Eurovision 2012: The aftermath.
Jun. 19th, 2012 08:40 pmin semi 1 if the Juries ruled, Iceland would not have qualified and Israel would have. I disagree with the Jury on that one. If it was Televote only, Switzerland would have got in over Hungary... they were much of a muchness for me.
in Semi 2 the Jury would have put Croatia and Georgia in over Turkey and Norway. Norway actually finished last in the jury vote in that semi and qualified only because of the higher televote. Bulgaria would have qualified if it wasnt for the jury as would have the Netherlands at the expense of Malta and Ukraine.
The Jury came in to break the bloc voting, however Semi two shows how the jury was worse in its bloc voting than the public was. As far as the juries were concerned, only former Yugoslav country that should not have qualified was Slovenia and the only former Soviet country was Belarus, and they were 11th with the jury.
In the final however, the jury got it closer to right than the public did. Italy and Spain should have finished higher than they did with the combined voting and France deserved more than the nil poi that the televote gave them.
in the end it didn't change who the winner was
in the end the juries fail in what they were brought in to do, which was break the bloc.
On a side note, if the top five from the televote only went in they would be:
russia
romania
albania
Ireland
Greece
Sweden
Serbia
Lithuania
Turkey
Estonia
the top 5 remaining over the two semis over all that didn't qualify, based on the jury vote would then be:
Ukriane
Moldova
Malta
Cyprus
Denmark
I have said that the semi results should not be announced until semi two and this is how the semis should be determined, with these results.
in the results for the finals only three countries that were not mentioned above, and were not auto qualifiers finished higher than any on this list.
F.Y.R.Macedonia in 13th
Bosnia & Herzegovina in 18th and
Iceland who finished 19th, but who in my opinion should have finished higher.
with little to no detriment to the final result, we could have made the final a lot shorter and a lot soberer... maybe not a good thing but something to ponder none-the-less