The Internationalist Eurovision Blog

Hey everybody! So with the dust settled on the bookie odds for the moment and everybody pretty sure of their opinions on each of the songs, what do any of these predictions mean for Eurovision 2020? I'm taking a look at the five favourites to win Eurovision this year and offering a small glimpse as to what Eurovision 2020 might be like in each country. The Netherlands As previously stated, if the bookies as they are right now are correct (and again can we please take that with a pinch of salt) we are headed to Amsterdam next year. Whilst I have very specific opinions on the song, I think the following year's contest will be absolutely fantastic. The Netherlands will become the first original Eurovision nation to host since the Germans hosted Düsseldorf in 2011. With the vast history in the contest that the Dutch have, you can see this contest having a classic feel to it with the Dutch culture weaving nicely through the three shows which are surely set to be hosted in the ma...

Right! Now that we've all caught our breath, let's start looking forward to Tel Aviv and May 14th when the first semi-final kicks off! Who's going through, what's going to happen, is there a clear winner? In writing this article, I am going to first offer the qualifiers according to the bookies, then the qualifiers according to popular app Eurovision Scoreboard and finally bring in my own judgement to come up with a definitive list of qualifiers. Qualifiers according to the Bookies Semi Final 1 Cyprus Iceland Greece Portugal Slovenia Belgium Estonia Czech Republic Australia Finland Semi Final 2 The Netherlands Russia Sweden Switzerland Norway Malta Armenia Azerbaijan Denmark North Macedonia Qualifiers according to Eurovision Scoreboard Semi Final 1 Cyprus Greece Iceland Portugal Belgium Slovenia Estonia Australia Czech Republic Hungary Semi Final 2 The Netherlands Switzerland Norway Russia Sweden Malta...

So nothing much happened these last two weeks, eh? In seriousness, I am not entirely sure how I feel about half of the songs being confirmed in the last two weeks (with a third coming in the last week). Aside from the constant changing of favourites that has taken place and the inability to keep track of what's going on, I have felt emotionally exhausted from so much that has taken place. Normally this is the entry where I write my initial projections but I think we all need a week to listen to the songs, reflect and recover from what has been a seriously insane last couple of weeks. So for now, let's reflect on everything that's gone down (in approximately chronological order). Finland And in a stunning turn of events, Darude is going to Eurovision and in an even more stunning turn of events, he is going with the song written by his singer. In writing this blog post I looked back at the results of this year's UMK and was anybody really shocked by such a comprehensi...