(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Input your search keywords and press Enter. What caused them to disagree about Poland, and only Poland? All text herein is property of the web site and may not be copied or reproduced without explicit permission. @eurana (May 13 @ 3:04:42): I’ve been advocating for something similar to that since last year. 13. Malta placing 2nd in semifinal and 6th in final with juries and almost last with televoting shows how political the contest has become. @Josh A quick youtube search immediately reveals which song is from which country, I get want you want but with internet and social media that is impossible. Malta, Finland, and Azerbaijan would have benefitted the most, finishing sixth, seventh, and eighth respectively. Many Brits I was with voted for Poland, including myself. 13. Bias 1) Voting as a result of cultural closeness (mutually understandable languages, similar religion etc. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. San Marino – 23 If so, what’s the link? Eurovision thrives on controversy, in fact, Europe needs it… Read more ». And I completelly agree that all scandinavian countries help each other as well as all post-soviet countries. The real hate is between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Weirdly, I had never noticed that the Nordic vs Soviet division went that deep before. 1. Is the jury supposed to counterbalance the public vote or to impartially assess the musical quality of each song? 12. Twitter: Please enter a Twitter Consumer Key. The dark theme - child abuse - did not stop Hungary getting a top five finish, No Jedward for Ireland this time, but there were twins on stage for Russia, Pollaponk definitely belong at Eurovision, Poor Molly. As you can see below, both Scandinavian juries and televoters were anything but generous with their points. This happens every year and because Malta has no neighbours people do not tend to vote for them. 11. azeri juries have no taste at all… placing all top 3 in the bottom! @Josh oh, you’ve mentioned about covering up the countries for the jury.. damn, somehow i missed that)) And then, some big countries automatically are in final. Romania – 51 24. It seems to me that prudery had the best part of some juries (not all of them, fortunately). How can the EBU hold countries accountable for engaging in ethical behavior? Overall, it would have been a much closer contest. Sweden – 194 4. This is not normal.. Finland – 114 No way. She managed a top 10 finish. The Netherlands – 220 Greece – 41 Facebook: Please enter a Facebook app id. There have to be a way to vote right, other wise there is no point to spend so much money for participating in ESC. 4. Our. When one looks at all five juror rankings for each country, there is little variability between each juror ranking. Greece – 41 16. 3. What does this mean for Eurovision’s voting system going into 2015? I seriously think countries who try to manipulate the jury voting (or the televoting) should be banned from the contest for several years. The Azeri people reciprocated, ranking Armenia last both in the jury vote and in the televoting. Switzerland – 115 8. If there is a problem with the juries then increase their size. Germany – 31 The winner is the Wurst: Bearded Austrian drag act Conchita triumphs at Eurovision and Britain’s Molly is beaten into 17th place . 8. Press Enter / Return to begin your search. Made for Eurovision fans, by Eurovision fans. Azerbaijan – 108 23. If this were the case, Austria’s margin of victory would have been greater. 9. And let’s drown into the depth of shit all the piano ballads like Norway. Conchita Wurst, 25, crowned winner of Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Iceland – 43 15. There were rumours… Read more », A couple of suggestions to assist in the elimination of bloc voting within the juries: 1. We don’t want cheaters in this contest. There is too much room for bribery, collusion, and bias with the jury system. 2. There is another strange 12 points… from San Marino to Azerbaijan. So the point is: let’s ask them to only use televoting considering that it favours the crap we fans love like Poland for instance. You can visit his web site at http://theescritic.blogspot.co.uk/. One of the biggest surprises for me was when Ukraine gave 12 points to Sweden, who could have ever guessed that? Or do you honestly think the five Belarusian jurors ALL thought Austria wasn’t good enough for Top 20 while their public thought it was worthy of the Top 5? Armenia – 193 12. However, the breakdown of jury results for the Scandinavian and ex-Soviet voting blocs show otherwise. Enter your email address to subscribe to Eurovoix and receive notifications of all our articles by email. 