Konstrakta's smile when she got her points is EVERYTHING

I don't know if anyone knows, but when Marius Bear got 0 points in the televote, he was really upset. Sam Ryder ran over & hugged him. They embraced for a while, then Sam kissed him, held his face & whispered something to him. Marius put his head on Sam's shoulder then kissed him on the cheek. Marius has announced on TikTok how grateful he is to Sam for taking the time & trouble to support him, saying "Eurovision provides moments like this. Sam Ryder, thank you for being the loveliest man in Space." This is what I want to see. This is why Eurovision was created in the first place & I'm delighted that Sam is reminding the UK how to behave towards other countries. There's a horrible xenophobia over here at the mo from certain members of the media & government, & I'm fed up of it.

@Glenn036

2 жыл бұрын

Yes I seen that what a class act Sam Ryder is👍

You are such a nice man, Tom. So positive, fair and supportive of all the contestants. A rare person on YT who has got lots of respect for each country on ESC. Thank you for being a decent human being.

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

thank you north light 🥰

Congrats to Ukraine, not unexpected!!! Biggest improvers....UK & Spain from both being in the bottom five with zero points last year to coming 2nd & 3rd with only 6points in it was amazing. Very entertaining & colourful contest.

@Liam-2345

2 жыл бұрын

You mean expected right? It had 61% in the bookies or similar all round. It was literally for a 2nd place only this year. Everyone knew they was gonna win months before.

@Rafaelinux

2 жыл бұрын

@@Liam-2345 He said not unexpected. Is there any alternate way of interpreting that?

@Liam-2345

2 жыл бұрын

@@Rafaelinux soz lol my friend, I just saw it as unexpected🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😂I apologise. Also I had some beers this finale, so not all with it, thank you for correcting me hehe

You totally manifested Switzerland’s nil point, so funny

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

i swear to god that was an accident! 😂

@user-yr6nt2zh9i

2 жыл бұрын

I just burst into tears when Switzerland have 0 points. This song was so warm and well sung. The pause was so long so I thought it would be at least 90 😿

Thank you for loving Serbia, I love you ❤❤❤

The televoting was so stressful live. I am terrible at maths so I couldn't figure out if Ukraine had won even after they got their televote result. And then they drag it out needlessly too, just to make sure that the maximum amount of people have heart attacks waiting for the result. Lol. :D Thanks for the video.

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

yea some of the waits between individual results at the end are over 90 seconds, its a bit much tbh

@nian60

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom Yes they drag it out too long sometimes. Still, I was so happy at the end when Ukraine won.

Very sad for France, their song was amazing and very original. I feel like they didn't deserve to be this low...

@80PercentScottish

2 жыл бұрын

I voted for it, but I also felt like their harmonies were very off in places.

@Scheherasad

2 жыл бұрын

they were too early on

@mariamartin9538

Жыл бұрын

It's a Tanxugueiras copy

@user-xo2ix3pt7k

Жыл бұрын

@@mariamartin9538 Hardly, it's simply a different Gaelic-influenced song.

@angelaburrow8114

Жыл бұрын

@@mariamartin9538 How could it be a copy? French entries had to be submitted to the French ESC jury between 21 June 2021 & 21 October 2021. Terra wasn't released until 21 December. Unless the French delegation were time-travellers or had a spy amongst Tanxugueiras' entourage, there's no way Fulenn was a copy.

I'm a bit of a stats and spreadsheets geek too, so the voting is probably just as exciting for me as the songs themselves. Biggest shocks - Australia and Czechia. Totally thrilled for Serbia and Moldova (both of whom I've had in my top 10 from the beginning). Every single one of my colleagues from work who aren't die-hard ESC fans talked to me about Moldova. Seriously, along with Ukraine, i think Moldova are my favourite country in Eurovision - they always bring, always deliver always stage... Totally pleased with the end result, as commented in another video of yours. There can be no unfairness comments posted regarding UK - they did themselves proud and i agree with your sentiment that a UK-raine joint presentation next year would be perfect. The two countries have formed a really strong bond in recent times - hey, they gave the UK 12 points too...Bring it on!

