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 Eurovision Song Contest 2016 · Grand Final, BBC One at 8pm BST, also live on YouTube and eurovision.tv |
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  May 14 2016, 10:09 AM
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 After 3 months of national finals, 1 month of promo events and 2 semi finals, we're finally here at the Grand Final of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest. In about 12 hours we'll know where we're off to next year (unless Australia is victorious, in which case exciting!) 50% of the final score has already been decided, after the 42 national juries watched and voted on last night's dress rehearsal. But the other 50% will be decided tonight! All 42 participating countries will be able to vote up to a maximum 20 times. And with a 40 minute voting window (not a typo) there is absolutely NO EXCUSE for not voting. It's going to be a fantastic show, I think it's a contender for best ever, Petra, Måns and SVT know how to put an amazing show. Plus, the brand new voting presentation is NOT TO BE MISSED! Oh and Justin Timberlake will be there too! Enjoy it Eurohoes, and we'll get through the summer depression together </3 We'll be having Buzzvision final results from Ryan from around 2:30, so if you haven't voted yet, there's not much time left! Also for a bit of fun, why not have a go at our ESC Predicta! 01 ►  Belgium: Laura Tesoro - What's The Pressure02 ►  Czech Republic: Gabriela Gunčíková - I Stand03 ►  The Netherlands: Douwe Bob - Slow Down04 ►  Azerbaijan: Samra - Miracle05 ►  Hungary: Freddie - Pioneer06 ►  Italy: Francesca Michielin - No Degree Of Separation07 ►  Israel: Hovi Star - Made Of Stars08 ►  Bulgaria: Poli Genova - If Love Was A Crime09 ►  Sweden: Frans - If I Were Sorry10 ►  Germany: Jamie-Lee - Ghost11 ►  France: Amir - J'ai cherché12 ►  Poland: Michał Szpak - Color Of Your Life13 ►  Australia: Dami Im - Sound Of Silence14 ►  Cyprus: Minus One - Alter Ego15 ►  Serbia: Sanja Vučić ZAA - Goodbye (Shelter)16 ►  Lithuania: Donny Montell - I've Been Waiting For This Night17 ►  Croatia: Nina Kraljić - Lighthouse18 ►  Russia: Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One19 ►  Spain: Barei - Say Yay!20 ►  Latvia: Justs - Heartbeat21 ►  Ukraine: Jamala - 194422 ►  Malta: Ira Losco - Walk On Water23 ►  Georgia: Nika Kocharov and Young Georgian Lolitaz - Midnight Gold24 ►  Austria: ZOË - Loin d'ici25 ►  United Kingdom: Joe and Jake - You're Not Alone26 ►  Armenia: Iveta Mukuchyan - LoveWave |
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May 14 2016, 10:20 AM
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 thanks for being a sarcy lil bitch
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Here are my wildly inaccurate predictions
I don't believe Russia can win this year. Nor do I want us to win tbh. That Sergey's press conference and his responses were the last straw for me. Dami winning would be incredible! Or Jamala, I don't care really. Or Iveta. All utterly incredible. The latter would mean Azerbaijan will take a break and hopefully return to form with their vocalists cause GURL, they been lacking LIVE talent for 3 years in a row now, although on paper and in studio form the songs were killer. If Ukraine and Australia are Top 2 it will hands down be one of the best top 2's EVER. 01 ► Australia: Dami Im - Sound Of Silence 02 ► Ukraine: Jamala - 1944 03 ► Russia: Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One 04 ► Armenia: Iveta Mukuchyan - LoveWave 05 ► France: Amir - J'ai cherché 06 ► Sweden: Frans - If I Were Sorry 07 ► Italy: Francesca Michielin - No Degree Of Separation 08 ► Bulgaria: Poli Genova - If Love Was A Crime 09 ► Malta: Ira Losco - Walk On Water 10 ► Serbia: Sanja Vučić ZAA - Goodbye (Shelter) 11 ► Israel: Hovi Star - Made Of Stars 12 ► Latvia: Justs - Heartbeat 13 ► Austria: ZOË - Loin d'ici 14 ► Georgia: Nika Kocharov and Young Georgian Lolitaz - Midnight Gold 15 ► Cyprus: Minus One - Alter Ego 16 ► Belgium: Laura Tesoro - What's The Pressure 17 ► The Netherlands: Douwe Bob - Slow Down 18 ► Azerbaijan: Samra - Miracle 19 ► Lithuania: Donny Montell - I've Been Waiting For This Night 20 ► Croatia: Nina Kraljić - Lighthouse 21 ► United Kingdom: Joe and Jake - You're Not Alone 22 ► Spain: Barei - Say Yay! 23 ► Czech Republic: Gabriela Gunčíková - I Stand 24 ► Hungary: Freddie - Pioneer 25 ► Poland: Michał Szpak - Color Of Your Life 26 ► Germany: Jamie-Lee - Ghost |
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May 14 2016, 10:25 AM
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BuzzJack Legend
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Hype
 I will be here for this in its entirety - will be a lot of fun  Do these sorts of threads usually get similar reply rates to BJSC final threads? |
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May 14 2016, 10:33 AM
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 I'm a paragon so don't perceive me
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Generally it's a pretty large thread at least. So yes. Some years it's gone over 50 pages.
