A worldwide combined audience of 120 million and just over 10,000 tickets for Malmö Arena. Not everyone can make it to the Eurovision Song Contest, but spare a thought for Denis McEvoy. The tickets were booked, the hotel was waiting, and then his pesky romantic friends got in the way of the world’s favourite music contest.

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Eurovision is over (and there’s lots to discuss), and Eurovision is just beginning (only eleven months till we all meet again!). Time to pick up the pieces via the ESC Insight podcast , with music from Johnny Logan, and hosted by Ewan Spence.

Roy Delaney knows a musical apocalypse when he hears it. While the nineteenth place for Bonnie Tyler is an improvement over Englebert Humperdinck, it’s not enough for the Hacksaw. We gave him a blank sheet of paper and asked him who we should send next year…

While there will be many broadcasters more than happy with their results at this year’s Eurovision , there will be many more looking at the right hand side of the table and wondering what went wrong. For whatever reason, they zigged when they should have zagged. Let’s point out those wrong turnings and wonder what could have been in Malmö…

In this year’s post-Eurovision discussions, the scoring coming out of the new ranking system is featuring heavily. Why are we getting such diverse results from the combination of the jury and the televote? Can you really finish second in a televote and still score no points? John Egan crunches some numbers to find out.