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[escmemesandstuff]

Eurovision 2024: Fan Poll Comparison

A week leading to the final show of the 2024 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, let's look at the results of three major fan polls: OGAE, INFE, and Eurojury. Now, there are numerous polls held all over the internet throughout the season, but I consider these three the most "reliable" due to them not allowing voting for one's own home country. OGAE and INFE are long-running fanclubs, whereas the Eurojury vote consists of professional musicians from member countries and an online vote.

On the table below, I have compiled the final results according to each poll.

One factor that immediately stands out is the lack of one definite favourite to win. While last year, Sweden's victory was pretty much the obvious conclusion (which was also reflected by Loreen topping all these three polls), this year is clearly more open, with each poll having a different country on the top spot. Croatia turned out as the OGAE winner, INFE voters preferred Switzerland, and Italy emerged victorious after combining the jury and online votes of the Eurojury. That being said, none of those three countries could be considered a shock winner or unpopular favourite when looking at all three clubs' results, with all of them comfortably making it to the top five along with Belgium. The consistency continues with France, Ukraine, and Netherlands getting a top ten placing in all three polls; even Greece isn't in a bad place, as they only barely missed the top ten in the OGAE poll.

It gets more interesting when you look at where the polls' opinions differ more strongly. A striking example is Germany, who takes the all-too-familiar last place in the two fan club polls, yet earned the eight place in the combined Eurojury results; a placing largely thanks to the jury vote that placed the song fifth, even higher than the fan favourite Croatia (albeit only by two points). Serbia's lovely ballad, while not being what fans tend to gravitate towards, also earned a decent score in Eurojury and got tenth overall. In contrast, Austria and Lithuania got a significantly colder reception from Eurojury juries, raising the concerns of them ending up as flopping fan favourites.

When it comes to the "un-favourites" of the polls, all three agree on Poland and Azerbaijan being among the weakest final-worth entries, both ending on bottom five. Overall the first semifinal is clearly seen as the weaker one, with all bottom fives being dominated by semi 1 songs. When it comes to borderline qualifiers of the second semi, Armenia, Georgia, and Denmark aren't getting too much love from any camp. (On the other hand, Armenia did get a top ten result in the Eurojury jury vote - a bit surprising considering the general tendency of juries snubbing ethnic entries.) As for non-qualifiers, none of the polls would give a place in the final to Iceland, Moldova, Australia, Malta, Czechia, Albania, San Marino, or Latvia. Interestingly enough, Finland got a decent result in the INFE poll, getting 16th. Said poll seems to be fonder of "funny" entires, considering they also have Estonia following suit.

Could these polls give a hunch about the overall results? We should remember that the fan bubble can differ from the general public's taste, and the eventual live performances can have a huge impact towards either direction. That being said, Eurovision winners rarely come out of the blue, and if I had to pick a most likely winner based on multiple factors, it would be either Italy or Switzerland. However, the Eurojury jury winner France also stands a chance - you shouldn't underestimate the power of good-looking men singing romantic ballads, as we saw with Marco Mengoni last year - and despite all of the worries about Croatia flopping in the jury vote, their victory is still within possibility. And based on what we've seen, Ukraine is ready to deliver a magical performance that could very well touch the hearts of both viewers and jury members.

I might revisit this post after the contest and check how the polls compare to the actual results. Exciting times are ahead, for sure!

[bettyg196]

Eurojury 2024 : et le vainqueur est…

L’Eurojury 2024, organisé par l'Eurovoix, a révélé ses résultats après deux semaines de votes.

Découvrez le vainqueur de cette édition !

[idiotkidthatdoesthings]

I forgot the beef I have with eurojury

[escinsight]

Fan Fiction, Finals, And The Eurovision Song Contest 2020

With the cancellation of the Eurovision Song Contest, and no official competitive element either in the EBU’s ‘Eurovision: Europe Shine A Light’  tribute show or the online ‘Eurovision Song Celebrations’ of the semi-finals, the community is missing its definitive ending to the 2020 season.

