Eurovision Song Contest announces HUGE shake-up to traditional voting system

Eurovision Song Contest announces HUGE shake-up to traditional voting system

Postby dutchman » Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:17 pm

Bored of knowing the Eurovision Song Contest winner way before the end of the show?

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Well, the competition has announced a major shake-up to the voting system in a bid to create more exciting TV and keep the suspense right until the end.

Under the new system, professional juries and the public for each country will award a separate set of points (up to 12). In previous years, both of their votes were combined.

As normal, each country's representative will appear on TV to deliver scores from their nation. The difference is, they will only be announcing the scores awarded by their jury.

The televoting will be added on last, after all the juries' verdicts have been added up. The points from every country's public vote will be combined so that each act will have one lump total added on to their juries' score.

The host then announces the televoting results, starting with the country with the lowest public total.

"This new way of presenting the votes is a big step forward, both to make a better television show as well as a more exciting competition," said Eurovision Song Contest executive supervisor Jon Ola Sand.

"There is more reason than ever to vote in the Eurovision Song Contest. The new voting format guarantees that the song which is most popular among the public will receive 12 points regardless of how the juries voted."

Executive producer Martin Österdahl added: "In previous years, the winner has been known for up to 20 minutes before the end of voting and that's not good TV. This format change will inject a new level of excitement into the finish of the Eurovision Song Contest."

It is the biggest change to the voting since 1975, when the douze system was introduced.

This year's Eurovision Song Contest final will air on Saturday, May 14 from Stockholm.


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