#y'all the ebu are the worst at this point

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In other countries, such as would-be EU candidates Moldova and Ukraine, the juries were apparently more in line with the EBU’s recommendations - but their vote in favour of the United Kingdom puzzled the public. The outcome? The PR departments of the public broadcasters and politicians in the eastern part of Europe spent their weekend explaining the misunderstanding.

The Georgian public broadcaster GPB is still seeking clarification regarding why its jury votes were not accepted and why its 12 points went to the United Kingdom instead of Ukraine, Eurovoix.com reported. Same in Azerbaijan.

Moldova’s jury gave its 12 points to the UK of its own free will and was not invalidated. But they will now have to explain to their boss and the public why no points were given to Romania (the recipient of 12 points from the public) - Moldova’s traditional partner in the Eurovision contest.

To somehow compensate for the 24 points of Georgia and Azerbaijan re-routed from Ukraine to the UK, EBU shifted to Ukraine the 12 points given by Romania to Moldova. Romania’s public broadcaster can’t understand why its 12 points given to Moldova ended in Ukraine’s basket.

It is embarrassing since the juries in Moldova and Romania gave no points to each other’s countries - but this seems to be in line with the “substitute aggregated result […] calculated based on the results of other countries with similar voting records,” according to EBU.

In Kyiv, Ukrainian culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko reassured Poland and Lithuania, “our closest friends in Europe,” that the 12 points given by his country’s jury to the United Kingdom “does not reflect our real attitude towards you," Ukrinform.net reported. 

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#eurovision #eurovision 2022 #romania #moldova #georgia #uk #y'all the ebu are the worst at this point #imagine having multiple countries ask you what you did with their points #the UK votes were so weird though #like so many better countries in their vicinity to give their points to #as is tradition #and they gave 12 points to the uk? #idk the whole thing is hilariously embarrassing