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Originally Posted by WizNicks
Every year I tell myself I will stop watching it. But every year I get tempted again to see how the east screws us over again. For example: Germany has 82 million inhabitants, that is the countries Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Moldova, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bulgaria combined. Each country can give 58 points in total, meaning 82 millions Germans can give 58 points and the same amount of people in the east can give 754 points to their neighbours or split up states gone independent. The math doesn't add up for the western fiananciers of this contest.
Well, most of the time the winner deserves to win, but only in a few cases for the right reasons.
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Well, when you look at those figures, yes, you can see the voting is daunting. whats also interesting, is that the top nations who provide the financial backing for the "competition" (and theyr'e the ones who automatically qualify because of it..which I don't nesessarily agree with, personally) are all ( I think ) Western (France, Germany, UK and somebody else). there's been talk in the papers that the UK might consider withdrawing, so we'll see what happens there.Wonder if the Eastern blocs would carry on then , if the West pulled the plug?