I wish I could see past Russia vs Sweden right now. Maybe something new will turn up during the show and that will seem laughable after the fact. A Ukrainian or Armenian win would be fantastic out of the talked up contenders. |
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May 14 2016, 10:50 AM
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Rooting for Dami and it would be nice to see us top 15 at least. I can dream.
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May 14 2016, 10:53 AM
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you never forget your first time...
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Hoping Frans can do as well as possible tonight
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May 14 2016, 11:04 AM
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Hello?
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I would imagine it's Russia vs Australia, with Sweden in the mix if people take to it the way I'd initially envisaged, and Ukraine/Armenia/France (though I still can't call the latter...) also in the top six and then a large points drop down to 7th place. Presumably 7th down to about 20th will be quite close points-wise as there are a lot of songs that deserve to do well this year. I didn't bet on it as it was worth hardly anything but I don't see how Germany won't finish last again.
Out of the Rus/Aus pairing I'm rooting for Dami...it's modern, it's instant, she sings the HELL out of it and she seems lovely and also modest - definitely not expecting to win it like Russia. It would be interesting to see which country the show would be held next year...Germany perhaps? Sergey would be a far more highly regarded winner than Dima Bilan was for Russia but despite the incredible performance the song is so old hat and musically nothing particularly special or interesting. I'm going to a Eurovision party tonight, and there'll be just over 20 of us so we're doing a sweepstake (£5 each) which should be fun *draws Poland* This post has been edited by gooddelta: May 14 2016, 11:05 AM |
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May 14 2016, 11:11 AM
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The jury voting order is out for tonight which is usually worth at least a minor punt at over-analysing
Austria - (Vienna) Kati Bellowitsch (Spokesperson since 2011) Iceland - (Reykjavik) Unnsteinn Manuel Stefansson Azerbaijan - (Baku) Tural Asadov (Spokesperson in 2015) San Marino - (San Marino) Irol MC (Jury member 2014) Czech Republic - (Prague) Daniela Písařovicová Ireland - (Dublin) Sinead Kennedy Georgia - (Tblisi) Nina Sublatti (Georgian entrant 2015) Bosnia & Herzegovina - (Sarajevo) Ivana Crnogorac Malta - (Valletta) Ben Camille (Presenter national final 2016) Spain - (Madrid) Jota Abril Finland - (Helsinki) Jussi-Pekka Rantanen Switzerland - (Bern) Sebalter (Swiss entrant 2014) Denmark - (Copenhagen) Ulla Essendrop (Press conference host 2014) France - (Paris) Elodie Gossuin Moldova - (Chisinau) Olivia Furtuna (Presenter national finals) Armenia - (Yerevan) Arman Margaryan (Commentator 2015) Cyprus - (Nicosia) Lukas Hamatsos (Presenter national finals and spokesperson) Bulgaria - (Sofia) Anna Angelova The Netherlands (Hilversum) Trintje Oosterhuis (Dutch entrant 2015) Latvia (Riga) Toms Grevins (Presenter national final) Israel - (Jerusalem) Ofer Nachshon (Spokesperson since 2009) Belarus - (Minsk) Uzari (Belarusian entrant 2015) Germany - (Hamburg) Barbara Schöneberger (Presenter national finals) Russia - (Moscow) Nyusha Norway - (Oslo) Elisabeth Andreassen (Norwegian winner of Eurovision in 1985) Australia - (Sydney) Lee Lin Chin (Spokesperson in 2015) Belgium - Brussels) Umesh Vangaver United Kingdom - (London) Richard Osman Croatia - (Zagreb) Nevena Rendeli (Presenter national final) Greece - (Athens) Constantinos Christophorou (Cypriot entrant 1996, 2002, 2005 and spokesperson 2006) Lithuania - (Vilnius) Ugne Galadauskaite Serbia - (Belgrade) Dragana Kosjerina FYR Macedonia - (Skopje) Dijana Gogova Albana - (Tirana) Andri Xhahu (Commentator and spokesperson since 2012) Estonia - (Tallinn) Daniel Viinalass (National final entrant 2015) Ukraine - (Kyiv) Verka Serduchka (Ukranian entrant 2007) Italy - (Rome) Claudia Andreatti Poland - (Warsaw) Anna Popek Slovenia - (Ljubljana) Marjetka Vovk (Slovenian entrant 2015) Hungary - (Budapest) Csilla Tatár (Presenter national finals and spokesperson 2015) Montenegro - (Podgorica) Danijel Alibabic (Serbia & Montenegro entrant 2005) Sweden - (Stockholm) - Gina Dirawi (Presenter national finals) |
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May 14 2016, 11:13 AM
