Eurovision 2024 bets

[STT]

Irish entry is a definite no for me, its more worthy of a drama then a song and its well produced I guess.  Could be Im out of touch and that'll get pts because the crowd seemed to like it just now.   Not surprised they tie to something more exclusive like a credit card where they can eliminate multiple votes by the same person perhaps is why.

Latvia is far more conventional, thats a great voice.  I notice alot of the songs are in English as the lyrics can get more votes from across the variety of countries I guess but I hope something unique gets the win.   This guy has a great voice and the song I rate 6/10, could be a winner if people like it tbh.

[Saint-loup]

I like Croatia , Ireland ( #crownthewitch please ) , Norway and I'm thinking to place a vote on each of them but to bad you can't vote from your telephone anymore and you need to use your creditcard which I kinda don't like it. I also think UK will get 0 points because kids were watching and that was embarrassing ...

It must be because the country from where you are or at least the country your number belongs to, is not participating to the contest this year. Because any country participating can vote through SMS or phone call. Besides that I agree with you UK (and Spain too) entries are not really appropriate for a family show with children IMO. The event will lose viewers in the coming years if they don't try to be more suitable for a family audience.

[boltz]

I like Croatia , Ireland ( #crownthewitch please ) , Norway and I'm thinking to place a vote on each of them but to bad you can't vote from your telephone anymore and you need to use your creditcard which I kinda don't like it. I also think UK will get 0 points because kids were watching and that was embarrassing ...

It must be because the country from where you are or at least the country your number belongs to, is not participating to the contest this year. Because any country participating can vote through SMS or phone call. Besides that I agree with you UK (and Spain too) entries are not really appropriate for a family show with children IMO. The event will lose viewers in the coming years if they don't try to be more suitable for a family audience.

Ahh that's why as a Romanian I couldn't vote from my phone well yea because in the last 2 decades this is the first time since Romania is not present because the funds for Eurovision are most likely use on the electoral campaign which is pretty sad .

I'm happy UK got 0 points from public because kids were watching man and that is not appropriate at all but I also dislike heavily the fact that Swiss won based on what ? the song is just another radio song that will be forgotten in about 1 week + he broke the code and also the trophy.

I can also say that Norway and France were the best voices on this show and I can't believe it Norway were placed last...

[alani123]

Anyone here made any money from betting on the Eurovision song contest?

Post them please  we could use a highlight before I have to lock this year's thread in a few days.
Personally I was very disappointed by the very narrow selection of bet options on Eurovision crypto sports books had so I didn't end up betting on anything but now that I think about it, shame on me for liking Switzerland's entry and not putting a single dollar towards it 😅

[LTU_btc]

I'm happy UK got 0 points from public because kids were watching man and that is not appropriate at all but I also dislike heavily the fact that Swiss won based on what ? the song is just another radio song that will be forgotten in about 1 week + he broke the code and also the trophy.

Yeah, not really happy with Switzerland win, didn't liked it at all and already forgot how it sounds. Interesting what result it would be if it would be performed by someone who doesn't considers themselves and non-binary gender and wearing dress. I guess somewhere in the middle.
It looks that both jury and people voted quite similar, what isn't very common. Only big exception is Israel, they didn't got much votes from jury, but got a lot from spectators.

Anyone here made any money from betting on the Eurovision song contest?

Post them please  we could use a highlight before I have to lock this year's thread in a few days.
Personally I was very disappointed by the very narrow selection of bet options on Eurovision crypto sports books had so I didn't end up betting on anything but now that I think about it, shame on me for liking Switzerland's entry and not putting a single dollar towards it 😅

Nothing worth to share, just some low odds bets like Italy finishing 1st from Big 5  or Lithuania top from Baltic states.
Yeah, most of crypto sportsbook didn't had anything interesting to offer this year.

[TopTort777]

I have stopped watching Eurovision song contest as it has stopped to be a contest long time ago.

