What we got right and wrong after hoping for top Eurovision 10 finish for UK’s Mae Muller

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What we got right and wrong after hoping for top Eurovision 10 finish for UK’s Mae Muller
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We may have been slightly off the mark with the winner but we knew Germany would be at the bottom of the points table 🖋️ SerinaSandhu1

predicted Finland would do very well on the night by landing fourth place, which turned out to be an understatement.iOf course, Eurovision is notoriously hard to predict so it’s only fair thatThough perhaps we should hang our heads in shame for our verdict on Italy. We predicted the country would come in a very lowly 23rd – even calling it a snore-fest! – but clearly Marco Mengoni’s “Due Vite” struck a chord with viewers and other countries. It came in fourth place.

We weren’t fans of Australia’s song “Promise” by Voyager either, and predicted it would do even worse and score 24th place – although we applauded Voyager for making it into the final after bidding to take part in Eurovision every year since 2015. Point scorers loved “Promise” though, propelling the tune to number nine with 151 points.would do on the big night.

But one thing we can be proud of is that the grand final in Liverpool was the most watched in history with an average of 9.9 million UK viewers. Clearly our predictions need some fine-tuning for next year but one thing is certain: unpredictability is the very essence of Eurovision.

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