Eurovision America

Michael Gordon (migordon) is a second-year law student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He’s been a fan of the contest since the Kiev show in 2004. When on vacation with his family in the UK, he happened to switch on the TV to BBC One while the final was on. From then on, he was hooked. Five years later, he attended his first show at the Olimpiskiy Arena in Moscow, Russia. He’s written academic papers on Eurovision, including “Googling Eurovision: Modeling Voting in the Eurovision Song Contest Using Google PageRank.”