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The YouTube channel Eurovision Song Contest - With Toys is a YT channel dedicated to recreating ESC performances in Lego.

https://youtu.be/4yGizXkTZQI

https://youtu.be/Nnvv_LUrM0M

It's Stockholm and Globen for Eurovision 2016. This is the second time the contest travels to Globen. The last time was in 2000, following Charlotte Pirellis win in Jerusalem.

I have a very busy summer ahead and might not be able to update much neither here nor on the Twitter account. I'll try to make occasional journals and tweets but until after Eurofurence there will mostly be retweets only.

The Eurovision news source Esctoday.com has collected chart data from all over Europe and the winning song Heroes is the clear winner. Italy won the televote by a landslide but failed to engage juries. Now it seems the public has shifted towards Måns Zelmerlöw.

You can read the full article here: http://esctoday.com/104519/eurovisi.....ontest-charts/

We are also on twitter as ESCfurs now.

The voting for this years Barbara Dex award is open.

The award is for the worst outfit of the contest and has been given out annually since 1997. You can vote, read about the contest, and look at the former winners here: http://www.eurovisionhouse.nl/bdaward2.php

With the 2015 final over, 2016 is taking over peoples minds. Rumors are going strong about where Sweden will choose to host the final. The Scandinavium in Gøteborg and the Tele2 arena in Stockholm are the favorites, but Christer Bjørkman says nothing is decided and is initiating a nationwide call for locations. Maybe they intend to surprise us?
The venue announcement is expected in July/August.
Malmø is belived to be out of the race before it has fully begun due to hosting the contest in 2013.

Elleven countries has already confirmed their participation for 2016, including Estonia, Norway, Finland, Germany and Latvia. Turkey has also confirmed their return to the competition to the Eurovision fansite ESCToday.

ESCfurs will keep you up to date on everything major :)

With the reveal of the split vote it has been discovered that Italy won the televote by a landslide, while Sweden received a third place from the people at home. Russia got second place from both viewers and jury's.
The jury vote had the Italian trio Il Volo only on 6th place, costing them their victory.

Other noteworthy differences is Serbia being a lot more popular with viewers than jury, and Norway only comming 17th with televotes yet still scoring 8th place. The only top 10 country not to be in the televising top 10.

Last night Sweden won the 60th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest after a long and close fight with Russia. The winning song was performed by Måns Zelmerlöw and was called Heroes. Sweden last won the contest in 2012 with Loreen and the song Euphoria.

Latvia qualified to the final for the first time since the pirate themed novelty song Wolves of the Sea in 2008. The artist Laminate scored a top 10 position with her song Love Injected.
Similarly, Israel reached the top 10 with the song Golden Boy after not qualifying since 2010.

Both the host nation Austria and Big 5 country Germany scored nil points. The first nil points results sisie Jemini from the UK in 2003.

The special anniversary guest Australia managed a 5th place with the song Tonight Again by Guy Sebastian.

Now the Swedish broadcaster is set to host the 2016 final, just three years after last time. The final will most likely be in the friends arena in Stockholm.

Tobight is the night of the 2015 Grand Final in Vienna. 27 countries are competing with Italy and Sweden as the big favorites.
At 21:00 tonight CET it all begins, who will be the winner of Europe's number 1 TV event?