As explained
here,
there's been a change to the way that the jury vote and the televote
are
combined when working out the scores awarded by each country. As per
recent tradition, the overall average placings from juries and
televotes have been released by [
Eurovision],
and here follows a quick analysis of the data.
The following table gives the position on the night for each country,
followed by:
Jury: the position as
determined by an average of every jury's song rankings.
Tele: the position as
determined by an average of every televote's song rankings.
Σ: the position as determined
by these two scores combined: slightly different to the actual ranking
which only collated the (weighted) top 10s from each nation.
Δ: the number of places
difference between the jury and televote rankings, +ve in favour of the
televote.
JΔΣ: the difference between the
jury vote and the combined jury and televote placings, +ve in favour of
the combined vote.
TΔΣ: the difference between the
televote and the combined jury and televote placings, +ve in favour of
the combined vote.
AV: the placings given by the
AView jury (top 10 only).
JΔ: the difference between our vote
and the jury vote, +ve in favour of our vote.
TΔ: the difference between our
vote and the televote, +ve in favour of our vote.
ΣΔ: the difference between our vote
and the combined placings, +ve in favour of our vote.
Click on the table headers to sort the columns:
Pos.
|
NATION
|
Jury
|
Tele
|
Σ |
Δ
|
|
JΔΣ |
TΔΣ |
|
AV
|
JΔ
|
TΔ
|
ΣΔ
|
| 1 |
Denmark |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
Azerbaijan |
2 |
3 |
2 |
-1 |
|
0 |
-1 |
|
5 |
-3 |
-2 |
-3 |
| 3 |
Ukraine |
6 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
|
-3 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
Norway |
4 |
6 |
4 |
-2 |
|
0 |
-2 |
|
2 |
2 |
4 |
2 |
| 5 |
Russia |
10 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
|
-5 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 6 |
Greece |
14 |
4 |
6 |
10 |
|
-8 |
2 |
|
1 |
13 |
3 |
5 |
| 7 |
Italy |
8 |
10 |
9 |
-2 |
|
1 |
-1 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 8 |
Malta |
9 |
9 |
7 |
0 |
|
-2 |
-2 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 9 |
Netherlands |
7 |
10 |
8 |
-3 |
|
1 |
-2 |
|
7 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
| 10 |
Hungary |
21 |
8 |
10 |
13 |
|
-11 |
2 |
|
6 |
15 |
2 |
4 |
| 11 |
Moldova |
5 |
19 |
12 |
-14 |
|
7 |
-7 |
|
9 |
-4 |
10 |
3 |
| 12 |
Belgium |
11 |
17 |
14 |
-6 |
|
3 |
-3 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 13 |
Romania |
24 |
7 |
13 |
17 |
|
-11 |
6 |
|
4 |
20 |
3 |
9 |
| 14 |
Sweden |
3 |
18 |
11 |
-15 |
|
8 |
-7 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 15 |
Georgia |
13 |
23 |
16 |
-10 |
|
3 |
-7 |
|
8 |
5 |
15 |
8 |
| 16 |
Belarus |
22 |
13 |
19 |
9 |
|
-3 |
6 |
|
3 |
19 |
10 |
16 |
| 17 |
Iceland |
17 |
12 |
15 |
5 |
|
-2 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 18 |
Armenia |
19 |
15 |
18 |
4 |
|
-1 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 19 |
UK |
15 |
22 |
17 |
-7 |
|
2 |
-5 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 20 |
Estonia |
16 |
24 |
24 |
-8 |
|
8 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 21 |
Germany |
20 |
16 |
22 |
4 |
|
2 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 22 |
Lithuania |
25 |
21 |
25 |
4 |
|
0 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 23 |
France |
12 |
25 |
23 |
-13 |
|
11 |
-2 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 24 |
Finland |
18 |
20 |
20 |
-2 |
|
2 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 25 |
Spain |
26 |
26 |
26 |
0 |
|
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
|
| 26 |
Ireland |
23 |
14 |
21 |
9 |
|
-2 |
7 |
|
10 |
13 |
4 |
11 |
The entry that caused biggest
disagreement was Romania's
helium vampire, which we and the public loved (4th place and 7th place
respectively), but which the juries hated (a shocking 24th out of 26). Hungary and Greece were similarly under-ranked
by the jurors. At the opposite end of the taste spectrum, the juries
had a greater love for Sweden,
Moldova and France than did the televoters (in
the case of Moldova we have more sympathy with the jurors' cause).
There was unanimity between jury and public that Denmark should win and Spain should come last, which is
perhaps a little surprising. But we noted in the aforelinked box that
the new voting system rewards consistency and penalises any controversy
of taste, so presumably Denmark was broadly considered decent and Spain
broadly considered rubbish, while their neighbours excited a little
more difference of opinion.
France, that most totemic of Old Europe nations in Eurovision, stands
to win most from an all-jury vote. Hungary and Romania (two points of
interest in this year's contest) would suffer from such a regressive
step: such is the tyranny of Tony Blackburn and his ilk.
Ireland and Belarus (both in our top 10) would
be the biggest beneficiaries were the jurors taken out and made to use
their telephones with the rest of us. Germany
would also fare better, contrary to the tabloid depiction that Europe
voted to punish its paymasters this year. Russia, at the centre of the
Azerbaijani controversy, still come fifth in the public vote, though
the jury vote would drop them to tenth (you would think that if a state
wanted to send the right signals to the gasman, it would nobble its
jury rather than rely on the plebiscite, so there's another bit of idle
journalism called into doubt slightly). The losers in an all-public
vote would be Sweden, Moldova and Georgia, the latter pair of which
were making up the numbers in the AView top 10. Everything totted
together, though, our ranking was 56 places out from the televote, 62
places off from the combined vote, and a whopping 79 places askew of
the juries. On the basis of this contest, we are more in tune with the
texting public than we are with the great and not-so-good of the
industry.
Of course, the same discrepancies have particularly crucial
consequences in the semi-finals, but we don't do the semi-finals. The
semi-finals is cheating...