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Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭LordBasil


    Re Ireland, I think in hindsight it was a bad sign when Ireland was not drawn to open the SF. Ireland and Australia were the only fun up-tempo songs in the first half and based on the studio versions 'Laika Party' seemed a more appropriate opener than 'Milkshake Man'. The fact Australia opened signalled producers didn't have confidence that Ireland's staging would be impactful enough to open the show. So frustrating, if it had of been staged better we easily could have qualified. We got 28 points, the same as Serbia and Georgia but we scored points off more countries than they did which is why we are 13th and they are 14th & 15th. That shows we had potential for more universal reach if the song had been staged better.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,054 ✭✭✭Storm 10


    Guys not that its over can someone explain how does the public vote work, I cant understand how the UK and Switzerland get zero points surely someone voted for them, would acts not be getting thousands of votes in Europe.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,799 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The televotes are grouped similar to the way the jury votes with a 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,12.

    So they got some votes, but there were at least 10 countries ahead of them who reached the threshold of bagging some points. If you're not in the Top 10 you get 0.

    Each participating country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points, based on their ten favourite songs from other countries. One set of picks comes from their professional jury, and the other from televoting in their country. Only the set from televoting is used in the semi-finals. Both sets from jury and televoting are used in the final.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_at_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,698 Mod ✭✭✭✭Say Your Number


    Justin Hawkins reacts to the Australian entry, hard to know if he likes it or not.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭Libertine07


    This is great!

    I think he enjoyed it really, he gives himself away a few times.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,642 ✭✭✭✭Welsh Megaman


    Downloaded ‘Tutta L’Italia’. ☺️☺️

    And ‘#eurodab’. 😎



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,527 ✭✭✭archfi


    That was great, subscribed to Justin's YT channel! 😂

    A thing isn't what it says it is.

    A thing is what it does.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,209 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    The sheer scale of the advertising by Israel and the cynicism of it were the biggest issues here imo though the voting system is inherently a problem with 20 votes each. By cynicism, the word "Israel" wasn't mentioned in the ads, just the song number and you'd have to squint hard to make out the flag in the corner. Those ads were everywhere and shown all over the world. That's never happened before and the obvious question the EBU has to ask is do they want everyone doing that going forward? The template is there now. The whole thing would go far beyond the farce it already is.

    I see the Spanish and Belgian broadcasters are looking for a review and doesn't look likely they'll be the only ones demanding changes. The setup appears vulnerable to manipulation before you consider the advertising blitz.

    In any case as discussed by other posters televoting inherently gives advantages to the countries with big diaspora.



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