What to do about neighbour voting?

[Kristi]

Another idea would be to vote for the country you least like in the semis :?

 

[Matt]

Another idea would be to vote for the country you least like in the semis :?

??? Why would that make sense?

 

[Guest]

Someone wrote before (sorry I don't remember the nickname), people may vote just one time for a country but they may also vote for other songs they like. I think it's reasonable. But this is a problem for money thing.

If they want to get 20 SMSes per voter, that's OK, but at least allow only a 4th of them to be for a single country and not all 20. I could even settle down for a smaller number - 3. We could then raise the amount to maximum 30 cause somebody may have 10 favourites.

Or this idea is also reasonable.

If these are not possible, well, the system is not bad I think. Every year we have another winner country. So it seems the system works fair as much as possible.

By the way, are they planning any change about the system?

 

[Kristi]

Another suggestion I read:"The best thing would be to simply make a draw, or the top 17 from ESC 2010 goes to Semi 1 in 2011 and bottom 17 goes to Semi 2 "

 

[FallenAngelII]

Another suggestion I read:"The best thing would be to simply make a draw, or the top 17 from ESC 2010 goes to Semi 1 in 2011 and bottom 17 goes to Semi 2 "

Are you nuts? How does this help with neighbourvoting at all?! And this is reverse seeding. You're basically punishing countries which often send in good entries by pitting them against other countries which send in good entries for no reason!

 

[LadyKiller]

It wouldn't work if we couldn't vote for our neighbours but for once it would certainly be extremely amusing. Just imagine it!

 

[ParadiseES]

Another idea would be to vote for the country you least like in the semis :?

??? Why would that make sense?

Then the third world war would start, after what happens every year with ESC Big Brother here

Nothing can be changed, cause you can change people's mind to vote for neighbours or their motherland instead of being objective

Well, maybe not counting the points in the semifinal??? Just letting qualify the countries which were voted by the biggest amount of countries??? Dunno, I'm not sure that would work either

Oh, nevermind that does not make sense

 

[Margerita86]

It wouldn't work if we couldn't vote for our neighbours but for once it would certainly be extremely amusing. Just imagine it!

Yes, it would probably be so amusing to watch the reactions here in sweden. But for me personally it will depend on the fact do I actually like their entries enough to vote for them?

 

[Milos-BC]

The current system is good, no need to change it IMO.

I agree that adding the option where one can only vote for the certain country/only once could help, but since EBU are well known money hunters, that will hardly happen