Radical Punktereform at the ESC

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Eurovision Song Contest

Radical Punktereform at the ESC

Sweden, 12 Points: Who in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm as the first cheers, may still be the loser. A new scoring system should at the Eurovision Song Contest for more excitement, worry.

For the first time since 40 years at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC), the world’s largest music contest, the scoring system has changed radically: At this year’s final in Stockholm will be the scores of the Jury and the audience separately disclosed, as the organizers in Geneva announced. With this Change, the voltage in the scoring system to be increased – unlike in previous years, the winner only at the end of the Punktevergabeprozedur be known.

Crowd could be decisive

According to the European broadcasting Union EBU was there last in 1975, a similar comprehensive Reform of the scoring. At the time it was over the years, become legendary “douze points/twelve points”System has been introduced, in which the country with the greatest approval twelve points. In the new System will now first, the scoring of the juries will be announced. But one Tradition remains: As in the past years to make this announcer from the 43 participating countries.

In the Stockholm Globe Arena is the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 sought

Then give the presenters of the Show in Stockholm, the points, the vote of the audience. Started will with the country, which has the least points has to get ceased with the country that has the largest Publikumsunterstützung.

According to the EBU could this new System will lead to a in the Juryabstimmung still in place three or four lying Land at the end but can win. In the past few years, the winners often long before the scoring was completed. Already for several years, discussed a new model has to be a role model for the Swedish ESC-preliminary round. According to the EBU, the Show, despite the separate scoring does not take longer.

Had the new scoring system cheer: the Swedes Mans Zelmerlow and Petra Mede

Place two has also already lost

This year’s ESC final will take place on 14. May. Who represented Germany will decide the preliminary round in Cologne on Thursday of next week. In the past year, the German Starterin Ann Sophie disastrously cut off, and had zero points last become.

Like the ARD on your web site as calculated, would be the German Cut with the new System, not quite so bad. Ann Sophie could have been instead of the zero points 29 points to get and would be third from last. The victory of the Sweden Mans Zelmerlöw would have the system change accordingly, but nothing changed. Although cut Italy to the audience at best and would be in the new System instead of third party finished Second in the sum of Jury and Publikumspunkten would be Sweden, but the front remained.

pab/kle (afpd, dpa)