Total televote score is 2613 (= 39 X 67 points), so getting 439 points is roughly a one fifth. Congratulations to Ukraine and the band. Btw, my personal winner is the UK. Well done San and the team. ♥️

@ultrasonicsounds2644

2 жыл бұрын

468 is all 39 giving 12 points so it's the maximum so it's was almost perfect score with 439, to be more precise 28×12, 8 ×10, 2×8,1×7

@buddhidev7877

2 жыл бұрын

@@ultrasonicsounds2644 in fact Ukrainian entry has got 12 points from 28 countries. Besides 1£, we also have 10 to 1 so you should include them too I just wanna state that the total score is 2613 and Ukraine got around 1/5. And that's it.

@ultrasonicsounds2644

Жыл бұрын

@@buddhidev7877 yeah as I said above 28 12 point 8 10 points 2 eight points 1 seven points

Don't forget that one of the most popular melody in the World - The carrol of the bells by Leontovich is Ukrainian too))

I love your attitude, for me that's the true Eurovision spirit! I was devastated when the nul points for Switzerland were announced, but at least they reached the final!

Wow..such a great analysys!Love from💙💛

S10 became S11!! Thank you Tom for all your wonderfull vids. Hope seeing you back next year. Take care. Hugs from De Diepte

I'm the most terrible at maths, but when Ukraine got more than 430 you kinda knew it was over. Congrats to them they are a deserved winner! Sad that they get so much hate. He got 12 from 28 countries, 10p from 8 countries, 8p from 2 countries and one 7p But they didn't need to show the countries' faces who were ROBBED by televote (Azerbaijan, Australia, Switzerland, Belgium, Czechia). That was not needed at all

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

yea we were talking in another comment about what they could do about it. they definitely dont need to go back to them AFTER they got their results already like they did with Azerbaijan. Also the wait of like 90 secs between points is dumb, and if it wasnt so long, they wouldnt need to cut to people looking sad

@sannev8407

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom Yes, it was so sad to see him like that. I get it's good tv, but it felt like they play with his emotions... Also at the end when Spain, Sweden and UK got their points, they waited so long. I know, it's their job to try keep it exiting, but everyone knew they would not beat Ukraine.

@neilonaniet

2 жыл бұрын

Once Ukraine had 439 points, there were 591 left to share between the UK, Spain and Sweden. And given their deficits to Ukraine, they were never going to win from that moment on.

@StarTheTripleDevil

2 жыл бұрын

I actually had a calculator with me so by the time UK and Sweden were the only countries left, I calculated that Sweden had to get less than 15 points from the televotes for the UK to win, otherwise Ukraine would win. But of course, less than 15 points was extremely unlikely to happen (and it didn't).

Zdob & Zdub legends of Eurovision, third time in the final in deferent decades, always making the audience happy!

I love to watch your video. You crack me up !!! You’re amazing Tom , love you man 😃😃

Such an enjoyable video, your enthusiasm and dedication reminds me of me as a child watching Eurovision

I don't know what to do now it's all over. It has been a pleasure following this Eurovision with you. I discovered you this year, and you are the most insightful ESC youtuber I have come across. I look forward to tuning in to your videos next year!

You are really feeling the emotion Tom! Fair play :-)

4:21 LMAO that was epic

This is too entertaining 😂

Good man Tom Yout positivity is fantastic and your love for the contestants should be replicated by all and sundry. Bravo Mr D! 👏👏👏

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

haha by the time we get to the end of the contest, all the entrants kind of turn into family 😂

@johnmoynahan874

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom agree. Was so moved by the love the crowd gave Ronela at the Wiwi Jam . She couldn't sing for about 10 mins, until the crowd stopped chanting her name. It was emotional just to see what the support meant to her

I adore your enthusiasm Tom. Now, give yourself a well earned rest 😉

I was hoping for a little bit more love for the wolves on both sides of the points (they were 11th in a few juries actually when I checked), but I'm not surprised and very happy with the top 10 result! (Jurors, stop being biased towards ballads and big vocals mainly, for real!) Anyways, big congrats to Ukraine! I'm very happy with the winner. Also big congrats to both UK and Spain in particular, for how they turned disappointment in the last few years around to this. So deserved they both got top 3.

@kiekendiefje

2 жыл бұрын

Do you know where I can find the points given by every single jurymember?

Just another thought re Germany and Switzerland. 25 songs, but the juries and televotes can only award points to 10 of them. There's that thing in the community in that it's the songs that don't really get talked about will always do the worst, rather than the divisive entries that will get top scores and bottom scores. I'm guessing Malik was like mid-table for everyone, but not achieving a single top 10 just did him down. He could have been 11th or 12th out of 25 in every single vote but not got a single point, whereas divisive songs that many people really disliked scored higher. Does the current voting system need to be addressed?

