For those who are just reading this blog for the first time or if you don't have time to go through my many posts, here is the description of Eurovision one more time.
Eurovision is an annual song competition held between the countries of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union). 37 countries come and compete in one country and perform in front of millions of people.
Each contestant is selected to represent their country and compete in 2 semi-finals and then the last final where the winner is chosen. To decide the winner each country votes for their favorite by points starting from 1( the lowest)- 12 (highest). Countries cannot vote for themselves so they chose another country that is the favorite. A representative from each country appears and states that home countries top 3 favorites. The country with the most votes, win Eurovision.
Hosted in Copenhagen, Denmark 27 performers performed back to back until it was time to vote.
Here are the list of countries that performed, the names of the performers and the song they sung (BONUS: click the name of the song to hear it yourself!) and the points.
Armenia
4th place with 174 points
Austria
Winner with 290 points
Azerbaijan
22nd place with 33 points
Belarus
16th place with 43 points
Denmark
9th place with 74 points
Finland
11th place with 72 points
France
26th place with 2 points
Germany
18th place with 39 points
Greece
20th place with 35 points
Hungary
5th place with 143 points
Iceland
15th place with 58 points
Italy
21st place with 33 points
Malta
23rd with 32 points
Montenegro
19th place with 37 points
Norway
8th place with 88 points
Poland
14th place with 62 points
Romania
12th place with 72 points
Russia
7th place with 89 points
San Marino
24th place with 14 points
Slovenia
25th place with 9 points
Spain
10th place with 74 points
Sweden
3rd place with 218 points
Switzerland
13th place with 64 points
The Netherlands
2nd place with 218 points
Ukraine
6th place with 113 points
United Kingdom
17th place with 40 points
The Winner was Austria with singer Conchita Wurst or as you may know her as "the Bearded Lady" with the high points of 290.
If you are curious, here are my thoughts of my first Eurovision experience:
1- I'm still questioning as to why Azerbaijan is calling a girl a "Cheesecake"
2- In the first 20 minutes of the show, Iceland was my favorite and still is and I'm still disappointed that they weren't in the top 10.
3- TWIN TWIN of France is the French version of LMFAO
4- Malta is the wannabe Mumford & Sons
5- The Netherlands were the wannabe Civil Wars
6- Sweden's Sanna Nielsen's song "Undo" gave me goosebumps and almost made me cry
7- One of the Danish hosts would not stop talking about China even though China is no where near the EU or EBU. Get your countries straight bro.
8- No matter how good their song was, people disliked Russia and booed at any country who gave them votes
9- The motto of Eurovision was #JoinUs and according to Amy Poehler's brother, Greg Poehler, on twitter, it was pretty much #JoinU.S.
10. My knowledge of European geography was put to the test, as I had no idea where some of these countries were.
My first Eurovision experience in Europe and it was just as entertaining as I hoped it would be. Do yourself a favor and experience Eurovision at least once.
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