Eurovision Semis: How they work
May. 19th, 2008 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
passionpopthis year there has been an attempt made to bring in quality with some of the quantity. What! Eurovision with standards? no!
well actually no. for those that remember as far back as when there were juries deciding the votes for each country in Eurovision, you would know some of the awful stuff that won... ok, in some cases there wasn't much choice (bucks fizz), but still... the juries could have refused to submit their votes or something... seriously
so with like 30 hours to go before the first semi final, this is what happens according to Eurovision.tv:
Citizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS. Two of the so-called 'Big Four' (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) will also vote in this Semi-Final (to be decided by draw), and possibly the Host Country (also to be decided by draw). Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of votes. The top-9 of the tele-voting qualifies for the Final. The highest ranked entry of the back-up jury that has not qualified for the Final in the tele-voting also qualifies for the Final. The 10 qualified countries will be presented in randomly drawn order at the end of the show. The complete results of the tele-voting will not be announced until after the Final, to keep the tension high.
well actually no. for those that remember as far back as when there were juries deciding the votes for each country in Eurovision, you would know some of the awful stuff that won... ok, in some cases there wasn't much choice (bucks fizz), but still... the juries could have refused to submit their votes or something... seriously
so with like 30 hours to go before the first semi final, this is what happens according to Eurovision.tv:
Citizens of each participating country vote by telephone and SMS. Two of the so-called 'Big Four' (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) will also vote in this Semi-Final (to be decided by draw), and possibly the Host Country (also to be decided by draw). Each country's 10 favourites are awarded 1 to 8, 10 and 12 points based on the number of votes. The top-9 of the tele-voting qualifies for the Final. The highest ranked entry of the back-up jury that has not qualified for the Final in the tele-voting also qualifies for the Final. The 10 qualified countries will be presented in randomly drawn order at the end of the show. The complete results of the tele-voting will not be announced until after the Final, to keep the tension high.