EBU to discuss changes in the voting system in January 2024!
The European Broadcasting Union will discuss the current voting rules regarding the juries next January 2024.
The information comes from Norwegian TV2. According to their information, the EBU will re-assess the rules concerning the voting, in particular the role of the jurors in the final results. This information has been confirmed by NRK Project Manager for Melodi Grand Prix, Thea Flinder.
This may be a good time for the EBU to make a proper assessment of the jury system (…). It will be the EBU the “Eurovision Song Contest Reference Group” that must be responsible for the decision on what happens to the jury system.
According to this information, the discussion will take place in January 2024. If there is an agreement about the need to change the current voting system, the Reference Group will have to decide whether the jury system remains in the current form, changes its voting power or if its scrapped altogether.
After the introduction of a “Rest of the World” televote, the jury vote represents a little bit less than 49,4% of the final result.
However, this proportion of the vote is significant enough to impact the results. The current rules were put in the spotlight once again this year. The Eurovision 2023 winner of the televote was Finland by a landslide. However, Käärijä ended in second place after the jury ranked him in fourth place.
Source: TV2
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If you want to kill Eurovision, you should scrap the juries. History already proved that.
“However, this proportion of the vote is significant enough to impact the results.”
Of course, if a jury can’t impact the results, than it is not a jury. The jury shoudl impact the results.
It is not bad that a jury judges differently from the public vote.
Ridiculous to scrap the juries! After the semi final qualifiers it proved viewers have the worst taste in music