Doing the Omoralisk Schlagerfestival '11 (3)

We came third? Huh, didn't see that coming. This just proves that last years lucky pick of Germany was just a one-shot thing. The funny thing is that we were in the lead halfway through. The reason? We probably had one of the more mediocre songs that appealed some, but not enough people to vote on us. Seeing as we didn't get any 12 points until the very end. You could also see that that was due to a schism between the balkan and former soviet blocks awarding high points to the neighbors, while the nordic block was divided and didn't stick together. And lastly, we probably lost a couple of points due to Ireland for being somewhat similar (at least every newspaper and eurovision-expert said they were similar, I don't know), for example maybe have been given 12 points from Denmark, but then again, can we really trust the danes?

Anyway, my other thought was shot down early enough, I had seen a Top 5 with Russia, a balkan country, a scandinavian country and 2 completely random countries... well not completely shot down, there was  2 scandinavian countries (Sweden and Denmark), 2 former soviet republics (Azerbaijan  and Ukraine) and Italy. Russia wasn't even in Top 10, but I should probably guess next years Top 5 and it will be a scandinavian country a former soviet republic, a balkan country and 2 completely random. Really, that is probably the best guess out there, taking into account the different voting blocks... it was true 2010 and 2006 with one of the blocks being more dominant in the years between that. I wonder if there is some statistical formula to pin-point the winner?

Well well, there is also another interesting idea that some has looked into that many winners are correlated with a certain political or economical phenomena, mentioned are Irelands economic upheaval in the 90's when they won 3 times in a row, Ukraine's victory in 2004 which followed with the Orange Revolution and Russia in 2008 who continued to win the world championship in Hockey and... ah... um... invade Georgia, maybe not so lucky for the georgians (I would present you with a link to the article, but they seem to have some technical difficulties to find it). So what can we expect from this? Wars? Revolutions? Miracles? Who knows, but it shall be interesting to see who wins 2012 since then we end the mayan calender in december. Speaking 2012, they already made a wikipedia page of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest with countries who already signed up... makes you sad, does it not?