May 28, 201015 yr LOL BOASTER :kink: Good luck! I hope you will stalk as many contestants as you can and make them take a picture with you there! :o :wub: DON'T DARE COMING BACK WITHOUT HAREL'S PICTURE. :smoke: I'm not going home before I have got a picture with Didrik :kink: and Tom Dice! :wub: but I really need to get packing!! I hate packing :(
May 28, 201015 yr I'm gunna have my rant. I voted Lithuania and Holland. NEITHER QUALIFIED >:( ALSO, Feminnem :( </3 Was worried Armenia weren't gunna qualify for a minute then too. Thankfully one good thing came of the night :)
May 28, 201015 yr Juries might not differ from public vote as much as we think Exactly. We had the same countries in the top ten save one under televoting (Russia in there instead of France) - the juries make a difference, but not by huge amounts.
May 28, 201015 yr People that completley deny political voting exists and refuse to believe it's even slightly there make ME want to slap them across the chops ^_^ Political voting DOESN'T exist, save for just one or two exceptions - Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Greece and Turkey. In both cases both hate each other's guts, so there's not much that can be done about it, and it doesn't influence results. At least, not to the degree that all the nay-sayers insists that it does. Now, NEIGHBOURLY voting I can see a point for. That isn't political though. Political voting exists in a small way imo - Greece and Cyprus' exchange of 12 points, Cyprus not voting for Turkey etc, but I don't think there is much more myself. Azerbaijan not voting for Armenia last year was arguably politically motivated, but we've no proof of that. Most of the Russian votes from the smaller USSR countries has nothing to do with politics though - purely because the people there are probably partly Russian! My mum wanted to vote for Ireland last night because she's half Irish - this is exactly the same principle as what the Baltic/Balkan countries do and no one considers that as "political" at all. Cyprus have voted for Turkey though in recent years, haven't they? In any case, Greece and Cyprus is more because they have basically the same music industry, rather than politics. That's the thing. Political voting DOES NOT exist. People vote for their neighbours and allies because they have a shared music culture, which they understand and enjoy. Neighbourly voting yes. But not political. Precisely.
May 28, 201015 yr Anyone know the last time the winner performed 1st? I'm gunna have my rant. I voted Lithuania and Holland. NEITHER QUALIFIED >:( Did you honestly think that they would qualify? :P :kink:
May 28, 201015 yr For the AKOE blog: "GREECE SPAIN BELGIUM ARMENIA TURKEY If I had a gun put to my head and I was aked to pick a winner it would be.........GREECE!" If either Greece or Spain win, I shall put a gun to my head. And Keith must have mental problems, Spain don't stand a chance.
May 28, 201015 yr Keith has no idea what he's on about. I've been saying this for years :smoke: (well, two to be precise, BUT STILL)
May 28, 201015 yr Political voting exists in a small way imo - Greece and Cyprus' exchange of 12 points Who got Greece's 12 last year? :kink: Granted Cyrpus weren't there to vote for, but it wasn't a neighbouring country. Unrealted (kinda, still on the politics thing), Israel and Bosnia would NEVER qualify (or do well if they did) if we're basing it on politics :o ANYWAY, I am outraged Bulgaria didn't make it, and also Croatia.
May 28, 201015 yr I know you've already told me, but it still makes me worry. I should stop reading that blog. Saying that Germany is still not top 10, and that Lena looks uncomfortable on stage.
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