Eurovision 2023 Final Live Televote Results Reaction 

I love how positive you are, Tom. You’re one of the few who don’t disparage anyone/ any act.

Love that we can hear Matt from ESC United in the background. 🤣 It’s like a two for one review.

Loved your reaction to Käärijä's huge televote result 😂I have also seen ESCunited Matts's reaction for that, and it's funny how you can hear nearby him predicting that war is coming 😅

Your face when Finland was called was gold!

It’s so funny hearing Matt talking in the background😂

I soo wanted Kaarija to win ... The fact that Loreen was in it, pretty much meant that nobody else had a chance ... I thought Serbia would have done better , I really liked Luke Black

Your reaction to Finland's points lol :D

Spain getting 5 points from the televote has got to be one of the worst things about this year. How gracious she was in accepting it somehow only makes it worse.

There is a real danger here of the public eventually switching-off and saying to themselves "what's the point in voting" if the juries can crown their winner whilst overriding the public majority (who've all spent real money voting). After all, it doesn't cost the juries a penny to vote. With money being involved, maybe more sway should be given to the public in a 60/40 share. And Germany coming last is ridiculous but it exposes the juries for only having a limited palette in music. "Industry experts" they are not. I'm no fan of the song but I recognise talent recognise the genre and give credit where it's due in the marketplace.

“Let’s see if there’s peace or turmoil” little did you know…

thank you for your videos this eurovision season, tom! the analytical nature of your videos really makes eurovision more fun, you're like the voice of reason in the community. especially right now when it seems like everybody is just fighting over who the winner should've been. looking forward to the next season and your videos on it!

Nice how we could hear Matt from ESC united in the background. I love the idea of you all getting along and sharing the passion.

I love all the faces that you were making, probably how i looked as well during that Finland vs Sweden final numbers 🤣

People are pissed because the winner was already chosen on friday after the juryshow, before a single televote was cast. And not even the second biggest televote score in the history could change that.

I have loved watching your videos and thank you for defending our participation(Australia) in the competition. I hope we stay. I wish more of Europe understood that we have a HUGE European population here and SBS have the EBU partnership.

I've followed Eurovision for many years now and i've never seen people being this dissatisfied with the results. I don't think peolpe are displeased with Loreen winning, just sad that Käärijä didn't. Especially because this is a Jury win and people are getting a bit annoyed at this pseudo democracy voting system. I'm still going to be an avid eurovision fan, but I think i'm gonna have a bit of a break to calm my tits about this, because I see myself getting more and more irritated about how this all ended. With that said i'm proberly still gonna watch your videos😅

I felt so bad for you regarding Serbia! How was it THAT FAR down at the bottom, almost last?! It should have been in the top 20!

I don't think we should be mad if Kaariya didn't win, he will have great success regardless so let's just be happy for him, it's just a song contest after all. ❤❤❤ Anyway I am proud of Marco's result and my favorite Australia in top 10 could n't ask for more really.

Germany's poor result means that less and less people are interested in this show in this country. In the end it doesn't matter who we send to this show and what the performance is like. Obviously a country like Poland can send the most generic pop song ever and be rewarded with lots of points while we're always at the bottom of the table.

I still think that the jury's overwhelming drive for Loreen is quite weird. Objectively, Euphoria is a better song, so why the jurys ditched all other "jury bate" songs like Spain, and collectively chose Loreen and Loreen only? If we'd look into how many Spotify and Warner representatives were in the jury's, what would we find?

Thanks for all of your work throughout the Eurovision season Tom. I love getting your insights.

Sweden deserved to win but MY GOD I'm so grateful for Kaarija (Finland) for entertaining us with his amazing performance and off-stage persona. Without him Loreen would have landslided both jury and public vote. Even the split screen moment was so interesting to me; one side is calm and polished, the other manic and scruffy 🤣I gave Finland all my votes for the authenticity, what a performer 💚

I really didn't like the results. The jury vote was terrible, to much politics and a lot of the jury wanted Finland to lose. The public vote. People that are willing to vote, only vote for pop english songs or songs with crazy themes. Any other tipe of songs will recive low points from the public, especially balads, except for Italy for some reason. That beautiful song from Spain deserved better than five points, and germeny didn't deserved to be last place. I think there was a time i between 2016 and 2021 that any type of song could win, but now we are back to pop english songs and crazy songs being the only ones to recebe big points from the public. 123 points for Poland is a joke.