For broadcasters, the EBU’s two-hour tribute show would help fill the four-hour slot reserved for the Song…

[certusbiscuit]

The Eurojury be like x

[eurosong]

This time, Malta are the presumptive winners - but with a much less resounding margin than the 132 pt difference for Netta or 155 for Duncan. Destiny has only 33 pts margin over second place Gjon of Switzerland, so one wonders h hundreds of musicians and artists adjacent to ESC to contribute half the votes as jurors, and their readers to provide the televote. In 2019, it correctly predicted the top 3 - but jury winners N. Macedonia were barely finalists and Greece, who underperformed, ended up top 5. In 2018, it predicted Netta's win, but many of the rest of the rank was quite out of whack. This time, Malta are the presumptive winners - but with a much less resounding margin than the 132 pt difference for Netta or 155 for Duncan. Destiny has only 33 pts margin over second place Gjon of Switzerland, so one wonders whether it might be third time unlucky for the Eurojury's predictive abilities. What I find amazing is how concentrated in a small strip of Europe 4 of the top 5 are - France, Switzerland and Italy join Malta, with only Iceland breaking the neighbourly congregation at the top. In general, Nordic countries did well (except Denmark) as did most countries on the Mediterranean whilst much of the western Balkans and central Europe underperformed.

The top 10 was completed by Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria, who both did moderately if not exceedingly well in both televote and jury; San Marino, tanked by the jurors but second to only Italy in the 'televote'; and Israel, not even top 20 in the televote but 4th with the juries. LIthuania and Russia bubble under, the latter astonishingly ranked amongst the lowest of the years by the juries. The juries' biggest unreciprocated-by-televote loves, other than Israel, were Sweden, Portugal and Austria. A full datab table can be found below!

[theeurovisionconfessions]

“I say we declare the winner of Eurojury 2020 as the winner of Eurovision 2020, who's with me?“

[unibrowzz]

Me on March 18th: Yanno I don’t even care that Eurovision was cancelled, none of the songs resonated with me at all and besides, we have Eurojury to pick a winner :D

Me now, having muted my news feed to avoid the neverending stream of Eurojury spam:

[duncanfan2019]

Fact File

Get to know some things about Europe’s bright new star

General Information

Birth Name: Duncan de Moor

Birthday: April 11, 1994

Sign: Aries

Birthplace: Spijkenisse, Netherlands

Occupation: Singer, songwriter, musician, producer

Education: Graduate of the Rock Academy, Tilburg

The Voice of Holland

Participation: Season 5, 2014

Blind Audition Song: “Sing” by Ed Sheeran

Coach: Ilse DeLange

Position Reached: Semifinalist

Eurovision Song Contest 2019

Participating Broadcaster: AVROTROS

Selection Method: Internal

Selected on: January 21, 2019

Song: Arcade

Released: March 7, 2019

Semifinal: Position 16, Semifinal 2

Result: 1st place, 280 points (140 jury, 140 televote)

Final: Position 12

Result: 1st place, 498 points (237 jury, 261 televote)

Singles

Arcade (released March 7, 2019)

Love Don’t Hate It (released October 23, 2019)

Someone Else (released May 13, 2020)

Last Night (released October 1, 2020)

Albums/EPs

EP: Worlds on Fire (released May 13, 2020)

Album: Small Town Boy (released November 13, 2020)

Awards and Honors

Winner of EuroJury 2019

Winner of ESCXtra Xtra Files

Winner of Wiwibloggs’ Wiwi Jury (score: 9.15)

Winner of the ESCUnited Readers’ Poll

Winner of the 2019 INFE Poll

Winner of the ESCToday Commentators’ Poll

OUTtv Europe Music Award 2019

Marcel Bezençon Awards 2019: Press Award

ESC Radio Awards 2019: Best Song for “Arcade”

2019 Golden Televizier-Ring Award for TV Moment of the Year

2019 Jan Blankenspeld Award

2020 100%NL Award for Breakthrough of the Year

2020 Edison Pop Award for Best Song (”Arcade”)

Gold certification for “Love Don’t Hate It” in the Netherlands

Platinum certification for Small Town Boy in the Netherlands

YouTube Silver Creator award

Most-streamed Eurovision song on Spotify

Certifications for “Arcade”

