Where do I even begin? I guess with congratulating
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Netherlands on winning the contest! It was expected, but in the end it was closer than most of us probably expected. Anyway, congratz to them!
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Those who thought this contest might someday happen without politics involved - forget about it! It's never gonna happen. And tonight there was enough proof that politics still play a huge role in Eurovision, but I don't want to go into details, so let's move to my opinion on results.
Semifinal 1:
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no surprise on this one winning the semi.
![](http://i.imgur.com/HXyTbwO.png)
this is a surprise just like
![](http://i.imgur.com/xv2qyag.png)
in 2nd semifinal. Both got a lot of love from juries - don't know why so much, but fair enough.
![](http://i.imgur.com/AhwKdNB.png)
expected televote winner here. so no surprise for it being so high...
![](http://i.imgur.com/SvbFzuv.png)
4th in semifinal is quite unexpected... but the biggest shock for me is that it was 3rd by televote - and that's even after many people not liking the song and without most neighbours help...
![](http://i.imgur.com/UzUlyq0.png)
not much to say - expected qualifying and expected more love from jury than televote...
![](http://i.imgur.com/yAUBOoL.png)
not much to say here... the result basically describes the performance - not the best, but also not the worst...
![](http://i.imgur.com/G7Q0j6O.png)
expected qualifier, although I thought it would be higher, but I guess in semifinal the most important thing is that you're in top10
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expected qualifier, but I still don't understand the hype behind this song... and the televote show that it wasn't as good as it was expected to be
![](http://i.imgur.com/8pl3h6m.png)
I'll never understand it's qualification to the final, so I'll leave it here...
![](http://i.imgur.com/9hep3It.png)
for the 16-year-old it's a big success and might be a good boost for the future, but I still don't see it being final worthy...
![](http://i.imgur.com/EBvsRUJ.png)
was expecting this to qualify, but... unlucky...
![](http://i.imgur.com/LRrYSO4.png)
knowing Hungary's qualification success was expecting this to qualify, especially because there were quite a few neighbours in this semi...
![](http://i.imgur.com/nvsyOuH.png)
the biggest disappointment for me of this semifinal, because I actually like the song, but live performance was below average...
![](http://i.imgur.com/kYyQmjA.png)
expected, although the performance wasn't bad at all
![](http://i.imgur.com/tLqzQb7.png)
no comment...
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this was never gonna qualify..
![](http://i.imgur.com/GYtAXmM.png)
surprised to see it last... but from the amount of points it got, no surprise that the highest points are from
![](http://i.imgur.com/SvbFzuv.png)
Semifinal 2:
![](http://i.imgur.com/u4hxPHX.png)
expected? definitely!
![](http://i.imgur.com/xv2qyag.png)
just like for
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it's surprising to see so much love it got from the juries, but if that's what they think, the I guess it's fair enough
![](http://i.imgur.com/Lu8GajH.png)
expected it get more from televote, but other than that it was always gonna be a qualifier..
![](http://i.imgur.com/jS8d4a0.png)
I guess all the televote points for german speaking countries went to
![](http://i.imgur.com/jS8d4a0.png)
this year (RIP
![](http://i.imgur.com/aQZ13kW.png)
&
![](http://i.imgur.com/vHVN1kl.png)
(in final))
![](http://i.imgur.com/3YS3UPj.png)
expected? definitely! [2]
![](http://i.imgur.com/4qz7zg0.png)
if you wanted this not to qualify - forget about it! not gonna happen!
![](http://i.imgur.com/gYKQz60.png)
kinda felt that this might get decent support from televote, but was expecting a lot more from juries...
![](http://i.imgur.com/ft3Ht9F.png)
this being loved by juries more than by televote is quite weird, but it is what it is... expected qualifier...
![](http://i.imgur.com/iqlZDOb.png)
juries basically rated this and
![](http://i.imgur.com/nWter3b.png)
equally (think about it what you want), so televote was the difference maker...
![](http://i.imgur.com/uGUJ7Mp.png)
after seeing it's performance, I was sure it will go through, so no surprise there, but it was closer to non-qualifying than I expected...
![](http://i.imgur.com/F8DEOR8.png)
my prediction on it finishing 11th in semifinal was absolutely spot on, even though many of you thought it will fail big time...
![](http://i.imgur.com/4DcO67M.png)
surprised to see it higher than
![](http://i.imgur.com/AsIk50k.png)
, but other than that I guess it's what was expected...
![](http://i.imgur.com/AsIk50k.png)
I thought televoters loved this more than they proved in reality, so definitely a surprise...
![](http://i.imgur.com/Dr81Wgs.png)
televote loved this more than
![](http://i.imgur.com/AsIk50k.png)
... I guess there's nothing more to say...
![](http://i.imgur.com/nWter3b.png)
15th is decent, although I was expecting last... surprised it wasn't last by televote, because the performance ws nowhere near something to vote for...
![](http://i.imgur.com/OPgGZOA.png)
HOW?? How could this finish lower than
![](http://i.imgur.com/nWter3b.png)
I'll never understand.. Yes, the performance definitely wasn't perfect, but the song is great, so this is a mystery to me...
![](https://i.imgur.com/SP2Rdfx.png)
even though it was a predictable non-qualifier, I still didn't expect it to do that bad...
