Federer91

Some thoughts on the overall results. Spain deserved much better, maybe top 15, even top 12, but comming after Russia and with that bad, bad staging everything went downhill in the televoting. Only 10 points for such a good song is mind-boggling. On the other hand it was interesting to see Belgium and Lithuania finish in the top 10, because back in march when the official videos came out, everyone thought they won't even qualify for the final, because the songs were weak. But unlike Spain they made great stagings and took maximum from the situation. It still baffles me however how good Belgium did with the juries, but i like Laura so i'm happy for her. Other jury favourites like Malta and Israel tho flopped hard with the televotes, but that was to be expected. Malta comming after Ukraine and Israel being early and in a string of slow songs before fan favourites Bulgaria and Sweden. They were completely overshadowed, but the jury compensated that, so deserved positions in the middle pack. Very shocked Serbia was hammered with the jury. Great singer, important message, don't know what went wrong there. They were also borderline qualifiers... As for Poland, we know they have huge diaspora, but you don't make 222 points only with diaspora, clearly he had very big neutral votes. He really impressed with the voice comming after France, but i read that in the jury rehearsal he wasn't that good, so maybe that's why he did so bad. Nevertheless it is a great position. Also Russia got televotes from every single country, with the lowest being Netherlands with 3 points, so nearly all had them in their top 5. Clearly europeand don't hate them as much as the people high-up want to. It is funny how double digit countries in west/north gave them shit, and then their people placed them at the top.

Of course Australia was a political choice, it was the EBU/SVT favourite, after all it was their birth child. We know they treat Russia as the end of the world if they win and Ukraine wasn't a good choice either for them. You could see it in the grimm look of Jon Ola Sand when saying the televotes were counted. They thought they had it in the bag after decimating Russia in the jury vote and pimping Australia to the max, but didn't expect Ukraine to do so well in the televote with such a dark song, so their plan backfired. Australia winning would have opened even more the doors for EBU/SVT wet dreams of Worldvision. Now they have to go back to Eastern Europe in a unstable country where their influence won't be as big (supposedly).

Amazing for Poli Genova, the real non-political winner.

Shocking.

Polish diaspora just oblitared their phone bills.

4th place new record for us.

200 points ahead, done deal. Like i said juries will power vault australia to compensate the televoting like last year... I didn't expect Poli to be so high, that is a possitive.

Belgium top 5 with juries lol, how did that happen.

Western Europe totally ignoring Russia and gushing over Australia, noone saw that comming.....

Riggage almost confirmed

The Nordic juries...

The Australia pandering begins...

Sooo dragged, get on with the votes.....

Poli standing next to the hosts and Timberlake. Go for the placement

Sergey was awesome.

Yeahhh Cyprus

Let's hope many people take a big bathroom and skip Australia.

Francesca very good.

Close, but Timberlake

Got to save time for Justin and the other 10 interval acts.

Let the EBU/SVT riggage begin!

Good luck to the amazing Poli Genova

In before juries lovefests Australia and Ukraine and Rusia gets the Il Volo effect.

Probably gonna watch the Giro tomorrow and maybe some football from the last rounds. And of course the big final in Eurovision in the evening.