jury, because from the televoting is more than assured a rain of votes for Buranovskiye Babushki. This is proof that success in the contest goes beyond having good vocal qualities. Albania is also surprising because it is more than proven that music appeals greatly to juries. Iceland, despite its legion of followers, is losing favoritism to eye seen, after the live performance does not have pleased many people. But the TOP10 is still guaranteed.
As for Denmark, it is difficult to tell whether the jury likes more than to the televoting (I think it will be the same for both), but after successes (without much fuss) 2010 and 2011, anything can happen to Soluna Samay.
In the case of Greece, which holds the country's success is to be Greece, which attracts the televoting. Because I believe that juries start getting sick with this musical genre. In addition, its major partners from Cyprus, bring a musical genre very similar but much more attractive.

As for the remaining finalists, I believe that they will be much more favored by the televoting than by the jury.

Tomorrow will be held the second semi-final and we have great opponents to the success of the finalists as: Sweden, Norway, Ukraine, Turkey, Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina.