SURLAW REVEAL - The Homervision Fongcontest

RIGHT. HERE WE GO.

14 juries to get through, so make sure you've enough beer/wine/schnapps/whatever you're having yourself to keep the glass topped up.
After the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth jury votes I'll post a table with the current scores, and another right before the final jury vote.

Our 14 jurors are:

Also Starring LeVar Burton
Electric Nitwit
Homer J. Fong
Irish Aris
Kolido
Necro
phatkev
Rothko
s1ippy
Sawduck
ShaneU
sKeith
the purple tin
y0ssar1an22


First up we go to visit the Home(r) jury – dialing in from the streets of Bucharest, the votes from Rhomerania are as follows:

1 point to Pain Killer
2 points to Mulatu’s Mood
3 points to I Hope You Die
4 points to Sakura No Sono
5 points to Que No Salga la Luna
6 points to Wo ist die Euphorie
7 points to To You
8 points to Viltu vitrast
10 points to Jeune et Con
And the 12 points from Rhomerania go to……

……OWL



Fun fact: I saw She Keeps Bees way back in 2009, at a tiny gig in the Old Oak in Cork. There was a handful of people there and 19-year old me was attempting to be a cool hipster but was more like a giddy fanboy. :cool: Can confirm that lead singer Jessica Larrabee is very beautiful as well as talented.

We’re heading north next, to visit not just one but two Norwegian cities as we gather the votes from (and I am very proud of myself for coming up with this name :cool: ) Oslo Starring LeVar Bergen:

1 point to Owl
2 points to Jeune et Con
3 points to Viltu vitrast
4 points to Eleven Wives
5 points to I Hope You Die
6 points to To You
7 points to Back Home
8 points to Reincarnation
10 points to How We Be

And the 12 points from Oslo Starring LeVar Bergen go to……

.....HAVE YOU SEEN THE RAIN. Which sadly wasn't in contention. So instead they go to.....

……COME ALIVE

Back to the Balkans now to gather the points from Y0ssnia and Herzegossar1ana:

1 point to Que No Salga La Luna
2 points to How We Be
3 points to Come Alive
4 points to Back Home
5 points to Jeune et Con
6 points to Heartbreaker
7 points to Wo ist die Euphorie
8 points to Pain Killer
10 points to Gone Gone Gone

He’d rather award 22, but the 12 points from Y0ssnia and Herzegossar1ana go to……

……DRESSED FOR SPACE



The top two scores go to two new entries on the scoreboard! This makes things very interesting...

A short hop now from the Rock of Gibraltar to the port of Tangier, to see where the points from Morothko* are heading:

1 point to Eleven Wives
2 points to Mulatu’s Mood
3 points to Gone Gone Gone
4 points to Music Is My Hot Hot Sex
5 points to Dressed For Space
6 points to Pain Killer
7 points to Sakura No Sono
8 points to Wo Ist die Euphorie
10 points to Jeune et Con

And the 12 points from Morothko go to……

……COME ALIVE



A second 12-point score of the night for the Australian four-piece – is this a good sign of things to come?

*Morocco did actually enter the Eurovision once, way back in 1980. They finished 2nd-last and haven't been seen again since. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Onto Jury #7 now; a trip to the Sudetinland in the Czech Repurpleic.....

....yeah, this was one of the harder names to do something with.

1 point to Come Alive
2 points to Eleven Wives
3 points to Owl
4 points to I Hope You Die
5 points to Pain Killer
6 points to Que No Salga La Luna
7 points to Sakura No Sono
8 points to Wo Ist die Euphorie
10 points to Back Home

And the 12 points from Czech Repurpleic go to……

……MULATU’S MOOD


A first perfect score for the Ethiopian jazz man!

So my story with this one is that I was visiting a friend in Munich last year around the time of Oktoberfest and we ended up at a jazz bar, already quite tipsy, and decided more beer was a good idea. We both liked this track that was playing in the background, so I Shazammed it....it was this song.
A couple of months later, around Christmas time, I was in the Secret Book and Record shop on Wicklow Street in Dublin (perfectly sober this time). There was cool jazz music playing in the background, once again Shazammed it.....once again, it was Mr Astatke (a different track).

So yeah. Not an earth-shatteringly amazing story, probably won't get a book out of it....but it's good enough to tide ye over while you wait for the next lot of points.

From Prague to Poland, to see what WarSawduck has in store for us:

1 point to Back Home
2 points to Come Alive
3 points to Heartbreaker
4 points to Wo Ist Die Euphorie
5 points to I Hope You Die
6 points to To You
7 points to How We Be
8 points to Owl
10 points to Reincarnation

And the 12 points from WarSawduck (this can be their nickname when they get really angry!) go to……

……GONE GONE GONE



Another first 12-pointer here, keeping the contest wide-open.

Electric Nitwit be like:

POSITION SONG POINTS
1 Wo ist die Euphorie 50
2 Come Alive 47
3 Jeune et Con 40
4 Sakura No Sono 33
5 Reincarnation 33
6 How We Be 32
7 Gone Gone Gone 29
8 Back Home 28
9 Owl 28
10 To You 26
11 Dressed For Space 23
12 Viltu vitrast 23
13 Heartbreaker 21
14 Painkiller 21
15 I Hope You Die 20
16 Eleven Wives 19
17 Que No Salga La Luna 18
18 Mulatu's Mood 16
19 Music Is My Hot Hot Sex 15
20 Seis 0

The Germans stay ahead but having not scored a point from the last jury it means only three points now separate them from The Jezabels in second place. Saez keeps up his strong scoring throughout the game to hold onto third place.

At the foot of the table, it’s looking very bleak for poor Mr Pedaja with nul points from nine juries. A perfect score from purple tine can’t quite pull Mr Astatke out of the bottom three.

DANGER! DANGER! HIGH VOLTAGE!

On the shores of Lake Zurich, as a current of fully charged points flows to us from Electric Nitswitzerland;

1 point to Mulatu’s Mood
2 points to Owl
3 points to Sakura No Sono
4 points to SEIS!!! :eek:
5 points to Wo Ist Die Euphorie
6 points to Jeune et Con
7 points to Gone Gone Gone
8 points to Pain Killer
10 points to Back Home

And die zwölf Electricnitswitzerlandsfongcontestischepointen go to……

……COME ALIVE



The Aussies leap into the lead with a third perfect score of the night; can they hold on for victory?
Or perhaps a late surge from the hitherto ignored Estonian entry will shock us all with an against the odds victory?

CAN SEIS PULL OF THE GREATEST WIN IN SURLAW HISTORY?!!! :eek: