I was disappointed with the new way the votes are revealed. Seeing which song the public of each country voted for was part of the Eurovision experience. It wasn’t the same having them aggregated and as it turned out, the public votes were very important.
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To play devil’s advocate, the new system achieved it’s purpose of ensuring the winner wasn’t known long before all the countries were crossed to. However it can probably be tweaked a bit to have the breakdown of how the public scored on-screen at some stage like SBS did after the public votes were announced.
Learnt my lesson re recording eurovision. Didnt extend it long enough and missed most of the public votes 
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Such a shame the quality of the “HD” broadcast was pixelated as f**k. Bit rate was pretty low I’m assuming?
Not a big fan of the new voting procedure, but it did make things more suspenseful. Felt sorry for the Czech Republic for receiving zero points from the televotes.
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If only we’d outranked Poland in the public vote!
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Not great when you see the top judged songs being replaced by the public voted ones, such as Australia being way out in front and then came second or when Poland was at the bottom of the board and then ended up near the top.
However, I did like how there was suspense until the end and it all hinged on the last points revealed.
Hated the new system. OK it’s more suspenseful in that last minute…because you’re basically saying can Russia come from 27th down the board, with 700 public vote points, and win?
When it all hinges on one meaningless aggregation at the end, that’s silly.
It’s obviously to remove the political element from the public face of the show…we have no idea which country’s people gave 0, or 12 points, to Russia for example.
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If you go to the Eurovision website, it has all the point breakdowns there.
I can see why they implemented the new system as it is good in that it makes the end very suspenseful. Most years the winner is pretty much known halfway through the votes. Although this year it was so close between the top 3 countries it still would have been suspenseful had they done the old system.
It was awful though to see us get false hope by looking like we were well in the lead for so long and have the title snatched away from us. As we saw from an act like Poland you can get basically no jury votes but a heap of televotes and I guess vice versa.
Anyway well done to Dami Im. I know the betting odds had us ranked pretty high but deep down I doubted that we cold top Guy’s effort. Dami definitely deserved that second spot. I’m still not so sure about Ukraine’s winners song if I love it or hate it. If Dami was to lose I would have rathered to Russia as much more catchier… but clearly it was all politics between Russia/Ukraine. and eastern voting blocks favoured Ukraine.
Well my mistake was worse. I was out late on Saturday night so set it to record to watch when I woke up on Sunday. On my foxtel box I recorded Eurovision and the show after (expecting overtime). Not sure what went wrong but woke up to see ‘Failed’ next to the recording. It’s like it knew Eurovision was going overtime but tried to record the next show at the same time and stuffed it all up or something. I had to avoid news/social media all day before watching the finale last night.
I was delighted with Dami’s second place finish, did not expect her to win. Surprised by Ukraine’s victory though. Of course Russia accused the result as politically rigged. Will Russia boycott next year’s competition as a result?
Well there’s no doubt that Ukraine’s song had a political backstory behind it but it did not contain any specific political statements which is why it was able to enter. In my opinion if Russia withdraw from the competition they are making this competition more political than Ukraine ever did.
I really enjoyed watching the live coverage yesterday morning,I’m usually awake at that time every morning anyway.I liked the new voting system also,Dami was in the lead by over 200 points until the viewer votes were added,nail-biting finish at the end.I’m glad Auatralia gave 12 points to Belgium,I thought their song was really catchy,sorry it didn’t get more votes
Yes hidden away on a website - out of sight of 99% of those who would view the contest.
Why not aggregate the jury votes instead of the people’s votes?
Why would we want to go around 42 countries hearing how a panel of a select few jurors voted? What’s the point? We want to hear what the people of those countries voted.
To see what was actually judged the best song or performance, which was not blurred (as much) by a country’s popularity or politics.
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Since Eurovision Dami Im’s Sound of Silence has been in the itunes Top 10 in over 12 countries and top 20 in over 20 countries. It’s also been sitting at #1 in Australia and Malta for a few days now. It’s definitely performing stronger than Ukraine’s track across Europe.
Rubbish. Ukraine polled higher on the jury vote when it was clearly a poorer song or performance than Russia’s. The public vote corrected this out to some degree.
In fact, the jury votes were all over the shop. That Sweden was polling as high as it was, was simply a joke.
You, Chris, and AustralianAerial obviously didn’t take note of the difference.
That’s just your opinion that Ukraine was a poorer performance. I’m actually not surprised that Ukraine did well on the jury because vocally/technically it went to another level than anything else… way better than Russia in that sense. I’m also not surprised the public ranked Russia a lot higher than the jury as Russia was a very catchy poppy track that viewers were always going to like more than industry experts (who might see it as a bit gimmicky)
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No, it truly is the opinion of just about everyone that watched it. The credibility of the contest has taken a massive hit this year - and that’s considering how pathetically political everyone knows this contest can sometimes be in any case.
Key words there - “might see it as gimmicky” - very cliche to simply sit back and say that oh, because it was a very catchy pop track, it wasn’t as ‘deserving’ as a performance like Ukraine’s.
For it to simply do well…yes I’m not surprised either (especially when the jury rated something like Sweden so highly). But to rate as highly as it did? Rotten.
I merely think that the old voting system worked better. I’m not passing any judgement on any particular performances; I did that on the morning, and frankly I’ve forgotten most of them by now anyway.
Except Georgia, with the seizure-inducing light show. Oh, and Italy. Like, what was that?