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http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle3999488.ece
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"On the face of it, the old guard, the countries of western Europe, have indeed been squeezed out by bloc voting from eastern Europe.
Eurovision was intended to bring us all together, but instead it makes it manifestly clear how far apart we are, said Wogan.
Is there any evidence to support this controversial claim? Well, yes there is, according to Derek Gatherer, an aptly named academic who has been gathering together recent voting patterns in the contest for analysis.
Gatherer identified three blocs that account for about a third of all votes. The biggest is what he calls the Balkan bloc: 11 countries that include Turkey, Albania, various bits that used to be Yugoslavia, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria and Hungary. Next is the Eastern bloc of eight countries, including Russia, Poland and Ukraine. (Given the degree to which some of the countries within the Balkan and Eastern blocs hate each other, perhaps Eurovision does indeed break down barriers.)
The period since the mid-1990s has seen the emergence of large geographical voting blocs from previously small voting partnerships, Gatherer revealed in a paper pithily entitled Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest Simulation with Actual Results Reveals Shifting Patterns of Collusive Voting Alliances.
On at least two occasions the outcome of the contest has been crucially affected by voting blocs. The structure of these blocs implies that a handful of centrally placed countries have a higher probability of being future winners.
Although the eight Nordic and Baltic states form a so-called Viking Empire, there is no western European bloc for the UK to belong to. You will not find the Belgians voting for an Irish turkey.
But we dont really care about all that, do we? No, we want oddball Finns singing heavy metal, we want a couple of outfits that look like an explosion in a sequin factory. Like last year, we want transvestite singers from Ukraine singing in pidgin English: Hello, hello everybody! Me English dont understand! Lets speak dance!
But by last night it appeared that even Wogan had had enough and is contemplating withdrawing from the fray. What we have to decide is whether we want to do this again, he said. The western European participants have to decide if they want to take part in it again because their prospects are poor.
Additional reporting: Sara Dixon
Words fail ...
This years lyrical gems at the Eurovision contest included:
With a hii hii hoo and a hii hii hey!
Were hoisting the flag to be free
We will steal the show,
Jolly Rogers go We are wolves of the sea
Latvias entry, performed by Pirates of the Sea
El Chiki Chiki is a Reaggetton
Dance in Argentina, Serbia and Oregon
Give el Chiki-Chiki to that little sister
With el Chiki-Chiki Shes gonna like it mister!
Spains entry, performed by Rodolfo Chikilicuatre"
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