So sad for spain

oh, if only Alessandra hadn't done bad with the juries... This gives me flashbacks from Keiino. WHY YOU HATE US JURY?? Love from salty Norwegian. Also, happy for Loreen! (because that means I can just take the bus to the show next year?). Rooted for Käärijä with all my heart though. Gutted for Germany. At our eurovision party everyone had Finland as number 1 and Germany as number 2!

As a Finnish person and a Eurovision fan I must say that the competition failed us all this year. Käärijä was this year's moment, legend and the icon and his victory would have been the perfect Eurovision story. He had the charm of Alexander Rybak, crazyness of Lordi, and song of Netta - and yet before all this he was an unknown young man even in his own country. He was the full Eurovision package who would have brought joy to the Eurovision scene for years to come. I can't stand that this story was destroyed by people who want Eurovision victories to be radio friendly English pop music - this means every country should just order the song from Sweden (like Azerbaijan, Malta or Cyprus often do). This jury plot kills the originality of the competition - if you can't win after getting historically large amount of televotes, why would you even bother?! It hurts even more to see that the biggest robbery in ESC history was against my own country. Finland has won only one time and we would have taken the victory with over the top pride and excitement. Next years hosting would have been a huge pride. But now we'll see the 3th Swedish hosting in little over 10 years. Haven't we seen enough of that already?

These years results were so weird

I can see Belgium pulling off a win in the next few years. If you told me in February Gustaph would be 7th place I wouldn't believe you LMAO. Also I'm glad Ukraine broke their own curse by still doing great a year after winning

This was the least predictable top 10 ever. I guessed only Sweden, Finland, Australia and Czechia being top 10. I fully expected Spain Austria and France to get top 10 and then- Running order chose *chaos* this year

Australia - the difference between the semi, which they won easily with Australia's best ever televote result, and the 21 points in the final, is very strange. Best part, though, is the Voyager reaction. They thought it was hilarious! They were just having the best time, and a semi win and top 10 in the final is a brilliant result for them, that they are absolutely stoked with. They are just the BEST people.

Serbia deserved more points ❤️

Was waiting for this one!!

Turmoil it is, Tom. Utter turmoil.

I was sooooo gutted for Kaarija. In the public vote he got 12 points from EIGHTEEN countries, which is unbelievable...Loreen got 12 from 0 countries in the public vote...It just doesn't seem right. I think he deserved it more, personally.

we dont need jury in ESC 👎 Finland was the winner of people at home...if jury wants to have points, so they should keep ESC as private event without TV votes and without viewers then 😒

Thanks, Tom! I fell asleep during the jury votes, and missed the whole thing ( and my mom didn't wake me up for the public votes. 😠)

You seemed quite ok with Germany‘s 15 points public vote…. 😂 At Eurovision it’s just like that: As a German you have low expectations and still get disappointed. The only thing we can change is having no expectations at all.

As a Finn, this was *most definitely* both the most exciting & also the most stressful voting sequence ever in Eurovision history!!! I will never, ever forget it. I almost couldn't bear to watch 😮 Like you at 10:22 I was covering my face and head at the end, like "this is too much"... 😅 Until then everything was going so well & right, but that was such a crushing anticlimax... (It's even almost painful to see how you can be so calm watching this, and in such sterile environment, when we were all in living rooms with dim lighting, drinks etc. 😅) People had said before the final that Finland needs to be at least 4-5th in jury votes to have a chance to win; we were 4th, which I was really happy about, and yet it still wasn't enough... Because juries had given Sweden such an unbeatable lead that no one on this planet could ever overtake :( But I'm still happy that I got to experience all this, even if the ending was so unjust! 🥲

i love how everyone wanted Finland to win this year

3:17 BAHAHAHAHA the best reaction

Apart from the situation with the juries, the second shocker for me this year was learning that almost no other country apart from Finland (I think the other one was Estonia?) shows translated lyrics as subtitles for every song performed in a foreign language (when watching via the national broadcaster). As someone who grew up watching Eurovision and became accustomed to understanding what each singer is singing about, it's so hard to believe! How is it supposed to be a fair competition when the only way to understand lyrics in foreign languages is to check them separately? You just get punished for using any other language than English. Also it would allow people with hearing problems to enjoy the show better. I hope EBU at least offers official translations on their website or something... How have they not figured this out yet? I'm baffled. It would obviously cost some, but it would be worth it a million times.

