🚨 NEW: According to a source with insight into the situation, in addition to Ireland and Slovenia there are at least five other broadcasters considering taking the same step.
There is concern in the EBU that two semifinals would not be possible.
The EBU pursued the Australian jury because one juror uses the stage name “Hans” and they feared he might be biased toward Germany’s Sarah Engels.
This is where their energy is going in the name of “voting integrity.”
In a hostel in Paris, I once met an American girl who was a combat photographer for the military. When she told me her job, I laughed and jokingly said ‘so your job is to make more American military propaganda?’
She didn’t find it funny
Delta got the biggest live audience in Australia’s Eurovision history, and look at what happens when you have an actual audience voting instead of bot farms STAN DELTA GOODREM 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🦘🦘🐨🐨❤️💛🖤
@regina_wtf Which provides further proof that their televote in 24/25 were artificially inflated, because if the public were mobilised to vote pro-Israel this year and they only managed TWENTIETH then there’s no way they could’ve won the last two years
How does Israel get Australia’s 12 televote points in 2024-25 then drop to 20th this year? It’s almost like the last two years weren’t real votes or something idk
@FrannyMeister@myfursonasthis Right like the only ballads we’ve ever given decent points to were Jamala in 2016 and Salvador in 2017 and they both were the actual winners of the contest
DATA ANALYSIS TIME!
How the televote would have changed if Israel was not participating in the grand final (disqualified a la Joost style)
France is the biggest mover in rank, Finland gets the most additional points