I was successfully avoiding Eurovision contests for years (mainly because my music taste is completely different from what you hear there) until I got married. I managed to avoid semifinals but unfortunately no way to skip final. 

Lol, I am in the same situation. But as an experienced husband, I have found a solution (might now work for you). When I dont want to watch finals, I suggest we take a ride to her mother As she lives in the different city +300km away, I am usually "to much tired from the road to watch".

If it was all about politics, then this years it has to many freaks. People dont know how to get more attention so they try to impress with their freakiness. Witch from Ireland. WTF from Finland Naked ass windows 95

I agree, its a fucking freakshow and I can't believe how obsessed people in Croatia are about it at the moment. I secretly wish for us not to win just so I can see all those people crying over something as unsignificant and political as Eurovision song contest is.

A guy, wearing tights and skirt, dressed in feather crap won. Imho this competition is not suitable to watch with kids anymore and it turned to be like this long time ago...

[Distraction]

I think it was a totally unfair result. I believe Croatia was the most deserving country. Not only with the song but also the choreography it was really impressive. 

I wonder how many people bet on Croatia to win. I liked Norway's performance also but we saw them in the last place. It is really hard to understand how the jury is assessing the performances. I think Eurovision was much better in the distant past. Maybe it was never totally fair but at least we were witnessing good performances to win. But why I'm wasting my energy, even Israel was accepted to the contest. 

[boltz]

I think it was a totally unfair result. I believe Croatia was the most deserving country. Not only with the song but also the choreography it was really impressive. 

I wonder how many people bet on Croatia to win. I liked Norway's performance also but we saw them in the last place. It is really hard to understand how the jury is assessing the performances. I think Eurovision was much better in the distant past. Maybe it was never totally fair but at least we were witnessing good performances to win. But why I'm wasting my energy, even Israel was accepted to the contest. 

They were the best by far and they deserved to win but once again Eurovision proved to be just a political show and the best songs and voice won't win no matter what.

Did anyone notice that both ladies made a mistake when they were about to announce the winner ? they said Swiss was in front but in that moment , Croatia was in front and that is were I knew they blundered so hard and announced the winner by mistake and 1 minute later Swiss was the winner...

[FatFork]

I'm happy UK got 0 points from public because kids were watching man and that is not appropriate at all but I also dislike heavily the fact that Swiss won based on what ? the song is just another radio song that will be forgotten in about 1 week + he broke the code and also the trophy.

Yeah, not really happy with Switzerland win, didn't liked it at all and already forgot how it sounds. Interesting what result it would be if it would be performed by someone who doesn't considers themselves and non-binary gender and wearing dress. I guess somewhere in the middle.
It looks that both jury and people voted quite similar, what isn't very common. Only big exception is Israel, they didn't got much votes from jury, but got a lot from spectators.

I think otherwise. The jury's votes are dramatically out of sync with the audience's preferences this year. For example, Switzerland would have only placed fifth according to the public vote.

I think it's high time to eliminate the jury voting at the Eurovision Song Contest. Many viewers feel frustrated that no matter how much public support their favorite acts get, the professional jury members override popular opinion to hand victories to less popular performers. Over the past few years especially, their bloc voting has catapulted somewhat questionable winners to the top spot over more crowd-pleasing hopefuls. With the experts accounting for 50% of each country's score, the public's role in picking the champion seems diminished. What's the purpose of letting fans vote in a contest where their preferences carry so little weight? If the EBU wants to retain public engagement they should reassess how much influence televoters versus judges have on the final outcome.

[Saint-loup]

Ahh that's why as a Romanian I couldn't vote from my phone well yea because in the last 2 decades this is the first time since Romania is not present because the funds for Eurovision are most likely use on the electoral campaign which is pretty sad .

I'm happy UK got 0 points from public because kids were watching man and that is not appropriate at all but I also dislike heavily the fact that Swiss won based on what ? the song is just another radio song that will be forgotten in about 1 week + he broke the code and also the trophy.

