This is my first year following the Eurovision cycle

Board 8

LightningStrikes posted...
Apparently Israel only made the final because of the audience vote apparently. Which to me stinks of an organised campaign, but jury vote will probably sink them.

Supposedly Israeli Ambassadors have been calling citizens in their respective countries telling them to vote. This was deemed against the rules in years prior but no action appears to have been taken this time.

The Italian (I think) audience votes were also accidentally shown on screen earlier, and appear to be extremely sketchy.
https://i.ibb.co/HngtYfT/20240504-020718-imageonline-co-merged-jpg.png
https://youtu.be/qj9p6IFSlnk?si=cZ5L4OPM0TjVjwCD