#final qualifiers

Explaining and Predicting The Melfest Final Qualifiers Round. There is no more Andra Chansen and no more Semi Final, instead we have a Final Qualifiers round to choose the final two songs to qualify for the Friends Arena final of Melodifestivalen. Ben Robertson reports with a model to try and predict how this round will appear. 

01Usually at this point in the Melodifestivalen merry-go-round we reach the round that has been known as Andra Chansen or as the Semi Final, a show dedicated to songs that have just missed out on going to Friends Arena directly that get a second bite of the cherry. That concept is no more. Instead, this penultimate part of the programming includes new music, with the final six competing acts…