Germany won!
After all the speculation that it was wide open this year, the pre-contest favorite won, showing that Youtube decides the winner. I'm a little frightened because this means that my 8th ranked song won for the third time in a row. Like other years, one song from my top 5 was in the actual top 5. I could write more about who I was happy for and who I was disappointed in, but instead of complaining on the internet I'm going to keep it short and go out.
I hope buying tickets is a lot easier next year than it was this year, maybe I can finally get some...lots of direct flights from New York to various places in Germany...
Congrats Germany!
posted by Goggle @ 6:35 PM
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LOVED IT! My four favorite songs all finished in the top six (even better than I expected). This is by far the happiest I have ever been with the results. Congratulations to all of them.
What I got wrong:
I completely overestimated the affect of the diaspora vote in an "open" year, and put four of the "usual suspects" at the top of my ranking.
France gave a much better performance than I expected (from the rehearsals), and way outperformed my expectations.
I never believed Ireland would do well at all, but I didn't see them falling into the bottom three.
What I got right:
NINE of the top ten, baby! I had Serbia in eighth place (they finished thirteenth) and I Ukraine in eleventh (they finished tenth).
Poor finishes by United Kingdom (well, that was obvious), Belarus (also obvious) Cyprus (I knew they weren't going to do anything, but I STILL overestimated them), Iceland, Moldova, and Norway (why was that ever regarded?).
I also had many of the songs that finished mid-table near their actual positions: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Russia, and Spain.
The second semi-final produced seven of the top ten, as many as the much stronger first semi-final in 2008 did.
Greece's 2005 record (lowest winning score ever) is safe for at least one more year.
See you next year.
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