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* YankTheDogsChain: Hosting nation Portugal, after winning the contest the previous year with an all-time points record, finish dead-bottom this edition with 38 points. Although their song -- "O jardim" by Claudia Pascoal -- was genuinely well-received, many people deemed Salvador Sobral's performance in 2017 too much of a ToughActToFollow for them.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Hosting nation Portugal, after winning the contest the previous year after 53 years with an all-time points record, finish dead-bottom this edition with 38 points. Although their song -- "O jardim" by Claudia Pascoal -- was genuinely well-received, many people deemed Salvador Sobral's performance in 2017 too much of a ToughActToFollow for them.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Hosting nation Portugal, after winning the contest the previous year with an all-time points record, finish dead-bottom this edition with 38 points. Although their song -- "O jardim" by Claudia Pascoal -- was genuinely well-received, many people deemed Salvador Sobral's performance in 2017 too much of a ToughActToFollow for them.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Australia's Creator/JessicaMauboy served as an interval act for the 2014 edition, which also happened to be the year before her country's official Eurovision debut.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Australia's Creator/JessicaMauboy Music/JessicaMauboy served as an interval act for the 2014 edition, which also happened to be the year before her country's official Eurovision debut.
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** For the second time in their thirty-seven-year history of participation (and the second in three years), Greece doesn't qualify for the final. For added humiliation, co-semifinalist and Eurovision minnow Cyprus not only ''did'' make the cut, but finished second in the final, with the song "Fuego" by Greek-Albanian singer Music/EleniFoureira, who had attempted to represent Greece and been rejected before.
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** For the second time in their thirty-seven-year history of participation (and the second in three years), Greece doesn't qualify for the final. For added humiliation, co-semifinalist and Eurovision minnow Cyprus not only ''did'' make the cut, but finished second in the final, with the song "Fuego" by Greek-Albanian singer Music/EleniFoureira, Eleni Foureira, who had attempted to represent Greece and been rejected before.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: While all of the {{Shocking Elimination}}s detailed above happened, some countries with spotty qualifying records such as Albania, Ireland or the Czech Republic made the finals (with the Czechs even getting their best ever result courtesy of Music/MikolasJosef).
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* ThrowTheDogABone: While all of the {{Shocking Elimination}}s detailed above happened, some countries with spotty qualifying records such as Albania, Ireland or the Czech Republic made the finals (with the Czechs even getting their best ever result courtesy of Music/MikolasJosef).Mikolas Josef).
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** Italy is represented by Ermal Meta, an Albanian (along with the Italian Fabrizio Moro).
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* CriticalDissonance: Even more pronounced than in 2016: the overall and televote winner, Netta from Israel, comes third with the juries. Austria, the jury winner, only comes thirteenth in the popular vote, and runner-up Sweden ''twenty-third''. A couple of countries, but especially Denmark (twentieth in the jury vote), essentially pull a Poland 2016 and manage to get in the top ten by televote points alone.[[note]]In fact, turns out Denmark did it ''twice'' this year. The semi-final split results revealed that Denmark won the televote of the second semi, but was only 12th (out of 18) in the jury vote.[[/note]]
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* CriticalDissonance: Even more pronounced than in 2016: the overall and televote winner, Netta from Israel, comes third with the juries. Austria, the jury winner, only comes thirteenth in the popular vote, and runner-up Sweden ''twenty-third''. A couple of countries, but especially Denmark (twentieth in the jury vote) and Italy (seventeenth in the jury vote), essentially pull a Poland 2016 and manage to get in the top ten (or top five, in Italy's case) by televote points alone.[[note]]In fact, turns out Denmark did it ''twice'' this year. The semi-final split results revealed that Denmark won the televote of the second semi, but was only 12th (out of 18) in the jury vote.[[/note]]
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* DiscretionShot: This year's "postcards"[[note]]A short clip, about forty seconds in lenght, made to give TV viewers something to look at while the stage is being prepared for the next contestant, at the same time introducing the act in question[[/note]] feature the participants travelling to Portugal (including the Madeira and Azores archipelagos) via [[PortalDoor Portal Doors]] and engaging in local activities, ending with them taking a selfie.
