#sf1

[wormbussy]

my reaction to sf1 before the voting results. have not followed the selections so I'm seeing all of these fresh

[kirinaddsion]

Khris! I love her. The best healer in the game

[theworstsimblr]

Rouge Aether

Virtuoso - Light Sleeper - Star-Quality - [?]

[giflxndia]

[demifiendrsa]

The first game in the Street Fighter series was first released for Arcades in Japan on August 30, 1987. Happy 35th anniversary!

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[benedictscanvasmain]

you can tell portugal don’t have the money to host again huh

[brazilvision]

Ok so who do you think will qualify in the first sf?

Ooooh interesting question!! So, looking at the rehearsals, my personal predictions for semifinal 1 are the following:

To NOT qualify:

- Montenegro- Finland- Estonia and Belgium (rip, I love these songs… Belgium is actually my favorite song from SF1! But to be honest I don’t think they were memorable enough in the clips I have seen so I think they will be kinda forgotten and won’t receive enough points to qualify :/)- San Marino (I hate to say that about king Serhat but personally I don’t see this song qualifying as of now… but I hope I am proven wrong!!)

Certain qualifiers:

- Australia and Greece (I think that either one of these songs is going to win the semifinal btw!)- Iceland - Cyprus

Most likely will qualify:

- Portugal (this is kind of a risky entry that people either love it or hate it; but to be fair I think that when it comes to televoting, it is better to have 50 people who has a song as their last and 50 people who have it as their first rather than 90 people who have it at like 12th place; also, Spain and France are voting in this semifinal and that benefits Portugal)- Czechia (I was more confident on this before the rehearsals but I still think that it will be a qualifier and possible dark horse for the left side of the table/bottom top 10; but let’s see)- Slovenia (different from Portugal and Czechia, I thought that this would be a NQ before the rehearsals – even though I love the song. However, after seeing the first rehearsal clips, I think that this song will qualify!)

So, as of now I have picked 7 finalists and 5 NQs; but we still have other 5 countries left, which I’ll call them borderline qualifiers: Poland, Hungary, Belarus, Serbia and Georgia. My thoughts on those countries are the following:

- I think that Hungary and Serbia are qualifying. Hungary because it has been a permaqualifier since 2011, and the staging is looking pretty good, so I think this will be a qualifier. I am not so sure on Serbia because they are a pretty borderline qualifying country (since 2013 they have placed somewhere between 9th and 11th in the semifinal, and that is PRETTY borderline qualifying imo)… but I think they will be able to pull through because Montenegro is on their semi (and that means 24 points coming to them) and also I can see the song having enough points from other countries (especially the juries) to manage to get the magical 110 points to qualify. So yeah, I think Serbia is qualifying too.

- I think that Georgia is still a NQ, BUT after today’s rehearsal it could be a shocking qualifier and we must watch out for it. Honestly that staging REALLY elevates the song.

- Now, for the last spot of my SF1 qualifiers’ prediction we have Poland and Belarus left… it could go either way between those two honestly. However, since Poland usually does well enough with the televoting to be able to qualify (except last year, but even then it placed among the top 10 of the televoting) and most of Belarus’ voting partners are in SF2 (except for Georgia), I think I will give my last spot of the SF1 qualifiers to Poland.

So to sum up, those are my SF1 qualifiers prediction (sorted by probability of qualifying):

CERTAIN QUALIFIERS:

1. Australia (possible semi winner)2. Greece (possible semi winner)3. Iceland4. Cyprus

MOST LIKELY QUALIFIERS:

5. Portugal6. Slovenia7. Czechia

BORDERLINE QUALIFIERS:

8. Hungary9. Serbia10. Poland

----11. Belarus12. Georgia

NOT QUALIFYING (rip)

13. Belgium14. San Marino15. Estonia16. Finland17. Montenegro