heywoodu
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Oh I definitely liked Armenia Not sure it was necessarily 'good', but it was definitely nice and I was very glad they made it
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Just pull an Armenia, Poland or Turkey and spread across every country for those sweet diaspora votes
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For starters I want every country back that has participated (and still exists), the more the better
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Alessandra Mele, Norway's participant from last year, has withdrawn from giving the Norwegian votes tonight.
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Ireland was missing from the flag parade today, something was going on apparently. It's hard to read this and not think about the earlier reports about delegation members of Ireland and Spain being harrassed by Israeli delegation members...
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Let's not pretend people 'made it political' this year. The best host's joke so far was when they said "and of course, entirely non-political". I assume that was actually meant as a joke
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People in and around the Israeli delegation seem to have very much been on their worst behaviour, provoking left and right, saying this and that person shouldn't be allowed to breath, and so on. But this thing with Netherlands being DQ'ed doesn't seem to have anything to do with them, so Israel's misbehaviour (on several occassions) is a separate issue. Making Eurovision 2024 even more of a shitshow
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I hope so Been my big favourite from the first time I heard it Especially if, outside of Israel getting the free war votes, the biggest challengers are Switzerland and France, which I found soooo....meh.
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Latest rumour is that Estonia doesn't want to perform anymore
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There is no geopolitical explanation for Australia I believe. If it were up to me (which it obviously isn't ), I'd have voted against them being EBU members, but honestly I also don't care that much. It's not over yet, no.
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Much as I dislike Israel as a nation, I can definitely accept them being EBU members, they're a lot closer to Europe than to all the nations around them that pretend they don't exist.
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Aaaaaand it's done. No tonight. https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/statement-dutch-participation-eurovision-song-contest Wouldn't be surprised if in a few weeks it turns out not much happened and this was all for nothing....
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Were there more performances than the one in 2016? Because to be entirely fair, she was 13 at that time, one can hardly blame her for that now And somewhat hard to say how much influence managers and such had in those things. Unless it's just clearly fun visits of course.
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The flag is back, we're not done yet
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Oh fuck off and go eat a potato.
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I haven't seen Dutch social media be in such a non-stop explosion as the past 20 hours in a long time (not even during last year's elections when for the first time a far-right party won, which was quite a stir)
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Apparently Swedish police has stated there was a threat from Joost towards a TV employee (female, although that shouldn't make a difference of course), no further details, but it would suggest nothing physical happened. Depending on what exactly happened, that'd be rather dumb of course. I wonder if they're also looking at Israel then, where one of their delegation members (not the singer) apparently posted something about certain people who shouldn't be allowed 'to breath next to us'.
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Dutch broadcaster NPO has now stated there is another meeting going on between them, EBU and AVROTROS (the Dutch broadcasting channel).
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Rest of the World voting, which was supposed to start over 9 hours ago, was postponed by 2 hours at first and now still hasn't opened, by the way. Looks more and more like this is definitely not just about Joost, but about the big picture.
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I do hope he was not saying he 'just wanted to talk to Joost'? Because he was definitely, as one could say, poking with a knife under the belt to try and provoke. This, the Swedish photographer thing, the thing about IRL/NED/ESP being intimidated by ISR etc are still all just rumours... EBU is definitely creating a lovely course in crisis management and how not to do it, because they've failed miserably no matter what happened.
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That does sort of describe one of the main problems with the televoting though Whether it's political voting, diaspora voting or ethnic voting, it's a certain set of votes which one can basically already fill in beforehand no matter how horrible or amazing the song is. Although I didn't check recent voting results, so I do sort of assume it wasn't actually a 12-point exchange between Cyprus and Greece all the time in reality?
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Apologies, Dov Gil-Har is the harrassing Israeli, a 'journalist', not someone from the Eden Golan team, I assume.
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One of the many, many rumours, yes Although the same rumour is that some Israeli delegate person joked about his dead dad, and then Joost made it...physical. Not a fan of violence at all, but make fun at someone's dead parents and I hope the punch was a nice one. But again, this too is just a rumour, it's still entirely unclear what has happened and which countries have all been involved.
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