Eurovision 2016

Glen_Quagmire

CorkColin wrote:

Am I the only one to not believe that song won it ?? Australia were 1/33 In play at one stage and all !

1/50 I seen them at

twirlagig

Bulgaria 4th .... backed them at 80/1 for €4 e/w.... do I win anything? ??

Rjd2

The state of some of the posts writing off Ukraine here, clowns. :pac:

(I know, I know:o)

Starscream25

This new voting thing renders any background checks and what's happening in the media almost irrelevant now, so let me get this right, half the votes are going to a bunch of lads in a room who decided what the best song is, so .0000000000000001% of the population have 50% impact on the overall result? Please tell me I'm wrong.

Glen_Quagmire

The eurovision is 90% politics 10% music

hmmm

Starscream25 wrote: »

This new voting thing renders any background checks and what's happening in the media almost irrelevant now, so let me get this right, half the votes are going to a bunch of lads in a room who decided what the best song is, so .0000000000000001% of the population have 50% impact on the overall result? Please tell me I'm wrong.

Apparently they are "professional juries". Which is how the UK jury gave Georgia 12 points. FFS I don't know how to bet on this in future, you might as well toss a coin.

mailburner

Thought it was same as other years which would have been great

Starscream25

hmmm wrote: »

Apparently they are "professional juries". Which is how the UK jury gave Georgia 12 points. FFS I don't know how to bet on this in future, you might as well toss a coin.

There's no transparency there, as quagmire said, it's 90% politics, even tho Russia won the public vote. Oh well, Murphys law, such is life etc

So much for democracy

Arrow in the Knee

Glen_Quagmire wrote: »

How many places were the bookies paying out for?

1/5 odds 1,2,3,4 places

4068ac1elhodqr

Bulgaria was great e/w selection for the 4th place.
Shame it was won through politics and not music

Hope backers of Aussie & Ruska went e/w.

The other surprise was that Malta & Latvia didn't fair better,
Spain also, lot of books had latecomers Spain up at 3rd place about 4hrs ago
was 7/1 enhanced with W'Hill.

Deco99

Deco99 wrote: »

Whats the buzz on Bulgaria? I thought they were decent so 80/1 e/w? or What about 11/8 to beat out Serbia head to head?

I got 125/1 in boyles. Tell herself I have an edge when it comes to eurovision

Wasn't paddy power only paying out 1/2/3 places?

Deco99

Deco99 wrote: »

I got 125/1 in boyles. Tell herself I have an edge when it comes to eurovision

Do you know if paddy power are doing 1/2/3 or 1/2/3/4 places?

mansize

mailburner wrote: »

Layed ukraine top 4 and 5 at 1.58 and 1.32
Well worth the risk imo for a crap song

Ouch

Deco99

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Do you know if paddy power are doing 1/2/3 or 1/2/3/4 places?

Depends when you put it on. It was 4 in friday when I checked

kippy

Glen_Quagmire wrote: »

The eurovision is 90% politics 10% music

What do you mean by that?

superfurry1

What's really bad is the Jury don't even judge it on the night of the final madness

Glen_Quagmire

kippy wrote:

What do you mean by that?

Exactly what it says. The voting is based on European politics not music.

Deco99

How do I find out what places boyles were offering? Put it on friday.

mailburner

mansize wrote: »

Ouch

lost twice as much on russia

twirlagig

I got back €68 after backing Bulgaria e/w with €4. Should've put on more but how and ever... got a lovely Sunday lunch out of it anyway