The odds are against us...

But not against our favorite Sergey Lazarev :D

MMMMMM Sergey

He is the betting companies favourite to win Eurovision 2016.

Norway barely made the top 20!!! (At number 20..) And England is even further down on 25th place.

Well we did tell you our entries suck.... And I'm sure our favourites, which you can see here, would have gotten much better odds....

Surprisingly, young plagiarising hearththrob Frans, from Sweden, gets the second best odds of winning the competition... What?? Did they hear his song?? It might be the most boring song in the history of songs..

However... For some reason, boring songs have a tendency to win ESC from time to time... And also.. the hosting country always get a lot of courtesy votes... So let's not get too hung up on that.

And while we're sort of on the subject of plagiarism, it doesn't look like the EBU(European broadcast union) thinks Frans has actually copied that other song...And according to EBU-chief (and Norwegian) Jan Ola Sand, they haven't recieved a complaint from Matt Simons record label either, so they're just not that bothered with the whole situation.

Here is the top 10 list of likely winners, according to oddschecker.com (I'm not putting in the odds because I don't understand them, and frankly I don't care..)

1: Russia

2: Sweden

3: Croatia

4: Australia

5: Malta

6: Latvia

7: France

8: Serbia

9: Ukraine

10: Azerbaijan

What jumps out to me as strange here is first of all Ukraine.. With their very likely to be disqualified song about Soviet invation of the Crimean peninsula...in 1944..but still..

And Malta! When has Malta EVER had a good entry!?! NEVER! Thats when! 

We might have to do a review of these songs in a later blogpost..

But as for now we are happy to see that our Eurovision instincts (regarding the winner, at least) are spot on.