#ESC2021: Eurovision Ireland reviewed…

By John Stanton on May 7, 2021 • ( Leave a comment )

Over several weeks, we at Eurovision Ireland reviewed the 39 songs participating in the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest. If you’ve not watched our shows, you can click on the links below. We would like to thank our guest reviewers, amongst them Big Daddy Karsten and the First Lady of Eurovision, Nicki French.

The Finalists (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom): HERE

Nordic Europe (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway,, Sweden): HERE

The East (Australia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel): HERE

Central Europe (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia): HERE

Eastern Europe (Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine): HERE

Balkan Europe (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, North Macedonia, Romania): HERE

The Rest of the West (Belgium, Ireland, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Switzerland): HERE

And how did we vote? The scores are out of 50, and if there’s a tie, we look at the highest score from a reviewer.

1	Malta	50	20	Cyprus	34
2	Ukraine	43	20	Czech Rep	34
2	Greece	43	22	Moldova	33
4	Azerbaijan	43	23	Romania	33
4	Lithuania	43	24	Finland	32
6	UK	42	25	Poland	32
6	Israel	42	26	Austria	32
8	Ireland	41	27	Sweden	31
9	Switzerland	40	27	Bulgaria	31
10	Norway	40	29	Albania	31
11	Italy	37	30	Serbia	30
12	Iceland	37	31	Belgium	30
13	Denmark	37	32	Slovenia	29
14	Netherlands	37	33	Portugal	29
15	Croatia	36	34	Spain	24
16	North Macedonia	36	35	Australia	21
17	San Marino	35	36	Latvia	18
18	France	35	37	Russia	14
19	Estonia	34	38	Georgia	13
			39	Germany	10

So here’s Eurovision Ireland’s winner!

If Eurovision Ireland had its way, our qualifiers for the Grand Final would be (in alphabetical order)…

Semi-Final 1		Semi-Final 2
Azerbaijan		Czech Rep
Croatia		Denmark
Cyprus		Estonia
Ireland		Finland
Israel		Greece
Lithuania		Iceland
Malta		Moldova
North Macedonia		Poland
Norway		San Marino
Ukraine		Switzerland