It was a disappointing end to Eurovision for Joe and Jake, who finished the finals third from bottom of the leaderboard.
Despite strong backing from some of the national juries, including a full 12 points from Malta, the duo scored only 8 points from the public for their track 'You're Not Alone', giving them a combined total of 62 points.
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But the boys - Jake Shakeshaft and Joe Woolford - don't sound too disheartened by the final result, tweeting that they hope they've made the UK proud.
Earlier in the evening, the pair, who met as contestants on The Voice UK, wrote that "two best friends just had the night of their lives".
A change to the way in which the points are revealed - jury vote first, then the public vote - created a tense end to proceedings at the Globe Arena in Stockholm on Saturday night.
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Australia's Dami Im was the clear frontrunner after the jury votes were cast with her track 'Sound of Silence'.
But she was pipped at the post on the basis of the public phone vote by her nearest contender, Ukraine's Jamala with '1944', a track about the Soviet persecution of Crimean Tatars in the 1940s.
She won the contest with a grand total of 534 points from the jury and the public.
Watch Joe and Jake's Eurovision finals performance below:
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