Let's goooo

And people say they want the jury gone! 😅😂

I initially felt crushed by some of the low scores, but yea this breakdown makes me feel way better about it. I've seen a lot of people say there shouldn't be a jury vote but with out that it would be a very interesting race for last place with a few of my favourites

The nordic fans broke your mic 3 times in 12 minutes. 👏

Thanks Tom for all the great videos again this year, I do love that you always remain balanced although I have to say that this year I don’t feel that way myself. Never felt so miserable and deflated after Eurovision even if the winner wasn’t a song I liked. Might have to give it a miss next year as seeing so much injustice really has got to me this time. Can’t help wishing we could ditch the bookmakers and juries and just enjoy the music without all the pressure.

I think I'd prefer next year's ESC to be just a little less intense. I feel I'm still a little emotionally hungover from all of this, but it was a great year. Did I hope, deep inside, to get the show at my doorstep next year? Yes, mainly to get a chance to see this madness live, for once. But maybe, we'll celebrate in Tampere 2025? This time, we're celebrating Loreen, and let's not dim the shine of her crown with any more bad feelings. It was crazy, it was party, and this year is stuck kn our memories like a tattoo fir many years to come. I loved following your Eurovision commentary. You showed us all that having favourites doesn't mean hating on the other contestants. Everyone who takes part in Eurovision is already a winner. 💚💚💚

@7:33 - @7:38 😀 Loved that reaction!

It was at this point Sweden had already won - thx to the jury

Have you noticed the interesting trend for winners over the years? 2015 was a kind of pop style up-tempo anthem, 2016 was an Avant-garde ethnic infused emotional song, 2017 was very slowed down, a ballad very emotionally performed as well. 2018 brought us Toy, with an up-tempo bubblegum pop sound to it. 2019 slowed down again with sort of an anthemic quality to it. 2021 we got a Rock song winner, 2022 was more ethnic infused folk, and now in 2023 we have a beautiful pop song once again. Given the trend, I would imagine next year's winner will likely not be a pop song. Perhaps if Ireland were to go back to their roots and bring in some Celtic music, they'd stand a great chance in the running. I'd also love to see the UK experiment with a more Scottish (bagpipes) and/or Wales driven song. Maybe it'll be the year a Country or even a Jazz song might do well. The different genres winning from year to year as of late, has really been of interest to me. I'm also super excited that Canada is supposed to be coming in as well (rumoured anyways) as I'm Canadian myself lol. Anyways, thank you for your coverage! I really enjoy your videos man! I'm so excited Loreen won this year, and I'm happy she and Kaarija are friends (though really, they are friendly with everyone in the competition it seems, and that's wonderful.) It looked like you had an amazing time at the live event this year, and I hope someday I'll be able to go myself.

How do u think they would do a 60/40 system? maybe If every country sent 15-1 points to their respective top 15, then the jury still does their top 10 with the classic 12 points. Would this work?

I’ve been following Eurovision since 2008 and never has there been a more bizarre voting sequence than this year. I can usually predict how well certain countries will do, but this year was just quite odd. Estonia, Belgium, Australia, Lithuania and Cyprus all in the top 12 surprised me quite a bit. Spain, France and Austria were absolutely robbed. Also, all of my bottom 3 (Poland, Albania and Croatia) came top 10 with the televote, that has also never happened to me. Still, at least I’m quite happy with the top 2 since I had Sweden and Finland both there. Loreen deserved to win and is an absolute Eurovision legend. Her voice, performance and emotions are really next level. Sad for Finland as this was their only realistic chance at winning since 2006, but Kaarija’s vocals were just too weak. He did well with the juries (came top 4 like I predicted), but overall, 2nd place is really amazing for Finland. I’m looking forward to next year 🥰

Abbavision, here we come. I'm probably not going to tune in, though. This was bullshit.

