CARMELLE rehearsed on the One Bangkok Forum stage for the first time on 11 November, three days before the Grand Final. The Philippines was the last of the serious contenders without a published rehearsal day, and the organisers’ own clip — reported by Eurovoix on the morning of the 11th — closes the list to nine of the eleven acts. Thailand and Vietnam still have nothing published at all.
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Key takeaways
- CARMELLE rehearsed on 11 November, in a blue and red flame-patterned dress with a group of dancers. The clip does not show the lighting or the LED content.
- Nine of eleven acts now have a published first-rehearsal day: four on 8 November, three on 9 November, Malaysia on 10 November and the Philippines on 11 November.
- Thailand and Vietnam have no published rehearsal date — the host country and the act that opens the show. We are not going to guess one.
- The official photo filenames carry their own dates, and they let you check the fan-press timeline against a first-party source for the first time.
- One date does not reconcile. An official photograph of Bhutan’s Nyendra is filed under 10 November; Eurovoix put Bhutan in the first group on 8 November.
- The market did not react. The Philippines is 27.5% to win on Polymarket read at 17:05 UTC on 11 November, against 28.0% the day before, on a book that has barely slowed down.
What’s on this page
CARMELLE takes the stage · The four-day round, day by day · The photo files date themselves · The one date that disagrees · Thailand and Vietnam · What the photographs show · The market shrugged · What is left before Saturday · FAQ · Sources
CARMELLE takes the stage, three days out
Carmelle Allyza San Juan Collado — CARMELLE — is eighteen, from Sipocot in Camarines Sur on Luzon, and won the Philippine Selection Night in Quezon City on 30 August against nine other acts. She sings Sobra-Sobra (“Too Much”), written and composed by Gianina Camille del Rosario and Mart Sam Emmanuel Olavides, and she performs sixth of eleven on Saturday.
The organisers released a short first-look clip on 11 November. It shows her in a blue and red dress with a flame motif, joined on stage by several dancers. It deliberately shows almost nothing else: no lighting state, no LED content, no camera plan. That is the normal pattern for Eurovision first-look clips, and it is worth saying plainly because the temptation in contest week is to read a staging verdict into fifteen seconds of phone-shot footage that was cut precisely so you could not.
What matters for the running of the contest is simpler. The second favourite has now been on the stage, and there is no report of a problem.
The four-day round, day by day
This site got this wrong once already. On 9 November we published that all eleven acts had rehearsed, because a schedule said the remaining seven would follow that day and we wrote the plan up as a result. It was corrected on 10 November. So here is the list again, with each line tied to something that was actually published rather than to a schedule:
| Day | Country | Act | Winner mid, 11 Nov | Published? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 November | Laos | Thinla | 1.0% | Yes |
| 8 November | Bhutan | Nyendra | 0.2% | Yes — but see below |
| 8 November | Bangladesh | Beatmosphere | 0.2% | Yes |
| 8 November | Cambodia | Monetrey | 0.2% | Yes |
| 9 November | Mongolia | Beck | 0.3% | Yes |
| 9 November | Nepal | Pratik Himal Rai | 4.3% | Yes |
| 9 November | South Korea | JUNHEE | 2.3% | Yes |
| 10 November | Malaysia | Aina Abdul | 60.0% | Yes |
| 11 November | Philippines | CARMELLE | 27.5% | Yes |
| — | Thailand | MANG x DAOU | 4.5% | Not reported |
| — | Vietnam | Tóc Tiên | 6.5% | Not reported |
Nine acts, four days. Prices are midpoints from Polymarket’s winner market, read at 17:05 UTC on 11 November 2026.
The official photo files date themselves
There is a better source for this than anybody’s round-up, and as far as we can tell nobody has used it. The organisers publish their press photographs through a public media library at cms.eurovisionasia.com, and the photographer’s filenames are intact. They look like this:
| Filename fragment | Encoded day | Encoded date | Alt text says |
|---|---|---|---|
Selection-DAY2-261109 | Day 2 | 9 November 2026 | “Pratik Himal Rai rehearsing in Bangkok” |
Selection-DAY3-261110 | Day 3 | 10 November 2026 | “Aina Abdul rehearsing in Bangkok” |
Selection-DAY3-261110 | Day 3 | 10 November 2026 | “Nyendra rehearsing in Bangkok” |
The pattern is Selection-DAY<n>-<YYMMDD>, and the two halves agree with each other: day 2 is 9 November, day 3 is 10 November, so day 1 is 8 November. That matches the published round-ups exactly, and it independently confirms two things the fan press got right and one it may not have.
It confirms Nepal on 9 November. Eurovoix only published its Pratik Himal Rai first-look on 10 November, which could easily have been read as a 10 November rehearsal; the file says the photograph was taken on the 9th. Publication date and rehearsal date are not the same thing, and this is the cleanest available way to tell them apart.
It confirms Malaysia on 10 November, which was never in doubt.
The one date that disagrees
And it raises a question about Bhutan. The official photograph of Nyendra is filed under Selection-DAY3-261110 — 10 November. Eurovoix’s round-ups put Bhutan in the first group of four, on 8 November.
Both can be true. Eurovision rehearsal schedules routinely bring acts back, and a photographer shooting a second pass on day three would produce exactly this file. It is also possible the 8 November grouping was wrong, or that the photo call for Bhutan simply happened later than the rehearsal. We cannot tell from the outside, and we are not going to pick one and present it as settled — this is the second time in three days that a confident-sounding Eurovision Asia timeline has turned out to be a schedule rather than a record.
What we will say is the narrow thing that is certainly true: an official photograph shows Nyendra on the Bangkok stage on 10 November, whatever else happened on the 8th.
