Monday, 12 May 2014

Eurovision voting figures show juries and public clash

Donatan  and Cleo perform the song My Slowianie- We Are Slavic

Polish act Donatan and Cleo performed the song My Slowianie- We Are Slavic


The latest Eurovision figures have revealed the differences between the public phone vote and the jury vote at Saturday night's competition.
The UK phone vote gave Poland's Donatan and Cleo top marks but the jury thought they were the worst act of the night.
Their combined score meant Poland ended up with nil points from the British.
Every country's voting power is split 50/50 between a jury and the public. Austria's Conchita Wurst won the contest in Copenhagen on Saturday.
Other discrepancies included Germany, whose public vote put Greece in fourth place but whose jury ranked it fourth from bottom at 22nd. Again, this resulted in nil points overall.
Ireland also gave Poland top marks in the telephone vote but the song We are Slavs was given bottom marks by the jury panel.