France: Diamond

Netherlands: 4x Platinum

Poland: 3x Platinum

Portugal: 2x Platinum

Australia: Platinum

Austria: Platinum

Belgium: Platinum

Canada: Platinum

Denmark: Platinum

Mexico: Platinum

United States: Platinum

Greece: Gold

Italy: Gold

Norway: Gold

Sweden: Gold

United Kingdom: Gold

Global Platinum Award (for over 1 billion combined streams worldwide across all platforms)

Other Stuff

Favorite Eurovision Song: “Dance You Off” by Benjamin Ingrosso (Sweden 2018)

Guilty Pleasure Song: “Toy” by Netta

First male soloist to win for the Netherlands

One of 2 ESC winners in the 2010s to come from an internal selection, the other being Conchita Wurst in 2014

Third winner to accompany himself on piano

First winner to win out of the 12th spot in the final running order since 1970

Received points in the televote from every country in both the second semifinal and the grand final

Broke Dutch Spotify record for most streams within a 24-hour period

Longest-reigning Eurovision Song Contest winner (2 years, 4 days)

First Eurovision entry since 1996, first Eurovision entry of the 21st century, and first Eurovision winner since 1976, to enter the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States

Co-wrote the 2018 track “Closer” for South Korean duo TVXQ, based off his own song “Reconnect”

The artists’ entrance door at Rotterdam Ahoy was named “Door Duncan” in his honor

[williamgunst]

D'après l'élargissement de la responsabilité délictuelle des assureurs à l'encontre des maîtres d'ouvrage ? | EUROJURIS

D’après l’élargissement de la responsabilité délictuelle des assureurs à l’encontre des maîtres d’ouvrage ? | EUROJURIS

Publié par: 03.08.2022 03 Août Août 08 L’année 2022 Face à l’augmentation du nombre de refus de garantie, auxquels les assureurs après les décisions de 1997 (Cass., 1ère civ., 29 avril 1997, n° 95-10.187 ; Cass., 1ère civ., 28 octobre 1997, ) – 19.416), dans laquelle la troisième chambre civile de la Cour de cassation a relevé que « si le contrat d’assurance responsabilité civile (décennale)…

[escmemesandstuff]

Eurofans seem to forget that Käärijä still came fourth in the jury. You know which fun and wacky entry got done dirty? The tractor guys from Croatia 🚜

[idiotkidthatdoesthings]

I'm still sad that we don't have any pussy or gay cowboys in the final

[baz2com-blog]

Marque et idées reçues (Source EuroJuris)

Marque et idées reçues (Source EuroJuris)

La marque et les droits qui s’y attachent font l’objet de nombreuses idées reçues. Si le dépôt d’une marque peut sembler peu coûteux et rapide, cela ne doit pas occulter l’importance d’une telle démarche et de ses conséquences juridiques, fiscales et commerciales. Cet article présente une liste non exhaustive d’idées reçues attachées au dépôt d’une marque, en France. 1- « L’INPI va refuser ma…

[pleasantlyluckyperson]

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[sole-cuore-amore-e-droga]

Tel Aviv 2019: Straight outta Czech Republic to Eurovision with an unexpected geographical sight name

Another year, another Czech attempt at a national final that wasn’t televised also BUT this time we got some excitement announcements out of them - even if they were blatantly boring, kind of.

Keep in mind though that I know that the revamp's out, BUT this whole review is just me reviewing the version we all witnessed back when ESCZ hit. The one and only.

So the NF’s here because we saw Mikolas succeed from it the last time (eventhough it’s just a secret internal selection for just the Mikolas’s song and there’s no no denying hihihi), right? And thanks to that we got pseudo-official-but-not-so-official hotel music videos of each contestant’s songs just in case they decide to... like... change it for something different. Like those lyric videos last year. Eventhough they looked so very lowbudget this year, I still liked them to some degree, and eventually I had to witness this one video (set in presumably mostly the living room) where the lead singer confettis all over himself win this year (well not really the video as much as I only got to first hear that song on ESCRadio hahaha). Well, just the lead singer of it. As the buddies were on the other official video (the one I’ll talk about in my revamps update I guess but has anything changed other than the singer singing one of his talking parts?). As a whole the Czech entrants this year are known as Lake Malawi (it exists) and “Friend of a Friend” is their A-game! Let’s listen!