I can also say that Norway and France were the best voices on this show and I can't believe it Norway were placed last...

Yes your prediction was amazing because only one country of all didn't receive any point from the public and it was UK. It made me laugh when they announced 0 point for them because I remembered what you've said. But I didn't expect it will be the only country not receiving any point.
Regarding Switzerland, I didn't like the song at all when I watched it on Youtube before the show, I've never listened to it on Spotify and I will certainly never do, I didn't really understand why bookmakers took it as one of their favorites even if Switzerland usually finishs in good ranks. But his performance had been really surprising tbh, very original, with a very nice voice. And I really thought he will fall from the platform to be honest lol. So I wasn't surprised he got so many points from the jury. Switzerland is known to take the contest very seriously. They usually listen hundreds of songs before choosing one.
https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2024#scoreboard

[Rikafip]

Lol, I am in the same situation. But as an experienced husband, I have found a solution (might now work for you). When I dont want to watch finals, I suggest we take a ride to her mother As she lives in the different city +300km away, I am usually "to much tired from the road to watch".

Yeah that woulnd't work as unfortunately my mother in law lives like 10 kilometres away from me. 

A guy, wearing tights and skirt, dressed in feather crap won.

Add on that a decent song (which realistically it was, aside the woke lyrics) and guy being "non-binary" and that's all you need for a Eurovision song win.

I wonder how many people bet on Croatia to win.

Probably alot, given the odds. I did warn people in this thread that it is a bad bet due bad risk to reward ratio.

[LTU_btc]

A guy, wearing tights and skirt, dressed in feather crap won. Imho this competition is not suitable to watch with kids anymore and it turned to be like this long time ago...

Yeah, we already seesuch things for maybe last 15 years, but I think that this year we had more than ever freaks. And probably not only kids saw Ireland's witch in their nightmares tonight. I don't mind guy wearing skirt, but when someone considers themselves as ''non-binary'', I just want say - World, please stop, I want to get off.

I think otherwise. The jury's votes are dramatically out of sync with the audience's preferences this year. For example, Switzerland would have only placed fifth according to the public vote.

I think it's high time to eliminate the jury voting at the Eurovision Song Contest. Many viewers feel frustrated that no matter how much public support their favorite acts get, the professional jury members override popular opinion to hand victories to less popular performers. Over the past few years especially, their bloc voting has catapulted somewhat questionable winners to the top spot over more crowd-pleasing hopefuls. With the experts accounting for 50% of each country's score, the public's role in picking the champion seems diminished. What's the purpose of letting fans vote in a contest where their preferences carry so little weight? If the EBU wants to retain public engagement they should reassess how much influence televoters versus judges have on the final outcome.

I agree about removing jury voting, almost every year we have contraversy with it. But my thought about not big difference between jury and public voting is that there was no cases where countries after jury voting where in the bottom and they were lifted up to top part by public. Only exception as I already said probably is Israel. While Switzerland, almost all juries voted for him, while 5th place from public is still high and not somewhere in the bottom. But yeah, just with public votes he wouldn't won it.
If there is no plans to remove jury, I think that their voting should have less weight, like 25% or something similar.

[STT]

Like the Oscars you have expect some element of a theme or cause in the winning entry.  Eurovision being very political has been true for years.  UK gets less votes every year because they left the eu which is nonsense because they remain in Europe anyway.  How Israel gets in is via a television network apparently if I remember the argument rightly.

[alani123]

Since Russia invaded Ukraine and terrorists entered Israel where they killed and kidnapped many people and Israel is retaliating, European countries and the United States continue to suffer from demonstrations by people in favor of the Palestinians, who reach the level of behaving like terrorists and I read on my country's news channel that in this contest you also see Palestinian supporters causing problems. something bad.

Friend, if ever your peoples get genocided, I wish nobody protesting against the genocide killing your family gets called a terrorist.

And with that, I guess it's time to lock this thread.
Eurovision was a grand shit show this year. Hopefully the Swiss organizing it will do better.