Sabrewulf

I've seen it mentioned a few times. (I'm not just talking about on here) but you're right, it's definitely not as often as before.

One thing I get from all this is that the juries really aren't the heroes of sanity people portray them to be. Like when people say they're relying on the juries to save their favourite song that the public apparently won't get. There were many cases the public were more sane. (I never thought I would call a public vote sane. :lol:) I don't think anybody was expecting the public vote to be so positive for Albania. Big shame for the Netherlands. :(

Just listened to the song again on youtube, wow I don't remember it being so awful. I think it might have been because I thought for some reason it was all the things she said that they sang at Eurovision.

San Marino is a funny one, they gave Ireland 12 points in the semi and then gave us nothing in the final. What's up with that? :huh:

Estonian is a really nice language. I might be slightly biased having an Estonian as my best friend. :P (The song was a real grower though)

Suus really grew on me this year, I really enjoyed it. I almost voted for it in the final, but I absolutely loved Spain so I put most of my attention towards that song. Really happy to see Albania come 5th. (and Estonia 6th)

Azerbaijan doing so well was annoying too, although I suppose I can see how people liked it. (even though I'd argue there were many countries that did similar songs far better) She's not a patch on Pastora. :wub:

Yeah, my mum actually mentioned this last night. That the song wouldn't be nearly as good if you stripped away all the camera work and unusual dance steps. I'd have to agree with that assessment, I like the song/performance but I think I'd get bored of it really fast just listening to it on the ipod.

Voted for Spain four times, Iceland once and Italy once. Of course that then translated to just two points for Italy from Ireland. :( There was other countries I enjoyed, but Spain blew me away with that stunning performance I just couldn't waste my money on much else.

Imagine if Sweden had an INTERNAL SELECTION :drama:

I'm looking forward to some great hosts next year. The Azerbaijan hosts were starting to loosen slightly by the final, but they were still awfully wooden. Eldar always seemed so insincere too.

I honestly thought Bulgaria hadn't got a hope....even though I really liked the song. Very surprised to see it almost qualified.

I still can't get over Lithuania coming 3rd. Where did that come from? Latvia and the Netherlands deserved better. :( and wow at Bulgaria almost qualifying instead of Norway. :o

Maybe Ireland and the Uk should try to become a part of Scandinavia? :P We're kinda close...

Interesting to see the Uk give nothing to Greece and only 1 point to Turkey. What happened there I wonder? :P

Surprised at Slovenia flop at 17th. Another bah at Netherlands at 15th. :( How in the blazes did Lithuania get 3rd? I'm totally missing something with this song. :blink:

Results of the first semi are on wikipedia, and I'm inclined to believe it because I'm lazy. Ireland came 6th. Russia won the semi while Albania came in 2nd. Iceland and Denmark came 8th and 9th :o Bah at Latvia with 16th.

I think we have one of these in the house. Gee I wonder if they're actually worth something on ebay.

Figures I voted four times for Spain, once for Iceland and once for Italy and I don't think Ireland gave any of them anything. :rolleyes: Spain for me was the stand out performance of the night, absolutely stunning performance. :wub: Seems like Europe are bored of Jedward, not that I'm complaining. It's time for something fresh. Although I have to say I wasn't pleased when Germany were voting.....it was like the whole crowd behind her was waving Ireland flags and wearing jed-heads and we didn't get a thing from them.

Englebert coming second last, that won't be going down too well. :drama: I'm happy with Sweden winning, not my favourite...and the more I see the performance the more I feel like too much of it is staging and dance moves.....but I still like the song. Really sad for Iceland, Denmark and Norway. Spain did reasonably well though.

Does Kurt Calleja (Malta) remind anyone else of Ross from Friends? Is it just me?

Goodness, just loading up the swedish rehearsal video now. Can't imagine what could possibly be so bad that it's getting everyone wound up. :o

My ranking of the final, largely based on their semi performances. 1. Spain 2. Iceland 3. Macedonia 4. Italy 5. Denmark 6. Albania 7. Romania 8. Estonia 9. Sweden 10. France 11. Ireland 12. Cyprus 13. Norway 14. Hungary 15. Russia 16. Ukraine 17. Malta 18. United Kingdom 19. Germany 20. Serbia 21. Azerbaijan 22. Moldova 23. Greece 24. Lithuania 25. Turkey 26. Bosnia & Herzegovina I have to put Bosnia & Herzegovina at 26 because it's just made such little impression on me during the whole contest.

I would have voted for the Netherlands tonight. Possibly Macedonia also.

I don't see this at all. The songs are so different, if anything it would be the other way around and Turkey would be screwed.