ASSETS AND FLAWS OF THIS NEW VOTING SYSTEM
The voting procedure which has been established under the Swedish ESC's organization, is divided into 2 parts:
Jury voting:
+To my mind, the supervisors of this year's ESC were very clever this time, with calling the spokespersons for the jury's voting only. This makes much more sense, because of the differences between those two sets of votes. At the end of this voting part, let's call it the first part of the whole voting, the results aren't known yet. It enhances both the tension and the suspense, though this wasn't the case back in the previous years, despite 2011's voting, which wasn't really crystal-clear 'till the last 2 voters. Moreover, the procedure lasted too much long before, but this aspect was so entertaining, when a country didn't win by a landslide.
-However, the idea of calling the spokesperson in order to 'only' announce the 12 points instead of the top points isn't a good one. Many people (let's call them 'eurofans') did complain about this new voting procedure, and this idea of "only the twelve points will be announced by those spokespersons *silent cries and evil laugh* MUAHAHAHAHH*. I thought this would be a good idea to diversify this important part of the contest, as people awaits for those points, and are excited to see whether their favourite songs did score many points or not. Despite the fact that I really enjoyed the voting this year, I think they skipped it too fastly, and many people, whose interest about the contest is the voting part, didn't care about the jury points so much. The first 9 points were displayed on the left corner of the screen, and it gave me the impression to be too 'massive'. Indeed, I didn't even see that Czech Republic gathered 41pts in the jury's voting, despite the fact that I loved this song, and this was my favourite one.
Two aspects, which should be revised and improved: Graphics and duration aspect.
Public voting
+The most interesting part of this voting tbh, and that's fine. Why do I call it 'most interesting part'? Simply because of our predictions, which are rather accurate with the public voting than the jury's one. The greatest and main idea of this gigantic revamp is the points which are collected, and not announced in the same way as they are in the jury's voting. I could sum up this aspect with a simple sentence: 'Please please, make my country stays the longest time possible into the scoreboard without any points?'. Yeah, of course. If you want your country to win, it has to be among the lastest being announced. The excitement is rising, rising and rising, whereas your country didn't still get any points from televote. Especially when you're a country, which is called
, thus your enthusiasm will be bigger than before. It appeals much more people to watch the contest, than before.
-Only one single point about which I could complain about this year, is to extend the lenght of this part, which is way more exciting than the other one. In which way could they improve this flaw? Jon Ola Sand should take into account this aspect, and this problem, with displaying only the top 15 countries, whereas the 'bottom 11' would be announced less faster, but still... It would increase the tension by 10000000000%. Moreover, some countries which finished at the middle of the scoreboard would shine brighter than it does in the actual voting system. As an example,
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would've been happier to see that they wouldn't have been called yet.
Overall: The birth of this new voting system can really be considered as a strong improvement from the previous years of the contest, which were as bright as today though. However, this cruely lacked something, which could truly 'revamp' and deeply change the opinion of thousand of thousand of people in Europe, Australia, and in America/Asia (judging that it might be not so famous in Africa).
What are the main effects and consequences of this new voting system for Eurovision? Well... This would be seen as an evolution of the past 60 years of Eurovision.
Less old-fashioned, much more modern and fresh.
That's all, folks.
Thank you for having given me the opportunity to share my opinion with you.