Here are this year's points (far right) compared to the last 4 years.
I'm sure you all know what i mean, but let's go into it a bit. I thought already just halfway through the voting that they were unusually distributed. There were 3 entries that got over 300 points (well, Italy almost did), while most of the previous years there hasn't even been one! But there were only 8 entries total that got over 100 points, while the previous 4 years had 11, 9, 9 and 6. There were also a record 8 entries that got under 20 points, the previous years had 1,3,7 and 3. And of course a whooping 2 entries with 0 points - which has never happened in the final for as long as there's been one, let alone to the host, and only 2 times in the semi before.
Both of those entries were DTF and Germanic, and they were actually high on the list of personal favorites even for many non-ESC fans, even if nobody really expected them to do very well. One may easily conclude that juries and televoters both shunned them because they didn't want Austria or Germany to host again. But both of them would actually have gotten points if juries alone had been used, Austria on 30th place even, and by televotes alone, at least Germany. It was only in the combination of the two they suffered, thus drawing the obvious conclusion that the juries voted down these entries in the countries most likely to vote for them.
So without the knowledge of the full split results, one would conclude that the extreme polarization this year is because juries voted more alike each other than before, suggesting some kind of scheming going on. However, viewing the jury results by themselves shows it to be more complicated. Obviously they voted down the "unwanted" entries specifically in those countries where those entries were popular, wether it was a conspiracy or not, that is obviously the reason for the result. Germany's 24 jury points and 5 televote points came from countries where the other part-televotes or juries-ranked them extremely low.
But why? That's not clear, obviously. The televotes by themselves give a more even distribution, though still with a very high scoring winner, and 5 entries with less than 10 points.
Another point of content were the strange interruptions during the reporting of the votes. Could these interruptions have anything to do with the jury votes being fixed, or the televotes faked to some extent? Were the votes "changed" for some reason (the results from the other countries weren't what they expected) and that's what caused the break, or were they already transferred to the headquarters set in stone at the time they were announced? It's hard not to become suspicious, and i'm wondering what your theories are about it.
I'm sure you all know what i mean, but let's go into it a bit. I thought already just halfway through the voting that they were unusually distributed. There were 3 entries that got over 300 points (well, Italy almost did), while most of the previous years there hasn't even been one! But there were only 8 entries total that got over 100 points, while the previous 4 years had 11, 9, 9 and 6. There were also a record 8 entries that got under 20 points, the previous years had 1,3,7 and 3. And of course a whooping 2 entries with 0 points - which has never happened in the final for as long as there's been one, let alone to the host, and only 2 times in the semi before.
Both of those entries were DTF and Germanic, and they were actually high on the list of personal favorites even for many non-ESC fans, even if nobody really expected them to do very well. One may easily conclude that juries and televoters both shunned them because they didn't want Austria or Germany to host again. But both of them would actually have gotten points if juries alone had been used, Austria on 30th place even, and by televotes alone, at least Germany. It was only in the combination of the two they suffered, thus drawing the obvious conclusion that the juries voted down these entries in the countries most likely to vote for them.
So without the knowledge of the full split results, one would conclude that the extreme polarization this year is because juries voted more alike each other than before, suggesting some kind of scheming going on. However, viewing the jury results by themselves shows it to be more complicated. Obviously they voted down the "unwanted" entries specifically in those countries where those entries were popular, wether it was a conspiracy or not, that is obviously the reason for the result. Germany's 24 jury points and 5 televote points came from countries where the other part-televotes or juries-ranked them extremely low.
But why? That's not clear, obviously. The televotes by themselves give a more even distribution, though still with a very high scoring winner, and 5 entries with less than 10 points.
Another point of content were the strange interruptions during the reporting of the votes. Could these interruptions have anything to do with the jury votes being fixed, or the televotes faked to some extent? Were the votes "changed" for some reason (the results from the other countries weren't what they expected) and that's what caused the break, or were they already transferred to the headquarters set in stone at the time they were announced? It's hard not to become suspicious, and i'm wondering what your theories are about it.
