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The SomerZ
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Agh, my bad. I had just been reading a story about the contributions from the Baltikum, so I was kind of thinking about that when reading your post, and somehow messed up the two regions. Sheesh, how embarassing, I am, of course, fully aware where the Balkan is and where the Baltikum is. |
DurfarC
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Originally posted by Fettster
We should
The SomerZ
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"The countries at Balkan always vote on their neighbours"
Actually, Latvia only got 10 from Estonia this year, Switzerland got the 12. Then again, Switzerland's contribution, Vanilla Ninja, was a band consisting of a bunch of Estonian girls (which is legal, but controversial, since you don't have to be from the country you represent).
And about political/neighbour-voting, though I'm pretty sure there are quite a lot of it, some of it is also simply because neighbouring cultures have neighbouring tastes. Take Iceland giving us 12 points, you might say that they gave us that because we're neighbours, or maybe it was political, since we're both whaling countries. However, when adding the fact that Wig Wam, the Norwegian contribution this year, has been the most played band on Icelandic radio over the course of the last month, then it shouldn't be too hard to realize that it might just have been that Iceland enjoyed the Norwegian song.
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Ran-chan
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DurfarC
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Greece didn't actually suck, but they should have been longer down on the list. Latvia was horrible, yeah. Sweden gave 12 points to Greece because the singer lived in Sweden before. I think Norway "only" got 8 points also because of this (Swedish article).
I'm not a big fan of tactical voting. The countries at Balkan always vote on their neighbours. Worst of all is the "Greece gives Cyprus 12, and Cyprus gives Greece 12" concept.
Italy hasn't participatied in a long time. I can't remember I've ever seen them at all. |
Colin
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And the UK... well... um... maybe they can blame Iraq this time around. :\
Nice to see that tactical voting is still alive and well.  Isn't that the reason why Italy doesn't participate? |
The SomerZ
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Bah, Greece sucked (favorites or not), Latvia was horrible (honestly, how did it get that high), Switzerland should have won, and Sweden obviously were too stupid to understand the "this year the Nordic countries give 12 points to Norway"-scheme. All in all, I'm happy about our placement, it was quite good, and, since we are the infamous "Nul Points Norway", a 9th place should be something we should be happy about.
It was funny, though, somewhere during the night, me and my friend were talking about the "big 4", and how they were doing this year, then we looked at the list, and we both went "whoa! They're all at the 4 last!". Kinda weird seeing that, indeed.
Anyway, we beat Sweden (by 95 points!), which is always the number one priority, and as an added bonus, we became the best Nordic country (though we tied Denmark, we beat them by gaining more 12-pointers). |
DurfarC
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No surprise - Greece won. The results this year were strange. I expected that Greece would won, but countries like Latvia got that high up on the list? What's also strange, is that "the four big countries" came last. They lost. Especially I thought the U.K would get higher, their song was pretty good.
Norway came as number 9. We got twelve points from Iceland, Denmark and Finland, eight from Sweden, and a couple of points from the other countries. |
Ran-chan
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Norways song was pretty good but did you see how they guy was dressed? 
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Uncle Elmo
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When Gemini sang IN TUNE they weren't half bad, the only problem was.... they didn;t/
Apparently our entry has a sore throat.
Shame. |
DurfarC
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I almost started the thread yesterday, but had a lot of other things to do, so I never did. 
I haven't heard all the songs, but I saw the semi final yesterday (of course), and the songs that qualified were better than the ones that didn't.
I hope Norway wins (obviously, huh?), or at least comes high up on the list. Although I'm not a big fan of the Wig Wam people's attitudes (and their clothing  ), I think their song (In my dreams) is awesome; it was better than most of the other songs yesterday.  Norway's song last year was a flop. 
It's too bad that ESC is no longer a song contest, but a East-European song contest. Almost every East-European country vote on their neighbours.
Originally posted by Colin
Elmo: Aw. I rather liked reading about the UK getting nil points two years ago.
Oh, I remember that too. The song was awful, but the singer's voice was even worse. I haven't heard their song this year yet... |
The SomerZ
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Ziff: The Ukraine is automatically qualified for the finals because they're last year's winners. They're in the finals along with 13 other countries, some automatically qualified because they're too big for EBU-UER to afford to keep them out, and some qualified because they did quite good last year. Those 14 + The 10 from the semi finals = The 24 countries in the finals.
I found it amusing reading about Britons complaining about political voting 2 years ago, claiming that the war in Iraq had to be the only reason they could possibly get nul points. No one mentioned anything about their contribution being so excrutiatingly horrible it took suckiness to a new level. |
Colin
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Aw, I *totally* forgot about it and will need to find a torrent come the weekend if the net's working...
Norway qualified for the big one Saturday night, along with Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Israel, Denmark, Macedonia, Croatia, Latvia and Switzerland.
Elmo: Aw. I rather liked reading about the UK getting nil points two years ago. |
alte Hexe
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What about Ukraine!? |
Uncle Elmo
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I tip Greece or Britain to win this year, I've heard all the songs, I even own the album
Norway's is better than last year. |
The SomerZ
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The Semi Finals have already started, and no one has started a thread? For shame! Anyway, I'm currently looking at it, Belarus is on, the lady sings like a dead squirrel, they won't make it to the finals. Soon we (Norway) are on, I'm hoping we'll make it to the finals. Our contribution, though quite cheesy, is something people will at least notice. Not like the guys we've been sending in the past few years; one guy with no stage act who, though having a nice voice, sings a song people have forgotten after 2 minutes. Thank God we've learned this year. |
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