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Some politicians in Spain are asking to boycott the event after the break-up of relationships between the two countries.

7 hours ago, rybak said:

From Spanish fandom for example 

I don't think the hate is from Spanish fandom since Ukraine winning was expected because of the situation. Here the main discussion topics have been:

• Spanish jury not giving points to Portugal.
• Italy being the only country not giving a single point to Spain and why RAI called Chanel "discount di Jennifer Lopez".
• Lausa Pausini being the best presenter ever.
• The awful result of France after sending a song similar to Tanxugueiras.

We got 12 points from  jury for the 1st time ever. That's even better than winning 

We lost 44-45 against  even though we were 2 up entering the last relay. Because of this we lost the ranking position with them just before the European Championship, which means that we can face   in T16. That's a disaster..

10 minutes ago, Makedonas said:

I think it was his votes for the year of that thread? Not sure.

 

I am surprised about this, Greeks usually like Spanish music/culture. Congratulations on the victory though! Clearly you did not need our votes 

Yeah. It's just a coincidence. 50% of the times I have had Ireland as 1st or 2nd reserve for example 

Just now, Illya said:

Yesssssssssss, it's team bronze

Congrats for the bronze! 

4th place for us 

Are Tanxugueiras the worst winners in PPJ ever? @dcro 

Spain 12 and National Record 

We are 4 points away of beating our national record. 4 juries to go..

4 minutes ago, Fly_like_a_don said:

Well I understand.. It's a personal choice. I chose Mizo language just because it's a little different than Hindi songs, and when I had one of my favorite Hindi songs last open it didn't do well so went with mizo which boasts of a 6th place finish at Open 20' . 

 

Now that it didn't do well I might run out of options. Coz Annual 21' entry (English)  was also pretty good and didn't get the points it deserved .

 

So next open have to think twice should I enter into contest in the first place (considering the best Indian songs especially Hindi don't really go well outside the Indian Diaspora) . Then if I do enter Hindi may not be a option. Maybe some very new language not used in TISC yet. 

Mamawh Chhanna Lal Isua was a great song and it was original compared to the other songs of the edition.

Personally, I found your entry of this edition pretty standard and while I was listening for the first time it didn't stand out.

Дуже дякую  @Illya 

Thanks for the 12 points @dezbee2008and @Olympian1010! I didn't expect that. However of this last session I only see France, Israel and Slovakia as potential jurors giving points to Tanxugueiras, so I don't think  will make it to the top3 by the end of the session.

Edit: Thanks @Hipooo! I didn't expect you were going to like this song.

And after this I expect a very slow decline until the end of the contest. But it is great to be the 1st to break the 100 points barrier.

I will leave to watch some tennis and football. Good luck!

Thanks @kungshamra71!

For those who live outside of Iberia, Galician and Portuguese have the same origin and they can understand each other perfectly. They are also very close culturally. I totally recommend visiting northern Portugal and Galicia. It's an amazing place.

Let's see if this works...

Spain 12

Just now, Vektor said:

AFTER 22/39 JURIES
		1	Spain	3	90		↓2	21	Bulgaria		41
	↑1	2	Great Britain	5	85		↓2	22	United States		41
	↓1	3	Colombia		85		↓2	23	Ukraine		41
		4	Malta		72		↓1	24	Netherlands	1	40
		5	Ireland		72			25	Greece		34
		6	Canada		66			26	Kazakhstan		32
		7	Mexico		65			27	Argentina		32
	↑2	8	Brazil	6	63			28	India		29
	↑6	9	Poland	12	60			29	Czech Republic		27
	↑3	10	Moldova	11	60			30	Portugal		27
	↓3	11	Finland		58			31	Sweden		25
	↓3	12	France		58		↑1	32	Croatia	2	22
	↓2	13	China		56		↓1	33	Serbia		21
	↓2	14	Denmark		55			34	Romania		18
	↑3	15	Germany	10	51		↑4	35	Israel	8	15
		16	Lithuania	4	49		↓1	36	Slovenia		12
	↓3	17	New Zealand		49		↓1	37	Turkey		12
	↑6	18	Italy	9	46		↓1	38	Slovakia		10
	↑3	19	Hungary	7	46		↓1	39	Indonesia		8
	↓3	20	Tunisia		43
NEXT JURY: Ireland
Great Britain is chasing  Spain and overtakes .   Meanwhile  Poland and  Germany already collect their second medals in this session.   And now we will call the country where it all started, Ireland. Please share your votes at 18:06 CEST @OlympicIRL

I think that 22 juries are more than enough.

Can we stop the count, please? 

Serbia is the country with the most points given to Spain (47 in the last 6 editions). It is also the 2nd silver medal after Open 2019. Thanks @NikolaB!

It's a nice timing for Serbia because Djokovic  just won the 1st set against Alcaraz . 

After the 1st half Spain has 75 points. Our national record goes back to Open 2017, when Enrique Iglesias got 151 points. Will Tanxugueiras improve that? I don't think so considering the remaining countries.

I will also use this break to give you some stats about my votings. This is the 6th edition in which I am participating, so I only have information about the last 6.

• Colombia, Brazil, Great Britain, Tunisia and Poland received points from me for the first time.
• Italy has always received points. It is closely followed by Portugal (5), that did not receive any points this year (I'm not a huge fan of national team songs). Argentina, Canada, China, Hungary, India, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands and USA got points 3 times each.
• Malta had never received a medal from Spain. It is the 13th country to be in the top3. Only France, Portugal and Italy have more than one medal in these 6 editions.
• Ireland only got points 2 times but finished as first reserve 3 more times, including this year.

4 minutes ago, konig said:

I never listen a song in "Gallego" and i really love it, are you from Galicia?

I'm half Catalan and half Andalusian, but I have some family in Galicia so I got used to the language. This year all the hits in Spain were reggaeton and I wanted to send something different, so I followed the idea of @kungshamra71of sending songs in other languages and tbh I was not expecting to get more than 50 points.

I had doubts about sending Terra (the song that is participating) or Figa, in case you want to listen to this. It was their 1st hit outside of Galicia.

Just now, OlympicIRL said:

Could the lead change hands here? GB can catch Colombia with the 12.

I think it's quite unlikely that @koniggave the 12 to GB this time.

 after the last juries

Go Győr Rivers! I think this 1st session will be the best for  so we will need good points for  to make it to the next round.

As a curiosity, the first 3 songs of the ranking were already in my playlist before the contest. In fact, the Italian song is right now very high on Spanish charts because of this version of Ana Mena, who participated in San Remo this year:

This time my reserves were Ireland, Kazakhstan and Lithuania. As always, it was difficult to allocate the last points.

Spain

1st	Colombia

Colombia	12
Italy	11
Malta	10
Hungary	9
Brazil	8
Finland	7
Great Britain	6
Netherlands	5
Tunisia	4
Germany	3
Poland	2
Argentina	1