Eurovision 2022

(16-05-2022 16:20 )4waydiablo Wrote:  What's the reason for the following comments?

Konstantin Kosachev, Russian MP: "Music lost, because victory clearly did not go to the best song, and the contest lost because political attitudes prevailed over fair competition."

Elena Drapeko, Russian MP: "The result is unjustified and hard to accept. It's partly a consequence of the propaganda war of information that is being waged against Russia."

Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister: "The Russian government is fully aware of what happened in the Eurovision song contest. This outrageous action will not remain without a response."

Bitterness over Ukraine winning? Well yes, exactly that, but these quotes were taken from 2016 after Ukraine won Eurovision that year (in a close contest Russia finished 3rd).

The thing is that Eurovision is almost insanely popular in Russia, so Ukraine's victory in 2016 was hard for them to stomach. They must be in complete meltdown this time.

Probably are because of been exxluded if they had been the arseholes they are, and not invaded, they would have been allowed to enter. Simple really.

(17-05-2022 13:06 )PhredE Wrote:  Didn't realise that the reason they went to the organiser for the votes from Azerbaijan, Romania and Georgia was that they detected they had been rigged, so used scores based on what would have been expected from those countries if the war hadn't happened.

Also the organisers were warned of massive DDoS attacks from Russian sites, and managed to intervene before the event. This didn't affect the UK because it didn't allow text or online votes unlike other countries.

That begs the question...are there tell tale signs to look out for, that suggest it is someone hacking from Russi?? That said it seems inevitable thatb somewherre along the lines they would have attempted to cause confusion in voting. They now wiil lhave to beef up the texting and voting onlne systems before next year.

I found it odd that Azerbaijan ever so often got 12 points from a country.

And it was the dullest record of the night

Thast probably tells you thast something strange was going on in their voting?

(17-05-2022 14:31 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I found it odd that Azerbaijan ever so often got 12 points from a country.

Greece, Serbia and Spain gave 12 points to Azerbaijan. It's only 3 countries out of 40.

Ukraine will not host next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The EBU are working with the BBC to host the Eurovision Song Contest somewhere in the UK.

https://twitter.com/eurovision/status/15...En7RB9mfQg

Perhaps because there won't be a Ukraine by then..?

^^ Tell them our schedules can't fit it in - give it to the Irish

(17-06-2022 15:06 )Doddle Wrote:  Perhaps because there won't be a Ukraine by then..?

There definitely won't be if Macron gets his own way.

(17-06-2022 17:23 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  ^^ Tell them our schedules can't fit it in - give it to the Irish

I notice the BBC are already claiming several cities like Leeds and Liverpool are touting for the chance to stage it, which seems just a tad too eager to be tasteful.