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Dana International falling over in 1999 was a bit of a horror. :lol: LW-uVAVmz-c

That Swiss song from 2004 has to be up there with the worst ever Eurovision songs - certainly amongst the worst of the noughties anyway!

Ahhh the Eurovision effect! ^_^ And also...how many weeks at number one Rich?! :o

Predict the top 10 of the final [60 points available - 5 points for each correct position, 3 points for being one position off, 1 point for being two positions off; extra 10 points if you predict all the members correctly regardless of order] 01 - Armenia 02 - Germany 03 - Greece 04 - Turkey 05 - Romania 06 - Azerbaijan 07 - Denmark 08 - Israel 09 - Belgium 10 - Ireland Bonus Question 1: Where will the 5 autoqualifiers finish? [50 points - 10 points for each correct position, 5 points for being one position off, 3 points for being two positions off, 1 point for being three positions off] France - 25th Germany - 2nd Norway - 13th Spain - 21st UK - 23rd Bonus Question 2: Place former USSR countries in the order of their finish in today's show from the most to the least successful. [2 points for getting each country right; 1 point for getting it right within 1 place; 0 - otherwise] Armenia Azerbaijan Russia Ukraine Georgia Moldova Belarus Bonus Question 3: How many countries will vote for the winner? [10 points for getting the exact number, 4 points for getting within 2 countries, 2 points for getting within 3 countries, 1 point for getting within 4 countries] 32 Bonus Question 4: How many points will Belgium score? [10 points for getting the exact amount, 5 points for guessing within 5 points of it, 3 points for guessing within 10 points of it, 1 point for guessing within 20 points of it] 101 Bonus Question 5: Predict the bottom five positions of the final [60 points available - 10 points for each correct position, 5 points for being one position off, 3 points for being two positions off, 1 point for being three positions off; extra 10 points if you predict all the members correctly regardless of order] 21 - Spain 22 - Belarus 23 - United Kingdom 24 - Portugal 25 - France :magic:

What an absolutely ridiculous statement to make. I mean seriously. :manson: If it's a song contest, then surely the natural thing to do is well...SEND A GOOD SONG then Pete? Complete and utter wanker. -_-

Oh no...the BBC don't even put millions of pounds into it. A figure I heard a few years ago was as little as £125k. -_- Though I'm not sure how accurate that is...

Norway's hosts are good...nothing too over the top, and not too boring or inexperienced like last year's.

Ooh another person going for an Armenian victory! I can't believe we're all predicting this now. :lol:

I hope David Cameron makes the BBC's executives lives a complete nightmare for the next five years after this revelation myself. :smoke:

Oh I'm glad it's the proper long version and not that dodgy one where her pronunciations are all over the place. :D This is the reason the song is so good...not the shortened ESC version!

My original prediction is so different to what it is now. :o What a difference a few weeks can make ehhhh. I would never have predicted Armenia for the win even one week ago, regardless of who else would be qualifying!

Channel 4 would be an awful decision...it'd get flogged to T4 and we'd end up having some unsigned band being sent that only British indie kids listen to. We'd obviously have to go via the semi finals too as they wouldn't be able to fund keeping us in the big four, so we probably wouldn't see the final for quite a while! ITV on the other hand... :magic:

Oh I thought it was on the one just gone? You could be right though!

Yeah...she offered her latest single 'The Flood' apparently. :arrr:

Yeah they've already cast their votes! :o

I know yeah...I really want it to go down to the final vote but I'm not sure it will! Are they still planning on doing that thing where if it's relatively close they'll reveal all the points one by one for the final three countries? :unsure:

I'm going to stand by my prediction of 23rd for now...but bottom three is a near certainty. :(

I see we have the same winner then Rich! Quite a few things I'd swap around but good to see we have relatively similar predictions. ^_^ Although...I won't be at all surprised at 11.15pm tomorrow night to see we've both gone completely wrong yet again! :lol:

Hmm definitely can't see Russia finishing that low, or Iceland that high! I'm going for the Armenian win now anyway.

United Kingdom...first dress rehearsal for the final... KpgCd5_XnrI Pretty abysmal...there's a dodgy bit in the middle where the music doesn't even seem to flow, Josh is evidently holding back for some reason, until the last note anyway and the backing singers are pretty appalling too. :(

It probably is the best he can do tbh. :( Is it any wonder the BBC ditch Katie Melua and an actual decent song which would probably cost a few thousand when "famous songwriter and producer" Pete Waterman will offer to do it for £100?! :manson:

You may have heard him saying he couldn't remember 'Drip Drop' last night after about ten minutes (I personally would've thought all singers and songwriters would have listened to what they were up against weeks before, but hey ho), well here he is at it again. Note how much was spent on our entry. -_- £100? Is he actually serious?!

Aww I feel so bad for them. :( And even if they had qualified and had only just scraped through in tenth place (and I knew this somehow), had they been drawn 25th for tomorrow's final, I'd still be backing them for the win!

Voted. :D

That Verka outfit is actually amazing Peter!!!