Will someone please tell me I just had a nightmare and that romania didn't choose a horrible joke to represent them in eurovision?
In 2009, Macedonia gave 12 points to Armenia in the semi, while they gave like 5 points to them in the final??? So I think anything could have happened. Montenegro could have qualified with the 50/50 system by one point ahead of Romania, Finland and Macedonia. we don't know for sure.Well, what we know is that:
1) The jury had in their Top-10 of the semi-final.
2) In the finals, the jury put ahead of .
Now it is still possible that the second point for some reasons was reversed in the semi-final. But even if this had been the case, not only would of had to overcome a 25-points-difference to overtake , also a non-qualifier (the jury rejected in favour of ) had to defeat them through massive support by the jury. From a mathematical point of view this is far from likely.
You had a nightmare and Romania didn't choose a horrible joke to represent them in Eurovision....
I just don't understand why you're so fixated on Finland. That's one country....it all comes down to the mix of things. Only half of the juries voted in that Semi...having twice as many people will obviously change matters.Well, what we know is that:
1) The jury had in their Top-10 of the semi-final.
2) In the finals, the jury put ahead of .
Now it is still possible that the second point for some reasons was reversed in the semi-final. But even if this had been the case, not only would of had to overcome a 25-points-difference to overtake , also a non-qualifier (the jury rejected in favour of ) had to defeat them through massive support by the jury. From a mathematical point of view this is far from likely.
In 2009 they actually broke down the jury votes by country. Let's have a look at the juries that voted for Romania in the Final
FYR Macedonia: 6
Azerbaijan: 6
Turkey: 7
Moldova: 12
So only 4 juries voted for Romania. And only Turkey and Macedonia were in the same Semi as Romania so Moldova couldn't have given the helpful 12 points. So if you substract Azerbaijan and Moldova, Romania ends up with 13 points. So I don't think my assumption that Romania may have not qualified with juries is not far fetched or illogical as you claimed it is. That's my point, not that I expected having elaborate on that.