Any ideas how to select the members of the international jury? I like the idea, but it seems difficult. If you choose members from participating countries, they'll be biased. If you choose members from non participating countries, you'd probably have to look for them in non-european countries. So they won't be "the voice of Europe", as you say.
I like the idea of an international jury, but not having them replace the national juries. I think each associate member of the EBU should be allowed to send a jury member to make up the jury, so that all of the EBU, associate members included, can be represented.
I also came up with an alternate method for the juries to give their points. Since there's been so much discussion of the televote having more say , I came up with the "70/30" method. The televote will remain the same, warding the top 10 songs 12 to 1 points. The juries on the other hand only award points to their top 5 songs, giving 10 points to #1, 7 points to #2, 5 points to #3, 3 points to #4 and 1 point to #5. With this method, Ukraine would have still come first with 469 points, Russia would have come second with 424 points, and Australia third with 386. (The whole score using this method should be found here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dfTNTzihE2X4g5BFebx5dqWiNEpZTWYymGt8j446nQo/edit#gid=0)
I also think that the way the points were presented as great, but instead, the televote points should be presented with the national spokespersons and the jury points presented by the hosts. Let me know what you think