Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku (Azerbaijan)

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I'm on team Iceland so far, although the rumours of Britain sending Atomic Kitten may change that.

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that was last year, and it was the friends of the guy who was meant to compete, but who died before the competition.

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I quite like this year's batch. Particularly Iceland, Romania, Moldova, UK, Malta, Romania, Israel, Ukraine, Italy, and Spain.

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Edward Norton is on his way to Eurovision, singing one of the better songs this year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H7AILnPoio

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Now I have to make the difficult decision of waiting til Friday for the SBS replay or watching it online now before I find out who went through (skipped TB's post, luckily)

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It's started!

I'm watching live online this year 'cos it normally gets spoiled for me by a rival tv network or an idiot friend. Opening sequence quite good, Australia got a lovely mention (skull!) and The Hump sang well.

Hungary is sounding rather flat, though.

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Albania is wonderfully different, and has zero chance of winning...

Lithuania... stupid props aren't enough to hold this song up.

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My 'vote'

12 Spain. Best voice of the night by far.
10 Estonia. Mainly 'cos he's my future husband.
8 United Kingdom For giving it a red hot go.
7 Iceland 'Cos I can actually imagine myself listening to it post-eurovision.
6 Italy 'Cos it was a bit different but still had the necessary Eurovision-ness.
5 Malta  DEM FEETS
4 Denmark Nothing special, but a strong performance and a catchy enough tune.
3 Ukraine Total rip-off of 'When Love Takes Over' but that's OK, it had me bopping.
2 Sweden I can't understand why it's the hot favourite, but it's not bad.
1 Russia For the fun factor.

Honourable mentions:

Cyprus, Serbia, Moldova, France, Albania, Turkey.

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The result of the Australian vote, after Jedward crashed the party by telling their twitter followers to vote for them (and give 8 and 10 points to the countries coming last... pricks), still had Sweden winning by a landslide.

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I think the Finnish song was the better song, actually, maybe it should have represented Sweden, and Euphoria for Finland?

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Here's the full Aussie vote:

http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=australian_televoters_agree_with_2012_result

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Sweden 72,186
Russia 55,270
Ireland 50,314
Italy 36,130
Denmark 33,638
Cyprus 27,538
Germany 24,958
Greece 22,328
Ukraine 22,172
Iceland 21,430
Moldova 21,220
Malta 20,878
Turkey 20,402
FYR Macedonia 18,842
Norway 17,694
Serbia 17,160
Lithuania 15,472
Spain 14,164
Romania 13,424
United Kingdom 12,862
France 12,150
Estonia 11,824
Albania 10,902
Azerbaijan 9,400
Bosnia & Herzegovina 8,776
Hungary 7,336

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Also, I won this. Hoerah! Wunderbar! Gracias SBS! Tok!

http://www.sbs.com.au/eurovision/article/Win-an-Entertainment-Prize-Pack_39/