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Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Zero points for UK from the home votes I missed the explanation how do the at home votes translate to points?

Yeah this confused me!

Dowbocop wrote:There's obviously very polarised and active groups pulling both ways in the conflict, but you can't vote negatively for "Not Israel", you can only vote positively "For Israel", so I wonder if the pro voices might get concentrated into a huge public score.

Yep, I suspect you're right there.

Switzerland guy looking less than confident now.

We gave 12 to Israel and 10 to Ireland.

Disaster averted at least.

As I’ve always said, Switzerland was my pick to win all along.

Curls wrote:

Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Zero points for UK from the home votes I missed the explanation how do the at home votes translate to points?

Yeah this confused me!

They take all the 12 points, 10pts, 8pts, 7pts, 6pts, 5pts ,4pts, 3pts, 2pts and 1pt and add them together.

Ploiper wrote:How in the world have we got zero points from the public

Last year, we only got points from Malta and Ukraine. Malta aren't in the final this time, and Ukraine's goodwill towards the UK has clearly expired.

Coincidently the European Broadcasting Union headquarters are in Switzerland.

Graham "Don't break the trophy"

2 seconds later.. breaks the trophy

Shame for Olly but we keep sending these poor vocal performances and don't seem to learn that it never works at Eurovision.

Roonmastor wrote:We gave 12 to Israel and 10 to Ireland.

Israel got 10 from the public vote in Ireland too, 12 points went to Croatia.

But the jury vote is apparently the problem.

One of my cousins openly saying he didn't watch it but voted for Israel anyway. Wonder how many people did that (and Ukraine).

Benzin wrote:But the jury vote is apparently the problem.

One of my cousins openly saying he didn't watch it but voted for Israel anyway. Wonder how many people did that (and Ukraine).

I know Andrew Neil was amplifying it.

What confounds this is that the song is by no means terrible, and the singer went to the Gal Gadot Hot Israeli Women Academy, so I don't think it went up by more than about five places than it should've been.

Despite the UK’s dismal score, Finland did even worse, so I’m not the only one who didn’t think the joke was funny.

It's 4th out of 10 of the UKs 10 most recent performances.

Dowbocop wrote:

Benzin wrote:But the jury vote is apparently the problem.

One of my cousins openly saying he didn't watch it but voted for Israel anyway. Wonder how many people did that (and Ukraine).

I know Andrew Neil was amplifying it.

What confounds this is that the song is by no means terrible, and the singer went to the Gal Gadot Hot Israeli Women Academy, so I don't think it went up by more than about five places than it should've been.

Ah, so those who traditionally complain about it not being a music contest and super political are the ones to blame.

Shocked I tell thee.

Dowbocop wrote:and the singer went to the Gal Gadot Hot Israeli Women Academy

If this is a real place I'm going to be applying for a job in the physiotherapy department

We deserved better than 0pts in the public vote, Olly should have been at least mid table by the end.

Still, we did better than last year so it could have been worse.

I didn't watch the whole contest so I can't really compare them yet, but I caught up and watched Olly's performance and it's just absolutely strawberry floating terrible IMO. His singing voice is as flat as anything. At first glance, getting 0 public votes doesn't seem particularly harsh to me.

I'll watch some of the others later on iPlayer.