Jury Voting

[Beanie]

Will add more later, but this is a good start point...first time I've seen this table:

Eurovision Song Contest 2009 - Wikipedia

Click on ' Splittrat resultat'

Gives the Jury vote and Televote placings from last year...

Suggests everything that was suspected - that ballads = success as far as the juries are concerned.

Turkey 7th, Azerbaijan 8th, Greece 11th, Armenia 15th...all terminally bad positions for songs that were expected to contend. Malta, one of the most obvious ballads of all, only 24th in the televote but gets 13th from the jury.

Very eeenteresting...

[Gavster]

I was reading this the other day Beanie. I couldn't believe just how much influence the Bloc still held. Just look at some of their voting patterns, it's mental. If it wasn't for the juries, UK and France would have got nowhere near their actual positions last year. They still vote for each other's shit songs on a political basis.

Wake me up in a few millennia when these tribal morons have evolved a brain capable of independent thought

Thank God for the juries!!!

[Akebono]

The other half of the result of both the Semi-Finals as well as the Final will be determined by professional juries. In each country, five music industry professionals, such as song writers, composers, radio presenters and singers, gather to listen to the songs with professional eyes and ears. They have been asked to judge the vocals, the quality and originality of the songs, the acts and the overall impression of the performance.

The names of the judges will be revealed by your national commentator. We can already tell you that several former Eurovision Song Contest participants and even a former winner are amongst the nearly 200 music industry professionals who were carefully selected for this honourable job

In case of a tie between the jury vote and the televote, the televote will prevail
In the unlikely case of technical problems during the televoting, only the jury result will be used for 100%