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The final is on Saturday!

The venue:

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This will be the first time Switzerland has hosted the event since 1989.

Countries competing:

Albania 🇦🇱
Armenia 🇦🇲
Austria 🇦🇹
Denmark 🇩🇰
Estonia 🇪🇪

Finland 🇫🇮
France 🇫🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
Greece 🇬🇷
Iceland 🇮🇸

Israel 🇮🇱
Italy 🇮🇹
Latvia 🇱🇻
Lithuania 🇱🇹
Luxembourg 🇱🇺

Malta 🇲🇹
Netherlands, The 🇳🇱
Norway 🇳🇴
Poland 🇵🇱
Portugal 🇵🇹

San Marino 🇸🇲
Spain 🇪🇸
Sweden 🇸🇪
Switzerland 🇨🇭
Ukraine, The 🇺🇦

United Kingdom, The 🇬🇧

Apparently Sweden has a strong chance.
 
Let's wait and see.....in the past, some of the wimpiest acts on the planet have won this contest !!! :):)
 
A lot of fat/thicc chiks this year NTTAWWT
 
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My top 3
- Italy
- Portugal
- Estonia

Sweden, Iceland and Lithuania should be excluded from next year for delivering shitty contributions (and Sweden is somehow an odds favourite)
 
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My top 3
- Italy
- Portugal
- Estonia

Sweden, Iceland and Lithuania should be excluded from next year for delivering shitty contributions (and Sweden is somehow an odds favourite)
Partially agree. My top three (four):

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The Italian one reminded me of David Bowie.

The Luxembourg lass had great charisma and presence.

Ignoring political factors Germany were pretty good too.

Sweden's entry was fun and all around entertainment with the plot, costumes and whatnot.

Estonia was a clear winner for me with the choreography, stage invader, dancing including the fangirl and security guards and it was lighthearted and the best spectacle. It told a relatable story with an amusing character and it wasn't all about being broken-hearted or being a slut etc.

Norway were shit.

Lithuania were awful, idk who approved that.

I quite liked Iceland actually but somehow they got 0 from the juries.

UK were decent and I think would have done better if the judging were fairer. Who else had vocal harmonies like that?
How dare they vote the UK so low again. No respect. No love. Just unbridled distain.

This is why we left the EU.
We get low votes because of being disliked rather than for the quality of our entries.

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Really enjoyed this year's tournament. Good entertainment and nothing too dark like Bambie Thug.
 

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Eurovision has been accused of allowing vote-rigging that led to Israel unexpectedly coming second in this year’s competition.

The national broadcasters for Spain and Belgium have complained to the competition’s organisers after Israel won the public vote by a large margin.

RTVE, Spain’s public broadcaster, and VRT, the Flemish public broadcasting company, are calling for organisers to investigate the televoting system following a surge in support for Yuval Raphael, Israel’s contestant, who ended up scoring 357 points.

The country finished in second place after Austria’s JJ, who received 436 points for his song Wasted Love.

The entrants receive points from a professional jury from each country, as well as from a public vote. The maximum amount of points from any country’s jury or the public is 12.

Belgium and Spain’s televoters both awarded Israel 12 points, despite the juries giving the country zero points. Viewers at home can vote up to 20 times for a small cost charged to each vote by text or phone call.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), which runs the competition, confirmed Spain and Belgium’s broadcasters had been in touch and insisted it took the complaints 'seriously'.

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Katia Segers, a Flemish parliamentarian,

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said: “A system in which everyone can cast up to 20 votes is a system that encourages manipulation. Whether this manipulation occurred in our country and all other participating and non-participating countries must be investigated.”

She added: “The VRT must take the lead in requesting this investigation. And in holding the debate on the televoting system within the EBU, and on Israel’s participation.”

Martin Green, the director of Eurovision,

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said: “It is important to emphasise that the voting operation for the Eurovision Song Contest is the most advanced in the world and each country’s result is checked and verified by a huge team of people to exclude any suspicious or irregular voting patterns. An independent compliance monitor reviews both jury and public vote data to ensure we have a valid result.”

He added: “We remain in constant contact with all participating broadcasters of the Eurovision Song Contest and take their concerns seriously.”


The Spanish prime minister has called for Israel to be banned from the Eurovision Song Contest over its military action in Gaza. Pedro Sánchez

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noted Russia has been banned from the contest since 2022 following its invasion of Ukraine, and said there should not be 'double standards'.
 
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