The Eurovision Tune Contest is broadly identified for its fiendishly complicated voting system.
To make issues extra difficult, the European Broadcasting Union, which produces the competitors, has made some tweaks for the 2023 version.
Forward of the grand last on Saturday evening, here’s a refresher.
– Right here is the way it works:
Viewers from all collaborating international locations will likely be invited to vote for his or her favorite songs on the evening of the grand last on Saturday Could 13.
Followers can vote over the telephone, by textual content or through the Eurovision app.
Every individual can vote as much as 20 occasions however voters will likely be unable to pick their very own nation’s entry.
The general public votes make up 50% of the full vote, with the opposite half decided by knowledgeable jury in every collaborating nation.
After viewers have solid their votes, a nationwide spokesperson from the collaborating international locations will likely be known as in to current the factors of their skilled jury – which vary from the utmost “douze factors” (12) to zero.
This yr the UK’s consultant is comic and actress Catherine Tate.
After the presentation of the scores from the juries, the general public factors from all collaborating international locations will likely be mixed, offering one rating for every track.
– What has modified this yr?
For the primary time within the competitors’s almost seven-decade historical past, individuals from international locations exterior the competition will be capable of vote on-line and on the app.
Their votes will likely be transformed into factors that may have the identical weight as one collaborating nation.
