The most open year (maybe)!

I've started following Eurovision in 2018 (dropped when Turkey dropped and came back) And we always had a few songs as clear cut favs and there were barely surprises. I feel like we didn't have a big surprise in the standings except for Fuego and maybe Proud being top 10 in 2019. It is always as odds predict at the top with one song getting less than expected.

I believe this is the year finally we don't have a clear winner. I can see odds are favoring Sweden and Austria but odds are always favoring Sweden (they will start number one as soon as 2026 odds are open) and Austria, while might be an amaizing song, will face competition after following Nemo. So neither are that much of a lock. I am listening and hearing bunch of good entries and can't call any a winner. I didn't agree with every winner but there were always vibes at least. I feel like any of the recent winners (or even runner ups, 3rd place) would be clear cut favorites this year.

I don't say this as a bad thing tho. I feel like we will see the most exciting voting we've seen for years this year. The rehersals/preconcerts are gonna be important because anybody can make a move to change the perspective. For the last two years to me it was clear that Nemo/Loreen would be the jury winner and Kaarija/Baby Lasagna would try to overpower enough in televote to win before we even saw staging. This year we don't have a jury winner (again, Austria can easily recieve backlash for similarity of genre to the Code) and we don't have a clear televote winner (except for one due to political reasons, but I will hope it won't happen. I like the song, a top 10 song but not a winner one)

Anyway, TLDR I just wanted to say, I started down about this Eurovision year but the unpredictability about the results make me excited