May 14, 201114 yr I didn't give the countries a score out of ten....but tonight I'd rank the songs like this: 1. Estonia 2. Serbia 3. Ireland 4. Austria 5. Georgia 6. Hungary 7. Switzerland 8. Germany 9. Azerbaijan 10. Sweden 11. Finland 12. Denmark 13. Russia (growing on me....) 14. Bosnia & Herzegovina 15. Lithuania 16. United Kingdom 17. Spain 18. Slovenia 19. Iceland 20. France -----The Sinister Five-------- 21. Romania 22. Ukraine 23. Italy 24. Greece 25. Moldova Russia is growing on me (although probably too little to late at this stage :P) Can we not throw Romania, Ukraine, Italy, Greece and Moldova into a bottomless pit and forget they ever happened? :( Edited May 14, 201114 yr by Sabrewulf
May 14, 201114 yr Just got in, what a letdown. I got Sweden in a £30 sweepstake though and scooped a fiver :D
May 14, 201114 yr Just realised Estonia came second from last!! :o that is not deserved...should have been top 5 at least
May 14, 201114 yr Devestated for Estonia </3 pleased Azerbaijan finally won, although I'd rather 'Always' or 'Drip Drop' had done it. 11th isn't really going to encourage the BBC to go for gold every year =\, back to sh!t next time?
May 14, 201114 yr We should totally do an ESC themed version of BJSC soon. I'll get the hat and throw the country names in....and we'll select all our votes at random it'll be so much fun.
May 15, 201114 yr Delighted Azerbeijan won. Pity I was getting my hopes up with looking at the odds for the UK. 11th is a reasonable result but annoying that it was just 7+ points off top 10. We were off to an excellent start as well. Oh well... I still adore I Can and Blue did us proud. They shouldn't be too disappointed as we beat last years plus Jemini and Andy. More importantly an interesting fact is this is the 3rd highest result we've had from 2000-2011 so thats a positive :P Edited May 15, 201114 yr by Rob Summers
May 15, 201114 yr To add I Can is the best UK entry we've had in a long time IMO. Possibly since Katrina or Jessica to be more recent :P
May 15, 201114 yr Even though Blue just missing out on a top 10 placing is annoying they still managed 100 points which is quite decent.
May 15, 201114 yr What happened to Estonia? They were by far my fave. The combination of the attention seeking Jedward and the utterly sublime wouldhavebeenawinnerhaditgotaproperslot Popular just overshaddowed it entirely.
May 15, 201114 yr Well i was watching Eurovision and our mouths were dropping with all the results, some were absolutely shocking! Near the end we thought we were about to catch up to Ireland only for them to move further away again :unsure: The fact that Sweden won their semi makes me wonder had they drawn a later slot, that they may have won :o Shame about Blue though, all my mates felt they deserved top 10. its odd though as their itunes positions suggest they were more popular ie in Germany its top 10. Shocked most of the favs done terrible :o
May 15, 201114 yr A proper slot? What was improper about it? Eric got a lousy draw, he was on 7th in the middle of a bloc of uptempos. It was between Sweden and Ukraine for 7th and 23rd in the running order. Had Ukraine picked the other slot out the bag, Eric would have gone 23rd. One later than the slot which Lena won from last year. Later slots statistically do much better, 2nd position in the running order has never ever produced a winner. The songs in 22nd and 24th would have provided a great contrast allowing Popular to stand out further. Basically, if Ukraine had picked the other slot, Eurovision 2012 would be in Stockholm.
May 15, 201114 yr LOL at the uproar for Azerbaijan winning. :lol: Amazing song and I'm very, very pleased they managed it! (I've also decided that Azerbaijan is my favourite country to say and pronounce :heehee:) Ugh at that awful song from Italy coming second though! Surprised France didn't do better in all honesty! :o I'm also the only one who seems to like Blue coming 11th :lol: Ideally anything higher would have been better and more deserved, but I still think they did exceptionally well to get so high up the leaderboard. Makes a very nice change to see us in the top half as opposed to the bottom 5 or so.
May 15, 201114 yr Germany BLEW ME AWAY. INCREDIBLE. Italy coming second IS DELIGHTFUL :wub: :wub: :wub: FUCK YOU SAADE. FUCK YOU AZERBAIJAN. FRANCE LOL. My rankings of the FINAL performances: 01. Germany 02. Slovenia 03. Bosnia & Herzegovina 04. Georgia 05. Spain 06. France 07. Serbia 08. Hungary 09. Greece 10. Italy 11. Austria 12. United Kingdom 13. Denmark 14. Lithuania 15. Estonia 16. Russia 17. Iceland 18. Ukraine 19. Finland 20. Sweden 21. Switzerland 22. Romania 23. Moldova 24. Azerbaijan 25. Ireland This is what i wrote on another forum predicting the Top 10 (it was on april 12th) 1. Sweden 2. France 3. Estonia 4. UK 5. Azerbaijan 6. Turkey 7. Russia 8. Norway 9. Slovenia 10. Israel LOL.
May 15, 201114 yr So...Blue came 11th, damn 10th would have been SO much better :( At least you finished there ONCE and not twice in a row like a certain country that i am from. :(
May 15, 201114 yr 11th isn't really going to encourage the BBC to go for gold every year =\, back to sh!t next time? What part of Blue was good or different enough to go for gold? Not the horrible vocals. The song was pretty good. TATU couldn't win on name alone and neither could Blue. Both had a mediocre performance as well. Lena's song is growing on me big time. Fantastic stuff. And I don't get people calling Italy 'awful'.. Just because it's aimed at older audience doesn't make it awful. It was classy from start to finish. And about the draw: performing seventh probably did effect a bit to Eric's position but it could've been worse as well. I'm more surprised that Bosnia and Denmark did so well after performing 2nd and 3rd. Finland and Hungary were slaughtered by their slots. Seems that these days it's impossible to win from the first half. It just doesn't work in the public voting. Is it because people are not really following the first ones or drunk enough or just don't want to vote until they have heard them all and thus forget the first ones or consider them worse just because they get carried away by the show? Since 2006 there has been NO ONE grabbing a top 3 position after performing 1st to 5th. Winners: 2011: 19 2010: 22 2009: 20 2008: 24 2007: 15 2006: 17 In 2008 five out of top 10 performed 20th to 25th. I have a suggestion...a bit silly though but interesting: What if there were four semis and all songs were performed twice in different order during the semi and then a final of 12-14 songs and they too would be performed twice? Edited May 15, 201114 yr by SKOB
May 15, 201114 yr I think the BBC would've thought that name alone (+ a pretty good song) would guarantee them a top 5. I just hope that the UK doesn't fall back onto the 'oh it was bloc voting' and send Andy Abrahams again next year :P.
May 15, 201114 yr I think the BBC would've thought that name alone (+ a pretty good song) would guarantee them a top 5. I just hope that the UK doesn't fall back onto the 'oh it was bloc voting' and send Andy Abrahams again next year :P. They, like everybody else, should have the song first and then think about who is going to perform it. If there's not a proper national final, that is. Was Andy A. chosen by public? Edited May 15, 201114 yr by SKOB
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