Eurovision Final 2025 Thread 3

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If Eurovision went back to being strictly for actual European nations only , that would be an improvement as Israel wouldn't be eligible.

Only downside would be no more fun songs from Australia.

How many rockets have Hamas fired from Gaza into Israel since 2006?

To be fair, they weren't. There was a thread on Reddit about acts having audience reaction muted and cheers added (for example Australia lost most of its audience participation which maybe stuffed its chances). It seems to be the new normal, which is a shame.

Respect the thread starter!
Its sad that such a light hearted Kind thread dissolves into anything else

Thanks for keeping us entertained throughout! And to all the fellow eurofans see you next year!

There’s a reason they’re not in the competition

Yes. They aren't a member of the EBU or a recognised country.

Kinda hard to enter if you aren't a recognised country. Ask Kosovo who want to enter next year but aren't recognised by Serbia.

Shocked that the UK didn’t get any public votes! A wake up call for us in the UK ..we are not a popular country!

You're meant to vote for the best song. Not "the most popular country "

They got at least one vote. Mine. They must round them up or something. I voted by phone and got an acknowledgement.

I’ve said this for years! We should show our culture beyond songs in English. And Welsh pop music is very Eurovision!

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Well they shouldn't play with fire then.

Who knew that electing a terrorist organisation to govern could possibly end badly? I suspect they may have buyers remorse now.

The EBU that is.

Much like the jury votes, they take the top ten voted-for countries from each national vote and award points. Zero points doesn't mean no votes.

They only get points if they're in the top 10 of a country's votes. Nobody gets literally zero votes.

As I posted further up, I saw several posts on Facebook about voting for Israel and there was one that I saw that told people to vote more than once. It was definitely manipulated. The song wasn’t even that good.

They shouldn't even be in it. They're not in Europe.

Voting should be restricted to participating countries only

I think Wales should be allowed to compete in their own right! We've completed in Junior Eurovision, and we already have the ideal selection contest with Cân i Gymru.

The Switzerland song was lovely, perhaps not memorable when people were voting?

I loved Latvia. And the Italian was just so lovely

🐕 Laika party in the skyyyy

Theoretically we could have been getting a good chunk of votes, coming eleventh in ever country and get no points.

It is. There is a restaurant of the world vote but otherwise you can only vote if you are participating

Agree! I'd love to see a Wales entry!

I think this is the problem - lovely but didn't stand out, the staging was so simple so there was no gimmick to make it memorable.