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Starting from this year sees the point scoring in the final there completely different. A few hours before the final on antenna, we explain the new system still its fine for you.

Since the final of 2009, five-Member juries by country as much as the viewers voting rights per country: they have each 50% in weight. It doesn’t change anything, but does change how the points are added up. In the previous years, the rankings of the juries and televoting laid next to each other and summed. The joint favorite got the final twelve points of a country, the second ten, eight, and so on the third to the tenth on the joint list that one point received during the voting.

Two turning points

That method is now on the shovel. Starting tonight gives each country one to twelve points twice: once for the jury, and once for the televoting. That will prevent, for example, the favourite of the audience eventually can receive no points because the jury is put at the bottom of their rank, or vice versa.

How does it work in practice? Starting from 23.45 tonight about Petra Fellow will as in previous years, contact spokespersons in all countries. Each country has one to twelve points to his top-10. Two major differences: the points givers read only but the top score for themselves, the other items appear immediately on the screen, and it is only the points of the juries. After all, we have 42 countries have passed so only half of all points inside.

At a fast rate

Around 00.25 then starts the publication of the televotingresultaten. To prevent the broadcast six hours, will not again be called up all 42 countries separately. Instead, all points that a country receives from the other countries together in one stone read out, starting with the country that the lowest number of points received. At a fast rate as the presenters will disclose who at the public ended up between 26 and eleven places. Suppose that exactly one hundred points tonight Belgium would receive from all other 41 countries together, then will at some point ‘ Belgium, one hundred points! ‘ are read out.

The countries that are in the top-10 Finish be slower read out, to alternate with looks from the green room and to the tension. The producers have in mind that the final winner will be known only at the last minute by the favorite of the viewers only last of all for reading. In some countries will immediately come into view how the telestemmers have voted in their own country. The exact results appear after the broadcast on the official website of the Eurovision song contest.

Twice as high

Because each country starting this year, two turning points from one to twelve, it is also clear that all will die points records . Now it says that even in the name of the Norwegian Alexander Rybak in 2009 387 points scored, but will that honor after tonight no doubt cede Rybak.

The EBU also made known the order in which the countries will announce their jury results. Austria begins, Trijntje Oosterhuis as nineteenth points from Hilversum and Umesh Von reads the Belgian twelve for as twenty-sixth. Host country Sweden close the jury vote. There was no algorithm used to create the order. In previous years happened though, with the intention to generate a so exciting possible vote.