Eurovision Song Contest

[Karel]

Songs mean nothing, that was the biggest load of biased voting I have ever seen..........What a joke this thing has become. If you can make money out of it, why care, but I have never seen voting like it.

[gazzyg]

It has become farcical now with the likes of Spain picking up maximums from oo surprise Portugal and Andorra...Western nations may as well not turn up really whatever their song.
Very grateful to the new semi vote system as it turns out....having put Sweden up early on on the back of them sweeping all the fan votes throughout Europe I backed them heavily at 1/7 for their cert qualification for the final. They did and I landed my cash but horrified to see last night that they were actually in 12th or so in their semi and got through on the new Jury ruling decison where a country go through if they win the Jury vote but fail to qualify on televote..jeez that was close. Position/gimmicks maybe key this year with early like Armenia(5) or late Top 3 Russia(24),Greece(21),Ukraine(18)) and 5th Norway(25) 6th Serbia(23)
Top 3 all gimmicks Russia - World Champ Ice skater, Ukraine - light boxes,
Greece - Giant heart book.
Listing this all so we don't forget next year

It's a good betting event as even though they got the top pair correct this year bookies rarely do enough homework an personally I had enough check points knowing how many biased votes were to come to take advantage of the 8-1 E/W Ukraine offered and the 2-1 value offered by some when others stuck to 6-4 Russia some way in when it became apparent only Greece could possibly keep pace but didn't have much in the way of geographical/political maximum votes to come.
Sweden E/W were my main loss. Also lost a little on an E/W in play dabble at 25-1 Serbia. Never fancied Greece early enough to take advantage of their price for the E/W and in play never gave the chance either with them doing so well... A win for them would have crippled me

Same time next year