Eurovision 2016

Poland a real example of jury/audience split there

I like not knowing what the max points are!

UK 12 points went to lithuania...

Glad Ukraine had the credibility of coming second in the popular vote but that was some of the worst political voting from the juries I have ever seen.

Had Bulgaria e/w though!

the emphasis on the popular vote has worked out pretty well

The Polish vote was extraordinary. The diaspora genuinely can't be that big.

Lol UK

always

That was the most entertaining package this show has ever been. Admittedly I only tuned in when the performances had finished. Also good to see Burial's influence finally hitting Eurovision.

I don't think the Polish discrepancy was that weird, their tune was the sort corny but heartfelt bag of clichés that a lot of people like, but professional music folks probably don't.

poland guy's costume got him bare votes

That was a really tense way for the final results to play out! Amazing stuff.

Is it true SVT has used that system on the Swedish selection contest for a few years?

Final totals:

http://www.eurovision.tv/save-files/resizes/d2/7e/bc/3f/62/6f/c4/2a/38/ac/de/62/8c/7f/1a/ea/final.jpg

The detailed results are up. The Ukrainian public gave Russia 12 and the Russian public gave Ukraine 10.

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/results?event=2113&voter=RU

Not a classic contest but still entertaining, one of my favourite winners in extra time. Australia being overtaken in the second half was predictable ime. Most fun round our place was guessing whether Polish Pirate Dude (a) was going to come from last to win the thing or (b) had been forgotten about.

I was going to bet on Bulgaria e/w too but never got round to it, oh well.

my vote for serbia was the second least popular uk vote behind croatia :/

my second choice, azerbaijan, was the third least popular

w/e

Very, very happy with these results. 4th for Bulgaria is magnificent. A win for Ukraine is magnificent. Australia didn't win, but Dami Im will still hopefully get a boost from it because she is potentially an ace pop star.

Atmosphere in Globen was goosebumps the whole way. Unfortunately the screens they put up were too small to follow the scores in the arena unless you had 20:20 vision. Vienna was better in that regard.

Are you going to Kyiv?

Shame they didn't have separate points for the Polish milk maids with the big tits because that'd have been top 10 as well, and cream and butter >>>> long-haired creep-faced diva man.

x-p Yes I will go to Kyiv.

Cool, I might too. I think I say that every year but Kyiv hosting makes it more likely.

I went to the final a few years back. Lots of fun, really positive atmosphere and the efficiency of the whole operation was pretty impressive

My entire band is now making plans to go to Kiev for the contest next year (should I be spelling it as Kyiv or are both spellings acceptable? Not sure of the political/historical implications, if any.)

Very, very happy with these results. 4th for Bulgaria is magnificent. A win for Ukraine is magnificent. Australia didn't win, but Dami Im will still hopefully get a boost from it because she is potentially an ace pop star.

― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, May 15, 2016 1:13 AM (15 hours ago)

All of this, yes.

The UK entry was shit and we voted for shit.

Kyiv is the Ukrainian spelling and Kiev is the Russian spelling. Both are acceptable as a very high proportion of people in the city speak Russian or a mixture of the two. I tend to use Kyiv as most of the people I deal with in Ukraine are primarily Ukrainian speakers. In general, if anyone feels very strongly that it should only be one spelling or the other, they're dubious.

Hmm. Ukraine has banned the Russian Eurovision 2017 singer, Yulia Samoylova, from taking part in the contest as she performed at a show in Crimea two years ago.

How convenient.

The Ukrainian security services are apparently investigating whether the Armenian entrant has also visited Crimea, so she might be out too.

This is all very strange.

(I mean on the one hand it obv isn't, but on the other.)

i've always heard that crimea is one of the most beautiful places on earth. so i'm not surprised that a lot of pop musicians have been there?

It's a huge summer holiday destination so there are lots of beach concerts, etc