Norway: Expected great staging and I loved the white projections on screen. It actually made me laugh out when the audience was shown and people didn't really feel it.
Oh an did I already mention his weird jacket? I'm actually happy he took it off at some point!
Romania: Amazing staging, but I somehow felt the stage was too full there and too big as they didn't really interact with each others.
I kinda liked it, but it's still an expected elimination.
Serbia: I liked that the girls have all a different hair colour.
A pretty good performance (even though it looked like father and daughters), but the old man was just confusing here. The qualification came unexpected, but I'm happy since it's not in English.
San Marino: Omg they took the robots (I was actually dancing along) with them.
But that's already the highlight of that performance. Jenifer looked horrific, but Jessika was gorgeous. And those dancers didn't fit at all either imo. Not missing this at all
Btw. I loved their postcard.
Denmark: An obvious finalist actually. I loved everything about it especially that they included the wind and snow.
Russia: Oh a dress somewhere between Ieva's nightdress and Elina's idk how to call it.
Her vocals have improved, but are still the probably worst this year. Those dancers were very annoying imo. For the song and performance it's an obvious non-qualifier, but as it's Russia still a bit unreal.
Moldova: I loved that performance. Definitely among the best ones this year.
the Netherlands: Omg in the postcard he did our infamous things from the first post in random discussion we can't tell what they are.
Anyway he did an okay job I think, but the other guys were weird.
Australia: That postcard was cuuuute!
On the other hand I find her dress a bit discussable as well as some of her moves.
It was weird how she encouraged people to sing as in a concert for example when she held the microphone towards the audience.
However I still find her amazing, although everything happened a bit too fast for me.
Georgia:A very predictable elimination there. However they were really good and for a reason gave me Italy 2015 vibes there.
Poland: As much as I love the song, I'm not sure about the performance or if the song is a good choice for Eurovision. Yet I haven't seen them getting eliminated in the semi.
Oh and let's be honest those hand moves were very annoying!
Malta: She was struggling with her vocals especially in the beginning. The staging was great tho, but there are moments where I didn't like the screen especially when it was too messy to see (which I didn't anyway lol). And what's the point of having a dancer that can be seen for like 5 seconds? And what did she do to her hands?
Hungary: Highly expected staging, but a bit weak vocally...
Btw. were they barefoot on stage?
Latvia: She made a few interesting moves and had a weird dress imo lol. But vocally she was pretty good. However I felt like they whole thing was a bit too red.
Sweden: When I saw him for the first time I thought he didn't wear any pants lmao. Interesting as a whole performance.
Montenegro:
He's constant moving from side to side was annoying me a lot! Sanne counts for him keeping the same facial expression (aka neutral) throughout the whole thing?
All in all I must say that although he made a great job vocally, it's absolutely not an unexpected non-qualification either.
Slovenia: A bit a wtf staging with annoying lights. Not a fan of her vocals.
The sudden interruption of the music gave me almost a heart attack.
But at least we got another moment of everyone singing along together.
In terms of her qualification this is definitely unexpected and another "Ireland".
Ukraine:
A bit a kitschy postcard.
Lmao starting off as vampire in the coffin.
I wished he had returned there at the end, but that would've been difficult to do.
Btw. generally I find it weird that he sings Under the ladder, but he's never really there.
The show:
Today's show was a bit "worse" than the one on Tuesday. I was even questioning if 4 hosts aren't too many.
Btw. I loved that we've seen the behind the scenes of the postcards
My absolut highlight was "The Evolution of dance". xDD
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FTW 
deserve it. The ESC is too high level for Julia 
Norway - At that time, Rybak was in the TOP 3 of the odds and I was seriously watching his performance thinking "How can this be in the TOP 3 of the odds?". I haven't really managed to answer that yet but all I can say is that the performance was nothing that extraordinary, hence the drop in the odds now (high time actually lol). I love how during the press conference after the end of the show, he said "Eurovision is a serious music competition", yet his entry is one of the least serious ones of the year in my opinion... 
Romania - I should admit that I was hoping for it to qualify. The singer has an amazing voice and they were quite impressive on stage. They really managed to make their song grown on me during the performance and despite looking very professional, they failed to qualify. A true pity, this is one of the 3 entries I incorrectly predicted to be through...
Serbia - I thought this was rather chanceless. The staging was not anything significant in my opinion but the woman lead vocalist sounds so amazing! I was surprised when this got announced first and thought "this will be way more unpredictable than we all expect it to be". Nice to see them in the final!
San Marino - I so adored the robots! This was a guilty pleasure of mine but being totally honest, I thought it wouldn't stand a chance... Poor them! 
Denmark - It seemed to me like Rasmussen was holding his microphone quite far away from his mouth? He didn't really sound as in the National Final, I could barely hear him singing to be honest at some parts... This was a rather surprising qualifier to me but well done! 
Moldova - Mark my words, this is doing unexpectedly well in the final. The fact 
Netherlands - The dancers were the most pointless thing ever. Other than that, great vocals and Waylon seemed to be like a true professional from the very first second he stepped on that stage!
Australia - I am sorry to say that but I am still pissed to see this through. Literally almost everything, from her hair to her dress, from the glitter she had to her visuals, it all looked so wrong. Vocally she wasn't as impressive as I personally expected but she was good enough. The best thing about this performance was the energy she had on stage. Yet, this was not a worthy qualifier in my opinion but I guess the juries loved it. 
Georgia - How I wish they were through... This is such a beautiful entry and it was performed so nicely! However, such entries don't really have any chances nowadays.
Poland - This has been high in my ranking for a long time now but seriously, those hand moves of Gromee were hideous. They could've staged it better in my opinion and I guess that the juries destroyed it to be honest.
Malta - I was quite confident that she would manage to qualify and even expected her to be called as the very last finalist. I think she gave a really good performance which was worth proceeding to the Grand Final. I really feel sorry for Christabelle, she really did a good job.
Latvia - Rather expected result for this to be honest. Maybe the juries supported it (although I can't see it very high in their ranking either; maybe low TOP 10) but I expected people to get bored of it. It is a nice song and the staging was good enough for it but it's just one of those cases where nothing is wrong but it's just nothing significant either.
Sweden - This would of course make it. Alright staging, same as in Melodifestivalen actually... Vocally he was not that great but at least we could finally hear him singing.
Montenegro - I was hoping for this to qualify. I'm quite sad it didn't but oh well, c'est la vie! In any case, this was nicely performed, with the only big disadvantage of it being Vanja's suit... 
Slovenia - I thought this was going to end up really low until I watched the performance. The trick with the lights and the music really worked and I thought it had some chances after that. I was actually thinking that if we have a surprising qualifier in this semi, it could be them. It was also the first time I felt like Lea was actually communicating with the audience, which she hadn't done back in EMA. This was worth its qualification!
in the first semi the stage felt empty (and was it) despite both singers giving her best. But in Latvia's case it was especially not enough since Laura went totally sharp in the second half of the song after being good before. 
