A couple of weeks ago we were standing for humanitarian aid, and there were a lot of Ukrainians. And the old woman in front of us told us she was from Oleshky, Kherson oblast. She left after her town was occupied, made it through the longest and scariest journey of her life, and she was waiting to go back, wishing to see her home, to go back to her gardening and her pets.
Now the whole town of Oleshky is under water. Because of russians. I have no words. Only rage.
yeah I have to give it to the jury for single-handedly ruining loreen’s eurovision legacy AND abba’s reputation for the whole europe in a single evening, that’s a real talent for sure
so the juries are there to “prevent political votes” yet the entire jury is just one big popularity contest and i’m tired of these old fucks ruining the results of the public with their bland, completely out of touch opinions. why the hell are we even spending money on voting if we don’t even get what we asked for
Yall remember when KEiiNO of Norway (2019) got a huge amount of public votes and placed only 5th? And people got super mad about it? So mad actually, that there were petitions to change the voting system in Eurovision or beggin EBU at least to rethink the emphasis jury votes have.
Well, after yesterday’s bloodfest, the petitions have began gaining attention, and signatures, again.
I know it won’t turn EBU’s head, but maybe, just maybe, they might rethink the emphasisation next year.
Okay but can you guys imagine how much bigger the outrage would be if the results were announced the other way around?
Seriously just imagine.
First we get the public vote. We see the scoreboard of which songs got each countries’ 10 to 1 points and then hear the 12 points of every country individually, announced by the spokesperson.
Finland is obviously in the lead. Käärijä is interviewed multiple times and asked to speak about how he feels about being the public’s favourite. In the end, he has a lead margin of 133 points!
Then finally, we get the jury vote, from bottom to the top. Sweden receives, all at once, a ginormous amount of jury points. Finland receives not even half of Sweden’s points. Suddenly, the public favourite isn’t winning anymore, because of the jury vote.
It would really put into perspective just how much the votes of these “professional” juries affect the results of the contest. The booing would be much louder whenever fan-favourites like Norway and Croatia are left eating crumbs.
