ESC United - Rehearsal and Live Show discussion megathread

[Sean]

It's time for the rehearsals to finally get underway for Eurovision 2024 at Malmö Arena! 37 countries will begin their preparations for this year's contest today, with over two weeks of coverage to come from the ESC United team on the ground!

The schedule for rehearsals is below (thank you Eurovisionworld! All times in CEST);

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You can check out Matt's pre-rehearsal live stream below in case you missed it;

DAY ONE

Eurovision 2024 Rehearsals - Day 1 Round-Up Live Stream

Join Matt and his team as they discuss the rehearsals of the day and answer your questions. The first dress rehearsal is closed to the press so we'll be here...

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Please also use this thread for any rehearsal coverage and discussion, including for jury shows, dress rehearsals and the live shows!​

 

[soulm8]

and THAT‘S supposee to be a prove that it happened? I thought that was a video?!?

I guess you buy proves only when you want to prove your point! Everything we get is taken from sources, you are not there, you can’t prove anything . In the world of AI even video can’t prove a thing.

 

[AlekS]

Oh, sis

 

[Andrin]

Apparently there is a crisis meeting with Ireland, Greece, and Switzerland. I was wrong. We should keep worrying.

 

[EscGeek]

It's not to late for another shitshow... *grabs popcorn*

As long as everybody returns home safe and sound i'm good

 

[Grinch]

Never ending soap opera.

 

[gingerale]

How can my dopamine levels ever recover after these two days?

 

[MAD20]

So to sum up:

- Netherlands dq'd.
- Crisis meeting with Ireland, Switzerland and Greece.
- Italy ¿sanctioned? because of Angelina's peace statement.

But the harassment from the Israeli delegation has not been investigated at all, even with videos circulating in social networks. Damn, it stinks soooooo much...

 

[SilentDawn]

 

[soulm8]

Apparently there is a crisis meeting with Ireland, Greece, and Switzerland. I was wrong. We should keep worrying.

They are all complaining of Israel. Let’s EBU maintain zero harassment policy .

 

[MopManMoss]

The EBU is never going to follow up in the mountain of evidence of Israeli journalist and fan press harassing fans, artists and their delegations are they

 

[AlekS]

Ireland demanded to ban Israel. The EBU refused.

 

[Andrin]

They are all complaining of Israel. Let’s EBU maintain zero harassment policy .

Well, they can just ban those people and let the artists perform

 

[Looren]

Ireland demanded to ban Israel. The EBU refused.

Do you have a source ?

 

[AlekS]

Norway appointed the new spokesperson.

 

[Grinch]

Alessandra withdrawing from announcing the jury votes makes me think jury gave 12 points to

 

[Wynnter]

https://eurovision.tv/vote

As a result of no participation from the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final the following will take effect:

All contestants keep their number in the official Running Order. There will be NO song in position number 5.

The jury results, received after Dress Rehearsal 2 on Friday 10 May have been recalculated so that the Netherlands will not receive any points. This is why all jury members have to rank all songs from 1 to 26.

For example if the Netherlands was ranked 9th by a national jury in a country the 10th ranked song is now ranked 9th and will receive 2 points and the former 11th ranked song is now 10th and gets 1 point.

No points will be awarded to the Netherlands from the viewing public.

Viewers in the Netherlands are still allowed to vote in the Grand Final and the Netherlands Jury result in still valid.

The EBU will inform all telecommunications partners that the Netherlands is no longer participating, and we will endeavor to block the lines for Song 5. We ask that no one attempts to vote for Song 5. Should anyone try to vote for song 5 their votes will not count but there is a possibly viewers may be charged.

The Netherlands will not appear on the scoreboard.

 

[gingerale]

Alessandra withdrawing from announcing the jury votes makes me think jury gave 12 points to

I don't think that.

 

[AlekS]

Do you have a source ?

I won't reveal it because it's our delegation.
Specifically, there were talks about KAN's bullying of Irish representative a few days ago.

Also RTE:https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/20...-thug-angry-at-israeli-eurovision-commentary/

 

[Lance Esgard]

Are we going to have a Serbia & Montenegro 2006 situation later tonight or will Dutch voters have to go through the Rest of the World vote?

In case you missed it, the official EBU statement had an update stating that the Netherlands can still vote (and still have a jury vote as well). They can give points but won't receive any.

 

[aef]

sorry that’s too far fetched for me. I dont believe a post here just because it fits my opinion.

Talking about the cheering thing: What kind of source do you want to have? It was posted on Twitter multiple times. I wasn’t there, I can’t give you a 100 % valid source. There was also that video of that Israeli harassing team members. And so on. To me the delegation with their appearance and behaviour seems totally behind their countries actions in the ongoing conflict and that’s just not something I want to tolerate. Or did you hear and critical comment from them?

Talking about the political context. It’s just not like with . They are defending their country while has got thousands of liters of blood on their hand, killing families and children mostly in Gaza. And in general their whole settlement policy… Look, it’s just that both sides in that conflict have to be taken into account, nobody is just a victim there. And talking about the normal civilians that just want to live in peace, you can find them on both sides.

And the most annoying thing is that western media and leaders are still mostly blind when it comes to and their behaviour.