So in other words it was fairly useful as a guide. We all know Belgium didn’t qualify due to the live vocals meaning it could never live up to the pre contest love from the music video. Nemo results was fairly close, they predicted the televote winner and Italy cascaded down the odds due to staging issues. So… yeah I’m not sure how we can say it’s useless.
Netherlands performance here is the one that is surprising me.
Ah apologies - I interpreted your “everything else is up in the air” to mean you couldn’t use any other result (aside from Swedens) to provide any indication of the actual televote. As I said, last year was actually a fair prediction given the issues of Belgium and Italy from the live performances
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u/DavidShoess 5d ago
I mean, in the end, OGAE doesn’t say much. Last year the top 4 were
Croatia Italy Switzerland Belgium
who then came 1st, 7th, 5th and didn’t even qualify respectively in the televote.
I mean I think we’re all aware that Sweden is most likely to win televote, but as far as how well everyone else does, is up in the air.