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Posted 25/May 2008 at 15:15 by Rubber Duck. Topics: armenia, disappointment, final, greece, politics, rules, russia, ukraine, winner
I have to say I'm really disappointed to results this year. I can see there are lot of comments here already about ESC becoming a battle between former Soviet Union and former Yugoslavian countries. Unfortunately it is true. Yesterday I guessed every time which countries will get the biggest point from those countries :(
Let's see how my favourites managed. My top5 (not in specific order) was Israel, Armenia, France, Bosnia and Finland. None of them unfortunately hit top3. I didn't like any of top3 songs, which made my evening horrible. One single most horrible result to me was Norway's quite good success with a 13-in-a-dozen song and performance that was 15-20 years old in style. My only hope during the result calculations was Armenia, which had some possibilities at one point but then suddenly got 0 points from couple of countries that still gave highest points to Russia, Ukraine and even Georgia. There is something totally strange in that behaviour and may be worth of further investigation.
There was one very funny result as well. Germany was horrible and didn't got any points except 12 points from Bulgaria. Those were the best laughs of the night. We came to conclusion that Bulgarians were the only ones that thought Germany's presentation was a parody ;) Because if it was, it was really good.
One should be a good looser of course. However, I'm expecting the ESC management to at least answer to these questions and opinions now raised. I didn't unfortunately get the feeling of best songs being the most successfull, rather the feeling of "my former countrymen" to get the best points. It might be that time will make this effect to disappear partly, but can we afford to wait for 10 years for that to happen?
Let's see how my favourites managed. My top5 (not in specific order) was Israel, Armenia, France, Bosnia and Finland. None of them unfortunately hit top3. I didn't like any of top3 songs, which made my evening horrible. One single most horrible result to me was Norway's quite good success with a 13-in-a-dozen song and performance that was 15-20 years old in style. My only hope during the result calculations was Armenia, which had some possibilities at one point but then suddenly got 0 points from couple of countries that still gave highest points to Russia, Ukraine and even Georgia. There is something totally strange in that behaviour and may be worth of further investigation.
There was one very funny result as well. Germany was horrible and didn't got any points except 12 points from Bulgaria. Those were the best laughs of the night. We came to conclusion that Bulgarians were the only ones that thought Germany's presentation was a parody ;) Because if it was, it was really good.
One should be a good looser of course. However, I'm expecting the ESC management to at least answer to these questions and opinions now raised. I didn't unfortunately get the feeling of best songs being the most successfull, rather the feeling of "my former countrymen" to get the best points. It might be that time will make this effect to disappear partly, but can we afford to wait for 10 years for that to happen?
