Aren't Albania two hours ahead?

LMAO

Did Eneda perform at the beginning? Missed the first week of the final.

Wow the public had a massive say in that...

Lindita wins? Our first entry of the year!

Most understated win ever.

Lindita it is

Atleast Lindita won and the NF season has been kicked off with a good start result.

After all that... what a damp squib of an announcement!

Albania ain't making the final this year.

Has Lindita won? Only the hosts were clapping.

Oh so THAT'S where the budget went!

Literally no one in the hall is clapping except the presenter.

Everyone is asleep.

as gottago used to say....

1 down 42 to go.

Maybe they've all left?

A very long road this is going to be, methinks...

You'd think they'd fire the confetti during the reprise like most other countries do.

Not sure if I should look forward to or dread the inevitable revamp of the winning song.

Jesus Christ. All that for such an anti-climax. Well done Lindita, could be decent after a revamp with her vocals.

Very good start to the contest x

1) Albania

As long as they bring the backing singers to Kiev I'll be very happy. Fa fa fa fa fa fa.

I do like Botë, it's a bit of an earworm.

Final scoreboard...

https://s6.postimg.org/g2skx2hr3/fik55results.png

It's got to have one of the strongest theme tunes though.

Lindita did sell out a little, since S'te Fal was way better, but I won't tell her that - Lindita being one of those hawkers that searches herself online. Looking forward to the revamp, although I hope they don't gut it too much, I'm sure it stands up just as well as it does now in English.

Albania would be better doing a Elhaida and changing the song completely but that was still the best on offer and Lindita has a great vocal range too