The Eurovision 2022 Final started on Saturday at the Pala Alpitour in Turin (Italy) and ended at around 1am on Sunday. If you haven’t followed everything, 20 minutes It offers you a small follow-up session.
Ukraine victory
The Kalosh Orchestra won this version with the song StefaniaHe was not praised by the professional jurors who ranked him fourth with 192 points, when Britain’s Sam Ryder, at the top, had 283 points. It was the votes of the European public that completely re-shuffled the cards by awarding an additional 439 points to the Ukrainians. He had never seen one like him. The Portuguese Salvador Sobral previously set the record for television broadcasting in 2017, with 382 points. Support from viewers was frank and enormous: Ukraine received 28 points out of 39 and 8 times 10 points. This Saturday, it’s time to sympathize with a country at war.
Bad fate for France
Some will say that it was not France that lost, but Brittany that did not win (or vice versa). Alfan and Ahiz got only 17 points. We expected the good notes from Celtic lands, we imagined that the Irish or the Spaniards would be sensitive to a song in Breton, but from the East came those who opened the counter. Seven points from the Armenian jury, one from the Georgian jury and the other from the Azerbaijani jury. Then on the general voting side, one from Finland, one from Greece, one from Croatia, one from Romania, two from Moldova, and two from Serbia. The reason for consolation, France is not the penultimate on television, but at the nineteenth. Germany (6 points), Belgium (5), the Czech Republic (5), Azerbaijan (3), Australia (2) and Switzerland (0) lead below them in this regard.
The return of the blessing of the United Kingdom and Spain
Celine Dion’s prophecy has come true: the last will be first, in reality the last. Well, this Eurovision Metaverse isn’t too happy for France, who went from second place to Barbara Pravi last year to penultimate place to Alvan and Ahez this year. On the contrary, the United Kingdom and Spain, which finished in the last three places with Germany – which does not change and put on others clothes only by taking the last place – regained the dregs of the tops. The UK even improved its Poulidor record by adding a 16th runner-up. Spain ended up on a podium they hadn’t known since they took second place in 1995. This proves, firstly, that nothing is impossible, and secondly, blaming Brexit for the upset at Eurovision is an unacceptable excuse.
The return of Moldova
Moldovans from Zdob și Zdub were ranked 6th in Eurovision 2005, then 12th in 2011, and this year they ranked 7th in the overall ranking, while professional juries ranked them 20th with 14 points. The group took second place in television broadcasting with 239 points, which enabled it to make an amazing comeback when the results were announced. Conversely, Australian Sheldon Riley, ninth on the jury with 123 points, is penultimately from the audience vote with two points. Or fifteenth place in general. Jamil’s stumble confirms the psychological handicap of Europeans to vote for Australia.
Lucky person in Azerbaijan
A little curious about this competition: Nader Al Rostamly participated in the final on Saturday while the fans did not award him any points in the semi-final on Thursday. The 96 points the jury awarded him was enough to qualify him. The same trend was repeated in the final: 103 points from the jury side (10th place in their ranking) but only 3 points from the overall side. In the final ranking, she took 16th place …
English no longer has a monopoly on the choir
For the second year in a row, a song in a language other than English won Eurovision magazine. olive and bonny it was in italian Stefania Written in Ukrainian. In 2021, there are also two songs in French and one in Ukrainian in the top 5. In 2022, there is also a song in Spanish and one in Serbian. One song in Italian, one in Romanian and one in Portuguese made its way into the top ten. The French language did not have a chance to shine: for the first time since the creation of the competition in 1956, there was no song with words in Molière’s language.
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