![](http://i.imgur.com/pZrnlfS.png)
expected? definitely! [3]
Grand final:
![](http://i.imgur.com/u4hxPHX.png)
congratulations! deserved, although I'm quite surprised it didn't win juries or televote (I'm not 100% sure, but this might be the first time happening actually)
![](http://i.imgur.com/gVKwPqL.png)
I don't find the performance to be so special, so it's 2nd place was a surprise for me (although I knew it will finish high)
![](http://i.imgur.com/4qz7zg0.png)
you didn't expect this to be in top3? I did, although I predicted
![](http://i.imgur.com/jS8d4a0.png)
to beat it in the end. But in general it's no surprise to me it got top3 position...
![](http://i.imgur.com/jS8d4a0.png)
was expecting this to get more
![](http://i.imgur.com/B2Pwez3.png)
, but in general it did as well as you would've expected...
![](http://i.imgur.com/gYKQz60.png)
I find the contrast between
![](http://i.imgur.com/Lu8GajH.png)
(jury favorite, but average by televote) and
![](http://i.imgur.com/gYKQz60.png)
(televote favorite, but average by juries) to be very interesting
![](http://i.imgur.com/Lu8GajH.png)
the same as I wrote about
![](http://i.imgur.com/gYKQz60.png)
+ didn't expect it to finish outside top3, let alone top5
![](http://i.imgur.com/3YS3UPj.png)
I knew it won't fight for win and knew it will be in top10, so no surprise whatsoever...
![](http://i.imgur.com/xv2qyag.png)
the biggest surprise is that it beat
![](http://i.imgur.com/gUSeQX3.png)
![](http://i.imgur.com/gUSeQX3.png)
has lately (last 3 years) started to do worse than we expected
![](http://i.imgur.com/AhwKdNB.png)
the always happy and joyful hosts got confused and almost bursting from anger after the Palestine banner, which was quite funny to see, but I guess it was uncalled for... as for the result - this was never gonna win, so top10 is already a good result for them...
![](http://i.imgur.com/HXyTbwO.png)
11th thank's to juries, because televoters left them disappointed... in the end it's high position is as surprising as for
![](http://i.imgur.com/xv2qyag.png)
![](http://i.imgur.com/uGUJ7Mp.png)
knew it was gonna finish mid-table, so no real surprise there
![](http://i.imgur.com/yAUBOoL.png)
knew it was gonna finish mid-table, so no real surprise there [2]
![](http://i.imgur.com/jFXt6cI.png)
the live performance wasn't as strong as I expected, but still it got mid-table finish, which I did expect...
![](http://i.imgur.com/MAh7rJw.png)
hype, hype, hype, flop... the outfit in my opinion was the worst of the evening
![](http://i.imgur.com/ft3Ht9F.png)
even though at first I didn't like the song, after seeing it's performance, I kinda started to like it, so it was sad to see her disappointment for the televote points, because even I expected it to get more televote points...
![](http://i.imgur.com/G7Q0j6O.png)
expected it a bit higher, but still a mid-table finish...
![](http://i.imgur.com/iqlZDOb.png)
the performance was bettter than in semifinal, but this was never gonna do better than it did...
![](http://i.imgur.com/SvbFzuv.png)
well... nothing to say really...
![](http://i.imgur.com/8pl3h6m.png)
no... just no... the performance was bad...
![](http://i.imgur.com/UzUlyq0.png)
many people say that Portugal is the biggest flop of this year. Well, I won't agree with you, because many people expected it's non-qualification, but who EXPECTED
![](http://i.imgur.com/UzUlyq0.png)
to finish BEHIND
![](http://i.imgur.com/8pl3h6m.png)
? No one! So imo this is the biggest flop of this year (and
![](http://i.imgur.com/OPgGZOA.png)
could be the 2nd biggest flop)
![](http://i.imgur.com/soPLdjt.png)
I didn't expect it to be much higher, so no surprise...
![](http://i.imgur.com/JdOdPiB.png)
surprised, that it got more points from televote than juries, but the place isn't really a surprise...
![](http://i.imgur.com/vHVN1kl.png)
most forumers and bookmakers predicted this to be last... luckily I didn't fall for that and in result prediction game predicted it 24th, which is what it got... imo the song wasn't last place worthy, so glad it didn't finish last..
![](http://i.imgur.com/9hep3It.png)
qualifying already was a huge achievement, so no surprise here...
![](http://i.imgur.com/8q0aiRb.png)
I already expected and predicted it to be last and it was... One thing I didn't expect was for
![](http://i.imgur.com/8q0aiRb.png)
Uk to send song that isn't written by british, knowing how big their music industry is...
As for the shows... the show was decent (the idea was better than reality with several technical issues), but the 2 best things they organized were that disabled band (loved them!) and Mans, Konchita, Verka and Eleni performing other artists songs - i hope this last one wasn't just one-of and something similar will happen in the near future, because it was enjoyable
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And Madonna... well, the hype was high, the fee ($1.8 million) was high, but the performance was as amateur as it can be... although some amateurs would've done better job - especially for such fee... this isn't the good old Madonna we used to love...
I guess that's all from me... see you next year
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