With Eurovision back on my radar as Germany is currently choosing which song Lena with sing this year, I decided to see if the the split votes for 2010 were available. Last year, the score a song received was a combination of both the televote and a jury vote. During the show, they only show the combined vote, but they release the televote and jury vote separately later. You can find the results on the Eurovision 2010 Wikipedia Article.
Germany won both the televote and jury vote, so the final result didn't change, but what annoys me is the songs that failed to reach the finals due to the jury vote. If it weren't for the jury vote two of my favorite entries, Lithuania and Finland, would have made it to to the finals. Sweden also missed out. Instead, Bosnia, Ireland, and Israel made it in thanks to the jury vote.
On the other side of the coin, had the contest been decided only by the jury vote, Estonia, Macedonia, and Malta would have made it into the finals. Instead we got Belarus, Moldova, and Russia. While Estonia was initially one of my favorites, the live performance was lackluster and I wasn't surprised when it didn't make it to the finals. So on the balance, I'm siding with the televoters on these songs.
Below I have the songs ranked by the differential in position they received from the televote and the jury vote. I decided not to look at it by points as Germany dominated the televote and such a ranking would make it look like the juries hated Germany's song (when it in fact it won the jury, but just barely) and loved all the other songs.
Positive score means the song did better with the televote, negative score means the song did better with the jury vote.
First Semi-Final
Russia: 10
Finland: 9
Belarus: 4
Iceland: 4
Moldova: 3
Serbia: 3
Greece: 2
Slovakia: 2
Latvia: 0
Belgium: -2
Poland: -2
Albania: -3
Macedonia: -5
Malta: -5
Bosnia: -6
Estonia: -7
Portugal: -7
The first semi-final was pretty decisive. I can understand that Russia probably did well in the televote thanks to bloc voting, but I don't know why Finland did so well with the televote but terribly with the jury vote. The only thing the televoters and juries agreed on was that Latvia was terrible.
Second Semi-Final
Lithuania: 5
Romania: 5
Denmark: 3
Netherlands: 3
Ukraine: 3
Azerbaijan: 2
Sweden: 2
Slovenia: 1
Turkey: 0
Bulgaria: 0
Armenia: -1
Cyprus: -1
Switzerland: -1
Croatia: -2
Georgia: -4
Ireland: -7
Israel: -8
The second semi-final was much less decisive, with only Ireland and Israel seeing really different results.
Final
France: 14
Serbia: 11
Spain: 8
Armenia: 6
Turkey: 6
Moldova: 5
Azerbaijan: 4
Denmark: 4
Greece: 4
Iceland: 4
Russia: 4
Belarus: 2
Germany: 0
United Kingdom: 0
Bosnia: -2
Romania: -3
Norway: -4
Albania: -5
Cyprus: -5
Georgia: -5
Portugal: -7
Ukraine: -7
Ireland: -8
Belgium: -12
Israel: -14
Apparently the only thing the televoters and the juries could agree on was that Germany won and the UK lost. It is interesting to see how fortunes change from the semi-finals to the final. For one, Belgium did pretty well with the televote during the semi-final, but then lost support in the final. Support for Romania totally flipped. Generally, with more entries and stiffer competition, most entries decline in position when they go from the semi-finals to the final, but Romania actually gained position as the jury vote ranked it 8th in the semi-final, but gave it 3rd place in the final.
Surprisingly, France and Spain (and Germany in terms of sheer points) did much better with the televoters as the addition of the jury vote was devised to help out the big four. Nothing could have saved the UK.
Also, in the jury vote, Belgium came just 2 points behind Germany, despite being a really boring song, or maybe because it was really boring. Overall, I think 2010 would have been better without the juries.
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