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Eurovision 2018 - The road to the Altice Arena, Lisbon, Portugal, chat + news thread starts here.
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There are at least 10 countries that won't give Ireland a single vote. Poor song and must be lay of the contest at 12/1. Think they making a song and dance over EBU banning transmission in China. Storm in an Eurovision teacup won't count for anything on the night.
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Everyone loves Ireland no?
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I backed a few Roger including Ireland at 860/1for a fiver
 , [before the s/finals ] i laid it back at 300/1 a few weeks later tHE VIDEO was worderful , I like Denmark as well, have to say theres lots of good songs and performences ,,one of the better years for the Eurovision. |
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Well done frank. I thought it was terrible from the start!
 Too much "Springtime For Hitler" for me... A few decent ones this year. As always the voting is the best part of it. |
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The Producers was one my fav films Roger,[ the first one with Zero Mostel and the great Gene Wilder] i saw it a few years back on Broadway, Estonia just might be a very good e/way bet ,it will get plenty of votes from the Balkans, good luck lads with your bets lads
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Great to hear that. Mine too. The remake was sacrilegious. Went to see it in the theatre and walked out soon into it.....
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Estonia back in a bit from 70.0
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I have to say that they improved the camerawork for Ireland on the staging.
Looks a lot better than the video. I can see why all the money has come for it now. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX6p8LxrqSw
Cool vid |
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Every year Eurovision seems to outdo itself and leap from one laughable contest to another, Lordi, Latvian pirates, bearded Austrian women, letting the Aussies in and now a favourite from a non European country who performs a chicken dance and will no doubt get the sympathy vote regardless. I think the bearded women in particular was the catalyst for Brexit, the trauma most people would have suffered witnessing that no doubt lingered all the way to the voting booth.
I will still watch however, car crash TV at it's pinnacle. |
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Favourite is from Cyprus....
 Sydney sit down, have a sandwich, drink a glass of milk. Do some f**cking thing.... Enjoy the show. |
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Why is Italy still so far out of line with similarly priced outrights on top 10 market?
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Because ALL specials markets are clueless.
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Slightly disappointed it wasn't top 4 but thankfully nap landed with Italy top 10. Disparity between jury and public vote crazy.
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Sweden ranked 2nd with jury but ranked 23rd with public finishes 7th overall. I wonder if the jury went for the light show but the public went for the song.
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Is there a breakdown of the public vote by country somewhere? I know UK gave Italy nothing which doesn't surprise me given the problem we have in accepting a song in another language plus being brainwashed by X-Factor rubbish.
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https://eurovision.tv/event/lisbon-2018/grand-final/voting-details/united-kingdom
the breakdown online only has the points scoring for public vote right now, sure it never used to be like that. UK juries had 4x Italy last! |
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What's really interesting with the breakdown by judges is you can see that 'Popera' is a divisive musical genre (at least in the UK). Estonia got: 15 3 7 16 2 Basically the old bloke and the DJ didn't like it. Also it's not a surprise that Cyprus overtook Israel in British bloggers' estimations, and the sudden late surge of support for Ireland when you look at the televote.
In fact, to predict the outright winner, I'm going to try much harder to ignore the speculations of UK Eurovision bloggers as UK tastes are frequently out of touch with the Europe-wide consensus. |
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Also it's fascinating how well Denmark did by breaking into the top 10, a position many couldn't see. It came 9th in the UK televote matching the final result. I suppose it must have been a combination of the singer's convincingly Viking looks (he could have stepped right out of the TV series Vikings) and the dramatic, yet simple staging.
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