Swiss act, Nemo wins Eurovision crown, ending Switzerland`s 36 years streak without a win, even as the event was engulfed in controversy after controversy.

Eurovision 2024 is now over with our winner being crowned on Saturday with Nemo taking the win with The Code, representing Switzerland, followed by Croatia with Rim Tim Tagi Dim by Baby Lasagna, who took second place with a considerable score of 547 whilst Nemo took home 591 Points. The song “The Code” talks about Nemo`s gender identity and their struggles with it and them coming to acceptance of them being non-binary. The song was wildly popular with the Jury vote gaining majority of the “Douze” points whilst Croatia won the public vote gaining a majority of audience support.

This Eurovision has been an memorable one for all the wrong reasons due to numerous reasons such as Israel being allowed to compete despite their heaving bombing of Gaza and the song having references to October 7th. Even though Eden Golan changed it twice, settling on Hurricane, the song is still metaphorically militant according to critics. This is also in line with the EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, banning of Palestinian, the nonbinary flag and the EU flag.

To the immediate disqualification of Netherlands last minute before the Grand Finale began, sparking Joost to become an viral sensation and gain over 1 million followers instantaneously, all believing in his innocence and led to the booing of Martin Osterdahl during the Netherlands jury “Douze” point moment. Finally, Olly Alexander being unsure of waving the Union Jack flag sparking fiery debates back home to immense booing being heard at the stadium, being uncensored.

Ireland`s representative, Bambie Thug, congratulated Nemo on their win for Eurovision, gifting Nemo the Black Crown from their act as Nemo went to accept the trophy and give their winner`s performance. Bambi said in an interview that “their favourite non-binary won” and that “the top six, minus one, are all freedom fighters.”

This is due to Bambi Thug`s huge support for the Palestinian cause and was told by the EBU that they had to change their outfit and keep, “Crown the Witch” message as Palestinian flags were banned and taken off of anyone who had them, similarly non-binary flags were banned due to it being political and Nemo had to hide the flag or risk punishment from the EBU. Nemo took it out at the organisers over ‘unbelievable double standards’. “I had to smuggle my [non-binary] flag in because Eurovision said no, but I did it anyway, so I hope some people did that too.”

Nemo also broke the trophy towards the end of the performance but was gifted a new one immediately. In addition to the flags being banned, Joost was disqualified last minute before the finale began over an incident that took place on Thursday night.

The incident involved a staff member and Joost having an altercation over being illegally filmed and Joost was reported to the Swedish police and people who were there said that Joost made “threatening remarks” towards her but it did not go beyond a verbal altercation.

AVROTROS, who organised the Netherlands entry, released an statement explaining what happened and that EBU disqualifying Joost was “very heavy and disproportionate”, saying that “an exclusion order is not proportional to this incident.”

This incident lead to thousands of fans voicing their anger at the EBU, particularly Martin Osterdahl. This could be seen when he was revealing the jury points from the Netherlands. Furthermore, two artists dropped out of announcing the juries score for their country, this was due to Joost being disqualified and Alessandro, who performed last year with “Queen of Queens”, said in a Instagram post:

“Tonight I was supposed to give out Norway’s points during the Eurovision final,” she said in an Instagram video. “Even though I’m thankful I was given the opportunity to do so, I’ve taken the decision to withdraw.”

“United By Music — Eurovision’s motto — is the reason I do music. Unite people, bring them together. But right now those words are just empty words. There is a genocide going on and I’m asking you all to please open up your eyes, open up your heart. Let love lead you to the truth. It’s right in front of you. Free Palestine.” 

The Top 5 ended up being, Switzerland with “The Code” by Nemo, Croatia with “Rim Tim Tagi Dim” by Baby Lasagne, Ukraine with “Teresa and Maria” by Alyona Alyona & Jerry Hei, followed by France with “Mon Amour” by Slimane and finally Israel with “Hurricane” by Eden Golan. Next year competition will be happening in Switzerland and hopefully it won`t become another year engulfed by controversies.