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The Netherlands' entry Joost Klein not rehearsing 'until further notice' over 'incident' (news.sky.com)

submitted 5 months ago by Deestan to c/eurovision

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[–] cosmicrookie 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There's a lot of censoring going on in Eurovision this year to try and make things look pretty..

Was it a few years back when they ignored several country votes and just replaced their votes with what they thought they should have votted?

https://eurovision.tv/mediacentre/release/ebu-statement-irregular-voting-2022

the ESC Executive Supervisor has the right to remove the votes concerned for allocating the ranks and to replace them with a substitute aggregated result calculated automatically to determine the final country result of these countries

[–] Korne127 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

when they ignored several country votes and just replaced their votes with what they thought they should have voted?

Several countries‘ juries made a deal with each other to exchange all the high points so that they all get a good placement. But this has been discovered so the jury points have been annulled.
I agree that the way they handle this wasn’t great, but it’s good that they are making sure the jury votes are real and not the result of corruption or weird deals (as some people sometimes claim).

[–] cosmicrookie 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its great that they caught it, but the just covered it up during the live broadcast and it only got attention the following day. If I remember correctly, they had "connection issues" when the representatives from those countries were to cast their points

[–] Korne127 5 points 5 months ago

Yep. That’s what I meant with "the way they handled it wasn’t great". I kind of can understand their motivation that it’s the easiest not to tell the countries they found out about it and just not letting them talk at all… but it’s unprofessional and not honest / open :/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Audience video during Israel’s song. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRwgE3td/