Re: THE BIG TOURNAMENT 1956 - 2011 - VOTE NOW!
Group 39 Results
Again we did not have many voters in this round, just seventeen in total. This made for some very tight and close voting. Rose didn't alter her votes in time, so I couldn't count them.
The winner is Ukraine 2008, the runner up in 2008. Belgium 2006 is the runner up by just one point, even though the song did not even qualify back then. But was always considered a fan based song. We had the maximum gap between two songs, Germany 1956 and Switzerland 2011. Germany which was always rumoured to have come 2nd didn't make it through to the next round. Switzerland though which came last this year got the bronze for Group 39. Out of the three winners in this round both Dana and Udo managed to get through, where as Salome for Spain only managed 9th place. Udo however only just scraped in as he tied with Netherlands 2006 for 7th place. Last place was a draw on seven points and went to Denmark 1961 and UK 1978 one of the UK's worst placings, until the bad run in the 2000's.
The voting all in all was very scattered, this may be down to familiarity, as there was alot of songs from the 60's and 70's that many were not familiar with. Spanky gave the lowest 12 points to Monaco 1961, coming 18th. No one managed to get all their songs to qualify especially because eight got through this round, but lowyby and CPV4931 did get seven through.
Thanks for voting, see you for Group 40!
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