Eurovision Song Contest 12+

If you are on vacation in a neighboring country the app will not allow you to vote. The app is not fully developed and will not send your vote to your country even though it reads your chip issuing country. Therefore only 1 star. Also disappointed that during the contest it does not show order of songs/countries performing. Also with the app open, you see “live” in the left upper corner. False - there is no live performance to see, only a picture of the performer currently in action. Probably should be labeled “current performer”, but not live as nothing live is happening. Until that is fixed you will have to select a TV program with the live transmissions on live (if no tv signal is available at your location). Hopefully the programming company can get these problems fixed. Most important is being able to vote while on vacation.

The entirety of Eurovision 2024 was completely scripted. I can also pretty much guarantee they remove bad reviews so that’s why it’s 3 stars and not 1. When the entire crowd boos for someone they put cheers over top. They claim to be apolitical but ban Russia and not Isnotreal WHICH ISN'T EVEN IN EUROPE!!! The voting is completely rigged. Isnotreal should never have gotten 300 points to begin with, when the whole crowd is clearly not liking the performance. Some counties are able to verbally abuse others with no repercussions, but when the abused decides to retaliate they are disqualified. Overall Eurovision has completely touch with music. This year Eurovision and the EBU have clearly shown that they value keeping thier sponsors happy over having a real fair competition. Why would anyone care to watch this trash when the winner chosen is just the best face for advertising, rather than best music.

Edit: The app now comes with iPad support, which takes care of my main complaint. The article text is kind of tiny on the iPad mini, but I read the articles on the Eurovision site, so that's not a deal breaker. It's not much more than a news feed right now, but now I'm interested to see what the app can do during the show. (Increased rating to five stars because I said I would, and I appreciate them making this available to non-European fans.)

I would have given this five stars just because they made it available for Eurovision fans worldwide, but the fact that the app is not really meant for iPad is disappointing. I don't know whether I'll even use this for the show, and not just because I'm in a country where I can't vote.