A big thank you goes out to Sir Terry Wogan who voiced the fact that ‘The Eurovision Song Contest’ isn’t fair as its full of countries voting not for the best act but for their closest friends!
With this in mind, ‘the powers that be’ who run the contest have decided to bring back juries as an attempt to stamp out tactical voting.
This was all brought about after Terry Wogan decided to leave his commentating post as he felt (and the rest of us) that most of the countries vote together.
Terry demanded a return for juries after Russia won this year, gaining the maximum 12 points from all the former Soviet states Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia, as well as Israel. Now the 2009 show in Moscow will have a jury and viewers voting.
Eurovision executive supervisor Svante Stockselius said: “Nothing is more democratic than the vote of the public. But a jury takes the opportunity to listen to the songs several times before they make up their minds.
“In Belgrade, we saw a difference in judgment of the public and the back-up juries, and we believe a combination will make the show more interesting.”