• Sorry I missed the fun this year. ;( I thought the show felt comparatively unspectacular (not necessarily a bad thing), but most performances were quite good. I was rooting for Australia to win, even though that wasn't my favourite song, but it would have been too cool to see the Aussies hold up the ESC trophy! I hope they'll get another chance to take part (and soon, not for the 100th anniversary or something like that)! So sorry to see Austria and Germany with nul points, their songs weren't that bad. My favourite was the Estonian entry, great song, and I loved those simple but efficient light-and-shadow effects! And I tend to agree, out of the top three, the Italian song was the best. But well done, Sweden, they're chasing the Irish record. ;)

  • According to the new info, if this had been public-only voting, Italy would've won (and Sweden would've been third). Interestingly, the jury quite loved Austria (placing it 13th), but the public didn't at all.