Eurovision 2024: Semi-Final 1 Results (Reaction & Discussion) 

Croatia really killed it this year,no matter the placement THAT'S HOW YOU DO IT! 👏🇭🇷

CROATIA❤.William thank you for your efort this year. LOve from Dubrovnik from all my family

Broadcasters don’t tell juries how to vote but at the same time seeing some countries not giving Ukraine any points is pretty… well, raises questions.

The fact that we thought Ireland was borderline out at one stage

If you got 12 points from everyone in this semi its a maximum of 204 points, so Croatia at 177 and Ukraine at 173 is MASSIVE OMG! Did not expect THAT much support for both of them! Bravooo!! 🥳🥳🥳

Slovenia deservedly in the final, Australia deservedly not.

Slovenia deserved final, I voted from the rest of the world🎉

BOMBA LAZANJA 🚀

The thing is the jury have been more split in the past. No jury winner got more than 283 points between 2018 and 2022 with many top 4 songs getting over 200 points. So has anything happened in the jury guidelines that made them change how they evaluate songs?

I think Moldova's staging was actually really good. She might have been alone on the stage, but she had perhaps the best graphics of this year to back her amazing voice and presence. Remember Zoë from 2016? she was alone on the stage with just her graphics as well and it did well. The song "In the middle" also didn't lack a public appeal, everyone was clapping in the arena (and I did the same at home). She deserved more in my opinion.

I completely agree with giving juriew less power, I get their purpose, but this is a second year in a row where 5 people in juries choose a winner instead of millions.

From Finland here. Just getting to Final was enough for this year after last year. And being in Top 20 even better. The UMK quality this year was good again but not as superior as last year, which is probably partly because of the succes Käärijä made so some artists, who possibly could have better songs, might not have wanted to be compared to that all the time. Next year will probably be better (if the current Eurovision crisis isnt affecting things too much :/ ). And if we get better song next year, then there is kind of starting to be pattern where we have mega succes every second year and then "break year" between them 😶

Regarding having non music professionals like staging directors on the juries, Ukraine had Kostyantyn Tomilchenko as a juror. He did the iconic stagings for Jamala, Melovin, and Go_A (Greenjolly too, but I'll let that slide).

in love with Freddy

Croatia The Best ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

I didnt get how the producers put Ukraine on the death spot in the finale. They almost won the semi.

I was disappointed Australia missed out but not surprised based on the staging and vocals

In my opinion, there should be more points available for each country to give. Now each can give points just to 10 other countries. You can be 11th in all countries, and yet you get 0 points. Its just too many competitors, so it is difficult to select only 10. It could be interesting to see resoults if each country would get points. From 15 to 1 in first semifinal, and from 25 to 1 in finals.

Love you two!! 🫶🏼✨

I feel it coming ooooh

26:35 I agree. I'm happy for Loreen and for Nemo but it does get anti climactic. When Switzerland got their 10th 12pts after just like 15-20 countries and Croatia just being 4th in the juries so far, pretty sure we knew Switzerland's gonna win the same way as Sweden last year.

Slovenia was awesome. Australia was super boring :P

I think a solution would be to change the three top scores from the public vote to 9, 11, 13. For instance, this year 111 more points in play from the public vote. Just an easy way to "fix the problem".

I cant believe that Australia came that close to qualifying with the performance they gave on the night , really weird to me

I think there should be a change to 60/40% or bring a third party who focuses more on the viewers perspective Nothing against nemo but nobody should win who came only 5th in televote (with a good running order!)

Switzerland and Croatia are both winners😊❤

More from Freddie please....

The power of the running order is real when you compare Serbia and luxembourg results in the semi (times 2 points), vs in the final Serbia got more televote than lux from a slightly later running order.

When I watched the first sem-finale I was upset Australia and Moldova didn't made it through, especially as Moldova presented an act that I found different and more interesting than I was used to. And I always appreciated a lot the songs written by the artists themselves, it's often more authentic and personal.

The yidaki player Fred Leone did amazing… I wish he had been on stage more. Most of us thought it was going to be tough for us to get through. The staging could have been better but hopefully we will be back next year and we will be back on that left hand side again!

CROATIE IS ROBBED!!!! ROBBED!!!! Baby Lazanja won the hearts of the poeple!!!!!

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Random question. Does anyone know why Deban wasn’t at this year’s Eurovision? Maybe I missed something

Has there been any other year when the country that placed second was given the “death slot?” So proud of Ukraine for breaking that curse after a long time though.