I liked it ever since my first acknowledgence(??) of it through ESCRadio. It reminded me of those happy-clappy 80s synth sounds (eventhough the 80s songs were mostly about gloom and doom), somehow somewhat mixed in with a bit of that ‘modern’ synthpop sound from the British music scene (Years & Years maybe? Nah that’d be too far-fetched). The lyrics, while cheap enough, at least paint a bit of a picture? I don’t think the person in the song was “making love” to his ‘old’ neighbouress back when she was 13, anyway. She’s, afterall, the “friend of a friend”. Who is a friend of a friend. Who is a friend of a friend. Who is a friend of a friend’s COUSIN~

The thing is that some songs out here are enjoyable besides their lyrical content. Or even without the singer’s background (still looking at those who’re shading Sheppard’s family business - shut up and enjoy “Geronimo” in peace, geez!). I, for example, jammed to RiRi’s “S&M” for my lifetime - yes, even since when it got big, and the pop music was being made to sound trashy, and not like something that sounds too somber and ‘foggy’, and with lyrics from r/im14andthisisdeep, and then later slapped on those a e s t h e t i c moodboards with tulips and liquid (of colour blue/red) splashed onto them to make it loof more effective, and placed in front of a yellow background on a white table. I miss late 2000s-early 2010s pop a whole lot, because at least it had fathomable-to-the-ear hits of the time - cheap, fast food, techno melodies with overproduction and lyrics that actually mean something more intimate and grotesque (with sometimes even hinting to the love surface) - that was the shit. Now it’s just drowsy stuff with blurry melodies and lamentings of lost love and devotion in an equally slurry, pathetic, vocal whine. I’m so tired of it. It’s unsettling. Get it off me. And thankfully, none of that invades this small little bubble of Eurovision’s just as of now (unlike the other pathetic musical cliche of nowadays that’s Soundcloud rap - ‘thanks’ a lot USNK). And I guess I shouldn’t be blessed that Lake Malawi brings this “this bangs but the lyrics are... a choice, but it still bangs so idc” back onto Eurovision? Like, come on, we all have had such kinds of songs like those all of that time. From “I Can’t Go On” (a man being a slut for love???) to countless of national final shlocks made by these usual suspects from rent-a-songwriter corner, ESPECIALLY in the 00s, to some of those actual 00s entries that made it - so stupid to sing along to, yet so infectious you can’t drag your earworm out of your ear canals just now. What does “Friend of a Friend” have for itself? Keyboard melody in the 2nd half of the chorus that is easily stuck in MY head, with a female voice (I assume it’s the song’s protagonist’s subject of speech - the neighbourina herself) reassuring that “[she’s] only [his] friend” - not in a “haha I’m friendzoning you forever >:)” way, but “ehhhh there’s truly nothing between us as he says, we’re just friends, not lovers, don’t give me that look” way. Sure it’s believable, sure. It might as well turn out that these neighbours are indeed doing the same thing as in all those local anecdotes where a family’s mother or father has an affair with a next-door neighbour for shits and giggles to move the joke’s plot forward.

So it is, as a whole, a fun little throwback-ish piece of fine and smooth music, accompanied with the lead singer’s ‘British’ ‘accent’ (aha so this is why I get a lot of British radio vibes from this - not to mention, tropical beach ones too for some reason!), some sort of spoken dialogue, energy and the ability to raise you up from your seat the 45875th time you’re actually giving in to all of this. You know you want to, despite this song possibly not being your cup of tea. But I see you, and I look forward to seeing you bopping to this fully in May, no matter if this isn’t Mikolas you’re dealing with anymore, and no camel spaghetti. Ahw yeah!

Approval factor: Although it’s also slowly wearing off me like it already wore off everyone else back then, I’m still giving it one hell of an approval. Yay!

