Just when you thought Margaret Berger had the second semi-final all sewn up, Georgia’s Nodie & Sophie make a splash with the bookies. The Georgian duo, who will sing “Waterfall” in Sweden, have had their odds slashed in recent days, and are now second-favourite to win the second semi-final.
Margaret remains the favourite to win with her song “I Feed You My Love”. Her odds are as low as 1.75. Nodie & Sophie have odds that hover around 3.5, despite not having the best English pronunciation. They’re followed closely by Azerbaijan’s Farid Mammedov, who has the best abs in this year’s search for Eurovision’s Next Top Male Model.
Countries are listed below according to their average odds at 10 of Europe’s leading betting agencies. For convenience we have only listed the odds from three of the bookies.
What do you think? Who is overrated and who is being unfairly snubbed?
| Country | Bet 365 | SkyBet | BoyleSports |
| 1. Norway | 2 | 1.75 | 2.25 |
| 2. Georgia | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 3. Azerbaijan | 4.5 | 5 | 5 |
| 4. Greece | 9 | 9 | 10 |
| 5. San Marino | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 6. Armenia | 11 | 14 | 12 |
| 7. Romania | 16 | 16 | 16 |
| 8. Israel | 18 | 18 | 20 |
| 9. Malta | 22 | 20 | 20 |
| 10. Finland | 25 | 25 | 25 |
| 11. Hungary | 40 | 40 | 33 |
| 12. Iceland | 50 | 50 | 50 |
| 13. Switzerland | 50 | 66 | 66 |
| 14. Albania | 80 | 66 | 80 |
| 15. Latvia | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 16. Bulgaria | 100 | 100 | 66 |
| 17. FYR Macedonia | 100 | 100 | 100 |
MALTA and the happy feeling it brings in the song is great!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsL5MU5bRWw
Come on San Marino, Norway, Finland, Bulgaria and Georgia! Please qualify!
my top 3 are 1 malta 2 romania 3 azerbajan
Switzerland will qualify
Overrated: Norway, Georgia, Greece, ROMANIA!
Underrated: Finland, Bulgaria (one of my favorites), Iceland.
SAN MARINO SHOULD QUALIFY BUT HAS NO BLOCK VOTING IE. RUSSIA AND OLD YUGLOSLAVIA. I DONT THINK THOSE TWO STATES REALISE ITS A SONG CONTEST !!
From my point of view,Romania is definetly unfairly snubbed!Romania on first place,second San Marino!
My odd s is.Romenia,Switzerland and Ukraine.
GO MALTA 12 POINTS
This year is like 2011. Unpredictable. My top qualifiers: 1- Norway, 2 – Switzerland, 3 – Finland, 4 – San Marino, 5 – Georgia, 6 – Romania, 7 – Latvia, 8 – Malta, 9 – Azerbaijan, 10 – anyone
I see it hard for Malta, Finland, Armenia and Romania (well, this one might go through due to lucky running order).
I really hope Bulgaria qualifies, Samo Shampioni is oen of my favorites. Switzerland also has a nice change to go through.
The ones I want to qualify are Israel, Bulgaria, San Marino, Greece, Norway and Switzerland. And I would like for Malta, Latvia and Hungary to be eliminated. Don’t really care that much for the rest.
These odds don’t seem to be the odds of qualifying – they are for who will win semi final 2.
Greece , Armenia , Romania and Malta are soo overrated..Switzerland and Macedonia underrated.
My qualifiers are: Azerbaijan , Norway , Israel , Macedonia , San Marino , Georgia , Iceland , Finland , Switzerland and i haven’t decided my 10th place yet..:)