25. NOW enjoy a wonderful song. WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES - The Shih Tzu was found in a cemetery near Bury, Greater Manchester, after being dumped on Sunday. But come on jury members, was My S?owianie really the absolutely worst entry of the night? Magical. And also, the West is a lot less oriented towards East than vice versa. I agree that juries need to go, there is too much power in 5 people’s hands in something as big as this! explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. Hungary – 98 11. 14. Change the traditional jury for international jury from Australia, Canada and South Africa. Spain's entrant Ruth Lorenzo sprang to fame on X Factor. Wikipedia is not always a reliable resource. It’s sad that 5 years ago, Armenia actually gave a point to Azerbaijan. Code.). When the Russian jury awards more points to Belarus than even the Russian public, how is that not block voting? I believe that the juries in Belarus and Azerbaijan should… Read more ». Switzerland – 115 Useless! France – 5, Conclusions. Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Semi-final 2 result: Austria got 169 points and won Semi-final 2 with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix" performed by Conchita Wurst Date: Thursday 8 May 2014 Location: B&W Hallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark Broadcaster: DR Hosts: Nikolaj Koppel, Pilou Asbæk and Lise Rønne Slogan: Join Us Qualification: The best 10 songs qualified for the Grand Final Look at the raw demographics – no diaspora has a significant percentage of the people in any country. Right .. diversity, respect and tolerance even in music … beautiful Austria was the best in both televoting and juries and that is all that matters at this stage. It begs the question: Does the EBU need to scrap juries and bring back a televoting-only scoring system? Russia – 70 I’m sure certain soviet nations cheated in jury voting (see Georgia). All of the members in the Georgian jury had the EXACT same top 8 and that was obviously cheating so EBU decided to disqualify the jury. @Wergie and @Julian: The split results (televote only and jury only) on Wikipedia are wrong. Eurovision 2014 results: From Austria's win to France's wooden spoon, where did your favourite finish? 2. oh my top was Ukraine, Romania and Sweden. I’m ashamed of our jury members. We can probably go up to four or five at a pinch. Neither the UK nor Ireland gave any points to Poland last night. If you can’t vote objectively then you don’t deserve that seat. Azerbaijan was also last in the Armenian televoting. Im so disappointed in Eurovision voting. ,,YOU are not alone” is a wonderful . Also, while we’re talking vote breakdowns, did we get a reason for the discarding of the Georgian jury vote? Austria – 224 Only participating Europeans should vote in ESC. 21. Thanks to Europe’s gay voters that won it for Austria. Sweden and the Netherlands would have finished with 201 and 200 points respectively. The Netherlands – 220 3. It went something like: People vote for the music they like and often neighbouring countries share musical traditions (to some degree) which would increase the possibility of voting for a neighbouring country on that basis. You forgot one country that tried to derail Conchita and that is San Marino – 0 points (was a jury only country). 3. Denmark – 85 In 2004, fans saw the emergence of the Balkan and ex-Soviet countries. 9. 16. Most favoured by jury in final were by far Malta and Azerbaijan that also in case of only televoting would’ve let their qualifying places to Portugal and Ireland. First of all, what is it with ranking Armenia the last? The EBU could block out the name of the country that appears on the screen for the juries, and just display the song number. Belarus – 50 Austria’s margin of victory evaporated under a jury-only scoring system. I’ve heard people claim here in various posts that 70% of the vote from some countries is the Romanian diaspora, that 50% is the Polish diaspora, etc. If you enabled this API recently, wait a few minutes for the action to propagate to our systems and retry. Slovenia – 21 25. 7. ), Is that Pink? Finland – 45 I have audited the Wikipedia results, and they are wrong. 17. Austria, Poland, and Switzerland benefited most from televoting: Considering a member of… Read more ». Those countries were Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Montenegro, and Poland. United Kingdom – 24 Poland ranked first in the public vote AND last in the jury vote in both countries. First of all, I must point out that this year was the first time I was able to watch the Grand Final (thanks to online streaming).

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