Brandt
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imagine this year's scoreboard with the 1962 sistem
How was the system in 1962?
Edit: OK, I've seen on wikia now.
imagine this year's scoreboard with the 1962 sistem
How was the system in 1962?
Edit: OK, I've seen on wikia now.
We can't have that again, don't you remember 2007 last time it was all televote, not a single Western European country got through to the final. As 50/50 is not working either and has swung it too far the other way, it seems to be me that the automatic sensible thing to do would be to go mid-way and have it 75/25.The number of points is fine, nothing has to change there. However the voting system is a huge mess and we need to get back to the top 10 of the juries. Actually, we need to get rid of the juries in general and let the people speak.
We can't have that again, don't you remember 2007 last time it was all televote, not a single Western European country got through to the final. As 50/50 is not working either and has swung it too far the other way, it seems to be me that the automatic sensible thing to do would be to go mid-way and have it 75/25.
Okay, Latvia or the Hungarian woman dressed like she's going out shopping definitely deserved to be in that final more than Andorra...The reason why not a single Western country got through the final in 2007 is that all the Western countries sent songs that are huge pieces of shit. Excuse me, but Latvia deserved 100 times more to be in the final than Belgium or Denmark...
Hungary was dull as dishwater. I hated Serbia too but that wasn't the problem. It was the fact that all the Western countries were hammered in the voting, while Eastern countries sailed by with mediocre or even poor songs. Look at Germany, Andorra, Switzerland and Ireland for instance. Fab songs. All crushed.
Switzerland - great Europop track. Andorra - well do I really need to say that this was a great song that was totally robbed? Ireland - lovely traditional music, and she didn't sing any worse than that one from Bulgaria.What was so great about Switzerland, Andorra or Ireland back in 2007?
Sorry, but compared to the opera singer from Slovenia, Andorra looked like a bad garage band. The woman from Ireland could sing at least 1 note in tune. And Switzerland was just old-fashioned. In that year (2007), Eastern European countries just had better songs, better singers and better performances. That's all. However, I also agree that Serbia didn't deserve to win in that year, because I think that Ukraine had the most iconic performance in 2007.
Maybe the only bad song that qualified from 2007 was the one from Turkey. Actually, that was the only song from Eastern Europe that I personally disliked, because I am not a fan of singers like Kenan.
Sorry but going to 100% televote is a horrible idea it nearly destroyed the contest when it was implemented. I would rather have a 100% jury than televote because at least with the jury the contest did have some prestige which was completely lost with the televote (also ironically I have noticed that the general public agrees with the juries more than the televote at least for Macedonia).
Like it or not both systems are broken and they need each to neutralise their flaws so a 50/50 is necessary or the contest will revert to the atrocious kitsch years of 2004-2008 when it lost it entire credibility and still hasn't fully recovered from them (I'm strictly speaking for the Macedonian general public).
For juries I would suggest increasing their size to 10 and better screening of potential jurors.
For televoting introducing app voting would be a good idea, possibly introducing a algorithm to combat diaspora/minority voting and again screening to avoid any potential harm.
As for the amount of points I would add the 9 and 11 points to get a top 12 in order to avoid point cancellation.