Eurovision 2022

[simsqu]

Just printed out my scorecard.

We're all set

[CliffEdge]

Why do they bother with the music?

[jfgw]

Why do they bother with the music?

What music?

[terminal7]

Ukraine - certainty to win. 1.4 on Betfair.

Remember DYOR!!!

T7

[AsleepInYorkshire]

UK second!

Well done - incredible result

If I had a chest it would be bulging

AiY(D)

[Hypster]

I voted for the Netherlands. I thought Sweden was good too.

[Mike88]

Spain but absolutely nothing to do with the song.

[moorfield]

Norway.

How Subwoolfer did not trounce everyone is beyond me. The bonkersness that is Eurovision right there.

[WickedLester]

It almost makes me wish we'd been invaded by Russia.

[Leothebear]

It almost makes me wish we'd been invaded by Russia.

Yeah sure. But it did give Ukraine a brief, much needed spot of light-hearted pleasure.
Whole thing was worth it just for that.

[stewamax]

If Russia had been allowed to compete – and received nul points from everyone*, I wonder how Russian TV would have announced it: ‘neo-Nazi voting irregularities’ perhaps.

North Korea naturally cannot qualify as ‘Europe’ but has its Own Asiavision Song Contest. Some of North Korea’s previous entries – Tell, the Motherland, Advance of Socialism, Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms, Thinking of General and so on have a touch of sameness, although their Girls Riding on Galloping Steeds has interesting frisson. But I dread to think what happens these days to a North Korean entry that doesn't win overwhelmingly: public extraction of the voice-box with blunt scissors for the whole extended family perhaps.

* - toady Belorus was also barred

[monabri]

If Russia had been allowed to compete – and received nul points from everyone*, I wonder how Russian TV would have announced it: ‘neo-Nazi voting irregularities’ perhaps.

North Korea naturally cannot qualify as ‘Europe’ but has its Own Asiavision Song Contest. Some of North Korea’s previous entries – Tell, the Motherland, Advance of Socialism, Peace Is Guaranteed by Our Arms, Thinking of General and so on have a touch of sameness, although their Girls Riding on Galloping Steeds has interesting frisson. But I dread to think what happens these days to a North Korean entry that doesn't win overwhelmingly: public extraction of the voice-box with blunt scissors for the whole extended family perhaps.

* - toady Belorus was also barred

They would have demanded a recount as it is normally the UK entry that receives "nul points"!

[pje16]

Spain but absolutely nothing to do with the song.

gets my vote for the same reason

[Hallucigenia]

How Subwoolfer did not trounce everyone is beyond me. The bonkersness that is Eurovision right there.

Norway had a good gimmick, but a crap song - and songs really matter, particularly since they reintroduced juries in 2009. The idea that Eurovision is all about "being bonkers" is hopelessly out of date. It's a bit like the idea that the Grand National is some kind of outlier in horseracing terms that's all 100/1 Foinavons, both are pretty mainstream these days.

Ukraine's obviously a bit of a special case this year, but there was a group of three that were ahead of them on jury votes and some way ahead of the rest in the final tally - UK, Sweden and Spain - and you can imagine all of those being international top-10 hits. Because they're "good" pop songs.

I felt kind of sorry for the French - sorry, Bréton - entry, I didn't like it at first but it really grew on me, and it probably had the best staging, but I think too many people had the same first impression and they finished second-last.

[servodude]

How Subwoolfer did not trounce everyone is beyond me. The bonkersness that is Eurovision right there.

Norway had a good gimmick, but a crap song - and songs really matter, particularly since they reintroduced juries in 2009. The idea that Eurovision is all about "being bonkers" is hopelessly out of date. It's a bit like the idea that the Grand National is some kind of outlier in horseracing terms that's all 100/1 Foinavons, both are pretty mainstream these days.

Ukraine's obviously a bit of a special case this year, but there was a group of three that were ahead of them on jury votes and some way ahead of the rest in the final tally - UK, Sweden and Spain - and you can imagine all of those being international top-10 hits. Because they're "good" pop songs.

I felt kind of sorry for the French - sorry, Bréton - entry, I didn't like it at first but it really grew on me, and it probably had the best staging, but I think too many people had the same first impression and they finished second-last.

Strangely, given the unhealthy obsession with Eurovision I remember from Scandinavia, I really didn't think that much of the Swedish entry this year (and the less said about Finland the better)

As per usual the ones I picked while watching (Lithuania - I'm a sucker for a retro dynamic filter/auto wah and Switzerland ) did pants

Ah well
- sd

[pje16]

North Korea naturally cannot qualify as ‘Europe’

Why ever not, Australia have been in it (I know... weird eh )

[moorfield]

How Subwoolfer did not trounce everyone is beyond me. The bonkersness that is Eurovision right there.

Norway had a good gimmick, but a crap song - and songs really matter, particularly since they reintroduced juries in 2009. The idea that Eurovision is all about "being bonkers" is hopelessly out of date. It's a bit like the idea that the Grand National is some kind of outlier in horseracing terms that's all 100/1 Foinavons, both are pretty mainstream these days.

Ukraine's obviously a bit of a special case this year, but there was a group of three that were ahead of them on jury votes and some way ahead of the rest in the final tally - UK, Sweden and Spain - and you can imagine all of those being international top-10 hits. Because they're "good" pop songs.

I felt kind of sorry for the French - sorry, Bréton - entry, I didn't like it at first but it really grew on me, and it probably had the best staging, but I think too many people had the same first impression and they finished second-last.

I am going to stick my head over the parapet and say that I thought Ukraine's was a crap song too. For once I am agreeing with Piers Morgan, the whole thing felt like a rigged farce. I think there are better ways we can virtue-signal our support for Ukraine, we could all stand out in the street and clap once a week, for example.

[terminal7]

How Subwoolfer did not trounce everyone is beyond me. The bonkersness that is Eurovision right there.

Norway had a good gimmick, but a crap song - and songs really matter, particularly since they reintroduced juries in 2009. The idea that Eurovision is all about "being bonkers" is hopelessly out of date. It's a bit like the idea that the Grand National is some kind of outlier in horseracing terms that's all 100/1 Foinavons, both are pretty mainstream these days.

Ukraine's obviously a bit of a special case this year, but there was a group of three that were ahead of them on jury votes and some way ahead of the rest in the final tally - UK, Sweden and Spain - and you can imagine all of those being international top-10 hits. Because they're "good" pop songs.

I felt kind of sorry for the French - sorry, Bréton - entry, I didn't like it at first but it really grew on me, and it probably had the best staging, but I think too many people had the same first impression and they finished second-last.

I am going to stick my head over the parapet and say that I thought Ukraine's was a crap song too. For once I am agreeing with Piers Morgan, the whole thing felt like a rigged farce. I think there are better ways we can virtue-signal our support for Ukraine, we could all stand out in the street and clap once a week, for example.

see my post of May 14 - easiest 40% return in a few hours without risk I ever made.

T7

[pje16]

see my post of May 14 - easiest 40% return in a few hours without risk I ever made.
T7

So no nerves after the countries vote was in then
Ukraine were nowhere after that

[terminal7]

see my post of May 14 - easiest 40% return in a few hours without risk I ever made.
T7

So no nerves after the countries vote was in then
Ukraine were nowhere after that

I think Ukraine was actually about 6th after the first round. Of course the vox pox vote was always going to heavily go to Ukraine. At the end they were a very easy winner. After the Ukraine vox pox vote had come in, there was no way the UK could win - there was just not enough votes left. Of course, Norton and the main hosts tried to keep the tension going - but this was a charade for the innumerate watching the illiterate and the tone deaf.

T7