EUROVISION 2025: AUSTRIA HAS WON WITH JJ'S WASTED LOVE (AND THAT'S A RELIEF)

Ebu and Eurovision world just avoided a bullet and in the end Finns have only a small tiny consolation that the winner JJ's outfit was Finnish design and made as well was the staging and he even rehearsed it in Vantaa, Finland over the spring. He only managed 5th in the semifinal but it all changed in the grand final. I leave the vote analyzing to else but ..... This was a weird weird year.

But dear Lord the jury voting was all over the place! Austria managed only 8 full sets of 12s, Italy six (I told you so! read more here) and France 5, Greece 4, Switzerland and Latvia 3, Germany (!!!) 2 and Israel, Armenia (!!!), Finland, Albania, UK and Sweden one. A bit like here's something to most everyone!

Then the televoting: Only 50 to France (!!!), Switzerland zero!!!! I mean... what the hell just happened (oh yes, zero to them, too, but that was already a norm). I have no words.

Final results (jury votes/tele votes)

1. AUSTRIA (258 + 178) 436

2. ISRAEL (60 + 297) 357

3. ESTONIA (98 + 258) 356

4. SWEDEN (126 + 195) 321

5. ITALY (159 + 97) 256

6. GREECE (105 + 126) 231

7. FRANCE (180 + 50) 230

8. ALBANIA (45 + 173) 218

9. UKRAINE (60 + 158) 218

10. SWITZERLAND (214 + 0) 214

11. FINLAND (88 + 108) 196

12. NETHERLANDS (133 + 42) 175

13.LATVIA (116 + 42) 158

14. POLAND (17 + 139) 156

15. GERMANY (77 + 74) 151

16. LITHUANIA (34 + 62) 96

17. MALTA (83 + 8) 91

18.NORWAY (22 + 67) 89

19, UNITED KINGDOM (88 + 0) 88

20. ARMENIA (42 + 30) 72

21. PORTUGAL (37 + 13) 50

22. LUXEMBURG (23 + 24) 47

23. DENMARK (45 + 2) 47

24. SPAIN (27 + 19) 37

25. ICELAND (0 + 33) 33

26. SAN MARINO (9 + 18) 27

The first semifinal:

1.UKRAINE 137

2. ALBANIA 122

3. NETHERLANDS 121

4. SWEDEN 118

5.ESTONIA 113

6. ICELAND 97

7. POLAND 85

8. NORWAY 82

9. PORTUGAL 56

10. SAN MARINO 46

11. CYPRUS 44

12. CROATIA 28

13. SLOVENIA 23

14. BELGIUM 23

15. AZERBAIJAN 7

The second semifinal:

1. ISRAEL 203

2. LATVIA 130

3. FINLAND 115

4. GREECE 112

5. AUSTRIA 105

6. LITHUANIA 103

7. LUXEMBURG 62

8. DENMARK 61

9. MALTA 53

10. ARMENIA 51

11. AUSTRALIA 41

12. CZECHIA 29

13. IRELAND 28

14. SERBIA 28

15. GEORGIA 28

16. MONTENEGRO 12

to be updated

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