A Beginners Guide to Eurovision, Part 3
In the last few years, the number of countries entering the Eurovision Song Contest has increased from around 20 to around 40. That’s too many for one live show on a Saturday night, so the Semi-Finals were introduced.
The host country automatically qualifies for the final, as do the ‘Big 4’ of the UK, France, Spain and Germany (who put up the lions share of money to finance Eurovision). How are the other twenty finalists selected?
That’s what today’s Beginners Guide to Eurovision is about.
Part four can be found here.
Sorry Ewan! Get a life. 300+ million idiots watch the Eurovision. There are no beginners anymore. Try writing just one post with 10 reasons why I should bother watching that crap for the first time in 20 years again. You might be able to come up with 10 reasons… but not one of them will persuade me or anyone else to watch that crap. Why not a blog post about which features an iPhone v3 of palm pre would make your day? way more interesting :p
Don, thanks for the comment, and yes I know there will be many that only know me from the technology front that may well agree with you on Eurovision. Thats fine (perhaps I should put a ‘click here to remove all mentions of one of the largest live TV events on the plantet?).
On the subject of beginners, I’d say there are many beginners out there. How about the people who haven’t watched it for 20 years and are expecting some twee presentation from a hall in Ireland; or the growing fanbase in Northern America watching online; or even those people that come here for tech and might like to try a Social/Web 2.0 way of covering large scale events that aren’t tech conferences?
Is there a difference between x million ‘idiots’ supporting something that makes them happy as opposed to x million ‘fans’ of a piece of technology that makes them happy?
Your expected service will resume on Monday May 18th, hopefully I’ll see you back then
:)