Eurovision 2024: Grand Final (8pm BST Sat) (1 Viewer)

[RS]

Actually, another change I'd like to propose to Mr Osterdahl if anyone has his email or his Grindr, is to swap Armenia and Georgia.

The Armenian song CRIES to be played out near the end where you're not really sure what's going on anymore and the drunk straights at your party are finally on your level.

Indeed! The Armenian song is more of an afterparty thing

 

[Raining on Me]

Also the effort to avoid a Ukrainian win, only for the very real prospect of an Israeli one?! (Surely surely not but it feels terrifyingly real now) Couldn't they have shoved Israel in second or would that have been too on the nose?

 

[Tisch]

Agreed. Armenia would be a better closer than Austria IMO. Austria is such a get the party started kind of song that it feels a bit weird to play it when the party is over (sorry Belgium).

I think it's a bit light to be the ACTUAL closer, but near the end, as a bit of a fun throwaway among the favourites, definitely.

 

[Tetris-Rock]

Feels like they’ve really fucked over Joost.

 

[VoR]

Charlotte really getting a spotlight this year. They should have just let her co-host instead of boring old Malin.

 

[RS]

Now that I’ve litsened to the studio version of Ireland it doesn’t sound half as jarring as it first sounded.

 

[Alla]

Also the effort to avoid a Ukrainian win, only for the very real prospect of an Israeli one?! (Surely surely not but it feels terrifyingly real now) Couldn't they have shoved Israel in second or would that have been too on the nose?

They probably won the semi last night, so it's hard to justify a second place in the final. 6th is not very good anyway.

 

[Penelope]

I've been scolded on this one enough over the years that I feel honour/duty-bound to mention that the canon of the running order process is that it's done by organisers that have not had sight on how the semi final results went in terms of points and placings.

(And tbh, the inevitability of at least some degree of bias towards/against personal fabiourites and least favourites, and the sheer amount of potential for interpretation in terms of what a placing could indicate either way off the back of a given semi finish from a given place in the odds/semi running order...mewn that if anything, it could probably only make things more of a headache than otherwise for anyone involved to know specific semi results or have much more to go on other than a brief and sense of how things may have been going from the betting market

 

[Raining on Me]

Just realised there's a lot more ballads in the mix than I think anyone was expecting, especially with boring old DONS in there. I guess France will eat up the jury vote but I'm praying Portugal aren't totally forgotten with the increased competition

 

[Kaleen]

Joost didn’t perform in the dress rehearsal today. At least in his expected position. It went Luxembourg - Israel - Lithuania.

 

[Sheena]

Apparently there’s an EBU investigation going on.

Into WHAT?

 

[Lucille]

He was reading Miss Eden and the EBU to filth in his press conference.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

 

[Lucille]

If he’s disqualified this could quickly snowball.

 

[Soldi]

That’d be ridiculous if he gets disqualified for that “why not?” comment he made.

 

[Lucille]

I could imagine other acts pulling out in solidarity.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

She's getting MESSY

 

[Soldi]

Also, would they replace him with who finished 11th last night?

 

[Lucille]

Also, would they replace him with who finished 11th last night?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Also, I jumped onto the ESC Discord to see the mess as it unfolds, and at the same time as they SPECULATE WILDY about Joost, they are also DELLUSIONALLY claiming that Italy's Israel vote is so high because Italians thought they were VOTING FOR THEMSELVES

 

[Dark Carnival]

Well done EBU

 

[Lucille]

 

[win_the_game]

Also, I jumped onto the ESC Discord to see the mess as it unfolds, and at the same time as they SPECULATE WILDY about Joost, they are also DELLUSIONALLY claiming that Italy's Israel vote is so high because Italians thought they were VOTING FOR THEMSELVES

They do seem to have difficulty understanding the rules around televoting. A high share of invalid votes are always cast at Sanremo AFTER the televote. Apparently they can’t grasp the concept ‘STOP AL TELEVOTO’

 

[Apoca]

#dividedbymusic

What a spectacular series of own goals this is turning into.

 

[Kratz]

Please can we get #pulloutforsarah trending please.

Don’t get on the bus team Malta!

 

[RS]

What is the incident please?

 

[Lucille]

When was the last time an act was disqualified?

 

[Kratz]

When was the last time an act was disqualified?

Lebanon was sort of disqualified

 

[IntoTheDark]

Also, I jumped onto the ESC Discord to see the mess as it unfolds, and at the same time as they SPECULATE WILDY about Joost, they are also DELLUSIONALLY claiming that Italy's Israel vote is so high because Italians thought they were VOTING FOR THEMSELVES

To be fair, I do remember them releasing such televote breakdowns in years gone past and the number of viewers who seemingly voted for Italy was always rather HIGH.

 

[RS]

Is it not suspecious that the Aftonbladet poll had Israel at 39% and Netherlands at 7% too? I’ve seen comments about Israeli hackers

 

[Kratz]

Apparently if you play ‘Loop’ backwards it says

‘Make way for Shiri Maimon‘

 

[Apoca]

Also, love a statement saying there is no statement to make.

The one time they could get ahead of a situation, they still choose to go with the most passive and reactive comms approach. Kind of astonishing, really.

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Also, love a statement saying there is no statement to make.

The one time they could get ahead of a situation, they still choose to go with the most passive and reactive comms approach. Kind of astonishing, really.

SPECULATE WILDLY about the FUTURE of MARTIN ÖSTERDAHL

 

[VoR]

If the Israeli delegation have put in a complaint about something Joost’s said or done, they probably don’t have much choice but to follow it up in fairness…

 

[Lucille]

SPECULATE WILDLY about the FUTURE of MARTIN ÖSTERDAHL

Can I offer him an anxiety relieving blowy during this difficult time?

 

[win_the_game]

He was in the flag parade and the stage crew were moving the Dutch props on set during the rehearsal run-through before being called back.

Whatever is going on, it must have been a last minute decision.

 

[Kratz]

Can I offer him an anxiety relieving blowy during this difficult time?

‘You’re looking anxious Martin…’

I can picture how this plays out

 

[IntoTheDark]

EBU: "The European Broadcasting Union has investigated this matter with both RAl and its televoting partner and can confirm that the information was published in error. We can also confirm that the information was incomplete.

A valid vote was received from Italy as part of the results of the Semi-Final.

RAI have been informed that this was in breach of the rules of the Contest which state that voting results may only be communicated after the event. The matter will be discussed further by the Contest's Reference Group following the Contest.

We have requested RAl to review their procedures to ensure that all rules and protocols are followed in order to protect the integrity of the voting."

 

[Tisch]

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The third leg sticking out of this (admittedly wonderful) smilie keeps JUMPSCARING me

 

[Lucille]