Eurojury 2020: Iceland the big winner of this year’s edition
Iceland is the big winner of the 2020 edition of Eurojury , an online contest run my Eurovoix in collaboration with other Eurovision media outlets .
One more Eurojury has been completed with Eurovoix and the collaborating sites holding the 2020 edition that crowned winner the Icelandic entry, “Think about things” performed by Daði og Gagnamagnið.
Before the Eurojury final, two semi final voting rounds were held in order to determine the 10 acts from each semi final that qualified in the final round where they met the Big 5 countries and The Netherlands as host country. A total of 180 jurors from 42 countries contributes along with the public vote to determine the Eurojury 2020 outcome. The jurors were past ESC participants, musicians and music experts and contributed to the overall score with a 50% share while the public vote filled in the rest 50%.
The overall result is pictured below:
Iceland won Eurojury 2020 only with a margin of 1 point (440 points) ahead of Switzerland that came 2nd with 339 points. Malta achieves a 3rd placing with 366 points while Sweden and Lithuania close the top 5 respectively.
The Split voting
Here are the votes from the 180 jurors:
1.Iceland – 256 points
2.Sweden 252 points
3.Malta – 194 points
4. Russia – 186 points
5. Romania – 181 points
6.Switzerland – 163 points
7.Lithuania – 147 points
8. Italy – 134 points
9.Bulgaria – 131 points
10.The Netherlands – 95 points
11.Austria – 77 points
12.Germany – 60 points
13.Azerbaijan – 56 points
14.Denmark – 47 points
15.Ukraine – 40 points
16.Australia – 38 points
17.United Kingdom – 35 points
18.Norway – 31 points
19.Israel – 29 points
20.France – 29 points
21.Albania – 20 points
22.Armenia – 19 points
23.Latvia – 13 points
24.Spain – 10 points
25.Serbia– 7 points
26.Greece – 3 points
Here is the result from the online voting:
1.Switzerland – 276 points
2.Bulgaria – 217 points
3.Lithuania – 202 points
4.Iceland – 184 points
5.Malta – 172 points
6.Russia – 124 points
7.Italy – 118 points
8.Norway – 115 points
9.Sweden – 99 points
10.Germany-87 points
11.Israel – 84 points
12.Romania – 81 points
13.Azerbaijan – 78 points
14.Ukraine – 66 points
15.Australia– 51 points
16.Albania -49 points
17.Greece-44 points
18.Serbia -40 points
19.The Netherlands-38 points
20.Armenia – 37 points
21. Denmark – 33 points
22.Latvia – 28 points
23. Spain – 26 points
24.Austria – 15 points
25.France – 12 points
26.United Kingdom – 4 points
As one can notice the results between the jurors and the public voting are totally different as the top 3 places in each voting are won by six different countries while the winning country, Iceland topped the jury voting and comes 4th in the public voted while the runner up , Switzerland , topped the public vote and came 6th in the jury vote.
Source: Eurovoix
Photo cover: Eurovoix
