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- April 23, 2025
Richard West-Soley
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Number Crunching: Measuring Up Eurovision 2019
Eurovision is a numbers game, and after the event, fans have plenty of them to crunch. We take a look
Final odds: is this tonight’s top ten?
On the day of final, the Netherlands manage to hold onto gold, while Australia consolidates a second place and Switzerland
Bookies Roundup: Are these tonight’s winners?
Kate Miller-Heidke’s gravity-defying climb with the bookmakers continues, as Australia nudges Russia down to take the bookies’ third favourite position
Australia soars as bookies bag eight out of ten
Australia is employing “Zero Gravity” to soar up behind the top three favourites to win after a night of shocks
Are these tonight’s odds-on qualifiers?
After Monday evening gave juries the chance to judge the entire first semifinal, it is Australia, Iceland and Greece who
Eurovision 2018: A contest of surprises and contrasts
The eventual winner of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest will not have come as a complete surprise to many. Israel’s
Odds Monitor: Israel returns as former favourite snatches crown
Punters managed to predict the top two of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest final – only the wrong way round.
Odds Monitor: Cyprus, Israel and Ireland top the table before final showdown
Cyprus is odds on favourite to be a first-time winner in tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest final with Eleni Foureira and
Odds Monitor: Ireland catapulted to third behind Cyprus and Israel
Eurovision Eve has been a dramatic day in the odds, as former long shot Ireland is catapulted into the top
Odds Monitor: Eight out of ten for the bookies as Netta climbs back to second
The odds proved to be a slightly better barometer of success in tonight’s Eurovision semifinal, with bookies foretelling eight out
Odds Monitor : Could this be the lucky ten tonight?
Bookmakers have another chance to prove their mettle tonight, as ten more qualifiers will be picked from the second Eurovision
Odds Monitor: Cyprus comfy in first while Lithuania goes top five
Buoyant from semifinal success, Cyprus sees off all competition for the favourite position today, settling well into its new leading
Odds Monitor: Seven out of ten for the bookies on a night of surprises
It was close, but no cigar for the bookies tonight, who got seven out of ten qualifiers correct in the
Odds Monitor: Could this be tonight’s top ten?
Odds meet reality for the first time tonight, as nineteen countries battle for ten places in the first semifinal of