Eurovision Song Contest 2025 - Mod warning in the OP

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.

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

This is great!

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

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