None of this makes sense.
0 points for Switzerland and UK? That's virtually impossible. Something went wrong with the vote.
Austria wins. Israel second. This is the weirdest result I have ever witnessed in all my ESC years.
Congratulations, Tautumeitas and Latvia. You are my personal winner of the ESC. And with that I close this thread and have another glass of wine. The show was worth it. The public vote needs scrutiny as it seems off by magnitudes of what makes sense.
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Latvia my favourite too.
Switzerland was also in my top list, and 0 votes from the public???
Maybe we are just too old.
@jwildeboer yes. Lettland war toll. <3
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OMG. I read "war toll" in Englisch
@elCelio @jwildeboer oh nooo /o\
It means [it] 'was great'! :D
@jwildeboer Latvia was completely entrancing. Really surprised that San Marino got so few public points considering it's the most streamed track by a significant margin.
probably the Italian second entry, I mean, San Marino's entry was not perceived as novel enough.
@jwildeboer Re: scrutiny
Provided that the number of votes received per entry are made available for each voting country, one could (and some will) rank the voting countries per votes needed for a point, may be further detailed into 1, 2, .., 12 points.
@jwildeboer even though I had nothing to do with it, I’ll take that as a personal compliment. Latvia showed a really high level of craftsmanship with Artūrs Ānalts at the helm.
I think Germany got seriously screwed over though, they had the catchiest song.
@jwildeboer Tautumeitas make beautiful music
@jwildeboer It's not so weird when one know that christian extremists mobilizes.
@jwildeboer there are substancially large amout of politics involved on competition. After all the best performance and song prevailed in the of near cathastrofic event.
@jwildeboer what about 2015 (?) the year with the Ukraine-Russia-Australia top three ?
That was a stressful mess on par with last one.
@jwildeboer I have actually not listened to any song. Is the result weird as in "the scores do not reflect the quality of the song or the performance"?
@jwildeboer Nah, that has happened several times before.
@jwildeboer Maybe time for #Eurovision to review how votes are cast
@jwildeboer UK 0 points is tradition. Switzerland was weird.
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It's not realy the number of vote, they do some math
Last year the sum of televote are 2204.
But people could vote 20 time....
@jwildeboer UK was one of the worst one and I really disliked it compared to most others which are mostly ok. UK was awful.
Austria deserved the win.
@jwildeboer that reminds me of the show in my country during the selection
@jwildeboer this is why we love this contest