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Hi hi, here's my rankses. 01 Best. 16 least good (but still good tbh, this was really hard).

01 The Saturdays - All Fired Up

02 Mary J. Blige - Family Affair

03 Christina Aguilera - Fighter

04 Charlie Puth - How Long

05 Fifth Harmony feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Work From Home

06 Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending

07 Elton John - I’m Still Standing

08 Enrique Iglesias feat. Ciara - Takin’ Back My Love

09 Damiano David - Born With a Broken Heart

10 CHVRCHES - Graves

11 SASAMI - Just Be Friends

12 Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Miracle

13 Pet Shop Boys - Rent

14 James Blake - Loading

15 A-ha - Take on Me

16 Addison Rae - Times Like These

The best song won <3 condragulations Silas, well deserved - especially after the undeserved snubbing your prior entries have had this year - and I'm glad I got to give you your first top score of the night!

Fab hosting as always Addy <3

i've learned my lesson and I'm never sending a non-pop song again CLEARLY

girl the bodies are not even cold yetttt

that's okay i didnt want to win anyway, we're too poor to host or something

My naive ass entering this thread after being optimistic that I might get even just a crumb of hype for change:

Dance bloc, like my song ok?

Also, I have voted

Glad to see I qualified. Only lost my 1-pointer this time

43 minutes ago, *Ben* said:

Evil Air 😈

@Addy! soft launching SinistAir

So I tracked where every 2025 competing country's televote ranked Israel in the final from 2016 through 2025 (no data beyond each country's Top 10 prior to 2016) and there have been some interesting trends I spotted..:

Doesn't prove anything but definitely interesting, but to see that both the 2024 and 2025 entries (both of which are pop ballads) scored higher on average in the televote than not only Unicorn (2023, a pop song with a polished and choreographed performance that ultimately placed 3rd) but also higher than Toy (2018) which was pure televote bait.

I think it's most interesting to see which countries paid Netta/Noa Kirel dust but wound up gushing over their last two entries, like Albania (2018 10th > 2024 2nd), Denmark (2018 11th > 2023 17th > 2024 & 2025 3rd), Estonia (2018 & 2023 16th > 2024 5th), Finland (2023 15th > 2024 1st & 2025 2nd), and Sweden (2023 17th > 2024 and 2025 1st). Even more interesting are the few countries whose support of Israel has actually declined (Armenia, Croatia, and Poland being the most obvious ones)

Anyways, just thought I'd share if anyone finds this interesting.

We also need to include a vote for the best airline name, some absolute landmarks so far such as Taahino's entire paragraph of a name 😮‍💨

1 hour ago, uhsting said:

Why Airways landed back in Divadorf to refill while awaiting for the clearance to arrive in Bøtanikkä.

You're supposed to end questions with a question mark, Mx. Sting. But tbh I don't know Why Airways did that :/ maybe you should ask them

Question: if all the other delegations' planes run out of fuel and crash, do I win by default seeing as my entrant is already in Bøtanikkä?

Due to the Bøtanikkän government making us waste precious fuel circling the airport for almost 24 more hours the Baleghdean act has parachuted out of the plane and hopefully landed in a field somewhere in the northwestern part of the country. Since we aren't allowed to provide any identifiable information about the act, we haven't been able to get the local authorities involved in a meaningful way so we've mobilised our thoughts & prayer warriors to think really hard and pray extra fast 🫶

I do feel like the juries may have been swayed a bit too much by odds since a bunch of quality performances were snubbed by them in favor of some WTF choices. lbr Estonia did not deserve to place this high with the juries over, for example, Finland, Albania, Denmark, Spain, Poland, and yeah even Iceland - all of which delivered a far better vocal performance than Tommy Cash did. That said I am grateful for the juries now as I have been in the past too and this year reminds us exactly why they were brought in to begin with.

I feel like all we have to do to fix the public is make it so that each person can only vote once and/or make it so that you have to vote for 10 songs in Eurovision style (12-10-8-7-...). That would make it much harder to spam vote for just one contestant as you have to vote for 9 others too.

Europe wtaf Sissal did NOT deserve that

I'm sorry WHAT

how is Estonia this high while Iceland has 0 ?!

This Denmark snubbing is honestly insane

Based on my ratings, these would be my points for tonight:

12 Denmark

10 Finland

8 Greece

7 France

6 Iceland

5 Malta

4 Poland

3 Spain

2 Latvia

1 Albania

5 minutes ago, Mack said:

So we never got Celine but we did get some bloke blowing a big horn.

There's a dirty joke in there somewhere

The parts chosen for Spain and Poland in the recap are ... interesting

4 minutes ago, pavi said:

San Marino referencing Italy in the song, Netherlands singing in French, Finland having the title in German. This year is a mess

Don't forget Estonia singing about Italian culture, Finns representing Sweden, Norwegians representing Ireland, and Austrians representing Germany. (Also queen Sissal being Faroese which is still technically Danish)