RE: What is the real story from Portugal?
Been there, seen the finals (and semis and a lot of the preliminaries too).
I must say that twoturnspin is rather correct in his observations. The main problem, as I see it, is that the judges do not have the guts to downgrade the "big names" enough for obvious mistakes. Or maybe they do not see them. Either way, this is something that hurts this category immensely.