MonkeyJaw
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That's a really interesting point. Maybe the contest just was shit in 2007 and -8. (Although I'm still gutted about Iceland 07!!) People would have voted for Norway and Germany in 2009 and 2010 anyway.juries used to be a good idea when their votes seemed to be genuinely non-political (even in 2011 where they wildly disagreed with the televote, even more so than this year) but right now they are just shady, not just from western countries that actively smite down perceived "diasporas" but also from eastern countries that desperately try to hang on to whatever's left of their block voting since the televoters don't do that job for them anymore (since, you know, other countries are just sending better songs and televoters aren't devious strategists).
I'm happy Poland got slaughtered by the juries, although I would have expected it score opposite - juries loving it; people hating it. It's the most boring song ever.I still think that it's an injustice that juries put Poland (a song that has clearly a strong message and is thus a perfect example for "building bridges") on the last place ... especially in the Semi she lost ~70 points because of the juries.
As for Albania, I cannot get my head around why you people who love it, can notice how horrific her performance was. It was the worst of the night, easily.
Uh... if a horde of countries give 12 points to the eventual winner, are you surprised another 12 points came from a neighbouring country?other than denmark-norway those are pretty high points that pretty much prove the block exists lol.
then this year russia was the only eastern country to actually get points from all of their allies, while the others basically ignored each other to give their points to sweden, belgium and italy (russia's top 3 point getters), while sweden got all the 12s from their block and norway still got a whole lot of points for a song that universally failed to make an impact on the televote.