The Wedding Present Cup

                    The panel must award a total of 136 points to the songs in these groups; no song may receive more than 25 points, and they must give points to at least 10 of the 16 songs. The top 4 go through to the last 32. Group F is made up of the qualifiers from groups 11 and  12 in the first stage. Group F Bewitched Gone Mercury Two Bridges Wales Each Time You Open Your Eyes Shivers Hula Doll Come Play with Me I'm Not Always So Stupid  Suck Lovenest Go Out and Get 'Em Boy! Mars Sparkles Down On Me It's What You Want That Matters Go-Go Dancer The Results This group saw the biggest level of consensus so far, with an average score of 65.4 for the top four being the highest yet. The trend of judges focusing their marks on their biggest favourites continued, with the greatest number of 25s (61) and zeros (24) we've seen up to this point. 'Hula Doll' getting the wooden spoon here was no great shock, given that it only just managed a qualifying place in Gro

                   The panel must award a total of 136 points to the songs in these groups; no song may receive more than 25 points, and they must give points to at least 10 of the 16 songs. The top 4 go through to the last 32. Group E is made up of the qualifiers from groups 9  and 10  in the first stage. Group E Dalliance Anyone Can Make A Mistake Santa Monica I Am Not Going To Fall In Love With You Rotterdam Skin Diving Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Felicity Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft Carolyn Go, Man, Go Don't Be So Hard The Queen of Outer Space Kansas Every Mother's Son Project Cenzo The Results There was a fairly high level of consensus with this group, with the average marks awarded to the top four (64.9) being the highest so far. The number of maximum 25s given out (23) was also the largest we've had up to this point. As expected, 'Dalliance' dominated the group, with by some distance the highest overall total so far - only Harry gave it a single-figure mark.

                  The panel must award a total of 136 points to the songs in these groups; no song may receive more than 25 points, and they must give points to at least 10 of the 16 songs. The top 4 go through to the last 32. Group D is made up of the qualifiers from groups  7  and  8  in the first stage. Group D Don't Talk, Just Kiss What Did Your Last Servant Die Of? Fleshworld Don't Laugh  Gazebo Shatner Unfaithful Sucker Heather Give My Love To Kevin Convertible Larry's Palisades Dreamworld Back a Bit...Stop Snake Eyes The Results Like goup C, the panel awarded far more 25s and zeros than they did in the first two rounds, suggesting that they are now targeting their marks at their favourites in a more focused way. Only three used their full quota of six zeros this time though (twice as many did so in group C), as there was less of a weak 'tail' - bottom of the table ' Back a Bit...Stop' outscored all of the bottom three of the last group by at least 20

                 The panel must award a total of 136 points to the songs in these groups; no song may receive more than 25 points, and they must give points to at least 10 of the 16 songs. The top 4 go through to the last 32. Group C is made up of the qualifiers from groups 5  and 6  in the first stage. Group C What Have I Said Now? Perfect Blue Don't Touch That Dial Ringway To Seatac Granadaland Corduroy Always The Quiet One Spangle Brassneck Thanks Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) Box Elder Love Machine The Girl From the DDR We All Came From The Sea Pinch, Twist, Pull, Release The Results In general, the judges found this a tougher group to score than A or B. However, several of them commented that they'd 'settled into' the new scoring method and felt that they'd now found an approach that suited them. Only James has stuck with the same pattern throughout, awarding 16, 15... down to 1 in every round so far. The total number of zeros given increased to 60 (compar