UPDATE... BABY just got 50.000 euros from goverment and refused it for charity. Wooow

5 people should have that power as they are empowered, qualified and destined to vote on these matters. Public are unqualified and cannot be trusted. 50/50 split to remain!

Australia was messy, it was not executed well unfortunately Both Serbia and Slovenia deserved to qualify On the other hand, we could do it without Luxembourg, Finland and maybe even Cyprus

Why are there always doubts about Slovenia? annoying every year really. the quality is obviously not for Eurovision.

As an Australian, I hope the broadcaster (SBS) brings back Australia Decides. It is important to choose the best song of the year. As Electric Fields repeatedly said, their song was a song they had discounted from when they came second in AD 5 years ago with “2000 and Whatever”

I loved Azerbaijan! The vocals are so beautiful, and I love the swirling strings. Sure, the hands and staging were a bit odd. But the song is amazing.

I feel like the jury ensures that the final scoreboard reflects the quality of the songs/performances, but the people should pick the winner. Agree with both of your proposed solutions

I would put Azerbaijan and Australia over Luxembourg and Finland, but I wasn't shocked they didn't qualify - Australia had problems with cameras and how their performance was shown and Azerbaijan was kinda non engaging to the audience

Oh, I wish you could come watch Ukrainian Vidbir. Actually, I wish we in Ukraine could do this as well

Came here because I needed to hear someone say they were said Australia didn't go through, and I had a feeling William would give me that. LOL! For me, Finland going through and Australia not just doesn't compute. Plus having loved them since 2000 and whatever and understanding but being disappointed they didn't win - they're finally going made me so happy, and then it ended for them before the final. 😓

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I love Ukraine and their song, but they also have sympathy from the people because they are surviving the war so I expected them to be in top 3 from televote.

It’s a yidiki in Zs language, the general use name is a Didgeridoo

Winner ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Baby Lasagna, The Best one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 EBU, are you watching this? EBU, your "tehnicall" winner was just 5th by votes of audience of million people How is possible that 5th position by votes of million people could be winner just because a few people of jury ? 👎 Never mind... we have our WINNER... only one.... BABY LASAGNA...❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Baby Lasagna represent the the best of spirit what Eurovision should represent... song, joy, community.... ❤️❤️❤️ and not political activism etc.. there another platforms for it... By the way BL wrote song by himselvs... not like project team for "tehnical" winner .... By the way congrats to Nemo, for AMAZING voice...🌸🇨🇭 Now I am going to sing and dance.. and smile... Dear EBU members, solve problems you caused, Eurovision become JURIvision... and congrats on new slogan: "Unite by MUSIC, Dvided by JURY" Bravo EBU ✌️✌️✌️

Speaking about jury diversity. This year, Ukrainians chose who they want to be on the Ukrainian jury. And the composition was: a singer (Alyosha), a music producer, two choreographers, one of whom has extensive experience in staging TV shows and Ukrainian Eurovision acts, and a music journalist and reviewer. I guess it could be a bit different, but EBU requires gender mix (either 3 women and 2 men or 3 men, 2 women).

Slovenia was amazing!

Australian lead singer was off key on the prolonged notes. Even with that, they would've qualified if not for the neighborly votes received by Serbia and Slovenia which is great. Love to see Veronika and Ramonda qualify tho

Freddy is lovely, but I really really miss Deban? Greetings from Croatia Meow cat, please meow back

ICELAND PLEASE 🙏 🥺🤩🥺

I don’t understand why everyone was surprised about Slovenia. She has the vocals and an intense story and performance. One of my favorites from the beginning.

why is nobody talking about poland? :(

I think the results did match what a lot of people expected from semi final 1. I was a bit surprised Luxembourg did as well as they did, but it was well staged and performed. I also thought Poland would’ve done better, but I agree that the vocals did hinder its chances. Interestingly Australia would’ve gone through if Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia each didn’t give each other 10 and 12 points, but I liked Serbia and Slovenia so glad they did make it.

Kaliopi also qualified from the 2nd spot, but that was centuries ago 😂 also baby Lasagna got less points than the winner and the runner up from the second semifinal, im curious how good Joost wouled have done with the televote in the final. The results at the end would’ve been fire, i mean Switzerland not winning.

So proud of Ireland in their redemption era🇮🇪

I might have a crush on Freddy!🙈

Btw, you should visit DORA final next year!🎉

saying no rules would’ve done so much better with televote that sara siipola when they got like 30 points in the tele vote in the final …

I would love a whole video about juries and their impact on the ESC and why should they have less impact on the result.

