besties i’m not gonna let this go so here’s what i know. maybe i am missing something but here we go:
during eurovision the moldovan jury announced their 12 points for ukraine and then none of the remaining points went to romania, even though their song was about romania, and even though it was massively supported by romanians everywhere. (please note that the juries gave moldova either 12 or 14 points in total and the public vote put them in 7th place in the chart)
when it came time to connect to the romanian jury, ebu said they couldn’t connect with the jury in romania so they said romania gave 12 points to ukraine and gave no further information about where the rest of the points went
this is the statement made by the public television in romania:
Romanian Television has fully assumed its commitment to participate in Eurovision 2022, paying the participation fee and preparing, together with the WRS team, a project that has enjoyed the appreciation of the public.
However, we were surprised to find that the result of the Romanian jury's vote was not taken into account in the calculation of the final ranking, the organizers assigning another set of scores to the competitors in the final, on behalf of the jury of our country. We specify that the Romanian jury decided to give maximum score to the representatives of Moldova.
source in romanian
now i have a few things to say
a) both moldova and romania would have given a high number of points to ukraine even if it wasn’t the 12 points. i am 100% sure of this.
b) by doing this, ebu has managed to paint the whole situation in a bad light because they did not have faith in ukraine winning despite having a very good song that deserved to win.
c) if you’re gonna try to fuck with the points, don’t make a country that comes to eurovision and sings about her sister country give no points to their sister country. that was shady to everyone who watched because we have always awarded each other points, but especially during this eurovision given the context of moldova’s song. that was so weird that we were all watching like... huh? not possible
shame on ebu. by doing this, you’ve completely embarrassed yourselves in a way that i don’t think can be taken back.
having said this, congrats ukraine! you guys deserved to win and i’m sure would have won regardless of ebu fucking with our votes <3
(i have the feeling they won’t let us in next year but it had to be said)
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Anyway I’m here to tell you that there’s a song contest for minority, minoritised and endangered languages of Europe called Liet International and it’s held in a different city each year
It was held on May 13 and featured 13 entries including songs in Sardinian and Corsican, but also Cornish, Frisian and Northern Sami
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I have something to tell France about Eurovision 2022.
As an italian, I have a love/hate relationship with France, mostly because our countries are good in the same fields (art, food, wine, fashion)… but you’re even more famous than we are ahahah. You’re like a big brother to us, we always roast you, but we’ll fight anyone outside of Europe that tries to do the same.
Now, that being said, one of the reasons we criticize France is because they often stick to the Paris-Tour Eiffel-Voila-Oui-Croissant stereotipical image and never try to show something different about their country.
This year Its the first time I was actually super proud of France’s Eurovision entry. You sent a song completely different from the usual classic french ballad, and you even used breton! I was in total awe, especially because I’m actually a fan of French literature and lately I’ve read Mathias Enard, who gave me a magical idea of rural France and I’d really like to see some of the less famous faces of french culture.
I’m so angry Fulenn didn’t get much votes. The message that passed is that we only like France when it’s classic Paris stereotyped France, so I wanted to tell you that this is not the truth, at least for one person out there. I think you have much more to share with the world than that! Please, France, I’m sorry eurofans and the juries failed you, but don’t give up on your more creative side ❤️🇫🇷
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romania, the country with one of the best internet connections, suddenly has """trouble connecting"""". ok jigodiile lu nosferatu
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"Ukraine winning was a sign of compassion and solidarity and recognition from the population of Europe" and "Ukraine had a good entry" and "Romania's votes got fucked over and changed so the 12 points would not be awarded to Moldova, further causing tension between 2 sister countries to fit someone's political agenda" and "Even without this, Ukraine was 200 points further than everyone else after the public vote so it was not like changing Romania's vote did anything to ensure Ukraine wins, but it did cause damage in the relations between us and Moldova" and "Juries should be abolished" are all thoughts that can and should coexist
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The face made by Eda Marcus when she was trying to announce the points only to hear that Ro was allegedly having connection issues and then hear 12 points to Ukraine instead of Moldova:
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The masculine urge to catch the train from Chișinău to Bucharest
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