Thailand and Vietnam still have nothing published
The two gaps are awkward ones. Vietnam opens the show in slot one, and Tóc Tiên is the third favourite at 6.5%. Thailand is the host, performing eighth, and MANG x DAOU are at 4.5%. Between them they are the two acts with the most obvious reasons to be photographed, and neither has a published first-rehearsal date or a first-look clip.
The likeliest explanation is mundane: the host delegation rehearses around the production schedule rather than inside it, and Vietnam’s delegation has been the least forthcoming of the eleven all season — VTV3 published no scoreboard at all from The Sound of Vietnam, not even a top three. Absence of a clip is not absence of a rehearsal. But absence of a clip is also not a rehearsal, and we are going to keep those apart.
One genuine Thailand item did land on 10 November: MANG x DAOU released an English-language version of Aroma, while confirming that the Bangkok performance stays in Thai. That is a streaming play aimed at the Rest of World vote, not a staging change.
What the three published rehearsal photographs show
Three official rehearsal photographs have been released into the media library so far. They are more informative than the clips, because they show the room.
Malaysia. Aina Abdul in the monochrome white outfit by Malaysian designer Melinda Looi that has been reported all week — hijab and an oversized, wide-sleeved blazer — lit in a flat, saturated blue, with a large textured surface catching light behind her. It is a deliberately plain picture of a singer singing, which for the favourite is probably the point.
Bhutan. Nyendra alone, centre stage, in a gold and orange gho, in front of an LED wall carrying a snow-mountain landscape, with heavy low haze and blue beam lighting coming in from the full width of the rig. It is the most committed staging concept of the three and the cheapest to execute: one performer, one image, no dancers.
Nepal. Pratik Himal Rai in a long dark coat in front of a red and orange flame graphic with a heart shape cut into it, backed by dancers, with a camera operator walking through the foreground — which is how you know it is a rehearsal and not a performance. It is by some distance the busiest of the three stages.
Photos: Ralph Larmann / Eurovision Song Contest Asia — Aina Abdul, Nyendra and Pratik Himal Rai, from the official media library.
The second favourite rehearsed and the market shrugged
On 10 November Malaysia’s outright price moved on the day Aina Abdul rehearsed — 55.0% to 59.5% — and we wrote at the time that it was a coincidence worth noting and nothing more, because nobody outside the hall has seen a rehearsal.
The Philippines has now given us the control case. CARMELLE rehearsed on 11 November, and read at 17:05 UTC that evening the Philippines is 27.5% to win, against 28.0% at the same hour the day before. The 2nd-place book has the Philippines at 30.5% and the top-three book at 68.0%, both within a point of their previous readings.
Malaysia, meanwhile, went on moving without rehearsing: 59.5% to 60.0% on the outright, and 66.0% to 70.0% with the juries. That is the cleanest evidence yet that last night’s coincidence was a coincidence. A thin book drifts; it does not watch rehearsals.
Across all six Asia books about $93.0K has now traded, up roughly $4.8K in a day — slower again than the $6.8K that arrived the day before, and far below the pace of the weekend. For the full cross-book read, including which of the six books are worth quoting at all, see our 11 November market analysis.
What is left before Saturday
- Thursday 12 November: online ticket sales close at 20:00 ICT (13:00 UTC).
- Friday 13 November, 20:30 ICT: the Preview Show. This is also the last clean read on all six markets before the result.
- Saturday 14 November, 20:30 ICT / 14:30 CET / 13:30 UTC: the Grand Final, hosted by Woody Milintachinda and Cindy Bishop, with DARA and Jeff Satur as guests.
Note the start time, because the fan press is not consistent about it. Eurovoix’s standing footer still reads “19:30 ICT (Indochina Time) or 14:30 CET”, and those two cannot both be right: Indochina Time is six hours ahead of Central European Time, so 14:30 CET is 20:30 ICT. The organisers’ own how-to-watch page says 20:30 ICT. We go with the broadcaster.
Our running guides: how to watch the Grand Final, how the voting works, and the Eurovision Asia 2026 hub, which carries the odds board and is updated every day this week.
Frequently asked questions
When did CARMELLE rehearse for Eurovision Asia 2026?
On 11 November 2026, at the One Bangkok Forum, three days before the Grand Final. She performs sixth in the running order.
Have all eleven Eurovision Asia acts rehearsed?
Nine of the eleven have a published first-rehearsal day. Thailand and Vietnam do not. That does not mean they have not rehearsed — it means nobody has published it, and we are not treating a schedule as a record.
How many rehearsal days have there been?
Four so far, 8 to 11 November. The organisers’ own photo filenames number them Day 1 to Day 3 for 8, 9 and 10 November.
Did CARMELLE’s rehearsal change the odds?
No. The Philippines read 27.5% to win on Polymarket at 17:05 UTC on 11 November, against 28.0% at the same time the previous day.
What time does the Eurovision Asia 2026 Grand Final start?
20:30 ICT on Saturday 14 November, which is 14:30 CET and 13:30 UTC.
Sources
- Eurovoix, 11 November 2026 — Philippines: First Look at CARMELLE’s Eurovision Asia Performance
- Eurovoix, 10 November 2026 — first rehearsals continue
- Eurovoix, 10 November 2026 — Mang x Daou release an English version of “Aroma”
- Eurovision Song Contest Asia — rehearsals underway in Bangkok, and the official media library at
cms.eurovisionasia.com/api/media, read 11 November 2026. - Polymarket Gamma API, six Eurovision Asia books, read 17:05 UTC on 11 November 2026.