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Tonight the Eurovision song contest takes place in Kyiv, Ukraine. For those of you that come from Europe and for the rest of the world thats aware of the contest and is gonna watch it, who do you think will win? Greece, Norway, Hungary are among the favourites so far based on internet polls, but usually the results are way different than the polls.
I dont expect that theres gonna be a great quality of songs, it gets worse every year and this contest doesnt really mean anything, to me at least. Usually a few only songs are worth it from the 24 countries that participate tonight. Anyway, good luck to ur countries 🙂for those of us not familiar with this contest, i did manage to find some information about it: http://www.eurosongonline.com/esc-info/index.html Oddly enough, there was almost no information about it on it’s own website.
And for those of you who know of Father Ted Eh hemm (Sorry had to clear my throat) “MY LOVELY HORSE…RUNNING THROUGH THE FIELD” Hee he hee…sorry…I could not resist. Is there any way to see this competition here in the States? I’d like to see who wins this year. 🙂
The official site is http://www.eurovision.tv
The winner this year was ….
GREECE!
First time in history of the contest that Greece takes the first place :woot:
I’m gonna celebrate 🙂THE FINAL STANDINGS
1)Greece, 230 points
2)Malta, 192
3)Romania, 158
4)Israel, 154
5)Latvia, 153
6)Moldova, 148
7)Serbia & Montenegro, 137
8)Switzerland, 128
9)Norway, 125
10)Denmark, 125
11)Croatia, 115
12)Hungary, 97
13)Turkey, 92
14)Bosnia & Herzegovina, 79
15)Russia, 57
16)Albania, 53
17)F.Y.R Macedonia, 52
18)Cyprus, 46
19)Sweden, 30
20)Ukraine, 30
21)Spain, 28
22)United Kingdom, 18 (!)
23)France, 11
24)Germany, 4princeG wrote:
22)United Kingdom, 18 (!)
Heh, better than last year. Gemini sang so out of tune that we got 0 points. :p
22)United Kingdom, 18 (!)
We beat France and Germany… thats all that matters… we are saved from the embarassment of nul points from the awful gemini last year!
Anyone else notice an absense of countries this year? Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Holland, that’s most of western europe!
I always find the eurovision song contest amusing…. especially the voting… for example how you can nearly always predict who the countries are going to vote for by seeing who there neighbours are!
Another curious fact is that the countries who as far as i’m aware contribute the most to the contest, France, the UK, Germany and Spain… came last…
And my lovely horse was a work of genius oreo!
Here are rules for eurovision just in case any of you are unsure. :p
Eurovision Song Contest 2005 – Guidelines to the Barwick Jury
Points may be given for the following (number of points at juror’s discretion,1-8, 10 or max of 12 in true Eurovision Stylee):-- Song changes key (more points for more than once)
- Performer resembles stereotype of their country eg. Austrians in lederhosen, Germans in white socks and slip-on shoes (or lederhosen), Dutch in clogs
- Song is ‘traditional’ national song eg. Greeks wail a lot to balalaikas, Israelis wail á la Fiddler on the Roof, Maltese wail, period
- Bad dress sense, tight leather trousers, scary dresses, jackets with sleeves rolled up
- Excessive chest hair
- Armpit hair (more points if female)
- Acne
- Questionable gender of any performer
- Bad hair eg. Big Hair, ginger hair, mullets
- Performer resembles someone you know
- Performer resembles another famous person
- Performer is ugly enough to turn milk/stomachs
- All or any part of a song is rapped
- Nonsensical song titles (biddy-diddy-boo etc.)
- Song is sung in two or more different languages
- Solo artist has a one word name or uses Christian name only e.g. Sting, Nicole
- Any former eastern block country does a soft-rock ballad
- Singers have matching outfits (more points if outfits are shiny)
- Terry gives the song an unusually big build up
- Terry can’t pronounce the song title/performers names
- Terry comments on a performers outfit
- Terry obviously has the horn for a particular performer
- Any performer plays a fiddle (more points for being female/wearing floaty clothes/looking a bit Irish)
- German entry is an intentional piss take
- Performers wave at the audience after they’ve finished their song
- Last words of the song are actually the song title, best done if each syllable gets a big drum beat (more points if performers raise their hands aloft, flashy lights, explosions etc.)
- Song is an attempt to recreate a retro musical style eg. Rock ‘n’ roll, doo-wop, Motown (more points if performers are dressed in line with musical style eg. Teddy Boys)
- The audience are encouraged to clap in time to the song (more points if they actually do)
- Part of the chorus is sung without instruments to encourage more clapping-in-time (more points if band member claps with their hands over their heads)
- Prominent nipples
- Over energetic, unnecessary or just plain crap dancers (more points if there are three or more dancers and only one is crap)
- Deduct points from any band who are clearly way too good to be pimping themselves on Eurovision and really should know better
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