Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on May 18, 2019 17:48:17 GMT -5
Poopular.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on May 18, 2019 17:56:32 GMT -5
since this new scoring system has been put in ..... i still have NO ******* IDEA HOW THIS WORKS
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Futureraven: Beelzebruv
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on May 18, 2019 18:00:51 GMT -5
Iceland are.... Brave...
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on May 18, 2019 18:02:02 GMT -5
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha, suck it jury winners, hahahahahahahahahahaha.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on May 18, 2019 18:02:10 GMT -5
THE LOOK ON THE SWEDES FACE IS PRICELESS
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on May 18, 2019 18:03:25 GMT -5
i'm guessing the public vote is the same as the jury vote, that's probably why those scores were up on screen
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Post by Hit Girl on May 18, 2019 18:03:53 GMT -5
Holland deserved to win. Solid song.
Feel sorry for the British lad. Did his best.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on May 18, 2019 18:09:42 GMT -5
i actually quite like this song too
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Nr1Humanoid
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on May 18, 2019 18:11:29 GMT -5
We actually won the popular vote. And got 5th in the whole shebang.
Fun times. I am off to bed.
Shalom.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on May 18, 2019 18:11:38 GMT -5
Can the UK please stop piling money into this event now. If we were able to go back to 1965, grab The Beatles then and bring them back to today without them aging, then get them to perform at Eurovision, we’d still end up in the bottom half.
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Post by Hit Girl on May 18, 2019 18:47:43 GMT -5
The problem with the UK is that we go for middle of the road X Factor type entries. You either have to go simple like Holland, or go big and bold like Australia, otherwise no one cares.
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Post by dirtyoldman on May 19, 2019 3:47:49 GMT -5
So they're hitting Amsterdam next year then? Shots of the acts before their proformances getting stoned or walking through the red light district.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 19, 2019 4:27:30 GMT -5
Can the UK please stop piling money into this event now. If we were able to go back to 1965, grab The Beatles then and bring them back to today without them aging, then get them to perform at Eurovision, we’d still end up in the bottom half. Watch our entrants from the past two decades then tell me which of them actually deserved to be in contention for winning. Go on, try and say in a straight face that the act we put up last night was better than Sweden, Norway, Russia... I even prefer San Marino as he had a better song with an actual hook. Next to nobody we have entered in the past two decades has been good. This isn't a supergroup of the best and brightest being rejected, this is second tier reality TV contestants with garbage songs being rejected and people who didn't watch their crap performance live and in interviews wailing about the politics. Our entrants are almost completely across the board crap. That has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with candidate and song selection. The reality TV selection process manages to eliminate the best possible entry each year and has done for a good long while now. People voted for the guy we put out there because he was a reality TV veteran, not because he was someone who had the presence to get people on board across Europe and to make a crap song shine the way Sweden's act did. Each year, better acts pull out pull out of consideration because of the 'you decide' selection show, or get filtered out because talentless hacks like Rylan undercut them when judging their performances, so what gets through is usually reality Tv stars or cod soulful drivel... The kind of act that seldom make it out of the semi finals no matter who they're representing, I know because I watch every second of the shows, semis included. We need some actual quality control, reality TV winners rarely translate to the big stage, not when we do it, not when other nations do it. Part of their appeal to the domestic audience is their journey from nowhere to stardom, and that never translates to Eurovision. To make matters worse, our acts tend to be as much fun as parallel parking to watch, on the rare occasions we get an established act through the selection process, their performance on the night is bland as hell, or like that of someone who hadn't performed in ten years like Bonnie Tyler or Blue. The only act we put out there that was anything close to fun was Electrovelvet, and guess what? They did okay comparatively, given the shakiness of their vocals on the night. That said, the show has a big audience who don't give a crap about winning, the whole event is what we watch it for, it's an enjoyable spectacle from beginning to end. If we're going to stop funding things we do badly at, because of 'politics', I'd rather they stop dumping money into crap like football, which is a FAR bigger drain on money, airtime and resources at both the local and national level, and spawns a whole bunch of drunken thuggery to boot. We've dumped a whole lot of public money into trying to win world cup bids in a system that was spectacularly corrupt and gotten nothing out of it, at least with Eurovision we get a glorious Europewide show of acceptance and snark. When we stop entering bad songs with bad performers, we will stop doing badly, the guy's performance was bad when it mattered. It's not politics, it's just fact.
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Post by Mid-Carder on May 19, 2019 4:29:38 GMT -5
Can the UK please stop piling money into this event now. If we were able to go back to 1965, grab The Beatles then and bring them back to today without them aging, then get them to perform at Eurovision, we’d still end up in the bottom half. This simply isn't true. We get the last places we deserve because we send dull, unmemorable songs with dull, unmemorable staging. We don't compel people to vote for us. When we sent a compelling song in 2009 we came fifth.
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Post by msc on May 19, 2019 5:21:47 GMT -5
In the last decade, 2 times the UK has broken that mold and sent in something Europe might like, Blue in 2011 (not my cup of tea but v popular in Europe back in the day), and the Andrew Lloyd Webber 2009 song, it's finished in the top half. Eurovision is 1/3 good song, 1/3 notable or great singer 1/3 politics, and we can moan about the last bit there but if the UK keep skimping on the first two, it'll be sub 50 points.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 19, 2019 6:46:45 GMT -5
We shouldn't expect the Swedes to vote for us when we keep on sending turnips. It's that simple.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 19, 2019 7:03:58 GMT -5
Moments like this are why I love Eurovision more than just about anything else. Fans across the world came together to delight in it. Great moment, great song, great performers and imagery. This is why we love the contest, it's all about unity, we don't give a crap about winning.
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Post by Legion on May 19, 2019 8:22:54 GMT -5
I was sad Sweden lost, they were my pick.
North Macedonia would have been a decent winner too.
The Dutch song was fine, nice voice, it was just boring.
Highlight of the night was the Czech boys face when his popular vote score came in - followed by the Swedish blokes face at the same moment for him, even if I did want him to win.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on May 19, 2019 8:34:13 GMT -5
Norway got screwed by the professional jury votes.
The Netherlands was the runaway favorite in the betting odds since the song was released so I’m not surprised by the result at all. I do think Italy could’ve won it had their staging been a bit better.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on May 19, 2019 8:54:16 GMT -5
I didn't see the appeal of the Dutch performer at all, his song being popular before the show gave it a leg up it probably didn't deserve. Sweden were the better performers, if they'd performed that song a Capella without the backing track they would have won based on talent alone. The music of the song did them a huge disservice and made them come off as generic europop and that probably cost them in the public vote.
Whenever they were given camera time, they sang snippets without the track and they were brilliant.
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