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Or alternatively you can read the passage of text that accompanies that and realise that it's based purely on operational logistics and no algorithms were used
Continue your day everyone! |
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May 14 2016, 11:13 AM
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I was born 7 million years ago in Sweden, Africa
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I think that's the voting order they've done in both rehearsals so far so I don't think it's be done for tension keeping purposes, I imagine they're banking on the televoting results to deliver that.
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May 14 2016, 11:33 AM
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You don't have to be fabulous to be good
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Tonight we're going to watch it, out of songs I listened to I'm rooting for Australia, Bulgaria and Russia. Also Israel were very good. Dami to win it though, as a package she is by far above everything else.
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May 14 2016, 11:37 AM
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 It's a cruel summer.
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So so excited for tonight! Really hope Dami can win and Douwe/Ira do well as well
Having a mini Eurovision party but will try and pop in here at times
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May 14 2016, 11:39 AM
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Verka presenting the Ukranian vote tho *.* let's hope he wears a ridiculous outfit again.
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May 14 2016, 11:43 AM
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I'll be at the Tele2 arena tonight for this. Should be exciting and I'm really looking forward to the performances. If Sanna sings Undo imma have to be medevaced outta there. I'm here for an Australian victory. When you adjust for the home crowd she had the biggest support in the arena last night.
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May 14 2016, 11:45 AM
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QUOTE(danG @ May 14 2016, 11:39 AM)  Verka presenting the Ukranian vote tho *.* let's hope he wears a ridiculous outfit again. That is indeed what happens. Getting the points from Ukraine last night was hilarious as they couldn't hear for ages so you just had Petra being hilarious and watching Verka prepare. Voting should go well tonight. Based on what happened last night Petra's going to be taking the piss a little. |
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May 14 2016, 12:18 PM
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Australian to win the EUROvision song contest please! (Cos Sweepstake...)
UK to finish in the top 25 & I don't actually know any of the entries other than Sweden (which I sincerely hope doesn't win) so I'll reserve judgement till later. Should be fun following this tonight! Also Richard Osman doing the votes? Hell yes. This post has been edited by Dobbo: May 14 2016, 12:20 PM |
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May 14 2016, 12:46 PM
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my anxiety attacks
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Australia would be my 2nd choice, still too repetitive for my liking but boy does she sell it.
Going to be sick with nerves come televote reveal time |
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May 14 2016, 01:51 PM
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I was born 7 million years ago in Sweden, Africa
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If Australia do win, I will accept no other host than Lee Lin Chin.
   
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May 14 2016, 03:38 PM
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I can't see Russia NOT winning tbh. It's one of my favourites from the contest, so I wouldn't be especially against that happening but would prefer Australia to win.
Really don't like Sweden's Ed Sheeran-lite entry this year - they usually get it so spot on. I imagine it'll do well though. |
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May 14 2016, 04:13 PM
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Right at the front of Tele2 - gonna be a long 6-7 hours standing but brilliant view of the screen! (and have the barrier to lean on at least!)
If Australia win I'm bouncing off the ceiling, Ukraine too would be joyous - but Russia wouldn't be *too* bad, they do have a catchy song and pretty epic staging. Looking forward to it whatevs! |
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