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Mark T. B. Carroll ([personal profile] mtbc) wrote2016-05-15 09:52 am
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Eurovision results

I grew curious about the disparities in the Eurovision voting between the professional critic juries and the unwashed masses, Poland's song being one example. The organization excellently provides the full voting breakdown in machine-readable form and it appears that one doesn't forget one's Perl 5 easily so here are the winners in descending order of:
jury vote
Australia, Ukraine, France, Malta, Russia & Belgium, Bulgaria, Israel, Sweden, Armenia, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Italy, Georgia, Latvia, Spain, United Kingdom, Hungary, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia, Austria, Poland, Germany

popular vote
Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Australia, Bulgaria, Sweden, Armenia, Austria, France, Lithuania, Serbia, Azerbaijan, Latvia, Hungary, Cyprus, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Croatia, Georgia, Malta, Israel, Spain & Germany, United Kingdom, Czech Republic
I am curious about the extent to which I agree with either. Usually, not much, and the voting often feels very neighborly. This year the voting seemed less predictable and I notice that I agree rather more with the vox populi than with the jury vote. For instance, I thought Austria's entry (oddly, in French) quite pleasant and, separately from the question of what it's doing in Eurovision, I'd not have given the win to Australia's song. In smaller ways, too: for instance, I thought the Cypriot entry quite reasonable and the UK's worthlessly bland. I suspect that the Russian entry's score was quite reasonably boosted by their creative staging and Ukraine's by the subject matter. This year I did seem to mostly agree with Miranda about many songs though one may not necessarily accept her as arbiter of musical merit.