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* DiscretionShot: This year's "postcards"[[note]]A short clip, about forty seconds in lenght, made to give TV viewers something to look at while the stage is being prepared for the next contestant, at the same time introducing the act in question[[/note]] feature the participants travelling to Portugal (including the Madeira and Azores archipelagos) via [[PortalDoor Portal Doors]] and engaging in local activities, ending with them taking a selfie.
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* {{Determinator}}: It was rumored that Czech Republic's Music/MikolasJosef would have to drop out of the contest entirely after getting badly injured in the rehearsals while trying to do a backflip. He vowed to perform no matter what, qualified for the finals, gave his country its best result ever... and capped off the performance [landing a perfect frontflip.
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* {{Determinator}}: It was rumored that Czech Republic's Music/MikolasJosef would have to drop out of the contest entirely after getting badly injured in the rehearsals while trying to do a backflip. He vowed to perform no matter what, qualified for the finals, gave his country its best result ever... ever (6th place)... and capped off the performance [landing landing a perfect frontflip.
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* MrFanservice: During the voting procedure in the grand final, host Creator/DanielaRuah calls onstage a naked man in order to bring her a phone to televote. [[CensorBox The graphic with the televote information covers everything]] from his navel down. Ruah then tells him to leave the stage before said graphic is removed.
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* MrFanservice: During the voting procedure in the grand final, host Creator/DanielaRuah calls onstage a naked man in order to bring her a phone to televote. [[CensorBox The graphic with the televote information covers everything]] from his navel down. Ruah then tells him to [[PaintingTheMedium leave the stage before said graphic is removed.removed]].
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* {{Determinator}}: It was rumored that Czech Republic's Music/MikolasJosef would have to drop out of the contest entirely after getting badly injured in the rehearsals while trying to do a backflip. He vowed to perform no matter what, qualified for the finals, gave his country its best result ever... and capped off the performance [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome landing a perfect frontflip]].
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* {{Determinator}}: It was rumored that Czech Republic's Music/MikolasJosef would have to drop out of the contest entirely after getting badly injured in the rehearsals while trying to do a backflip. He vowed to perform no matter what, qualified for the finals, gave his country its best result ever... and capped off the performance [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome landing [landing a perfect frontflip]].frontflip.
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* MrFanservice: During the voting procedure in the grand final, host Creator/DanielaRuah calls onstage a naked man in order to bring her a phone to televote. [[CensorBox The graphic with the televote information covers everything]] from his navel down.
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* MrFanservice: During the voting procedure in the grand final, host Creator/DanielaRuah calls onstage a naked man in order to bring her a phone to televote. [[CensorBox The graphic with the televote information covers everything]] from his navel down. Ruah then tells him to leave the stage before said graphic is removed.
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* MrFanservice: During the voting procedure in the grand final, host Daniela Ruah calls onstage a naked man in order to bring her a phone to televote. [[CensorBox The graphic with the televote information covers everything]] from his navel down.
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* MrFanservice: During the voting procedure in the grand final, host Daniela Ruah Creator/DanielaRuah calls onstage a naked man in order to bring her a phone to televote. [[CensorBox The graphic with the televote information covers everything]] from his navel down.
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* CreatorCouple: Alfred and Amaia from Spain, and Madame Monsieur from France.
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* CreatorCouple: Alfred Music/AlfredGarcia and Amaia from Spain, and Madame Monsieur from France.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Australia's Music/JessicaMauboy served as an interval act for the 2014 edition, which also happened to be the year before her country's official Eurovision debut.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: Australia's Music/JessicaMauboy Creator/JessicaMauboy served as an interval act for the 2014 edition, which also happened to be the year before her country's official Eurovision debut.
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** Malta is represented by Jessika Muscat, a Maltese, and Jenifer Brening, a German.
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** Malta San Marino is represented by Jessika Muscat, a Maltese, and Jenifer Brening, a German.
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