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4 points from the televote

 

Except we got 8. Stop twisting things to suit your negative views please.

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The point is that Australia are a new country to the ESC and it's debatable whether they should actually be there..

Maybe I should have said 'thank god Australia were allowed to participate again this year, otherwise we would only have 4 points'.

 

Would that have made the point more relevant for you?

 

The fact that it's debatable whether they should be there is irrelevant :unsure: they *were* there, you could use so many what-ifs for this contest but the fact Australia are new and are a debatable inclusion doesn't make their votes count any less. It's like saying "without Australia, we'd have come 23rd". We didn't, so there's no point thinking of it that way.

Except we got 8. Stop twisting things to suit your negative views please.

 

 

Excuse you?! If you are going to moderate then do it correctly and read the comments. I don't have a negative view, especially not on our song.

 

I originally said 'imagine if Australia weren't in the competition, this song would have only got 4 points from the televote'.

Joseph then questioned this and said that he didn't see the point so I changed my wording to help him understand the point I was trying to make.

SKOB advised that we got 62 points. I then replied to SKOB and said '4 points from the televote' linking back to the point I made in my original post.

 

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You need to get off your high horses, it's a song contest for goodness sake. I am allowed an opinion as well you know, this is a discussion forum.

Apparently speculatively speaking is banned on all parts of the ESC forum.

Just because you don't think there's a point in me saying something doesn't mean I shouldn't say it.

But you got more than 4 points? My scoreboard says 62

 

4 points from the televote

 

I find having to point out we'd have got less points if it wasn't for Australia voting a little negative.

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it is worth pointing out though, Australia's inclusion in Eurovision is controversial, and they gave us *half* of our points in the televote. Quite a large percentage.
I find having to point out we'd have got less points if it wasn't for Australia voting a little negative.

 

 

Maybe that's your negative thinking?

 

I was saying it's a positive that Australia are in the contest because we would have been worse off.

it is worth pointing out though, Australia's inclusion in Eurovision is controversial, and they gave us *half* of our points in the televote. Quite a large percentage.

 

THANK YOU. Perspective.

I know what you mean as a Finn, because WE usually get points just from Estonia and Sweden if lucky, but it's ESC and not that serious really. Especially when your country's song is very bad (as it's usually the case with Finland too)

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Yes, but Oz took a huge percentage of votes from other countries, so if you say 'if Australia weren't in it' who knows if the UK could have picked up some extra points here and there. Australia may be 'new' to the competition but you could really do the 'what if' about any country.
Nathan Sykes ‏@NathanSykes 19h19 hours ago

Fun fact, the UK's #Eurovision entry was once a song for The Wanted that never got used. The boys were great! Should be proud of themselves!

 

:drama: :drama: :drama:

The Wanted flopping beyond the pop grave! :lol:

 

Also Scherz is completely right. Getting half the votes from Aussie, which hasn't traditionally been in Eurovision um before, shows how badly received this song was by the public in general.

 

Molly's song was also a limp dud.

 

The last entry I liked was My Time, which shoulda done better (but also flopped with public votes and was saved by juries!!!)

omg so *now* they tell us it's a Wanted reject :rofl: no wonder it isn't very good.

 

The BBC need to either actually make a proper effort next year or let ITV have it (who knows, they might do a better job of choosing our entry)

The last entry I liked was My Time, which shoulda done better (but also flopped with public votes and was saved by juries!!!)

 

10th with the public votes isn't flopping really...

10th with the public votes isn't flopping really...

 

But also shows the political side and the uphill climb the UK has to get votes. That song shoulda smashed it and came second to the violon thing.

Well regardless of how they got on in the actual voting, they were a success for me on two counts: firstly for getting me interested in a Eurovision entry for UK again for the first time in 14 years, and secondly for doing a good, solid performance that wasn't embarrassing to us.

 

And the song is still really good to my ears anyway, catchy, serviceable pop that isn't trying to be anything else and they're nice lads too. Here's hoping Sony do something more with them beyond this. I liked the Bulgarian entry best of all - shocked that didn't win.

 

TBH lumping the contest over to ITV wouldn't be the solution to our woes with doing Eurovision. People just need to accept we're not Sweden and that's OK. Also can you imagine Simon Cowell masterminding it and the crap he'd send over? And he'd also get rid of Mel Giedroyc hosting the selection show which would be unthinkable :cry:

Everytime i think of Jade representing the UK i always remember the guy playing the violin? almost knocking her out.
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Someone else mentioned it in the other thread but the results for this shouldn't be unexpected. It's competent and nice and therefore will pick up solid mid-table placings with jurors, and when averaged out alongside the more divisive entries it gives Joe and Jake several top 10 placings there which is what we got. But when it comes to televoters, people only vote for the favourite 1 or 2 songs and how many people here had the UK in their top 2? No more than 1 or 2 of us and we have a little patriotic bias for the song anyway so listen to it more/want to like it as much as possible - so therefore no-one else around Europe had it as their ultimate favourite and voted for it either.

 

But Joe and Jake were fantastic representatives and I hope they don't look back on this negatively, the 12 points from Malta was a great moment for them!

Time for us to whip out a song is Gaelic with Bagpipes.

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