On Tuesday May 12 acts from eight countries — Serbia, Hungary, Belarus, Russia, Denmark, Albania, Romania and Georgia — took to the stage for their first rehearsals. Inside the press center, the team took note of the cheers (Polina Gagarina’s clever usage of pyro, Nina Sublatti’s other-worldly LEDs) and jeers (Maimuna’s lack of an oversized hourglass, Bojana’s Bride-of-Frankenstein hairdo). You can watch our recap of the winners and losers below, followed by our instant reactions filmed immediately after each rehearsal. Click on the country to read our rehearsal review. Who was your winner today? Let us know in our Day 2 rehearsal poll.
First Rehearsals: Day 2 Winners and Losers (Review)
Serbia: Bojana Stamenov — “Beauty Never Lies”
Hungary: Boggie — “Wars for Nothing”
Belarus: Uzari and Maimuna — “Time”
Russia: Polina Gagarina — “A Million Voices”
Denmark: Anti Social Media — “The Way You Are”
Albania: Elhaida Dani — “I’m Alive”
Romania: Voltaj — “De la capat (All Over Again)”
Georgia: Nina Sublatti — “Warrior”
Photo: Elena Volotova (EBU)
Who was your favourite today? You can vote for as many acts as you like, but you can only vote ONE time.
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Georgia is the best :))
Albania the best Winner
Nina is leader but it isn’t the Winner
GEORGIA was great!!!! <3 <3 <3
Go Georgia! Nina is the best !
Georgia had the best rehearsal
Georgia!
@Johny the only crazy in the world is you. simply shake your head and believe that Georgia was the best not only day second.
AWWW Nina is leader.GO Georgia !!!
Georgia – Nina Sublatti is very amazing, she is the Queen, really stronger then other countries!.. Nina’s perfomance will be one of the best perfomance in ESC history! I hope that she will be Winner! Good Luck Georgia <3 (from Queen's country – UK)
Love Nina :3
of course georgia
nina is soo amazing
Ma hongshi mutin krejt 🙂
Georgia is the Best !
Georgia was the best! Good luck nina <3
Well I think that Georgia’s performance was perfect. Haters are just jealous. Let’s be objective!
The best rehearsal by far – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AToQQ3KvvI&list=PLBTL94grYsMiBLeRRhO7sBN2yVYg2AroJ&index=1
Poll obviously hacked by crazy Georgians.
GEORGIA … NINA <3
Georga, Russia , Serbia & Hungary nice vocals, perfect tuning, no excuses for being able to hit the notes correctly. nice, they deserve finls.
THERE’S ONLY ONE WINNER – NINA SUBLATTI FROM GEORGIA ! GO WARRIOR, YOU ROCK!!!! Love and Support from Russia
Elhaida is gonna wear another dress VS the designer is simply gorgeous.She will sing even better i have hope in her she is going top 3 or maybe winn . #Tirana 2016
Georgia all the way. I demand Tbilisi 2016
Georgia is the best :)) Good luck.
I’m nervous about Albania’s performance and people’s feedback about her…
I think that screen bombarded with all kinds of light and other images (like Georgia’s) take away focus from the actual performance from the artist. Countries that has a more minimalistic staging usually win in the end. Even MĂĄns will be minimalistic in some ways, but with a twist..
Even though I don’t like Georgia’s, Hungary’s and Russia’s songs, I have to admit that they had the best rehearsals and they are surely sailing to the final. Albania disappointed a bit but I guess they’ll find a way to work it out. Denmark and Romania were alright, nothing special though. Belarus was really forgettable, if they don’t have something else I’m afraid they are gonna miss out this year. Serbia didn’t get it right in my book either. It was really kitsch, they could’ve done something else. My top 8 of the day: 1. Hungary 2. Georgia 3. Russia… Read more »
My top 8 based on the rehearsals
1. Russia
2. Denmark
3. Albania
4. Hungary
5. Romania
6. Serbia
7. Georgia
8. Belarus
Elhaida Dani was perfect! She is going to win! Go Elhaida!
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Georgia was GREAT!!
Can somebody tell me why wasn’t ninas video of her press conference uploaded:(((
Not seeing why Albania was bad from the 30 seconds we got to see… hopefully all the issues will be sorted out because I would love to see Elhaida do well! Nina and Polina looked flawless and Bojana looks remarkable in her own way <3
Russia, Albania and Georgia all stood out on Day Two’s rehearsals; all for different reasons. They should all be fine for the final now. Hungary and Denmark did very well for what they had to give. For Serbia my advice would be just do what you want; be even more outrageous – it’s Eurovision!! 🙂 Belarus was the biggest disappointment; I feel sorry for them. Has the giant sand timer not arrived yet? Romania have some thinking to do about the technical side; they know that anyhow so hopefully they can figure out how to convey more emotion in the… Read more »
Well i had my doubts if Georgia would qualify to the final but now with all this great feeback from the eurofans i feel positive that Nina will manage to be qualifier & even do really good on the SF.. 🙂
The fact that she will appear last will definitely work 4 her increasing her chances..
I want her to win since her song is my #1 most favorite from all but i do not really think that she will win on next Saturday unfortunately..
by orther:
Winners – Georgia, Russia, Hungary
Losers – Serbia, Albania, Belarus
Maybe I’m just biased since they’re my three favorites in this half of the first semi, but Georgia, Serbia, and Albania really did have the best rehearsals today.
Georgia rocked the stage
As i expected