Eurovision 2016

i'm on a delay, just saw the Russian one. wow @ that staging

Yeah, how did they do it?

Also, is this the year for Georgian indie? Y/N

wish i liked the ukranian riposte more, but i don't think it's so good

Hmm the UK one's pretty good except for the David Cameron/Simply Red quote

is this armenia in the bob mackie esque outfit?

Call me a curmudgeon but hugely successful American pop acts should not be allowed to be involved

I feel that as he has always worked with Swedish producers and has been ripped off by at least eight entrants per contest over the last ten years he has earned his place.

^fair

voted serbia

That's the worst Max Martin song in recent memory though, lol.

Best half-time ever

yeah srs

Jury votes are so dodgy. Four of them haven't placed Russia or Australia at all.

whaaaat

my top 6 was fwiw serbia, azerbaijan, russia, latvia, armenia, australia

not sure what the political ramifications of liking both azerbaijan and armenia are

so are there two sets of results, for jury and for audience?

Yes, it is designed to make it more dramatic but it only serves to highlight how ridiculous the juries are.

agh

I have to say, I wouldn't mind Australia winning. Despite the problems in the song, her performance was quite thrilling. And at least then we wouldn't have the usual complaints about neighbour countries voting for each other.

Though the local presenter said that even if Australia wins, the competition will not be held there, but in some European country... I don't get it?

Oh good because the voting is always the best bit

these jury votes are insane

The audience's results are announced at the end. Quickly, they promise. (They give each competitor's total in ascending order AFAIK)

on the one hand australia doesn't need to be storming into yet another international contest and just winning it.

on the other hand australia has become such a toxic racist shithole that a sth korean born woman winning a multicultural popularity contest that's nine tenths lgbt mardi gras would actually flatten the thumping brigade of self-serving bigots here, at least for a while.

LEE LIN

Fuck the UK. I'm on the first plane out.

who's on the jury?

Fuck the UK. I'm on the first plane out.

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you generally are tbf

True!

Xp, Two producers, two no name singers and a coach from The Voice.

All of Russia's political enemies have given them no points, which is unlikely to be reflected by their public votes, but I can't see Australia being caught at this stage.

Wow, UK jury gave Georgia douze points? (Hope the public has more sense..!)

There'd be no practical problem with Australia actually hosting the contest, except it'd have to be afternoon European time, instead of prime time ad time -- ohh, right

georgia was real music made by real musicians m8

I missed that, so Britain gave 12 points to the Britpop pastiche? Lol!

Tense now

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.