Be Excellent To Each Other

France

Plodding.

Austria moonlight shadow rave style

Austria

Party hits from the Crystal Dome!

It's excellent but spoiled slightly by the dumdedum stuff

Armenia and Switzerland for me.

So, in a normal competition it'd be Austria, Croatia, or Switzerland but it's Ireland night.

I have Sweden, Estonia, UK AND Croatia in tied first with Serbia last

Family has Estonia 34/40 in first place and Serbia 4/20 in last.

Bloody love this song!

Ai fake out is very uncanny valley

Looks like it's not a fake out

And somehow that was worse than last year.

Getting Muppet Show vibes from that stage based green room

Jury time...

The left side of the screen remains possible...

End of jury stage and we're there!
Left side = best side

This split between jury and public votes really adds the tension.

Tense

Ouch

Wow!

The zero for the UK followed immediately by the largest number of votes going to Israel was difficult to see.

That's that for another year. A worthy winner.

Thanks everyone!

Giphy "switzerland":
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Did I ever mention how magnificent the EBU ident is?

It's my favourite bit

It does.

It looked more like GazChap at other times, but I couldn't be bothered to scan back and forth for a better one.

Well, here’s a thing: the Armenian entry is singing in London tonight at a small and intimate location. My partner is Armenian and she’s just sent me a video of her daughter dancing on stage with the Eurovision lady.

So yeah. Beat that claim to fame, Beexers. Or don’t. Your choice.

Nah, that’s unbeatable levels of fame.

Don’t be jealous just because you don’t know someone who knows someone who stood next to the 8th placed finalist of Eurovision 2024.

It certainly beats my claim of working with and hanging out with the 3rd place person in the competition to represent the UK about 17 years ago.

Actually my memory not so good here, it was 2002 and they got knocked out at the semifinal stage

It’s the Most Wonderful Night Of The Year tomorrow.

I miss Twitter for one thing only, and that’s Eurovision night.

Eurovision 2011 is lodged in my mind as a wonderful, wonderful night when I was having a rough time, buoyed along by Beex on Twitter.

For tomorrow we have ALL the snacks. It will be Bean’s second Eurovision marathon.

I miss smack talking the acts with everyone in social media. One of Elon’s worst crimes.

You have my axe.

Just came back from town with my Eurobeer (brewed in the UK), Belgian chocolate, and fizz (for the scoring)!

Ready for the most important day of the year!

The dilemma:

Do I watch Doctor Who as the lead up, or do I stick to tradition and watch Father Ted?

Giphy "eurovision!":
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Going for Doctor Who, here