I can't say that I'm unhappy with the results, but there are a few things I didn't see happening.
Desartar is a really good song and Karla has a very impressive voice.
However thinking about it I'm not sure if the win (especially with 60 ahead of everyone else) is justified just by that, but no complaints from my side.
Wow.
I did not see that one coming at all.
Congrats for that.
I find this even more impressive since I didn't even see this one qualifying from the semi. In fact to me this was just like these DJ-songs that you can find in any dance playlist on Spotify and that aren't any further remarkable. But I liked this from the first listening and I'm absolutely not going to complain.
Also I love that this was a returning act who previously came like 18th or so lol.
I didn't see this reaching the top 3 myself.
Circles was sent to several other contests before where it normally reach the top 5 (except Nvsc), so I knew Ireland was a 10 entrant this edition.
In the top 10 I'm happy to see
Spain and
Germany (wow thought they weren't even reaching the top 15
) and
Sweden.
Then I'd like to congratulate the usually not so successful
Israel,
Romania and
India for achieving that too. However especially
Romania is very overrated imho - same for
China, but well done with a very different song.
I'm also impressed by
Taiwan btw.
Looking at the other side of the scoreboard I don't think that
Thailand coming last is justified, but well ... :/
Poland and
UK are very underrated as well imo.
And once again I'm out by
.
Thanks for the points though people.
Btw. it's funny that
Israel almost didn't make it anywhere and then it came top 10 in the final lol.
Indonesia is a bit overrated imo. :/
And finally it surprises me a lot seeing
Moldova placing actually last in the second semi - and even more by quite a margin actually (thought it was going to be
Ethiopia).
Also poor
USA... :/
This decade I'm feeling a little creative (or at least what it looks like right now lol). For next edition I'm planning to get away from my usual charts pop entries and instead send something a bit more vocal relied - by the probably strongest voice we had during the last 5 years.