The United Kingdom - or the UK for short - has participated religiously in Europe's favourite TV show for 54 years without a break. This is the longest any country has ever participated for without a break. Soon, this will be made 55 years. Anyway... the UK have had extreme success in the contest, winning 5 times (most recently 1997 & Katrina + The Waves with Love, Shine A Light) and coming 2nd a record 15 times! If you average the UK's points, in each contest, they'd usually end up 7th. Now if you minus Azerbaijan (who bought votes), the UK ranks the highest on average.
So the BBC, unlike last year, waiting until the last minute, have ALREADY confirmed participation. Does this mean we're to expect a National Final? Or will they stick with their internal choices. Now, the best an Internal Choice has ranked from the BBC is 11th which was Blue in 2011 - this evidently was their first Internal Choice. And the worse has been 2nd-to-last, or 24th, with Englebert in 2012. In 2013, Bonnie Tyler was inevitably chosen and her and her song "Believe In Me" were sent to Malmo, Sweden. She ended up placing 19th. Well, come on.. top 20. It's better than Englebert.
Based on these results, Internal Selections never do too well. I mean, at least when we, the UK'ers choose, we can get a douze pointe (look at Scooch, Malta gave them 12) and look at Ms. Garlick and Ms. Ewen, both top 5 and received at least one douze pointe each. Even though Blue did receive a Douze Pointe, they still didn't do as well as we'd hoped. Nonetheless, 11th is respectable.
So, as I was saying.. maybe Internally selecting their participant isn't the right way to do it? So can we expect to see "Your Country Needs You!" returning or will the BBC create a new innovative, unique National Final? Or will they continue Internally Selecting..
Well, who knows. Only time will tell. Until then, I'm simply smiling because we haven't given up yet.
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