[OFF TOPIC] Eurovision Song Contest 2025

[heywoodu 16,279]

5 hours ago, NearPup said:

The best moment of the night was the duet / duel between  Käärijä and  Baby Lasagna.

Oh yes, that was absolutely fantastic! And I loved Käärijä's "Europapa thank you!" punch in the EBU's face, Mr Österdahl will absolutely have been not amused  

Edited May 18, 2025 by heywoodu

[Biathlonfan 806]

4 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I'm waiting for 'woke!', then the haters bingo is full  

then congrats cause you aren't getting it.now i would appreaciate if you could stop responding it's a new day and i would like to leave this back in yesterday now. 

Edited May 18, 2025 by Biathlonfan

[heywoodu 16,279]

Oh and I think the biggest issue last night especially was giving certain countries lots of extra time for their stage props. It should be simple: make your staging in such a way that the change fits within a 'post card', if it doesn't, make it shorter.

[bestmen 2,913]

[Adriano 658]

On 5/18/2025 at 11:31 AM, heywoodu said:

How would Norway be high in the jury votes? That felt like one of those hundred generic pop songs that appear every month, but not one of the good ones  

 

The Serbia/Montenegro, Lithuania/Latvia, Greece/Cyprus combos, San Marino/Italy, the absolutely massive sympathy vote for Israel....I'd say those were bigger issues, but at least very predictable  

Norway > Estonia / UK in the same category "pop songs" and better vocal from him than Estonian

[bestmen 2,913]

Austria's Eurovision winner wants 2026 edition 'without Satanyahu'

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/may/22/austrias-eurovision-winner-wants-2026-edition-without-israel

[bestmen 2,913]

Ireland and Netherland will boycott the next edition because of  Satanyahu 

 

https://news.sky.com/story/netherlands-joins-ireland-in-threatening-to-boycott-eurovision-2026-if-israel-takes-part-13429291

[rybak 3,344]

Seems that Eurovision 2026 might be cancelled

 

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According to @oe24.at an ÖVP top representative revealed that the Austrian 🇦🇹 Chancellor Christian Stocker does not want ORF and the city of Vienna to host Eurovision 2026 if Israel 🇮🇱 is excluded!

According to the media If the ORF drops out it would have to pay up to 40 million euros

 

[Bearas 617]

Well it's more likely that they will allow  to compete in Vienna rather than cancel the event. (Did anyone even checked with them if they want to compete? lol)

 

You already have 24 countries confirmed with 3 out of big5 competing, ISR would make it 25, plus  and  is on the verge. Still chances for  to compete and  & just kept silent, to balance things out they actively considering debut for   so we still might have 30 countries, which is more than enough for successful contest. Also, some countries just using this situation as a bargaining opportunity to decrease their participation fees.

 

Let's be honest, the boycotting countries are mostly the ones that struggled to have a successful entry in the last 5 years (as a minimum), so likely bye bye to  

Edited October 9, 2025 by Bearas

[NearPup 3,646]

On 10/8/2025 at 5:06 PM, Bearas said:

Well it's more likely that they will allow  to compete in Vienna rather than cancel the event. (Did anyone even checked with them if they want to compete? lol)

 

You already have 24 countries confirmed with 3 out of big5 competing, ISR would make it 25, plus  and  is on the verge. Still chances for  to compete and  & just kept silent, to balance things out they actively considering debut for   so we still might have 30 countries, which is more than enough for successful contest. Also, some countries just using this situation as a bargaining opportunity to decrease their participation fees.

 

Let's be honest, the boycotting countries are mostly the ones that struggled to have a successful entry in the last 5 years (as a minimum), so likely bye bye to  

 will officially compete.  will be boycotting.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/arts/music/eurovision-israel-boycott.html