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Eurovision 2011

Who do you want to win?

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Something for Europeans.

Not that only Europeans could be interested. They're just probably the most familiar with this topic.

It's almost time for the annual musical circus of ridiculous outfits and elaborate choreography. Oh, and there's some singing involved as well. I'm curious, do you watch Eurovision and are you going to watch the 2011 edition?

I've always watched it, it's just one of those omnipresent things you're kinda used of. Plus, I love music. And I'm definitely watching it this year, too, hoping for a long-awaited victory.

How about the rest of you?
 
Re: Something for Europeans.

My reaction is so large, it must be contained.
JEDWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD! OMGOMGOMGOMG! JEDWAAAAAAAAAAAAAARD! MY DAD'S BOSS IS IN CHARGE OF MAKING JEDWARD EASTER EGGS AND STUFF, SO HE MET JEDWARD. JEDWARD RULES, YOU DON'T.

Guess who I am up for.
 
The Eurovision is back at 8:00pm (UK & Ireland time, 9:00pm European time) tonight, and this year takes place in Dusseldorf, Germany (at 8.00pm UK & Ireland time), following Germany's win in the 2010 Contest with Lena Meyer-Landrut's song "Satellite". and is hosted by Judith Rakers, Stefan Raab and Anke Engelke, and is being held at the Esprit Arena, which beat three challenging venue locations across Germany in a bidding phase in late 2010.

The current favourite to win is France's entry Amaury Vassily, who will be singing Sognu. Unusually for a French entry, it will not be sung in French, instead it will be sung in Corsican.

X-Factor twins Jedward are also big favourites, with their odds being slashed after they qualified from the 2nd Semi-Final on thursday with their song Lipstick.

The United Kingdom are also tipped to be succesful, being represented by the hugely succesfull Blue, with I Can.

The winner of the 2010 contest, Lena, will be hoping to win the title for Germany again this year with Taken By A Stranger, which could get some points form the UK, since it was in an episode of Hollyoaks (the bit where Jenny went to meet a man in the woods, and it turned out to be Silas).

Other countries predicted to do well are Estonia, Azerbaijan, Hungary, and Denmark.

Norway, Armenia and Israel (represented by 1998 transexual winner Dana International) were also favourites, however they failed to qualify in the semi finals.

Along with the UK, France and Germany, the other contries that are automatically put through to the final are Spain and Italy, which returns to the contest for the first time since 1997.

The Eurovision song contest is an annual competition that has ran for 53 years and is held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The contest has been shown live since its inception in 1956 and is one of the most viewed non sporting events in the world, audience figures continue to grow year on year and for the 2010 Eurovision Song contest, which took place on Saturday 29th May had over 600 million viewers.

The show has moved on from its cheesy pop songs and local oddities and now produces some of the most modern and vibrant European music available.

With so many countries taking part in the contest and its ever growing popularity, betting on the Eurovision Song Contest is big business, with an estimated €300 million expected to be bet on this year's competition over the internet. The most popular bet is on which country will win and the odds for winning Eurovision can vary greatly, some countries such as the United Kingdom in the past were constantly placed in the top ten but in recent years bloc-voting countries often head the betting as Eurovision favourites.

In related news, William Hill are shitting themselves a bit today as Jedward odds have shortened so much that it leaves them facing a £100,000 pay out to just one punter if they pull off a win. The bookmakers originally offered them at 25 to 1, but as with their X Factor performances, as time went on it looked like they might just do the impossible. The punter mentioned put a £5,000 bet on them at 20 to 1.

So, who whats who to win? I personally like the German, Estonian, Serbian, Azeri and Greek (minus the awful rapping bit) entries, though it would be funny if Jedward win, and embarrasing if the UK get less votes than them.
 
GO ONNN JEDWARD!!

But, sadly, Azerbaijan won. I hadn't even heard of that country O.O
 
I'm okay with the winner, but most of the top 10 was just messed up IMO.

Sadly, people can't recognize talent these days.
 
Kamex said:
I'm okay with the winner, but most of the top 10 was just messed up IMO.

Sadly, people can't recognize talent these days.
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Everything isn't about talent, and it can still be good and "talented" in your taste.

I had a few favorites but those I really wanted to win in the final was Greece or Sweden. I'm swedish as well, but it has nothing to do with me wanting them to win, the song is good.

I didn't like Azerbaijan at all, bah. Would be happier if Italy would have won or Sweden, since they got only a few points away from each other, but oh well. Great show.
 
Granted, it all depends on various tastes and there's nothing wrong with that. I just feel like a lot of the songs deserved more than they got.

Oh well. At least they gave us a terrific show.
 
Yeah you're right there. And some songs got more than what they deserved, hah.

I find this show so completely random. Unexpected things everywhere, 12's everywhere, different kinds of songs everywhere... But it was indeed a terrific show!
 
All in all, I guess they deserved their victory as Europe apparently liked them. So, congrats. It's a competition, after all.
 
Wasn't 50% of the votes from juries? But I still suppose the the people liked Azerbaijan either way.
 
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It was, but I guess the televoters had to be at least somewhat on their side. I don't think they could have won if people hadn't liked them at least a bit. They probably couldn't have done if only the juries had liked them.
 
Great contest last night. I loved Azerbaijan's song and it deserved to win. I watch ESC every year and am a big fan of it.
 
Yeah, I watch ESC each year. This year, I liked Georgia and UK somewhat, the rest were meh or downright annoying.

They should still figure out a system to weed out voting neighbouring countries, even if the previous few winners weren't from Balkan. :p
 
I don't get neighbor voting, or more the people that blames it. This year for example, Cyprus gave a 12 to Greece. Even though Cyprus have a rather different song than Greece, both are still very greek in some way so after all; is it that strange that neighbor countries vote for each other when they sending songs that is alike in some way?

It shouldn't be a problem if the country actually like the song, which I think they do. I'm sure if a country would have a different song or so, they wouldn't get neighbor votes.
 
woaska said:
I don't get neighbor voting, or more the people that blames it. This year for example, Cyprus gave a 12 to Greece. Even though Cyprus have a rather different song than Greece, both are still very greek in some way so after all; is it that strange that neighbor countries vote for each other when they sending songs that is alike in some way?

It shouldn't be a problem if the country actually like the song, which I think they do. I'm sure if a country would have a different song or so, they wouldn't get neighbor votes.
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It eats away from the "fairness" of the contest. You gave a perfect example: Cyprus has given Greece 12 points every single year since 1997 (excluding 2001, when Cyprus couldn't vote, and years 1999 and 2000, when Greece didn't participate). You don't vote for the people who are almost the same nationality than you, you should vote for the song you like the most.
 
I agree with Soulweaver on this one. When people pick up their phones, they should focus on the song that they liked. Sure, if you like your neighbor's song, vote for it. But not just because they're your neighbors.

This is why I like that juries make for 50% of the final votes. Although this year, it seems that it didn't help at all.
 
After hearing it in the final, Slovenia's entry is staring to grow on me. Bit late to vote now, but still.
 
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