Eurovision Final 2025 Thread 3

[RedToothBrush]

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It was bad. Last year's was better and that was also not great.

Maybe Sophie Ellis Bextor needs to do it?

It is (well, there is rest of the world too, but only for televote and only equivalent to one country)

It was very similar staging to Viola, which came second. I think it just wasn't a standout song like Viola, but definitely deserved more votes.

Yea of course they’re rounded up. A country getting 173 points doesnt mean 173 people voted. ALL the votes in each voting country are totalled up and the top ranked country gets 12points, 2nd gets 10, 3rd 8 etc etc. that is done in each of the 37 countries.

so the most points a country COULD potentially score from each of the jury or public votes rounds. Is 432 points. Which equates to getting 12 points from all of the other countries.

@RedToothBrush thanks for your wit

No YOU give it a rest.

What the public are tired and really fed up of is loud, obnoxious, ill-informed, ignorant, hateful people taking over our streets every weekend and terrorising both the Jewish community and normal, decent people.

It hasn’t freed Palestine yet, has it? Because a movement propelled by hatred will alway fail.

The voting is too complicated

Agree. I think it should be restricted to one vote per person to stop all this 20 votes thing.

The UK is still in Europe.

I think it was obvious what that poster meant....

I thought Denmark was also hard done by in the audience vote😞

I kinda miss when they go through all the scores, although we’d still be here this time tomorrow if that happened. Maybe thevfinal should have fewer acts in it, and they knock more out of semifinal.

On the plus side maybe we will see less shouty ladies in leather thong leotards with big hair?

YES! In a giant kitchen disco ball suspended from the sky

See you all for Glastonbury. Hopefully that thread won’t get invaded by the high blood pressure mob.

Or one vote per act, if that's possible to track/implement. It's not just Israel - Poland and Lithuania could send a drunk man snoring on stage and still get top three in our televote. One vote per act dilutes the diaspora impact

You are on the wrong thread.
Join the CEM ones.

There are 57 EBU countries (including much of North Africa - Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt are all members).

There were 37 acts this year. Thus only 37 national juries and 37 televote scores (kind of - I think there is some weirdness with San Marino not actually having a “real” televote) plus a test of the world televote.

True. I do think that in a year with so many gimmicks like dragons, a rocket dildo, an entire sauna and explosive sand diarrhoea, they lost some memorability by keeping it simple.

I think you could be right!

How soon before we get the ‘Sound of music’ references. Chuckled when Graham said ‘See you in Vienna, or another Austrian city which I don’t know the name of’.

I was shocked at Switzerland doing so badly with the public vote.

Austria just felt like a rehash of last year really.

I wanted San Marino to win 😆

That neatly encapsulates the echo chamber that surrounds this issue.

If Palestine were an entrant I can assure you Israel would absolutely trounce them in a vote.

Just because one particular group is loud and offensive doesn’t mean they have majority support. Many people feel it is easier to keep their thoughts and opinions to themselves if all they get in response if they don’t is abuse.

All you see in the media are offensive pro-Palestine thugs. In real life virtually everyone I speak to is pro-Israel. The media is empowering a small group but please don’t be fooled that they are anything other than that.

Yes I agree. It's difficult to keep track of the scoreboard and the camera keeps going away from it.

I thought the Swiss song was awful!