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What National Final second placed song do you think would have done better at Eurovision than the winner?

Granted, I do think Sekret does get towards the left hand side with actual staging (Ronela we have not forgiven you still). But Theje was always levels above in terms of our hopes at Eurovision 2022. An amazing voice and a Balkan Ballad done very, very correctly (and a male Albanian artist, we exist outside of Eugent Bushpepa) What other second places do you think would have done better at Eurovision?

Eurovision Running Order Positions that have won the Grand Final

Out of curiosity, I researched the running orders of every Grand Final to see which positions have won. Everyone's always been saying how much of a curse positions 2nd and 16th are, so I wanted to see what other info I could gather. Here are some things I've learnt from this study: * 3 winning entries were performed first, "Ding-a-dong", "Save Your Kisses For Me" and "Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley". Interestingly, they are some of the most famous winning songs in the contest's history. * 6 winning songs were performed last in their respective finals. * Position 17th has the most winners out of any position, which includes 2 of Ireland's seven-winning songs, "Hard Rock Hallelujah", and arguably the most famous winning song of them all, "Euphoria". * Positions 4th, 6th, 7th and 23rd each have one winning song. * The four winners of the 1969 contest performed in 3rd, 7th, 8th and 14th respectively. * In addition to positions 2nd and 16th not having a winner, 25th and 26th are yet to see a victory. 27th will remain unclaimed forever, as it was only included in the 2015 contest to occupy Australia's special guest slot. * 37 of the 72 winning songs were performed in just the first half of the list alone, the other 35 come from the second half. For those obsessed with numbers, that's 51.38% of winners from 1st-13th, and the other 48.61% from 14th-27th.