Big changes in the voting system of 2016!
The biggest and most significant change to the voting system for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest was announced today. The classic voting system is broken into two equal pieces, the jury (50%) and tele-voting (50%).
The innovation of the voting procedure inspired by the Swedish song contest Melodifestivalen, the votes of all countries will announce just as we knew until now, but with one main difference, the points of the jury and televoting will announced separately.
After the presentation of the songs that will participate in the Grand Final, for a few minutes the audience has the opportunity to vote for their favourite songs through televoting and the official application of the Eurovision Song Contest, while in contrast the juries of each country have already given their points from the general rehearsal of the Grand Final.
This year the voting procedure of the Grand Final will present each country just as we knew until today, the correspondent will present their points from 1 to 8, 10 and 12, but this result will be the points of the juries alone.
The votes from the televoting changing form. The votes that will be given to the competing songs from the audience of each country will combined and announced by the presenters of the evening in the form of points after the completion of the process of correspondents of each country.
The result of this process intends to extend the agony of viewers and to avoid awkward moments as in the 2012 contest where the result was deemed too long (about 20 minutes) before the completion of correspondents voting.
“All competitions are enhanced by creating a dramatic finish” Eurovision Song Contest Producer, Christer Björkman, says. “This was a unanimous decision taken by the Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group. It’s about creating TV magic”, he added.
After the end of the competition all analytical results of jury and televoting will be posted on the official website of the Eurovision Song Contest. Anyone will have the chance to visit and see the countries and scores, avoiding misunderstandings and creating a clear landscape for those who have the slightest doubt about the voting system.
