{"id":45172,"date":"2026-05-17T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/45172\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T10:52:10","slug":"uks-eurovision-entry-issues-statement-after-coming-last-and-receiving-dreaded-nul-points-score-tried-our-hardest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/45172\/","title":{"rendered":"UK\u2019s Eurovision entry issues statement after coming last and receiving dreaded nul points score: \u2018Tried our hardest\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UK\u2019s Eurovision<\/a> entry Look Mum No Computer, real name Sam Battle, has released a gracious statement after coming in last place.<\/p>\n

Bulgaria achieved its first ever Eurovision<\/a> win on Saturday night (16 May) with DARA<\/a>\u2019s \u201cBangaranga\u201d, while the UK came in last with Battle\u2019s \u201cEins, Zwei, Drei\u201d. His performance of the song received the dreaded nul points score in the public vote and picked up just one point from the jury.<\/p>\n

Battle celebrated Bulgaria\u2019s historic victory on social media, telling his followers the nation was the \u201cdeserved winner\u201d of the contest and that he\u2019d met \u201ca lot of amazing folk\u201d during the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most important thing is [that] we all tried our hardest,\u201d he wrote. \u201cRegardless of what is against us. Whatever it may be. Gotta keep trying your hardest regardless of the\u2026outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n

The singer, 37, shared the statement alongside him and a crowd chanting \u201cUK\u201d and \u201cein Punkt\u201d, which means one point in German.<\/p>\n

Fans were quick to commend Battle on his performance, despite the disappointing \u2013 but not altogether unexpected \u2013 result. The singer was the third UK act in a row to be awarded nul points in the public vote after Remember Monday in 2025 and Olly Alexander in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were amazing, first time I have watched the Eurovision for 11 years, normally avoid it like a dose of flu,\u201d one person wrote, while another commenter praised Battle\u2019s \u201cfun and quirky\u201d song.<\/p>\n

\"Ein<\/p>\n

Ein Punkt: The singer made light of his disappointing score alongside his team backstage (Instagram @lookmumnocomputer)<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope you realise just how adored you are by so many Eurovision fans,\u201d another person added. \u201cYou brought something different to our UK entry, you absolutely smashed your performances.\u201d<\/p>\n

Battle knew the odds were stacked against him ahead of his performance in the Eurovision final; But the Youtuber, who bookies had down at 80\/1 to win, said he was \u201chappy to be an underdog\u201d.<\/p>\n

He told the Independent before his final performance: \u201cThere\u2019s all different ways of looking at it, but it\u2019s not bothering me, because nobody\u2019s actually seen the full [performance]. There\u2019s a lot more going on than meets the eye \u2013 I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s going to surprise people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the full Eurovision Song Contest results list here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UK\u2019s Eurovision entry Look Mum No Computer, real name Sam Battle, has released a gracious statement after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20858],"tags":[966,20859,20860,21111,28254],"class_list":["post-45172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eurovision","tag-bulgaria","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest-2026","tag-look-mum-no-computer","tag-points-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}