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Eurovision 2008: Our votes

So if I reckon the UK on the whole can’t pick a winning Eurovision entry, how did our party do? We voted each song and performance on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 obviously being the best and 0 the worst. After collating them at the end of the night, these were our results. Shockingly the UK actually came third in our group, despite all my bitching, so we were well out on that one.

We did best in predicting the final positions for Serbia, Turkey, Israel and Albania, getting them exactly right. We were one spot out for both the Ukraine and Germany, in each instance liking them just a little more than the rest of Europe. Of the others we liked more than Europe, we were three positions out for Norway and Georgia, four for Poland, five for Denmark, Romania and Croatia, and well out for France, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and the UK.

Shockingly we somehow put the UK third. I still don’t know how as we all agreed that we didn’t actually like it.

Of the ones we disliked, we rated Bosnia & Herzegovina and Spain three positions lower than the rest of Europe, and everyone else - Greece, Portugal, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia - a lot lower than the rest of the continent (nine or more positions lower than they actually achieved).

So we didn’t do so bad, but again we weren’t brilliant. We pretty much got the second placed contestant right, but were shockingly off the mark when it came to spotting the winner.

Country Points Our
position
Actual
position
Ukraine 98 1 2
Norway 78 2 5
UK 71 3 25
Sweden 70 4 18
Iceland 69 5 14
Serbia 68 6 6
Turkey 65 7 7
Georgia 57 8 11
Israel 56 9 9
Denmark 56 10 15
France 54 11 19
Greece 46 12 3
Bosnia & Herzegovina 44 13 10
Finland 42 14 22
Romania 41 15 20
Croatia 41 16 21
Albania 39 17 17
Armenia 39 18 4
Spain 35 19 16
Poland 33 20 24
Azerbaijan 31 21 8
Germany 30 22 23
Portugal 29 23 13
Latvia 29 24 12
Russia 23 25 1

Or, to put that another way here’s how the positions we gave the finalists differed from their actual finishing places. The darker the background, the further out we were.

Country We rated it…
UK 22 positions higher
Sweden 14 positions higher
Iceland 9 positions higher
France 8 positions higher
Finland 8 positions higher
Denmark 5 positions higher
Romania 5 positions higher
Croatia 5 positions higher
Poland 4 positions higher
Norway 3 positions higher
Georgia 3 positions higher
Ukraine 1 position higher
Germany 1 position higher
Serbia We got this one right
Turkey We got this one right
Israel We got this one right
Albania We got this one right
Bosnia & Herzegovina 3 positions lower
Spain 3 positions lower
Greece 9 positions lower
Portugal 10 positions lower
Latvia 12 positions lower
Azerbaijan 13 positions lower
Armenia 14 positions lower
Russia 24 positions lower

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