Eurovision 2015

ok I'm primed for this to rule

not ruling though

it is a Muse ballad

italy killing it

Was about to say. If you are going for a big ballad, go for a BIG ballad.

everyone post yer 1-2-3-4-5

serbia
italy
belgium
latvia
idk greece maybe, those top 4 stood way apart

armenia 5 maybe in fact

serbia
latvia
armenia
sweden
belgium

Russia
Belgium
Serbia
Sweden
Latvia

Latvia
Serbia
Georgia
Armenian coven
Germany or Belgium

Top three way apart for me. Also a nod to any other woman wearing a cape.

Australia
Serbia
Belgium
Georgia
Germany

to vote do I have to download this dumb app? I'm not spending money on an sms ffs

I think they said the UK can't vote by text, but I dunno if that means yes, you have to get the app? I'm not voting, anyway. Don't care *that* strongly about it.

voted for latvia. this percussive extravaganza is quite something

UKers can vote by dialling the short mobile number 6 22 52 nn

Latvia
Georgia
Belgium
Serbia
Norway

yeah I d/l'ed the app and it just triggers sending a 65 eurocent sms so funk dat

Serbia
Estonia
France

can't remember the rest, Han's gone to bed with our voting doc

this chap would have made a fine castrato

nobody's voting for serbia! dear me

And now an hour of voting representatives in various states of inebriation.

why does evertybody want to hump italy's leg?

because it was a fantastic leg

Italy was shite, wtf? Also I'm really confused about the voting, did they skip the small numbers last time too? I don't remember this.

http://clickamericana.com/wp-content/uploads/wargames-us-map-of-attack.jpg

xp they've skipped the small numbers in the voting for a number of years, they'd be here for another three hours otherwise.
I don't get the votes for Italy, their song was your basic Il Divo act.

Italy is just straight pablum.

Jesus can someone buy Graham Norton a map?

italy was great! they nailed it

quite a few others were more interesting sure

DON'T FORGET SUSI

All these technical faults remind me of when the video conferencing gear screws up at work.

"didn't see that coming" - THERE ARE TONS OF LATVIANS IN IRELAND

find it illuminating how azerbaijan and armenia like georgia but fucking detest each other

Songs I like:

Georgia
Israel
Serbia
Norway
Romenia

I like to think of the 'bridges' as gravity's rainbow style super-rockets

Sweden have this, I think.

Lithuanian - Russian beef is on

Russian results wonk totally misjudging the mood of the room.

love the idea that 200 sammarinese students in a single bar decided to give latvia 12 points

Taking the electro-country thing to its logical conclusion by thanking people for votin' 'n' supportin'.

Latvia and Israel were the best. Didn't care for the winner but I rarely do.

Some absurd political voting from the juries on Russia. Lithuania's televote had Gagarina 3rd, the jury members voted it 20th, with two making it 26th. San Marino had it in 18th.

Apparently Italy won the televote by some distance and it was only the juries that led to Sweden winning, which is the first time that has ever happened.

01. Italy – 366
02. Russia – 286
03. Sweden – 279
04. Belgium – 195
05. Estonia – 144
06. Australia – 132
07. Israel -104
08. Latvia – 100
09. Albania – 93
10. Serbia – 86
11. Armenia – 77
12. Romania – 69
13. Georgia – 51
14. Azerbaijan – 48
15. Poland – 47
16. Lithuania – 44
17. Norway – 43
18. Montenegro – 34
19. Slovenia – 27
20. Spain – 26
21. Greece – 24
22. Hungary – 21
23. Cyprus – 8
24. United Kingdom – 7
25. Germany – 5
26. France – 4
27. Austria – 0

Latvia came third with juries, Italy sixth.

01. Sweden – 353
02. Latvia – 249
03. Russia – 234
04. Australia – 224
05. Belgium – 186
06. Italy – 171
07. Norway – 163
08. Israel – 77
09. Cyprus – 63
10. Georgia – 62
11. Estonia – 53
12. Montenegro – 44
13. Austria – 40
14. Azerbaijan -40
15. Slovenia – 36
16. Lithuania – 31
17. Hungary – 29
18. Greece – 29
19. France – 24
20. Germany – 24
21. Romania – 21
22. Armenia – 15
23. United Kingdom – 12
24. Serbia – 12
25. Spain – 6
26. Albania – 4
27. Poland – 2

*second*

the French announcers were hilariously anti-Russian. when Germany gave Russia 12 points one announcer groaned "oh no". as Sweden started to rise the French announcers got progressively more gleeful, cheering each time Sweden came up higher than Russia.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenia–Azerbaijan_relations_in_the_Eurovision_Song_Contest

he was told by his interrogators that they had the names and addresses of all 43 Azerbaijanis who voted for Armenia

This was excellent trolling from Armenia:

http://i.imgur.com/l31Y4Ng.jpg

So, the UK got 7 with one set, 12 with the other, and in Total we end up with 5?

any jury that voted the UK above Serbia ought to be forced to join Electro Velvet