The new rules seem to have had the desired effect. Bigger and younger juiries lead to a jury result that was broadly in line with the audience. The new restrictions for the audience vote reducing the allowed number of votes per person and voting method from 20 to 10 mitigated Israel trying to game the system.
In general there was less of a willingness to put up with Israels shit. During the finale the broadcast didn't censor the booing like they did in the last two years. Yes the audience mics where turned down but they didn't use canned cheers and left the audio untouched during the results. Israel also tried to run their marketing playbook this year. But that shit got shut down by the EBU almost immediately. The EBU did not only issue a formal warning to the Israeli delegation, they also forwarded the ruling to all other member broadcasters. I don't think the EBU did enough but there is at least a concerted effort to not appear as if the EBU is giving Israel special treatment. So: baby steps?
Interestingly the jury vote for Israel doubled compared to last year from 60 to 123, the televote went down from 297 to 220. In the televote this year only 6 countries gave 12 points to Israel, last year it was 13 countries.
The booing was extreme during Israel's performance in the first semi-final, you could hear some people chanting "stop the war and genocide" or something like that for almost the entire performance, the booing during the final was tame in comparison.
Engagement in Eurovision is down this year everywhere I've seen. It's not just about Israel's participation, it's also about the EBU's sneaky way of avoiding making a decision on it. The winter meeting of the EBU was marked by them pulling a bait and switch on the national broadcasters during rules discussions.
Fuck this contest and it's support of genocide
When do the breakdown of the votes come out. Juries must be on crack.
https://eurovisionworld.com/eurovision/2026
It's been politicized forever
The only good thing is that Israel didn't win. Mossad will now investigate where their attempts to rig this had-been event failed.
Much less extreme voting for Israel in the televoting this year, still too many points.
The new rules seem to have had the desired effect. Bigger and younger juiries lead to a jury result that was broadly in line with the audience. The new restrictions for the audience vote reducing the allowed number of votes per person and voting method from 20 to 10 mitigated Israel trying to game the system.
In general there was less of a willingness to put up with Israels shit. During the finale the broadcast didn't censor the booing like they did in the last two years. Yes the audience mics where turned down but they didn't use canned cheers and left the audio untouched during the results. Israel also tried to run their marketing playbook this year. But that shit got shut down by the EBU almost immediately. The EBU did not only issue a formal warning to the Israeli delegation, they also forwarded the ruling to all other member broadcasters. I don't think the EBU did enough but there is at least a concerted effort to not appear as if the EBU is giving Israel special treatment. So: baby steps?
Interestingly the jury vote for Israel doubled compared to last year from 60 to 123, the televote went down from 297 to 220. In the televote this year only 6 countries gave 12 points to Israel, last year it was 13 countries.
The booing was extreme during Israel's performance in the first semi-final, you could hear some people chanting "stop the war and genocide" or something like that for almost the entire performance, the booing during the final was tame in comparison.
Pretty weak year in terms of songwriting, though some lf the singers were incredible (France and Ukraine, in particular).
We avoided the contest this year, but did listen to the songs. This was not a good year for the music at all.
you know lemmy is dead when eurovision gets 3 comments and 2 relate to israel
Engagement in Eurovision is down this year everywhere I've seen. It's not just about Israel's participation, it's also about the EBU's sneaky way of avoiding making a decision on it. The winter meeting of the EBU was marked by them pulling a bait and switch on the national broadcasters during rules discussions.
on reddit im seeing thousands of comments
Lemmy users generally don't like genocide. Which would explain it.
yeah this place is 90% about virtue signalling and 10% content that's for sure
Then leave?
that would make it 91% about virtue signalling and 9% content which is even worse
I don't agree with you but I wanted to say I'm joking about leaving.
They're obviously all waiting for Eurovision Song Contest Asia in November.