Semi 1 Top 10 its Not so diferent from the Final Top 10!!!! Semi 1 the weakest!???? Dont think so...🤘🏼

Hey William, you should make one separated video about what was in mind of 5 people that selected 24(!!) songs for Croatian national final (two semi finals), but initialy they didn't put Baby Lasagna into these 24 songs. Everyone should talk about that, not only here in Croatia, but also everywhere outside of Croatia.

Am i wrong or Australia had bad vocal moment ? For me that was the reason.

I told you, Australia was close to qualifying and that Serbia finished 10th.

I don’t agree at all with Portugal!!! It qualified merely because of the polished visuals and dancers, if not, despite her vocals, the song would have been forgotten!!

Actualy quite surprised for almost everyone sounded good live! Sorry but iolanda is The ONLY One sounding better every time! Another thing that I ONLY noticed today is..seeing another video....Sweden actualy made a half tone down chance of kye to Sing live!!!! To Sing more confortably or to sound more Doom heavy...

Azerbaijan didnt deserve this point 😕

Croatia

Jurors were just afraid of Ukraine winning given that Ukraine was a cohost just last year and Ukraine won’t be able to host. Ukraine could have overtaken Croatia and Switzerland if more jurors had given Ukraine points. There were way too many jurors who gave Ukraine 0 points. And producers strategically put Ukraine second in the running order.

Wow Freddy is hot 🔥😎

Australia was one my favourite but every just went flat with me the background singers I didn't understand the stage. Overall very happy. Not fan of Ireland but that my personal taste

I wanted Australia & Iceland through! Australia had the amazing cultural aspects, but it would have been better having Zachaariaha on a large rock, that resembles Ayres rock with a hug flowing outfit on as the wind machine blowed. Would have loved colourful aboriginal art saturating the L.E.D's. With Iceland, I naturally wanted Hera to go through as I'm a huge fan of hers. Broke my heart when she crashed out, even though I knew in my heart of hearts, the song wasn't enough to get her through. Glad you guys loved her too. She's such a dance diva! I agree, I would've taken out Luxembourg and Serbia, as the Serbian song didn't go anywhere for the first two minutes. It lost me. With Finland, they likely would have done better had they changed the presentation dramatically from their UMK performance. It had been seen by that point and it lost its newness and its charm, so people were moving over to acts from Croatia or the Netherlands. Cyprus really upped their game. She kept improving with every performance and eneded up leaving me impressed, even though I didn't really care for the song. And those lyrics were awful, but she sold the song. For someone so young, she's a great performer. Loved Lithuanua. Sylvester really did deliver a fantastic performance. One of my favourite songs this year. Ireland honestly had the BIGGEST glow up! From that thrown together performance on their national selection, Bambie stepped up, and they put everything in to it and delivered such an amazing, unique and memorable performance!

Go to festival da canção

Finland was fun❤️🇫🇮 And they weren't last in the final, there were 6 countries behind them.

I don't think Croatia will be coming back to the contest for years or maybe yes but nobody will care. The whole country was behind BL and supported him for months and it still didn't work out. Nah.

Yeah I don't want to change the way the vote is going at all whatsoever, I don't know how anyone could look at what almost happened this year and say "Yes, give me more televote impact!" the televoters are far less objective than the juries, people used to complain about the juries being subjective and other such complaints, but the televoter will just vote for their political allies at this point. They're really the ones to commit the politics and Eurovision problem not the juries anymore.

I am amazed that Ukraine almost won the semifina! Only 4 points behind Croatia. I think the buzz for Croatia has been much more than everyone thought it'd be a clear sweep winner, but in reality, it was not the case. I never bought the song (which I think it's a basic repetitive rock song, with an ordinary rock staging. Audience pleasing due to its repetitive lyrics...but that's all)...I think he nevertheless gave a great show on stage, but I don't think Croatia deserved the win (neither a Top3 tbh). Congrats to well deserved winner Nemo! and congrats to Ukraine (my absolute favorites!).

Luxembourg got the Israeli vote in SF1...

We want more Freddie, we NEED more Freddie. Just saying.

Can we talk about how fine Freddy is? 😍

CROATIE SHOULD OF WON!!!!

Let s be honest: without war, Ukraine 🇺🇦 would have been 4-5 in SF and mid scoreboard in GF

Hi lovely couple ❤❤❤❤❤

Australians did many things wrong. 1- the dress ( the dress didn’t look good on (whatever that person is, he, she, ….) 2. Bad camera angles 3. Bad staging.