I voted for Albania and I don't have an Albanian bone in my body lol (I also voted for the UK, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Finland of course, Ukraine cuz I was with a Ukrainian friend, Israel, Belgium, and Australia, maybe a few more I'm forgetting. Where'd some of THOSE votes go lol)

7:57 Auto translate says " If Lane wins its because she did buy a little Nutella boat so its win-win either 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Watching the points being handed out was nerve-racking. I really like "Cha Cha Cha" and I will listen to it many times in the future, but I also love "Tattoo" and as a swede I naturally wanted Loreen to win. Make her a two time winner, get us the 7th win to tie with Ireland and bring ESC to Sweden where I hopefully will get to see it for the first time. And apart from the top 2 battle, it was also interesting to see that there were a few surprises this year. I never saw the appeal of Spains entry, but based on the odds and how people have talked about it I expected a top 10 finish atleast, maybe top 5. Same with France - a song that I really liked, but it wasn't as good in the final. Also nice to see Belgium finishing so high. I wasn't sure if it would do well. Surprised that Germany ended up in 25th though. I thought it would be atleast top 20.

6:25 - 7:00 Interesting how Australia won the semi (so therefore won the televote in SF2) and Estonia got 10th in the semi but in the grand final, Estonia got more televotes than Australia. So much to analyse here, did the running order in the semi with Estonia being 4th and Australia closing the semi have a huge impact? (Especially considering Australia won the televote and then did poorly with the televote in the final). Did more people vote for Estonia in the semi assuming that without juries Estonia might NQ? (Surely with jury Alika would have finished top 3 with juries at least so she would be through regardless of televote score, but since it was televote only perhaps more people showed up to vote for her?)

If Germany wins soon, when they host so many people would tune in since they have 86M population?

just a thought. why couldn’t irish just send an authentic irish song and then have a river dance dance break. we’d slay the day away. even just have a modern touch to an irish dance thing and we’d literally get so much love for it

I don't see why the Greek Jury shouldn't give Cyprus douze points, if they like the song. It was a good song. Why give it to someone else, whose song they like less, just becos 'someone may have had a word'.

Tom, what would happen in the very unlikely event of a tie? Cheers

I was really fuious that juries did not gave the rophy to Finland

Finally.

The thing that has sort of started to irk me a bit is the fact that this has to be a competition with one winner. I don't like that the songs have to be ranked and some even publicly humiliated with low scores. What if we had multiple prizes to give like in award shows and the hosting country could be chosen through other means? We could have a draw between those willing to host or then we could just go through every willing country in a random order. Idk, this current situation just makes me feel bad every year.

I can hear Matt from ESC Younited lol

I think the power of creating the running order is still very unfair. In my oppinion they should go like in the NFL thet the worst the year before get the best spot and the best ones get the worst. Would give an advantage to weaker countries and make the whole thing fairer.

The fact that Germany came last is disgusting, and Australia also got too few points. They were both so good! The UK finishing low is less surprising, it just wasn't a good performance.

Spewin'.

How does the televoting work? I mean where are the votes coming from? Is it from viewers? From all over the world including Europe or excluding?

voting results is always my least favorite part of eurovision

I feel it boils down to this: Put Kaarija and Loreen in separate years and I dont think you have all the bitching and moaning.

Impressive that they managed to deliver a nail-biter despite Sweden being the clear favourite to win and Käärijä smashing the televote as expected. I'm actually really happy for Loreen. I've watched her winner's reprise a LOT. I cheered when Norway got their televote! ALMOST makes up for snubbing Spain. haha.

Zasto se Srbija plasira tako lose po tebi 😢

I wanted Finland to win but I accept Sweden takes the prize. Germany deserved last place; their entry was crap. Ditto for Spain. Eaea was my 37th song too.

Sweden deserve to win .best good song 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

Svicarska😡👎😬