Who will make it through the Last Chance round in Norway?

This Saturday sees 8 acts battling it out to take the last 2 spots in the Norwegian Melodi Grand Prix, which takes place on Saturday 6 February.

The 6 acts that came 3rd and 4th in the 3 semi finals will compete with 2 acts that (we think!) got the highest number of votes or pencentage of votes without coming in the Top 4 each week.

To make things even more exciting, Norway will be using a 'duel' system, which will see songs pitted against each other.  Initially 8 songs will be whittled down to 4, and then, finally, 2 will be triumphant.  The chart above illustrates how things will work.

So who do we think will get through? Here are our predictions with the act making it through each round in bold:

First duel:
Skanksters (Life Is Here Today) v  Bjørn Johan Muri (Yes Man)

Second duel:
Gaute Ormåsen (Synk eller svøm) v Heine Totland (The Best Of Me Is You)

Third duel:
Johnny Hide (Rewind Love) v Mira Craig (I'll Take You High)

Fourth duel
Karoline Garfjell (Tokyo Night) v Venke Knutson (Jealous Cause I Love You)

So, we see the 2nd round of duels looking like this:
Bjørn v Gaute and Mira v Venke

This is where it gets much harder to predict what will happen.  On paper it looks like Bjørn will win (Yes Man has done well in the itunes chart and he did well in Norwegian Idol) but Gaute's song is the only entry in the Norwegian language and is pretty good).  But we'll plump for Bjørn (although are just as happy if it's Gaute).

We love Mira because she wrote the fabulous Hold On Be Strong, but I'll Take You High isn't in the same league.  And, more importantly, Jealous Cause I Love You is just fantastic.  We're hoping the Norwegians will go with the better song....so fingers crossed for Venke here.

Whatever happens it's going to be an exciting night!