I think this is Spain best result since 1996 - Quelve Comigo and the UK's since 1998 - Where Are I?

Congrats for 6 points.

😂😍

Eeee, thanks from Ukraine 🥰

Monika Liu really didnt get that from "the diaspora coming through" just look at the breakdown for the televote i voted for her 15 times and last time i checked i wasnt lithuanian

kiki so beautiful

Could you have picked a worse time to mention that manifestation tweet LOL :P

Australia deserved more than 2 points and France too. I still think it was a pity win but , it is what it is

@markmd9

2 жыл бұрын

This year the public wasn't keen to ballads

@noway5347

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!

@80PercentScottish

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like all the ones I voted for didn't get many televote points 😅. France, Australia, Iceland, Netherlands, Czechia and Greece. Did I curse them? 😭

I would like to know the calculation & conversion formula; I think the EBU needs to be more transparent on this. What constitutes 6 points? What constitutes 226 points? How many phone calls does it take to earn 1 point?

@ESCTom

Жыл бұрын

It's just a simple ranking list done by the greatest quantity of televotes. So the country with the most televoting in Ireland, for example, gets 12 points, second place gets 10 points etc. then all the points that the country scored from all televoting in all countries has added together for their combined Televote score, which is what is announced. All the results are available after the show so the whole thing is quite transparent

@esclad

Жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom Thanks i'll check it out :)

You are amazing at predicting the points! I do wish they would do away with announcing all the points - it's just too agonizing to watch people cope with zero (or almost zero) points with cameras in their faces...sure would make for a shorter show!

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

Yea i agree about showing closeups of people getting 0/1/2/3 points. They need to sit down and think of a way to skip over that somehow. I don’t know a solution off the top of my head but even just not cutting to them would help

@nian60

2 жыл бұрын

I agree, I wish they wouldn't film those who get bad scores.

@Censz

2 жыл бұрын

No it's part of the fun sorry not sorry

@mililkim

2 жыл бұрын

The contestants who get low points surely feel bad but I'm not sure if they would be happy about cutting them out entirely. I think it seems a little rude to just ignore them after their points are announced. But it's quite brutal either way.

@Rafaelinux

2 жыл бұрын

@@mililkim You can't just ignore someone representing their country who put effort for months and not show them...

Max points possibly is 468 pts so Ukraine were really close.

What happened? EBU stepped in, cut the Romanian jury's transmission off and swapped their 12 points which were meant for Moldova Republic awarding them to Ukraine by default. Humiliating the Romanian presenter and the jury in the process. We all need to show support to Ukraine but this is an absolute joke. BTW, that happened to 6 countries also.

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

I still don’t know. They haven’t really been forthcoming with information about it, so I’m waiting until they make an announcement about it

Some takeaways: slow songs really underperformed this final in particular. The Netherlands was 2nd in their semifinal, and this time they ended up below Greece, Portugal, Norway and Moldova. Australia and Azerbaijan received terrible scores, for some of the best vocalists in the final. Australia was 2nd in their semifinal, and this time they ended up below Serbia, Estonia and Poland. I think for both it also had to do with running order, being sandwiched between favorites. Running order also killed Czech Republic and perhaps France, I expected more of those countries. Glad Ukraine won! I agreed with all your points in the "Who will win Eurovision?" video. Afterwards some people again showed their worst side (some of the worst messages I saw said "next year's Eurovision will be held in Moscow", being disappointed is not an excuse for behaving like a horrible person). Luckily most people were good sports and were happy for Ukraine, including many residents/fans of the UK and Spain! Those countries should be immensely proud of how far they've come. They were almost considered lost causes and they did so well. I hope they can keep up this momentum to work on a true Eurovision renaissance and hopefully in a few years they'll be lifting the trophy. Anyway, congratulations Ukraine on a very deserved victory 🇺🇦 Before the points for Ukraine were revealed I told myself "if it starts with 4 they will win" and that's exactly what happened :) Also thanks for all your coverage Tom! Enjoyed watching your videos throughout!

