I’d understand that if it happened in one maybe two countries, but this happened across multiple countries where most people don’t condone the actions of Isreal. I’m not going just believe that some kind of a perfect storm gave Isreal the most televotes.
People who oppose Israel’s participation didn’t watch and didn’t vote.
Why would people not watch? Do you think Israel has such a huge influence on people that they’d outright ignore watching the show? I would argue that’s not a factor because there were people in the arena who booed Israel. They paid money to see it live. I didn’t like Israel participating, I still watched it because Eurovision is not about Israel.
Even if they did vote, their votes were spread across dozens of other candidates.
That’s a roundabout way of saying you think Israel’s song was popular among people. I’m supposed to believe Netherlands, who just had a massive protest about Israel, gave maximum points to Israel? Norway, who is known to be pretty anti-Israel, gave almost max points to Israel? Same with France, UK etc. Countries that have polls showing the majority being against what Israel is doing turn around and give max (or close to max) points to Israel? How? Why?
My original wild prediction was that Hitech would take over Alpine F1 team in 2026 and Oakes puts Paul Aron in one seat and the other seat would’ve gone to the driver who did better this year, so probably Gasly. But I found it odd why they’d bring in Briatore if the team would go to Hitech. I guess I got my answer.
I have no idea what the plan is for Alpine now, except that Doohan is definitely getting kicked for Colapinto, Aron ain’t getting a seat and Gasly has a lifeline until Briatore finds someone more southern to replace him. I liked my original prediction more but there is a positive here. At least I have a team to hate-watch because I’m definitely not going to cheer for that old codger.
Looks like he barely got over 40 so I probably missed a few points somewhere because I had him at 38.
I’m not sure if I’m tallying up his points correctly but I don’t think he has the super license points to come in this year. He needs to finish F2 in the top 10 to meet the F1 requirements for next year.
Maybe you’re seriously overestimating the importance of your boycott?
2022 - 161 million views
2023 - 162 million views
2024 - 163 million views
Seems like your boycott has had no impact.