[Live Thread] Eurovision Song Contest 2024 GRAND FINAL @ 21:00 CEST

couldnt agree more

As we saw tonight as well, the jury removes some problems of political voting as well. Didn't even see a lot of neighbor-12s

24 cha cha Chas e a lot of political votes. The people that ask for the ending of jury vote have no interest in musical diversity and talent.

I prefer Cha Cha to Rim Dim as well. Cha Cha had something special.

You say this like it's a problem...

I'm in the north of Italy, so both of them are close, but Switzerland will be so expensive 😭

Yeah well behave yourself and you won't be the first ever to be disqualified. Simple as that.

Same. I always rolled my eyes whenever people said: we should just quit (usually during that long period pre 2013 where we didn’t qualify for the finale). But right now I think it’s a good idea to at least take a break. Either that or EBU needs to offer a very, very good apology.

All bark but no bite

I am mad they didn't include him but tbh I didn't really feel his absence. The show was really strong.

Definitely, Joost should have won

Stop with this "country x controls everything" bullshit, it's very reminiscent of terrible ideology

I don't think Joost would have won tbh, might have contended for top 10 though.

I see it still? https://youtu.be/IiHFnmI8pxg?si=nOUhL0mPZwPI6rtR

Yeah, jury vote was incredibly lop sided, to the point that it didn't make sense. A song that comes 3rd and 1st should beat one that comes 1st and 5th but here we are.

Yeah, I also loved that moment!

Nobody from Greece would have expected any 12 points from the juries, specially the Swiss ones 😛

Petra said Loreen's Tattoo got the most streams of a Eurovision song. Something along those lines.

Song that brings smile every time I hear/see it. Shame it did not get placed better.

People at my watch party loved Finland and laughed audibly. Would have been much worse without windows 95 man. The question is, would you vote him winner though? Most people wanted Croatia, a few wanted Cyprus(!) and one wanted Ireland.

While everyone appreciated Finland this year it also didnt feel good enough musically to win, compared to Cha Cha Cha, but please dont stop sending fun entries!

BL was the most positive acting I feel.

Armenia is cuteness overload ❤️

Guys I've been seeing reality only through social media lenses, the world is not what I thought, is there a cospiracy to explain this?

Preventing someone you dont like winning in the future? The best way would be to stop hating on artist for political reasons in a song contest 

You can vote up to 20 times, and the way the system works you can't vote against a song. So a minority piling their votes into one country can absolutely dominate the public vote as the rest of the population spreads their votes across the other acts. The Situation is likely similar in many countries. They came first or second in all 3 German speaking countries too.

I have the very strong impression from a wide range of sources that support for one high-scoring country was neither wide nor deep in the general UK public

You are out of touch with prevailing public sentiment in the UK

You need a small but dedicated amount of voters to give 20 votes and that's enough for a sweep, most viewers give 1-2 votes to various acts

Everyone has a maximum of 20 votes and can use them as they please.

It’s not that deep, maybe everyone just doesn’t share the same opinion that you have

Up to 20 votes per number calling. They can be split across any number of participants

You could vote twenty times from the same line.

as far as i know, anyone could vote up to 20 times.

You are allowed to vote up to 20 times.

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How about saving the anger for when the investigation is done and we know what actually happened instead of being angry prematurely?

and hope the fandom will remember him if he will be exonerated.

Exoneration would be nice but is not needed.

We will remember him as the most positive and most impactful act of this Eurovision, even if he did make a "threatening gesture to a camera". What he's accused of doing, if found guilty, should be punished with a small fine or shoveling public parks for two days at most. Maybe an apology to boot. Not to rob someone of their lifelong dream, that they worked towards for years, letting down millions of fans in the process.

Cool story

https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2024#scoreboard

For Finland our commentator said it and also appeared on the TV screen, before Nemo got to the stage.

on german tv they told us the votes from germany, austria and switzerland. I think everyone gets their own votes and sometime soon you‘ll be able to find all Votings everywhwre.

https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2024

hi on twitter :)

dum di dum dum WE WILL RAVE

They're all forgotten again.

Like every year.

I can't remember a single song of any eurovision entrant I've ever seen.

It's just like noise and dancing that fills my head for one week a year and goes away.

Europapa

yeh same

I'd say last year had a more toxic tension after the show (the runner ups fans were very passionate), while this year had more drama and controversies during the Eurovision week

Anyone who can sing and balance like that at the same time deserves plaudits.

Being apolitical is a political stance.

Depoliticizing is in itself political.

It is impossible to depoliticize something like this and also art has always been political.

Thank you. Iolanda was fantastic and I voted for her. The song grew on me so much. It was beautiful.

You always seem to give us a couple as well! A great little partnership!

Because there's no reason for them to put up with the small print when they already have a large platform and absolute freedom to sing about whatever they want.

Eurovision is great for lesser known artists because it gives them international exposure, so it's worth the sacrifice.

That was the UK sending a famous singer.

dude, Olly is a famous singer

No you can send anyone to Eurovision… I think a lot of well know/famous artists from the uk will probably not put their name down to enter cus they have a fear of not doing well

Well Olly is kinda famous, I loved his band Years&Years 😭

The more famous singers aren't interested in participating 

Olly is famous.

Olly Alexander is actually very famous! He was in a critically acclaimed TV show and was the lead vocalist of a band that has held multiple No. 1 spots in the charts, Years & Years.

I dislike the gasping*.

It was good, there just shouldn’t have been that big of a gap between them and 2nd place after the jury votes

Was not as good as some other songs

Don't mind it, it's just not nearly the best that was there (imo).

Does feel sad that Eurovision is decided by the jury and not the people.

The people who were against them didn’t have a clear choice to vote for, so split between 4 and 5 other major contestants

And btw it’s Israel 🇮🇱Fixed it for you

where can you look at the public votes?

After the Italian leak, I'm relieved it was only 15 countries tbh

I agree. Justice for Dons!

Which song would that be?

Which song?

Most of the dooming seems to have been in vain! Was a great eurovision and had a great watch party.

Greece was the best song today.

But then I also expected Norway to do well, so maybe dont ask for my opinions.

Greece was good, and Marina deserved the support. I didn't like Croatia AT ALL. I genuinely don't understand how it got as many votes as it did. Switzerland had a pretty good song and I'm not mad about them winning at all.

totally agree with the Greece comment, saw people on social media saying "the song is good but the staging lets it down" and I thought to myself nah the song does a good job of letting itself down lol

I am glad Issac didn't bomb. He's got a good voice even if the song didn't stand out as much as the others to voters on both sides.

That to me was one of the biggest surprises of this year

Also UK getting zero points really surprising?

It was a really good song. Well done, Isaak!

It's nice to see, especially Germany.

Switzerland wasn't one of my favourites but the performance was objectively good.

Switzerland was my #1 (depending on the time of day it would swap with Croatia), but this is kind of what I kept saying - on a technical level, it is just so fucking good in every way. It's hard to find anything wrong with it, whereas Croatia's was a little rough around the edges but the entire madness/party vibe of it made it so so so fun.

Switzerland deserved the win, Croatia absolutely would have deserved it as well.

To everyone screaming about rigging or political voting just because your favourite lost out, just grow up and simmer down.

Perfectly said.

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