Since the competition began back in 1956, it has been several occasions when someone/something doing better or worse in the voting than you expected. With this thread, I hope that we can discuss all these things that has happen during the ESC-history, I can begin myself. (I started watching ESC back in 2001 so all shocks for me will be from then until now because I didn´t watch 1956-2000 in real time)
2001: When
won, I can tell you that my family looked like this 
. We thought either , or would take the prize. I still don´t like "Everybody"
2002: Same reactions in my home when another unexpected song won namely. It´s very obvious that they won because of the performance. In song quality, , , , and were much better
2003: This year, the biggest surprise for me was that and made top 10, I didn´t expected that before the contest, the same about the "nul points" for
2004: The only thing that shocked me this year was, I thought it would end up on the second half on the scoreboard but not next last. Otherwise a good year.
2005: I was very pissed off when qualified instead of this year T(). I was very happy though in the final when , and ended in top 5. I was the only one in my family that thought would get a good placing. Our song got a placing it deserved, I still think we should have sent Nanne Grönvall that year
2006: Personally, I thought could have had miss the final that year because I knew that Carola was very appreciated by the hardcore fans. I was pretty sure had qualified so when the last envelope opened by Sakis contained , I was very surprised 1. In the final I was pretty mad about coming 6th
2007: The year when two semis should have been introduced, 28 countries in one semi was too many in my opinion. I wasn´t surprised that and didn´t qualified, they simply were pretty bad live. In the sadness because of finishing in 18th place, I was still glad that managed top 5. My favourite entry from them to date.
2008: Just saying: Thanks to the jury who saved to the final. And big relief that stayed in the semi 
2009: I was almost sure that wouldn´t qualify with Malena Ernman. So I was a bit surprised when she made it. and were the biggest surprises for me in the final result.
2010: Even though I didn´t had "This is my life" as favourite in our national final, I still thought would qualify for the final at least. That feeling when the last digital envelope was opened and I saw that it was , I was really empty inside 
1
But the right song won in the final
Now, I look back at it with a smile, I´m pretty sure that this failure has played a big roll for the great results we have got from 2011 and onwards.
2011: I weren´t surprised at all that didn´t made the final. The song was very overhyped. I did expect that and would make it despite that the latter one was very bad so I was surprised when they missed. The moments before was announced as qualifier my face was: 
xshifty and then became 
.
In the final, I still don´t get that nailed the 2nd place ahead of us. One of the most boring songs that year xboring
2012: You maybe don´t expect me to write something about this year but I still think that and should have reached top 10. I was xwhat x??? about and reaching top 5
2013: 6th in the final?! 
. The lyrics and the message was ok but seriously, I judge that as a joke song and 6th place was way to high. 12-14th place would have been better. The same with , very overrated. Only two of my favorites made top 5, and
2014: I wonder, was it really any surprises this year, I wonder? I couldn´t find anyone at least in the combined results. If I look in the separate jury and televotes result, I can find many, 5th in televoting?! one of the reasons why the jury was brought back. Thank god they gave the song what it deserved. I was very pleased and happy that would have ended top 5 with only televoting . finishing 7th in the televotes was also a bit unexpected in a positive way
2001: When
won, I can tell you that my family looked like this . We thought either , or would take the prize. I still don´t like "Everybody"2002: Same reactions in my home when another unexpected song won namely
. It´s very obvious that they won because of the performance. In song quality, , , , and were much better2003: This year, the biggest surprise for me was that
and made top 10, I didn´t expected that before the contest, the same about the "nul points" for 2004: The only thing that shocked me this year was
, I thought it would end up on the second half on the scoreboard but not next last. Otherwise a good year.2005: I was very pissed off when
qualified instead of this year T(). I was very happy though in the final when , and ended in top 5. I was the only one in my family that thought would get a good placing. Our song got a placing it deserved, I still think we should have sent Nanne Grönvall that year2006: Personally, I thought
could have had miss the final that year because I knew that Carola was very appreciated by the hardcore fans. I was pretty sure had qualified so when the last envelope opened by Sakis contained , I was very surprised 1. In the final I was pretty mad about coming 6th2007: The year when two semis should have been introduced, 28 countries in one semi was too many in my opinion. I wasn´t surprised that
and didn´t qualified, they simply were pretty bad live. In the sadness because of finishing in 18th place, I was still glad that managed top 5. My favourite entry from them to date. 2008: Just saying: Thanks to the jury who saved
to the final. And big relief that stayed in the semi 2009: I was almost sure that
wouldn´t qualify with Malena Ernman. So I was a bit surprised when she made it. and were the biggest surprises for me in the final result. 2010: Even though I didn´t had "This is my life" as favourite in our national final, I still thought
would qualify for the final at least. That feeling when the last digital envelope was opened and I saw that it was , I was really empty inside 1 But the right song won in the final
Now, I look back at it with a smile, I´m pretty sure that this failure has played a big roll for the great results we have got from 2011 and onwards.
2011: I weren´t surprised at all that
didn´t made the final. The song was very overhyped. I did expect that and would make it despite that the latter one was very bad so I was surprised when they missed. The moments before was announced as qualifier my face was: xshifty and then became .In the final, I still don´t get that
nailed the 2nd place ahead of us. One of the most boring songs that year xboring2012: You maybe don´t expect me to write something about this year but I still think that
and should have reached top 10. I was xwhat x??? about and reaching top 52013:
6th in the final?! . The lyrics and the message was ok but seriously, I judge that as a joke song and 6th place was way to high. 12-14th place would have been better. The same with , very overrated. Only two of my favorites made top 5, and 2014: I wonder, was it really any surprises this year, I wonder? I couldn´t find anyone at least in the combined results. If I look in the separate jury and televotes result, I can find many,
5th in televoting?! one of the reasons why the jury was brought back. Thank god they gave the song what it deserved. I was very pleased and happy that would have ended top 5 with only televoting . finishing 7th in the televotes was also a bit unexpected in a positive way
It deserved even to win imo
and it was top 20? Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh
