What is a year without me having to remind everyone Sweden missed the finals in 2010 due to juries? And the year after that we would've won without the juries. Juries also ranked Sweden as 17th this year so come on
SWEDEN:
Esc 2010: televoting 9th jury 11th (11th)
Esc 2011: televoting 2nd jury 9th (3rd)
Esc 2012: televoting 1st jury 1st (1st)
Esc 2013: televoting 18th jury 3rd (14th)
Esc 2014: televoting 4th jury 2nd (3rd)
Esc 2015: televoting 3rd jury 1st (1st)
Esc 2016: televoting 6th jury 9th (5th)
Esc 2017: televoting 4th jury 3rd (5th)
Esc 2018: televoting 23rd jury 2nd (7th)
Esc 2019: televoting 9th jury 2nd (5th)
Esc 2021: televoting 11th jury 17th (14th)
Lowest position: 14º (2 times)
Favorable jury: 7/11
Big theft suffered: Esc 2011
Big theft done: Esc 2015 (also known as "The Italian Job”
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Great help received: Esc 2013, 2015 2018, 2019
During your ESC journey there have been times where you brought songs not up to the final but your worst result since 2010 was 14th place ... If we look good, even in bad luck, your ranking follows one balanced scheme. Other nations, especially the "Big 5", would not have this attention. Let us not forget that among the "voting blocs" the Scandinavian one is the strongest. Do you want to tell me that the bookmakers have not followed this data? Do you want to tell me that you are not always first or in the "Top 5" every year for bookmakers? I think you want to close your eyes so as not to see. H.P. Lovecraft will never give you only his impressions but his data.
ITALY:
Esc 2010: not present
Esc 2011: televoting 11th jury 1st (2nd)
Esc 2012: televoting 17th jury 4th (9th)
Esc 2013: televoting 10th jury 8th (7th)
Esc 2014: televoting 19th jury 21st (21st)
Esc 2015: televoting 1st jury 6th (3rd)
Esc 2016: televoting 18th jury 13th (16th)
Esc 2017: televoting 6th jury 7th (6th)
Esc 2018: televoting 3rd jury 17th (5th)
Esc 2019: televoting 3rd jury 4th (2nd)
Esc 2021: televoting 1st jury 4th (1st)
Lowest position: 21º (1 time)
Favorable jury: 4/10 (when it was favorable, apart from 2011-2012, it changed little)
Big theft suffered: Esc 2015, 2018 and 2019 (in a minor form)
Great help received: 2011 and 2012 (the caresses at the New Entry - we paid dearly for these caresses! Poisonous caresses).
I also wanted to follow the Italian ESC path to make a comparison and not just focus on one nation. The fundamental rule of science is the comparison and study of results. Italy was clearly helped in the 2011/2012 editions as if to please a nation that had returned after many years of absence and perhaps also because, apart from positive votes, it would never have won. Sweden has badly tolerated, together with Turkey (which will then abandon the competition, according to them, due to the low values brought to the ESC by Conchita Würst ...), that Italy would return by right among the "Big 5" and had the final assured. Later Sweden did not digest that in 2011 it was robbed and I admit that if Sweden lost it is because of the great kindness of the juries towards Italy. For years, data and newspaper articles in hand, there was always a lot of coldness between the two nations at the ESC. At one point Italy tried to take a step towards Sweden by favoring them in the jury vote and only after many years did Sweden respond tepidly. The hatchet had been buried (although the competition between the two music schools remained alive). Now let's go back to Italy's path to the ESC, in 2013 "the turning point", by now "the goodness" was over and in the end it is normal: the ESC is a race and it is right that there should be no favoritism . In 2014 and 2016, Italy had a favorable jury but had poor help compared to the abundance that Sweden received in 2013, 2018 and 2019 (probably, following the same yardstick, we would have finished 8th with Michielin and 14th with Emma Marrone). In 2015, the "theft of the millennium" with "Grande Amore" surpassed by "Heroes" (Sweden avenged the 2011 defeat). In 2017 Gabbani was "held" by the jury (for me he could not and did not deserve to win - even if I have sometimes seen worse win). In 2018, for me the “biggest spite” of the jury ... Ermal Meta and Moro could have won but the jury placed the Italian singers in 17th place!!! If our singers had called themselves Metå and Møro they would have gotten more respect. In 2019 with a "positive Swedish vote" Mahmood would have won and in 2021 the Måneskin received 4th place from the jury when all of Europe praised Italian rockers. In 2021 we won because the Scandinavian songs were all quite weak (you wanted to achieve more with... Tusse?!?!) And because it was a very tough edition (France, Switzerland and Ukraine were top and many other countries had some good entries) and also the pandemic has influenced to create a little chaos among the voting blocks (these cases happen with the same frequency of the alignment of the planets and when it happens ... one of the hated "Big 5" wins). In your opinion Filip, if the legend of "Italy was robbed again" was created at the ESC, isn't there a pinch of truth?
Conclusion:
I could also do other more in-depth calculations. I think I'm the only crazy person in the world who loves doing this but then I thought that I didn't want to bore too much those who would read my message and then music is nice to live it with joy and not through mathematical / political calculations.
This year, I tell you honestly, if Sweden brings a better song than Italy I will recognize it (I always do) and if Sweden wins in Italy I will applaud. But don't tell me that Sweden has suffered the same fate as Italy because I start laughing