Eurovision Song Contest 2022

LOL, knocked it out the park.

There we go, unassailable lead I think.

It's all over guys, the rest of you can all go home.

Fuck me those Ukraine points

Who is surprised? People are corny

2 mins to 12, get the fuck on with it

People elsewhere in the continent watching this at 2am lol

UK, 28 votes.

Wonder how many people actually vote in the UK?

Just thinking about the fact that if Putin hadn't decided to invade Ukraine, the UK would have just won Eurovision.

Public got it pretty much spot on.

Rotten bit of luck, chaps.

Wonder how many people actually vote in the UK?

Ukraine didn't deserve the 400 and whatever votes they got but they were right about Serbia.

I fucken voted, I do it every year. It's actually a big deal where I live, I could lean out the window and point out 4 more voters

Just thinking about the fact that if Putin hadn't decided to invade Ukraine, the UK would have just won Eurovision.

Just thinking about the fact that if Putin hadn't decided to invade Ukraine, the UK would have just won Eurovision.

― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 14 May 2022 bookmarkflaglink

The Ukraine's extra sympathy votes would've been spread out in a way that's hard to predict. A very small gap btw UK and Spain.

xp It's true! Also the Ukraine song is better, and not the sort of thing which would normally be in with a chance.

Tonight was truly Boris Johnson's Dunkirk moment.

you have melted our hearts, friends #Eurovision 💛💙...

...and it matters the world to us during this time 💔

we send all your love and support to our brave freedom defenders at Azovstal and along the frontline

congrats, KALUSH Orchestra 🏆🇺🇦 #SaveMariupol #SaveAzovstal pic.twitter.com/Vt7WzpMHFQ

— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) May 14, 2022

Ukraine got 431 out of a maximum possible 468 public votes.

without the invasion ukraine have a different entry: alina pash withdrew as contestant for some faff to do with crimea which i'm too sleepy to understand

also russia would be competing

At least Switzerland got fuck all in the public vote.

Next year in a liberated Mariupol.
We’ll sort it out somehow.#Eurovision2022

— Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 (@IAPonomarenko) May 14, 2022

Also Konstrakta’s formal video for the song rules too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S1jrYq87Zw

Just looking at the full vote breakdown now. The following countries’ public votes gave Ukraine 12 points:

🇮🇹 Italy
🇫🇷 France
🇮🇪 Ireland
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇪🇸 Spain
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
🇩🇰 Denmark
🇩🇪 Germany
🇦🇹 Austria
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇱🇻 Latvia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇵🇱 Poland
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
🇲🇩 Moldova
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
🇬🇪 Georgia
🇸🇲 San Marino
🇦🇺 Australia
🇧🇪 Belgium
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇳🇱 Netherlands
🇸🇪 Sweden
🇮🇱 Israel
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇳🇴 Norway
🇫🇮 Finland

My beloved Moldova got 8 points from the UK public, proving my votes for them didn’t go to waste.

They got 12 points from Romania and Serbia, which amuses me because I saw a comment on YouTube by an excited Serb talking about how the video distilled the experience of taking trains in the Balkans and when I ran this by my Serb mate she was like “unbelievably otm” & “one time I saw a group take a suckling pig on the train”. Any other year, they’d be reaping in the end of evening drunk votes but they still did very well!

Obviously there were some Bizarre Voting Irregularities, Sharivari to thread etc

Turns out that you can loop the 32 bar acapella intro of "Stefania" all the way through the break in Madonna's "Hung Up" - the keys match perfectly.

(Fucking hell, wait till she realises. There'll be no stopping her.)