Digital Spy Gets Competitive!

So now, all we have to look forward to in the Eurovision off season is acres of wasteland, snippets of rumours, some true, some laughable (thanks for those, oikotimes..) and a whole bunch of nothing until Switzerland announce their entry on December 11th and Albania chose their song on Christmas Day (You never knew Jesus was a Eurovision fan?!)

A bunch of us on Digital Spy http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1351266 were just talking about the shocker that was the departure of Sweden in the second semi, and we then got to thinking about the other travesties over the years.

What better way to put right some old wrongs than through the medium of Eurovision voting!

We took each year individually, and voted on the three songs of those non qualifiers that we believed should have made an appearance in the final .... from these preliminary votes, we got the following qualifiers:

2004:

1st: ESTONIA (10)

2nd: DENMARK (8)
3rd: ANDORRA (8)

2005:

1st: ICELAND (15)
2nd: MONACO (14)
3rd: SLOVENIA (9)

2006:

1st: BELGIUM (17)
2nd: ESTONIA (12)
3rd: ICELAND (10)

2007:

1st: CYPRUS (10)
2nd: NETHERLANDS (9)
3rd: MALTA (8)

2008:

1st: SWITZERLAND (13)
2nd: MALTA (8)
3rd: NETHERLANDS (7)

2009:

1st: MONTENEGRO (12)
2nd: SWITZERLAND (10)
3rd: CYPRUS (6

2010:

1st: SWEDEN (12)
2nd: FINLAND (10)
3rd: NETHERLANDS (8)

This process in itself was fraught with troubles - anyone who knows me knows that I adore Anzej Dezan from Slovenia, and always felt that his exclusion from the 2006 final was the worst thing - and then he only came fourth in the running in my own forum!! Shocking stuff ....

The numbers in brackets above by the way, are the number of votes received from all forum members - you can see that Kate Ryan from Belgium in 2006 and Selma from Iceland in 2005 were really popular, Paolo Meneguzzi from Switzerland 2008 also (he winked at me personally during his semi final, I clearly put him off his game that night!)

The songs above then went forward to a grand final, run by our lovely 9ct mould - where all 21 were voted on my DS FM's to find the biggest travesty in the contest to date ... and here are the final scores:

1^st Anna Bergendahl "This Is My Life" 124pts

2^nd Kate Ryan "Je T'adore" 108pts

3^rd Andrea Demirović "Just Get Out Of My Life" 99pts
4^th Lovebugs "The Highest Heights" 98pts

5^th Paolo Meneguzzi "Era Stupendo" 93pts

6^th Olivia Lewis "Vertigo" 68pts

7^th Kuunkuiskaajat "Työlki Ellää" 68pts
8^th Selma "If I Had Your Love" 66pts

9^th Evridiki "Comme Ci, Comme Ça" 64pts
10^th Sylvia Night "Congratulations" 64pts

11th: Sieneke - "Ik Ben Verliefd (Sha-la-lie)" 59 points
12th: Lise Darly - "Tout De Moi" 58 points
13th: Edsilia Rombley - "On Top Of The World" 48 points
14th: Christina Metaxa - "Firefly" 45 points
15th: Omar Naber - "Stop" 40 points
16th: Hind - "Your Heart Belongs To Me" 40
17th: Sandra Oxenryd - "Through My Window" 37 points
18th: Neiokõsõ - "Tii" 33 points
19th: Marta Roure - "Jugarem A Estimar-nos" 28 points

20th: Morena - "Vodka" 28 points (from 8 voters)
21st: Thomas Thordarson - "Shame On You" 8 points

Just as we had always thought then - Anna Bergandahl was robbed on 27th May 2010!