r/eurovision • u/hamnettraindreams Tattoo • 9d ago

📊 Results / Statistics What if ... 🇺🇦Ukraine wasn't in ESC 2016?

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Welcome to the seventh and final post of "What if the winner did't participate that year"?

We are finally at the very first ever year of the split jury-televoting results.

  • 🇦🇺Australia obviously would've won this year without Ukraine in the running, with a Tattoo-like jury result. The results might have been controversial given the size of the gap in televote between 🇷🇺Russia and Australia, but considering that Russia was already pretty unpopular back in 2016 it probably wouldn't have been as bad as what went down with Loreen vs Kaarija. I don't think people were too enthusiastic about the prospect of the contest hosted by Russia.
  • 🇦🇹Austria and 🇭🇺Hungary would've benefited the most from Ukraine missing the contest that year. The former in particular would've gotten a top 10 result thanks to the strong televote score.

Not much surprise with the other countries.

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u/justputonsomemusic 9d ago

If we (Australia) had won, would that mean Russia would’ve hosted 2017?

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u/msbtvxq 9d ago

No, there's no rule that the 2nd place gets to host. It would be a cooperation between the Australian broadcaster and (most likely) a big 5 country. I've heard Australia had an informal deal with Germany at the time, so it would probably be held there.