Ste117 wrote:
Russia are going to be so annoyed 1. because they threw everything at this to win it and 2. becuase Ukraine won with that kind of song. It may sound stupid that a music contest can casue this but I fear for the future. This was a statement and Russia won't like it. An even bigger statement than that of Conchita in 2014. This could have serious outcomes and consequences. In Western media Jamala pressed the issue of present day Crimea. I expect some words or even hightened tensions over Ukraine now.
Well, Russian state TV seemed quite relaxed. They just said Sergey was the best, whoever the winner, and left it at that. They were angrier about Conchita.
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Winner of a FIFA Prediction Fair Play Award (a phrase becoming increasingly ironic) "... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
And Mans and Petra had it wrong on Thursday.
'The interval act is your one big chance- to fail to live up to Riverdance!'
Because yesterday, they did. I mean, when Alexander and the hamster wheel turned up...
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Winner of a FIFA Prediction Fair Play Award (a phrase becoming increasingly ironic) "... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
I watched this last night, I enjoyed the voting part - though some of the jury votes were just bizarre to say the least. In many ways the public seem to have kept them in line, for some time it would seem.
That said I wonder whether the public follow geography/media a bit too much?
I thought the 'staging' of the Russian song was incredible. I didn't really like the Australian song but thought it was performed well. I absolutely hated the Ukraine song but fair dues it gained a lot of the public vote - I get it she was a first Tatar and it was heartfelt but it was really 'meh' for me. I like songs to get the blood pumping.
I thought the UK entry was pretty trashy, but shockingly we did get a lot of votes San Marino and Malta seem to like blighty for some reason?
Finally can someone tell me how Poland was 4th on public vote?
A lot of Poles live in foreign countries, voting for Poland from there, meaning Poland gets quite a few points from a reasonable amount of countries. Has been like this for years.
Manager of Team Popo4Ever p/b Morshynska in the PCM.Daily Man-Game
ivaneurope wrote:
Russia gave 10 points to Ukraine from televoting - how ironic
Tells you a lot about how the Russain people feel. Maybe not 100% behind Putin over Ukraine or maybe Putin will call those in like they do in Azerbaijan if they find people voting for Armenia and jail them or deport them to Siberia
The best solution for Russia is to withdraw and tell ESC/EBU to f**k itself and revive Intervision (the Eastern Bloc counterpart from the late 70's/early 80's and revived for one time only in 2008).
ivaneurope wrote:
The best solution for Russia is to withdraw and tell ESC/EBU to f**k itself and revive Intervision (the Eastern Bloc counterpart from the late 70's/early 80's and revived for one time only in 2008).
They always say they'll do that, but never carry through. They can't resist the thought of what they could do if they won.
They'll be back in Kiev.
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Winner of a FIFA Prediction Fair Play Award (a phrase becoming increasingly ironic) "... Because he (me) has a sound tactical mind in general..." jandal7, at 9:30 am GMT on 12th May 2016
Apparently there's an petition calling for an complete revisit of the votes. IMO it will be ignored by the EBU
Speaking of Russia how come they send an gay singer (Sergey Lazarev has openly admited about being homosexual, he supoorts gay marriges and also he thinks Crimea is still in Ukraine) in the contest when they criticized about Conchita Würst winning it 2 years ago? Are they having short memory or what?
Also it was way obvious that Ukraine will win just to stick it to Russia and Putin's propaganda machine and superiority
Controversy continues, EBU have had to investigate reasons why Jamala apparently performed her song before 1 September which is against the rules but they deemed that because only a hundred or so people have seen the performance an unfair advantage wasn't gained. If it was more it would have been banned from the contest and Ukraine would have been kicked out.
ivaneurope wrote:
Speaking of Russia how come they send an gay singer (Sergey Lazarev has openly admited about being homosexual, he supoorts gay marriges and also he thinks Crimea is still in Ukraine) in the contest when they criticized about Conchita Würst winning it 2 years ago? Are they having short memory or what?
They hope that the audience has a short memory and that they would forget the russian politics. Same almost worked a yeat ago when Russia (!!!) sang about piece.
Nöjesbladet has revealed some names that are predicted to compete in Melodifestivalen in February. Biggest names on the list are probably Wiktoria and Ace Wilder and Lisa Ajax.
Ok, it's Eurovision season again! So as of the 29th of January there are 5 songs that have been revealed for Eurovision 2017, those songs come from Albania, Belarus, Finland, Georgia and the UK. This weekend marked the first proper national final weekend with 'Eurovision: You Decide' (the UK) and UMK (Finland). Here are the entries...
Albania
'Botë'
Lindita Halimi
Spoiler
Belarus
'Historyja majho žyccia'
NAVI
Spoiler
Finland
'Blackbird'
Norma John
Spoiler
Georgia
'Keep The Faith'
Tako Gachechiladze
Spoiler
United Kingdom
'Never Give Up On You'
Lucie Jones
Spoiler
In the next week the semi-final allocation draw will happen in Kyiv which will determine who will perform in which semi-final, Switzerland will choose their song on the 5th. Most importantly in my opinion is that Melodifestivalen (Sweden's selection) begins on Saturday in Gothenburg. In this year's edition 2 former ESC winners in the form of Charlotte Perrelli and Loreen, yes the Loreen of the song 'Euphoria'. This show is a must-watch for any ESC fan, in some ways it is better than the actual ESC.
I honestly don't know why the UK continues to waste money by entering songs at this event. It doesn't matter what song we enter we will get no points. Was the same before Brexit but now it'll be even more pointless.
"Ringo is exactly right", Shonak - 8 September 2016
Albania 
Belarus 
Finland 
Georgia 
United Kingdom 
