I analyzed the
German voting and tried to see what the new system changed.
with the new system:1st:
Sweden 18p
2nd:
Ukraine 13p
3rd:
Russia 12p
4th:
Israel 12p
5th:
Australia 11p
6th:
Poland 10p
7th:
Georgia 8p
8th:
Austria 7p
9th:
Netherlands 7p
10th:
Belgium 5p
11th:
Bulgaria 4p
12th:
Italy 4p
13th:
Armenia 2p
14th:
Latvia 2p
15th:
Lithuania 1p
with the previous system (2013-2015):1st:
Sweden 12p
2nd:
Ukraine 10p
3rd:
Australia 8p
4th:
Netherlands 7p
5th:
Georgia 6p
6th:
Italy 5p
7th:
Russia 4p
8th:
Israel 3p
9th:
Austria 2p
10th:
Poland 1p
with the system from 2009-2012:1st:
Sweden 12p
2nd:
Ukraine 10p
3rd:
Russia 8p
4th:
Israel 7p
5th:
Australia 6p
6th:
Poland 5p
7th:
Georgia 4p
8th:
Austria 3p
9th:
Netherlands 2p
10th:
Belgium 1p
(First of all, thank God that we got rid of the horrible system from 2013-2015. The Netherlands would have gotten 7p, although neither the jury nor the public placed the Netherlands very high, lol)
Second of all, the "new" system is essentially the same thing as the system from 2009-2012. Our top 10 is exactly the same. Congrats SVT for introducing two new systems (in 2013 and the next one in 2016) that brought us exactly where we already were in 2009!
The only advantage is that now more countries get points (which doesn't change anything about the top places, it only affects the lower places, but okay... For instance, the only country that got noticeably more points in this contest is the
Czech Republic, but I don't think they were a fan of the new system either, getting publically embarrassed for those 0 points in the televote).
But the disadvantages are:
1) You messed up so much and confused people, so that the regular viewers don't understand it anymore
2) We can't see which song each country actually liked the most (e.g.
Germany actually gave most of its points to
Frans, but in the show we randomly see the
going to
Israel out of nowhere)
3) We don't see happy faces during the televote results. All we see are disappointed people who are sad for being 7th in the televote, lmao.
4) It only got exciting in the last 4 minutes, at the expense of making the first 40 minutes random, confusing and unexciting (considering that the 8p and 10p are not announced anymore, which played a huge role in creating suspense!)
5) It was unnecessary to make the last 4 minutes exciting, as the voting precedure was always known as the most exciting part
already (in fact, the voting procedure always had the highest viewing figures anyway!).
6) All those records (like Rybak's 387p or Loreen's 372p) are now completely redundant and will be beaten every time
7) We could have heard maaany 8p and 10p going to e.g.
Bulgaria, we could have seen many joyful faces and could have heard the audience going crazy many times, but in the current system we didn't hear Poli's country a single time and then suddenly she's 4th place overall. Totally invisible for the viewer. A good entry deserves to be called out a lot. They took away so much fun
8) The jury voting lasted way longer than the televote, which makes it seem more important and distorts the result experience for the viewer
9) In the end, the excitement depends on the quality of the entries. Loreen was an obvious winner, so obviously there was no excitement. But this year we didn't have an obvious winner. In fact,
Ukraine and
Australia were only 23 points apart - and keep in mind that there were twice as many points this year! So with the system from 2009-2012, there would maybe be only 10 points difference, which means it would have been super-exciting with the old system as well!
I really hope they won't continue with the 2016 system forever =/ Result-wise it's the same as 2009-2012, so the distribution of the points is perfectly okay with me, I'm only criticizing the announcement system.
Israel, 
Malta and 
Poland should be really thankful for the change of voting this year, lol
Malta and 
Czech Republic ? 
USA iTunes:
San Marino's jury gave the 
UK 8 points, and if San Marino's televote is just a duplicate of the jury votes, then the only "televotes" the UK received were from San Marino. Otherwise, it would probably get 0 points.
FoIM | 
NNMC | 
OSC
San Marino's jury gave the 
UK 8 points, and if San Marino's televote is just a duplicate of the jury votes, then the only "televotes" the UK received were from San Marino. Otherwise, it would probably get 0 points.
I may wasted my money for nothing but seeing him doing that well was worth the support 
(and it's hard to support a song almost everyone hates 
Seems like everything Cyprus sends is underrated...
^ [2] Poor Barei 
