When it comes to Eurovision, wiwibloggs is as excited as Scrat from Ice Age for a hazelnut.
Our excitement bubble burst though when we got some exclusive news from Montenegro’s delegation.
Sabrija Vulic, Montenegro’s Eurovision and Junior Eurovision Head of Delegation, told wiwibloggs that Montenegro’s participation “will strongly depend on the decision of the Reference group, who annulled votes of the Montenegrin jury votes in the final.”
Vulic elaborated:
“We sent an official letter to the reference group with more questions, among them a plea to explain on what basis five people can’t have similar views and on what basis did they conclude that the regularity of the voting of our jury was incorrect.”
“We played fair, but because of someone’s whim, we’re paying the price. The damage is already done, as the regional media is talking more of annulment of the jury votes, rather than of Knez’s success. That is why our participation is still questionable.”
As you can see from this exclusive statement, RTCG is not happy with the Reference Group’s decision. We hope the things will sort out for everyone’s good, and that Knez’s successor will be present in Sweden.
Knez achieved Montenegro’s best result in the history of the contest, qualifying ninth from Semi-Final 2 and finishing 13th in the final with 44 points.
wiwibloggs hopes Montenegro and the Reference Group can work toward a solution and we can see them in Sweden in 2016!
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If you have corruption is YOUR problem Montenegro, don’t blame Eurovision. Fair play, PLEASE.
Hope to see u in 2016
@ PhysalisFranchetti
It was published on one of Macedonian news portal, can’t find the link right now. Nothing else was written there. But as I said, that’s just a rumour. Montenegro jury points are not fake, that’s for sure…
Oh no. Montenegro was the saving grace this year and Adio was one of my favs this year. They’ve been doing much better these years, keep it up!
@Deniz: Aye! Knez’ “Adio” was one of my top 5 picks to win it all. We can’t afford to lose them, now that they have the formula for possibly scoring a top-10 finish.
You cheat, you deal with the consequences. It’s too easy to cry afterwards, and I certainly won’t shed a tear if Montenegro is excluded (although the first cheaters to be excluded should be Azerbaijan).
@zoharica
Thank you for the info about FYRMac – can I ask where you got that information from? I was keen to find out what form the vote fixing had taken – the obvious or the more subtle varieties. From what you say though, they practised the obvious variety.
@PhysalisFranchetti
Unfortunately, no.
Apparently, all FYR Macedonia jurors had Serbia 1st, Montenegro 2nd, Slovenia 3rd and Albania last.
@zoharica
You don’t happen to know if anyone has a copy of FYRMac’s jury votes for 2015 do you? I would be very interested in seeing those too. Thanx.
@David Thielen
Montenegro jury results are real, someone screenshotted them before they were removed from eurovision.tv. The table was posted on one Eurovision website only few hours after the final.
http://portalanalitika.me/clanak/188138/arhiv
And here you can see their jury top 10 (left column), Ivan Maksimovic from RTCG published them on his Facebook account. They match.
He should had posted whole rankings with details, but we can see why he didn’t…
And I agree, Azerbaijani jury results are also suspicious and EBU should have done the same thing as with Montenegro and Macedonia.
I hope that the problem will be solved soon.. Like Georgia last year.
Our world just said *Adio* to the famous briliant soundtrack composer of ‘Titanic’ Mr. James Horner… He just died in a plane crash sadly..
His soundtracks were the best…His GreAtY music will BE missed..
Tragic news..
We just do not know how much time we have to live in this world because we say adio once and 4ever….Just appreciate life even if its hard and just live 4 now….Might there is no tomorrow 4 anyone of us..
Just live our lifes to the maximum we can get like armageddon is coming to us the very next day..
What Montenegro did wrong (probably Macedonia too) is that the jurors did not check each others results to avoid giving the exact same place to a certain country.
Azerbaijan for example did that and was ok, others too. The trick is 3-4 jurors order a country around the place it should be and 1-2 remaining ones go a little wilder with its placing. Preferably not the same jurors respect the order and not the same go a little wilder.
Please stay Crna Gora! You have a good formula and it would be a shame to leave especially now!
@khm – can you prove that is the actual Montenegro jury vote?
Adio was so glam, I would love them to stay and do even better <3
Everyone is taking everything far too seriously. Losing Montenegro would be terrible for the contest as they do bring some special songs to the table.
Jury in Azerbaijan voted in a very similar way this year, too. The EBU should have taken a look.
The first and the second juror ranked both Azerbaijan 4th in the semi, and then 24th and 22nd in the final. The similar happened with Norway: the first juror ranks them 5th in final, the fourth juror ranks them 4th, and in the final Norway is suddenly only 15th and 21st in their opinion. That’s statisticly way too low! In the final, they all had Slovenia 4th and Italy 5th. Serbia and Albania were ranked first and second in almost identical way. Overall, the third and the fourth juror had 8 countries in the final in the same place. And… Read more »
EBU was right to throw out the jury’s votes if they were too similar. Juries are important & corrupt juries must be punished. If Montenegro can’t find one then Adio.
If only this *ADIO* never ment to come..
Just inevitable..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4giAO-2aICo
Georgia also have the problem last year and today? They participate and reached the 11th place! So I don’t think that they’re not allowed to participate next year! 🙂
So are we going to say ADIO in Montenegro or not??
Just so I have this straight … EVERYBODY was furious at the juries for costing Italy’s beller-fest the win. They were actually calling for the juries to be abolished because of how corrupt they were.
Then, when the EBU actually tries to DO SOMETHING about the corruption, everybody is suddenly all “Oh noes we CAN’T lose Montenegro! Give ’em a break!”
Y’all cray. You know that?
Oh come on, we gave Georgia a second chance so why not Montenegro?
Please, land of Igranka, stay!!
http://i.imgur.com/xZhqAb4.png
oh yeah, this is “very fair”.
Just switch to televote in Montenegro. We need them at the party
Well its their call…Just try to make them not withdraw from the upcoming next year’s Vision but if they insist to pull out then just let them as its their own decision..
The Reference Group is just as questionable in their decisions as the balkan juries tbh. The montenegrin and macedonian scores must have been way too suspicious to be even more obvious than every single Armenian/Azeri juror ranking the other last and all Moldovan jurors ranking Romanía first, why weren’t those results canceled aswell?
Wow…Montenegro is worst than Azerbaijan. At least Azerbaijan doesn’t deny their irregularities and pays lots of money to stay in the competition. These ones commit the crime and walk with their heads up.
Awwh no!Montenegro brings diversity,and withdrawals are never a good thing :'(
EBU should remove the jury or they should use juries from non-EBU-member countries (like USA, Canada).
Montenegro, please, stay with us!
Well, they didn’t follow the rules, so they should not be allowed to participate the following year. You might or might not like Montenegro’s entries, but if they have corrupt jurors then the price for that should be payed. I mean, the results of the 5 juries must have been very very “similar” if we look at jury votings that actually were allowed by the EBU and already were *suspiciously* similar…
Don’t let us down, we can’t lose a nation that always sends awesome balkanballads in their own language.