Follow-up factor: I definitely like it more than “Lie to Me” as well. Somewhat. Honestly. Don’t bash me in secret.

Qualification factor: the naysayers are saying this will flop but imo they’re mostly just upset that Barbora didn’t go (even if they were only still upset back in the say), STILL. Ugh can’t they just leave. I am positive about this song’s chances somewhat, just hoping it gets a really memorable and stand out staging and maybe it will escape this hellhole of its semi. Not very confident, just positive. (Also they rocked the Vidbir stage so hard even the uncomfortable question queen Dramala couldn’t not give in the dance, lolz.)

NATIONAL FINAL BONUS

Honestly, the best possible thing that came out of this NF was the oh-so-unexpectedly-expected winner choice, and it is like this because, yet again, people couldn’t get over Barbora losing at first, to which I’m like “to be quite honest, you were all into it because that’s the closest thing to Lana del Rey you’d ever get in Eurovision because Lana herself is American and America should NOT set their foot into ESC... besides, she wouldn’t probably do it anyways”. ESCZ wasn’t pretty bad of a NF honestly:

• people actually laughed at the fact every single video of this NF is so low-budget that it looked like it was all filmed in the same hotel room! (in reality I’m just jealous at the slick-ass hotels they’ve had on there, feels like someone’s house more than a hotel actually)

• Pam Rabbit, one of Mikolas’s last year’s backings, brought the second-best NF song this year imo (Barbora for me is likeable but not to THAT degree, lol calm yer tits), as it was a lowkey bop and I can’t not appreciate one!

(her officially official MV is here but in the spirit of this NF’s, you’re gonna have to subject yourself to this above in order to witness spectacular budget-MVs that happened for this NF especially, come on. Hardly a cool NF without its own little perks!)

• Fine, I’ll bring up Barbora Mochowa too. I gotta say she DOES sound like Queen Bee Lana, same to say on her earlier works which, among them, has one enchanting and haunting forest-like ballad. “True Colors”, her ESCZ entry, is just a pop ballad, which is not THAT bad, it’s just that... did y’all see any more in that song beyond the Lana vocals? Sure sure the melody is pleasant but... did ya?

(Lord alive, she also has a live video for this song on her channel, which is in fact the ESCZ’s unplugged version video!)

• The ex-ESC entrant jury is back for another year! This time though, the votes of all of the participants in it were all up and public (unlike secrety mcsecret ones from 2018 where I’m not even sure if the Eurojury panel was correct), and most of them were #TeamMalawi or #TeamBarbora... up until AWS (yes AWS are relevant enough for their own panel!), being the “wait do we still have to do Eurovision related things??? it’s sooooo 1 year ago already, let us go goddammit!!” type of participants that they are, totally and utterly half-arsing their own experience in there by 12ing Andrea Holá. The thing is that she’s first alphabetically from the artists so that’s probably the best possible theory why. “GIVE ME A HINT, ANDREA!!!”

• The best part? The NF itself taking place in the second floor of an abandoned warehouse somewhere in Czech Republic (Czechia go to hell), in the middle of the day, with no live performances, just that video above played in full motion and some random people speaking in between. Silly of them to leak my ideal NF design location if I ever were a Lithuanian HoD. And yes, it was streamed on Facebook, the platform that I can barely play livestreams on my 11-year-old laptop on, while suspiciously enough, it worked for FiK 56... which meant that I was barely able to grasp a screenshot but I managed!

Well of course I didn’t get to watch much but after someone said Lake Malawi (or, in their words, Lake Malala <333) won, I almost believed it until I found out that the show’s still going... and only saw the thing on the projection screen later out of nowhere. IDK who’s hugging who and if that audience on the right are all the participants then I may have an idea but for now IDK. Ahh, relevant video media being projected on projection screens (duh) <33 giving San Marino, Albania’s Powerpoint scoreboards and Belgian 2013 radio NF runs for their money.

I might find mistakes and off-the-wall blabbers in this write-up later but for now I’ll carelessly submit this beauty to Tumblr today and wish the best of luck to Lake Malawi in Tel Aviv! May you qualify for the 2nd year in a row for CZ ^^