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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.

youtube.com/watch?v=nkvcMe3NiQ

@jwildeboer
Latvia my favourite too.

Switzerland was also in my top list, and 0 votes from the public???

Maybe we are just too old.

@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.

@ianburnette @jwildeboer

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 UK 0 points is tradition. Switzerland was weird.

@jwildeboer
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 🤣