Eurovision Song Contest 2022 #3

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I wonder if this was the BBC putting the feelers out that they’d actually quite like to win and host again in the future? They knew they couldn’t beat Ukraine, so had a punt on a decent song and performer for once to make a point?
 
Lilu22 said:
Azerbaijan have signalled they want to withdraw and Romanian fans are asking TVR to withdraw following the scandal. Might be others but that’s all I can find at the moment
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There's a clip of the Romanian spokesperson waiting in the studio for them to cut to her for the scores on the eurovision subreddit which really does seem to illustrate that they didn't know until that second that they weren't getting airtime:



I did also watch a youtube video last night (how accurate it is, I don't know) that suggests it was due to 6 countries colluding to give each other points beforehand. I think this is going to rumble on for months.

 
I saw lots of Germans saying it shouldn't be an automatic qualification to prevent their young musicians from being humiliated.

At least if people get through to the final on their own merit there's still something to be celebrated even if they come last. Not that there's a perfect solution.
 
Hex said:
The jury need to gtfo the competition. They have destroyed it.
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I disagree as they were originally introduced so that music industry experts could weigh up the merits of a song based on the song and not on political machinations. It's a great shame that it would appear that bribes or other shady goings on are now ruining this process.

Otherwise we go back to countries just voting for their friends which is predictable and makes it all rather pointless.
 
Considering we won the jury vote, I'll live with it ;)

Interestingly, I watched a Eurovision show (When Eurovision goes horribly wrong - definitely a couple of years old) last night (I'd clearly recorded it before Saturday) and Carrie Grant talked about how when she headed the UK jury, when Poland had the milkmaids, she awarded them 0 points but the UK public gave them 12. She got a lot of backlash about it at the time but lets be honest, that song really really wasn't about the music :LOL:
 
DanDanTheIceCreamMan said:
Considering we won the jury vote, I'll live with it ;)

Interestingly, I watched a Eurovision show (When Eurovision goes horribly wrong - definitely a couple of years old) last night (I'd clearly recorded it before Saturday) and Carrie Grant talked about how when she headed the UK jury, when Poland had the milkmaids, she awarded them 0 points but the UK public gave them 12. She got a lot of backlash about it at the time but lets be honest, that song really really wasn't about the music :LOL:
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Carrie was right. The song was tit. I'm gay and even I could appreciate that performance for the tits.
 
DanDanTheIceCreamMan said:
Considering we won the jury vote, I'll live with it ;)

Interestingly, I watched a Eurovision show (When Eurovision goes horribly wrong - definitely a couple of years old) last night (I'd clearly recorded it before Saturday) and Carrie Grant talked about how when she headed the UK jury, when Poland had the milkmaids, she awarded them 0 points but the UK public gave them 12. She got a lot of backlash about it at the time but lets be honest, that song really really wasn't about the music :LOL:
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ong that performance was peak eurovision 😂
 
Scotch Mist said:
I disagree as they were originally introduced so that music industry experts could weigh up the merits of a song based on the song and not on political machinations. It's a great shame that it would appear that bribes or other shady goings on are now ruining this process.

Otherwise we go back to countries just voting for their friends which is predictable and makes it all rather pointless.
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I agree, we need both sets of votes.
 
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