Eurovision 2014

[driveace]

Thought it was wrong ! How was that a SONG contest ?There were some good songs last night,and then a guy dressed as a women,who was shocking wins !IF your a women you don't have a meat and two veg ,the guy Tom what is he trying to prove? If that's the nature of the show I for one will not watch it again !

[odykas]

This year I chose not to watch and it seems I was right

[journeyman racer]

I was really disappointed with the winner. It was a ridiculous entry form Austria. It does nothing for any social cause. It was a terrible song anyway! There were many songs that were better.

Nothing will beat Loreen - Euphoria though!

[driveace]

The shock was that the Telephone vote for UK viewers was for a song that the "Voting Panel" did not think was a good song,SO they overruled the UK public and cast all their votes on the drag entry.How can that be correct,if viewers spent money on calls to be overruled by the panel ? Shocking !!!

[Mark]

Half the votes are from the jury?

[Langdale Forest]

The voting system is 50% public televoting and the other 50% is expert jury panel.
It should be 75% televoting and 25% jury panel, as they would still stop some political voting.

[Franky]

The voting system is 50% public televoting and the other 50% is expert jury panel.
It should be 75% televoting and 25% jury panel, as they would still stop some political voting.

Televoting is the most political voting you can get. For example the Estonian vote results for Russia were sth like 24th by the jury and 2nd place by televoting. If there's a big minority in the neighbouring country, they'll vote more for their homeland. The 50-50 system balances it out in a way, unless everybody is voting politically.

[janneppi]

Or you could make the voting more objective, like calculating the amount of cleavage on the stage.