The Junior Eurovision Song Contest has a new champion but Sunday's show was not without its issues as fans across Europe complained that they couldn't actually cast any votes.
Junior Eurovision turns 20 this year and 16 different countries battled it out for the 2022 title in Armenia, including the United Kingdom who were represented by Freya Skye. The 13-year-old has sparked some concern after being forced out of Saturday's second dress rehearsal and jury final by illness.
Thankfully she was well enough to perform in Sunday's contest and received widespread for both her performance and track, Lose My Head, on Twitter. Freya performed in 12th position out of 16 acts and went onto finish in fifth place with 146 points, after jury and viewer votes were combined, with victory going to France in a closely fought battle with the host country. France ended the evening on 203 points, with Armenia on 180, third place Georgia on 161 and Ireland fourth with 150.
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Freya actually won the public vote, however, it took just moments of the online voting opening for fans to take to social media to complain they they couldn't register their votes. The problem was addressed on air by BBC Junior Eurovision commentator Lauren Layfield, who assured viewers in the UK that they weren't the only ones struggling to vote.
Twitter quickly became awash with people voicing their frustrations, with one writing: "Junior Eurovision voting is a joke" and a second tweeting: "Oh dear… the Junior Eurovision voting website has crashed."
An angry Armenia viewer fumed: "Genuinely angry because Armenia did everything it could from our side meanwhile Junior Eurovision organizers cannot even manage their site and they didn’t even extend the voting time until their programmers fix the site so it works properly or something."
The show's official account addressed the problem, in a post that read: "We’ve recorded millions of votes during the voting window of this year’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest and apologise to those who had difficulties accessing the site.
Directly responded to that tweet, an annoyed fan reacted: "have you really though? i’ve only seen a small minority say they have been able to vote, yet i’ve seen tons of people saying they couldn’t vote at all. bit unfair no?" Echoing the same sentiments and equally frustrated, another replied: "how you gonna call that a valid result."
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