Over the last past few months, you have been submitting your predictions for the latest round of Eurovision Prediction 2023. In the final round of this season, you were asked to predict the winner of Portugal’s Festival da Canção. Now, let’s take a look at who you collectively expect to win the Portuguese ticket to Liverpool!
Following two semi-finals, thirteen acts remain in contention to represent Portugal in Liverpool. This marks the last national final of the 2023 Eurovision season.
The winner will be chosen by 50% public televote and 50% jury vote from seven regional juries.
The final running order is as follows:
- Cláudia Pascoal – “Nasci Maria”
- Churky – “Encruzilhada”
- Esse Povo – “Sapatos de Cimento”
- Bárbara Tinoco – “Goodnight”
- You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown – “Contraste Mudo”
- Voodoo Marmalade – “Tormento”
- Inês Apenas – “Fim do Mundo”
- Mimicat – “Ai Coração”
- Dapunksportif – “World Needs Therapy”
- NEON SOHO – “Endless World”
- Ivandro – “Povo”
- Edmundo Inácio – “A Festa”
- SAL – “Viver”
Let’s take a look at who YOU predict will be chosen!
During this round of Eurovision Prediction 2023, 399 of you have predicted who you think will take victory in Portugal.
Without further ado, here are the artists that YOU have predicted to win in order of frequency, from most to least (eliminated artists):
| Ranking | Artist | Song | Number of predictions | Percentage |
| 1 | Mimicat | “Ai Coração” | 208 | 52.1% |
| 2 | Cláudia Pascoal | “Nasci Maria” | 57 | 14.3% |
| 3 | Edmundo Inácio | “A Festa” | 45 | 11.3% |
| 4 | Bárbara Tinoco | “Goodnight” | 31 | 7.8% |
| 5 | Ivandro | Povo | 18 | 4.5% |
| 6 | You Can’t Win, Charlie Brown | “Contraste Mudo” | 8 | 2.0% |
| 7 | INÊS APENAS | “Fim do Mundo” | 7 | 1.8% |
| 8 | 5 | 1.3% | ||
| 9 | Neon Soho | “Endless World” | 4 | 1.0% |
| 10 | 3 | 0.8% | ||
| 10 | Voodoo Marmalade | “Tormento” | 3 | 0.8% |
| 12 | 2 | 0.5% | ||
| 12 | SAL | “Viver” | 2 | 0.5% |
| 12 | 2 | 0.5% | ||
| 12 | Esse Povo | “Sapatos de Cimento” | 2 | 0.5% |
| 16 | 1 | 0.3% | ||
| 16 | 1 | 0.3% |
For the past few years, our players have had mixed fortunes with predicting the outcome of Festival da Canção, even though over 1/3 correctly predicted Maro’s win last year with “Saudade, saudade”.
In 2020, over 2/3 of our players predicted that Barbara Tinoco would win Festival da Canção 2020. Meanwhile, eventual winner Elisa received around 22% of predictions.
Back in 2019 however, the majority of our players correctly predicted Conan Osiris’ win. And the year before, almost 2/3 of players correctly predicted Cláudia Pascoal’s win.
After each national final, the points will be assigned and you will receive a rankings update via our Eurovision Prediction platform. Furthermore, we will make sure to notify you via our Eurovision Prediction Facebook page, our Eurovision Prediction Twitter page and here on the ESCXTRA website. The player that accumulates the most points after all the rounds have taken place will be crowned the winner of Eurovision Prediction 2023!
Last year, our players correctly predicted 12 national final winners out of 25.
In 2021, our players predicted the correct national winners 7 out of 13 times.
In 2020, 10 of out 27 times…an all-time low. To be fair, 2020 was a very unpredictable year in general.
In 2019, our Eurovision Prediction players collectively predicted 16 out of 29 national final winners correctly.
In 2018, your record was 19 out of 30, which remains the record.
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