@yuriinikitiuk4883

2 жыл бұрын

"next year's Eurovision will be held in Moscow" is not a bad comment, assuming that will be Ukrainian territory by next year

Tom, is your channel active daily, or we are going to see you again in 1 year in eurovision 2023? If that is the case, we are going to miss you so much

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks applepie 🥰. definitely not daily anymore as it takes up a huge amount of time, and my work suffers so I need to catch up with that. But I’ll be looking to keep up something weekly/monthly whether it be reviewing old entries or doing a live stream. I’m open to any ideas 💡

@applepie9028

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom Yea, that would be awesome....you can always do a live stream of reacting to the old legendary eurovision songs and see how you feel about them today!!!! Stay safe

Do you think the running order had something to do with Australia and The Netherlands, being 2nd in their semi-finals, not getting the points they deserved?

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

australia, not so much. i think that it was a song that was always going to do better with the jury. im not sure why it dropped so much though, cos they got 70+ in the semis. Netherlands, yea i think being between spain and ukraine was really tough. the only alternative was putting her super early like 3rd in running order. the split of the songs in the 2 halfs was really bad this year, the producers had a nightmare

@kiekendiefje

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom Thanks Tom! Appreciate your insight :D

@Hrn250

2 жыл бұрын

They deserved more . But you can’t always get what you want….

Congratulations to UKRAINE!! But I was like you on the night screaming at the TV... REALLY FROM THE START OF THE JURY VOTING (THE FIRST ROUND OF VOTING) THE UK LEAD!! AS YOU WILL ALREADY KNOW BUT IF UKRAINE HAD NOT HAVE RECEIVED THE 400+ VOTES FROM THE PUBLIC... THE UNITED KINGDOM WOULD HAVE WON.. I ENJOYED THE WHOLE SHOW!!! BUT MY HEART WAS WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM.. OUR GUY HAD A FANTASTIC VOICE AND YES THE SONG WAS EXCELLENT!! .. I HAVE LISTENED TO YOUR VIDEOS.. AND I HAVE ENJOYED WATCHING... YOU WERE GREAT TOO!!👍👊🍻🇬🇧 YOUR REVIEWS I AGREED. errr WELL I LOVED WATCHING YOU!! I HOPE YOU CONTINUE WITH MORE.. OHHH MY SECOND FAVOURITE SONG WAS SWEDEN'S.. SHE HAD A LOVELY VOICE TOO.. WE NOW HAVE TO WAIT TILL NEXT YEAR... CAN WE DO THE SAME? B4 I FINISH...I LOVE EUROVISION AND YOUR REVIEWS... MY OTHER FAV PROGRAMME IS DOCTOR WHO!

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

yea i really want the UK to back this up next year to show that theyve turned a corner and this wasnt just a lucky year

I felt so bad for Azerbaijan and Australia but I was so elated that they placed below Lithuania Eesti

I'm very sad because I didn't vote correctly. I voted more politically than musically, that's my opinion.🙂

It‘s all your fault. You clearly cursed Marius with the 0 points. 😂

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

I know!!! 😭😭

@joebogle3172

11 ай бұрын

Marius Bear should have Taken his Shoes and Socks off before His Perfomance like he Usually does. Appartantly it is Lucky to be Barefoot Worked For: Loreen Emille De Forrest Dima Sandi Shaw Cornella Yacobs AWS Pasha

great political robbery

I could feel my heart break when France got eight points… They were my second place, so I rooted for them since my favorite had already NQed. Hearing this was…rough. Their performance wasn't the best and they were early in the running order, but they at least deserved mid table. This televoting sequence kind of left a bad taste in my mouth, so many countries just died for Ukraineʼs 439 points, they deserved so much more. It's a miracle the countries I voted for apart from France - Romania, Poland and Estonia - got out of this relatively unscathed. I'm really happy for Spain and the UK, even though I'm not a big fan of their songs. Maybe we'll join them next year, but I have doubts…

@Scheherasad

2 жыл бұрын

I find your wording " so many countries just died for Ukraineʼs 439 points" insensitive especially considering that Kalush Orchester is since today on the war front again. Who knows what will happen to them in the next months. My favorite was UK and I still think that Sam would have deserved to win but I understand that people wanted to show their support and in such times the heart has to speak.

@user-yr6nt2zh9i

2 жыл бұрын

I just burst into tears when Switzerland have 0 points. This song was so warm and well sung. The pause was so long so I thought it would be at least 90 😿

Deban at ESC United fails again - I don't like Moldova so they won't qualify, news flash not everyone shares your choice.

I dont get why you keep saying the diaspora reached hard. Its genuinely a great song even if you don't speak Lithuanian her charisma and beautiful singing and just the whole package sold it to me and many of my friends I don't think there is a diaspora ato give the blame I think its her talen.

