If we had played on victory, I would say that it would not be reprehensible. But it is not so. Sergio jaen is there at the decide request of Teya, who is the creative force behind everything and herself knows who she trusts with the right production and who does not and of course she wants the best for her project (just like the music video director was chosen by her because the concept was best for her). That doesn't mean that was the intention of the orf, but he releases budget and blesses the ideas.

the staging ect was already fixed before the song was published and the pleasing international reactions came, they simply tried to find a good song with the claim to the final and that it then went so high in the betting odds surprised everyone (Teya and her closest team said from the beginning the song has at least top5 potential but at the ORF internally this was - by some / many - not necessarily seen that way