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Commentary on release of Eurovision televote and jury vote details by EBU

The EBU has just released jury vote and televote details for the recent Eurovision Song Contest final and two semi finals, which throw up some interesting findings. These details can be now viewed (http://www NULL.eurovision NULL.tv/page/news?id=18893&_t=EBU+reveals+split+voting+outcome%2C+surprising+results) on the official Eurovision webpage. In this post, I will tease out some of the more interesting trends emerging from a comparison of the televote and jury vote patterns. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Borda-less Eurovision

As everyone in the ERN knows Eurovision uses  a Borda count to tabulate scores. Each country allocates points to their 10 favourites. However, rather than allocate 10 points to the first ranked and 9 to the second, first place earns 12 points; 2nd 10 points. The idea is to skew the vote in favour of top-ranked scores…and to reduce the possibility of tie scores.

Using the awesome data available from here (http://www NULL.myledbury NULL.co NULL.uk/eurovision/)I yanked the Borda count down to a normal count. Pretty simple really: convert the 10 point allocations to 9, the 12 point ones to 10.  Doesn’t change the results, but does give a clearer idea of how closely the songs scored.  The italicized songs are the top 10 for each night. Read the rest of this entry »

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Release of Romanian jury votes

Ahead of the publication of jury votes and televotes from all the participating ESC countries on www.eurovision.tv over the coming weeks, some countries will be publishing their own scores ahead of this and Romania is the first to do so, having released the Romanian jury votes for Semi-Final 2 and the Final (http://www NULL.esctoday NULL.com/news/read/15904). Differences between the jury votes and the actual votes are quite interesting here – the Moldovan entry, Run Away, who got 10 points from Romania in the Final, failed to be ranked at all in the Romanian jury vote, suggesting (perhaps not surprisingly) that Moldova must have got the 12 points in the Romanian televote. Differences between the semi final jury vote and final jury vote are also very interesting, given that the same people would have been voting on both contests. Ireland’s Niamh Kavanagh was ranked 3rd (awarded 8 points) in the Romanian jury vote for the semi final but then failed to be ranked at all in the jury vote for the final; this could be down to jury voters having switched their vote for the final to Belgium’s Tom Dice, who was not participating in the same semi final as Ireland/Romania and who was awarded 10 points in the Romanian final jury vote.

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