23 points and last in its semi-final, third to last or 39th/41 overal if you count all the songs. That's a big slap in face to YLE and UMK who propably hoped they were 11th in their semi. Most remarkable is Finland got only 23 points when the second to last in its semi, Montenegro, got the double: 46.
Finlang got points from the juries: Greece 4, Spain 2, Australia 2 and Poland 1. And from televoters: 12 Estonia (and we all know these are mainly from Finns staying in Estonia), and 2 from Iceland. Not really worth celebrating, is it?
How Finns voted? No surprise the televoters 12 went to Iceland, followed by 10 to Norway (Monsters scandal well forgotten then, or was it because the past few days it was told everywhere and even several times during the broadcast that a Finn Henrik Tala is in it?), Estonia 8, Sweden 7, Australia 6, the Netherlands 5, Russia 4, Italy 3, Switzerland 2 and Slovenia 1 (!!!). Finns have no right to complain and talk about neighbouring voting.
The Finnish jury favored once again Sweden causing a minor stir in social media giving them 12 (again), followed by Australia 10, the Netherlands 8, North Macedonia 7, Slovenia 6, Italy 5, Czech Republic 4, Switzerland 3, Azerbaijan 2 and Malta 1. They totally ignored televoters top3 btw.
(If we use the old combined method Finland's votes would have been: Sweden 12, Australia 10, the Netherlands 8, Iceland 7, Norway 6, Estonia 5, Italy 4, Slovenia 3, North Macedonia 2 and Switzerland 1)
I must say I'm a little buzzled about Slovenia. Mind you, I like it and it's one of my top favorites but ... maybe it's melancholy and overal mood hit home with the Finns, or was it a kind of protest, escpecially when the Finnish commentator whose name I'm not going to underline here (but she's blond) shamelessly talked bad about it and out it down. Several times. Hard to tell....
YLE will let us know by the end of May how the next year's entry will be chosen.... Good luck with that!
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