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

there is a quite clearly a pattern in lithuania receiving high televote points from norway, ireland & uk, which are also all countries that have lithuanian diaspora in them. look it up if you dont believe me. i have literally repeatedly said in dozens of my videos that i think she is incredibly talented.

Why do you think belgium got all the points from the netherlands? If the song is not good, we don't vote. Most people in the netherlands are brutally honest. Belgium was not good.

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

4 of the those 5 points came from netherlands

@dianakuipers3765

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom Oke. Didn't know that. Sorry. They must have liked it.👍🏻 I voted for moldova, azerbaijan, zwitserland, norway and the UK. A lot of good songs this year. I really didn't like Serbia and Italy.

@bartswinnen341

2 жыл бұрын

LOL. I was also surprised the netherlands gave the wallone entre point. Your presentor hated our song. We are also generous with point for each other when the song is ok. If it is bad we give 0 just like you do.

@dv2483

2 жыл бұрын

4 from Netherlands, 1 from Moldova :D. I was disappointed that the RTBF jury didn't give anything to the Netherlands... S10 was great

@mattiasp6554

2 жыл бұрын

Belgian People living in NL voting for themselves?

The hilarity of seeing you get sweatier and sweatier as the voting went on 🤣 I live for your reactions! My nephews and nieces were pissing themselves at my reactions to the votes 🤣 They totally lost their heads at the UK coming 2nd however. For kids so young, they were so happy at Ukraine winning and they loved that Spain finished so high. We had our own scoring system here. Marks out of 10 for the song, marks out of 10 for performance and staging. This is what they came up with when I added all three of their scores together. Favourite song 25th - Azerbaijan 24th - Italy (Soldi was their favourite the other year so they were dissapointed!) 23rd - Australia 22nd - Greece 21st - Belgium 20th - Germany 19th - Serbia 18th - Lithuania 17th - Netherlands 16th - Iceland 15th - Switzerland 14th - Portugal 13th - Armenia 12th - Finland 11th - Sweden 10th - Poland 9th - Moldova 8th - Estonia 7th - Norway 6th - Romania 5th - Czech Republic 4th - France 3rd - Spain 2nd - Ukraine 1st - UK. Favourite Staging: 25th - Azerbaijan 24th - Switzerland 23rd - Germany 22nd - Iceland 21st - Netherlands 20th - Belgium 19th - Lithuania 18th - Poland 17th - Sweden 16th - Australia 15th - Armenia 14th - Greece 13th - Serbia 12th - Italy 11th - Portugal 10th - Romania 9th - Estonia 8th - Finland 7th - Moldova 6th - France 5th - Czech Republic 4th - Norway 3rd - Spain 2nd - UK 1st - Ukraine (They clearly don't rate Sacha Jean-Baptiste 🤣) Overall ranking: 25th - Azerbaijan 24th - Germany 23rd - Belgium 22nd - Australia 21st - Greece 20th - Italy 19th - The Netherlands 18th - Iceland 17th - Lithuania 16th - Switzerland 15th - Serbia 14th - Poland 13th - Armenia 12th - Sweden 11th - Portugal 10th - Estonia 9th - Finland 8th - Romania 7th - Moldova 6th - France 5th - Norway 4th - Czech Republic 3rd - Spain 2nd - Ukraine 1st - UK (not biased, honestly 😂)

@ESCTom

2 жыл бұрын

omg i remember your nieces and nephews from last year 😂 thats actually really lovely that they were happy about Ukraine being high, and not sad about UK being so close. I guess it was such a novelty from them to be able to cheer for the UK for once. I have really fond memories of Ireland winning in the 90s, like i remember where i was for each one. but i also totally took it for granted cos we won 4 times and i was 6 years old for the first one, so i just thought we were meant to win every year 😂 haha i love those rankings. back when i was a semi hardcore fan, i used to love doing the scoresheets w friends or family 😍. they put france so high

@AmaanStorm

2 жыл бұрын

@@ESCTom well we've learned one thing, and that is that they're a sympathetic but biased bunch who have a pathological hatred for anything Sacha Jean-Baptiste 😂 I only have two memories of Ireland winning, but i can remember Eimear Quinn (I've absolutely ruined the spelling of her name haven't I?!) Like it was yesterday. I was literally over the moon but at the same time gutted because I much preferred Gina G's song! I hope, like you, they'll remember the night when Sam Ryder landed a silver medal position at Eurovision and I hope it stays special for them too!