Russian duds TATU and some TV station are contesting the results of Eurovision.
The channel claims that Tatu's performance in Riga received "unlikely low points" from certain countries and their position in the competition was further contorted by a voting mix-up in Ireland.
Telephone voting by the Irish public was not taken into account because of a technical hitch, and was therefore replaced by national jury voting, Igor Burenkov, spokesman for Channel One and a member of Russia's Eurovision delegation, was quoted as saying by Echo of Moscow radio.
For the record Ireland's non-public votes went like this,
12 - Norway
10 - Belgium
8 - Estonia
7 - Iceland
6 - Croatia
5 - Netherlands
4 - Germany
3 - Malta
2 - Portugal
1 - Greece
I'd like to make a challenge to the results too. How did Estonia not finish above 21st? Good to see that the almost sensible Irish (where was Austria) did give them a decent vote though. Not sure what they were doing giving a point over to the Greeks though - they must have been as mesmerized by her enormous cleavage as the rest of us.
So, did Tatu get rorted? Maybe. Did they deserve to win? Not in the slightest. And what's this BS about recieving an "unusually low score" from several countries? The song was awful. A Russian teenage lesbian victory would have just proved that Europeans have no taste.
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