The rehearsals began last Sunday. So far all of the participants of the 1st semi final and the first half of the participants of the 2nd semi final have rehearsed for the first time.

Videos can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/eurovision or http://www.youtube.com/akoetv

Stock/Waterman gave their UK entry a punchier chorus, and it is better, but really improving a crap song slightly, still leaves you with a crap song (the background production now sounds like something from Waterman's 90s group Steps, but with a less catchy chorus).

I expect a 20th-25th place for the UK this year. I don't see the European public voting for this song, maybe the juries will save it from finishing last with 0 points.

However, this year's contest is very unpredictable. There is no song that really stands out, and even the bookmarkers' favourites Azerbaijan, Denmark, Israel and Germany have had lackluster rehearsals.

The following countries have qualified from the 1st semi final:

- Albania

- Belarus

- Belgium

- Bosnia & Herzegovina

- Greece

- Iceland

- Moldova

- Portugal

- Russia

- Serbia

The following countries did not qualify from the 1st semi final:

- Estonia

- Finland

- FYROM

- Latvia

- Malta

- Poland

- Slovakia

Edited May 27, 201015 yr by Huntress

The following countries have qualified from the 2nd semi final:

- Armenia

- Azerbaijan

- Cyprus

- Denmark

- Georgia

- Ireland

- Israel

- Romania

- Turkey

- Ukraine

The following countries did not qualify from the 2nd semi final:

- Bulgaria

- Croatia

- Lithuania

- Netherlands

- Slovenia

- Sweden

- Switzerland

Running order for the final:

01: AZERBAIJAN

02: SPAIN

03: NORWAY

04: MOLDOVA

05: CYPRUS

06: BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA

07: BELGIUM

08: SERBIA

09: BELARUS

10: IRELAND

11: GREECE

12: UNITED KINGDOM

13: GEORGIA

14: TURKEY

15: ALBANIA

16: ICELAND

17: UKRAINE

18: FRANCE

19: ROMANIA

20: RUSSIA

21: ARMENIA

22: GERMANY

23: PORTUGAL

24: ISRAEL

25: DENMARK

Germany has won the 55th Eurovision Song Contest.

The complete results:

01. Germany (246)

02. Turkey (170)

03. Romania (162)

04. Denmark (149)

05. Azerbaijan (145)

06. Belgium (143)

07. Armenia (141)

08. Greece (140)

09. Georgia (136)

10. Ukraine (108)

11. Russia (90)

12. France (82)

13. Serbia (72)

14. Israel (71)

15. Spain (68)

16. Albania (62)

17. Bosnia & Herzegovina (51)

18. Portugal (43)

19. Iceland (41)

20. Norway (35)

21. Cyprus (27)

22. Moldova (27)

23. Ireland (25)

24. Belarus (18)

25. United Kingdom (10)

Edited May 30, 201015 yr by Huntress

Thanks for all your work in this thread, Huntress.

I read that the UK ratings for this were at an all time low. Germany got about 14 million, which must be good?

Apparently some guy crashed the stage when Spain were performing.

Yes, in Germany the contest was watched by 50 percent of all households. Last year only 6-7 million people tuned in.

At first I didn't notice that this person wasn't part of the Spanish choreography. At least Spain were allowed to perform their entry twice.

I'm very happy with the results although Russia and Georgia deserved lower places. France was fantastic and should have scored much higher.

The UK deserved its last place, but Belarus wasn't any better. Only the votes from Georgia who gave 12 points to Belarus saved Belarus from finishing last.

Yes, in Germany the contest was watched by 50 percent of all households. Last year only 6-7 million people tuned in.

At first I didn't notice that this person wasn't part of the Spanish choreography. At least Spain were allowed to perform their entry twice.

I'm very happy with the results although Russia and Georgia deserved lower places. France was fantastic and should have scored much higher.

The UK deserved its last place, but Belarus wasn't any better. Only the votes from Georgia who gave 12 points to Belarus saved Belarus from finishing last.

Uk was horrible, i liked Belarus a little better (song was boring, but the girls where beautiful)

I Thought Georgia was very good, a very good singer.

Russia, Ukraine, Bosnia, Spain, France, UK where truly horrible.

But im so happy about Romania finishing third, they where great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Recap of the 1st semi final:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju9ClcnU51M

Recap of the 2nd semi final:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gACSdup1_Wg

Recap of the final:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqekbND1aC0

Edited May 31, 201015 yr by Huntress

Campy cover-version of Satellite as soccer world cup theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_fJAiPx_w