Points/Qualification History

[Gavster]

Not sure if this will work - did try and paste the full chart but it just turns into nonsense!

[Gavster]

This is definitely it guys! Jeas, can't trust anywhere on the net for figures!

[Gavster]

The Bloc vote is shrinking, especially now the judges have a say. Will be even more balanced this year when taking into account the split neighbour semis.

NOTE: these pie charts are for main final.

[Beanie]

Wow, those pie charts are interesting gav. Would like to see the specific stats that they are based on but it really does show how much the switch to 50% juries favoured the Scando/Western European songs. Will certainly be looking to back a few to the hilt in the semis(maybe even ones with previously dodgy qualification records...)

[Gavster]

Originally Posted by Beanie

Wow, those pie charts are interesting gav. Would like to see the specific stats that they are based on but it really does show how much the switch to 50% juries favoured the Scando/Western European songs. Will certainly be looking to back a few to the hilt in the semis(maybe even ones with previously dodgy qualification records...)

They are based on the table of positions above. Countries in the top-10 are counted.

Bloc: Armenia etc
Western Europe: Big-4 and Ireland
Southern Europe: Those that don't qualify as Bloc or are part of the Big-4
Baltic - erm well yeah you got it.
Scandinavian: Well done!

Just going back to Armenia... They haven't failed in the Top-10 yet - I'm checking back the voting history and song quality and will report!

[madben]

i believe the ebu was desperate to have a western winner last year and the juries definitely leaned that way
it will be interesting to see if they lean the same way this year
people go on about how the east has dominated recent years and put it down to biased voting only they don't take into account how many western entries in recent years were rubbish, remember the uk's jemini and scooch and other western countries put in some right old tripe
i say give some credit to the newer countries for some good songs, serbia, bosnia, greece, turkey, have amongst others raised the barwhilst the old brigade entered some tired old songs and some rather talentless singers

[Gavster]

I agree, the Big-4 don't really take it seriously. But, you can't fail to notice the Bloc clique and fervent supporters of Turkey and Greece.

Thank Sqaull for this... Eurovision Song Contest 2009 - Wikipedia

It illustrates the lack of support for western entries. Look at France and UK in particular. Then look at the Jury/Viewer difference for Albania and Russia.