EUROVISION 2009; Voting Analysis. What has changed?

Similar to my video made last year to investigate neighbourly/political voting using maps and statistics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S7TA-JmGyU


Here, after the implementation of a 50% jury say (although technically, it's a bit less than that), we look again at how things have (or haven't!) changed

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Eurovision
• song
• contest
• 2009
• voting
• norway
• iceland
• turkey
• united
• kingdom
• azerbaijan
• points
• votes
• bloc
• neighbour
• political
• jury
• results
• maps
• statistics

[parchisfan]

The day when Portugal wins, will be the day when they vote for a song, not for the country that the song represents. (I'm not Portuguese, by the way)

[EurovisonSverige]

@arnor17 No you dont have any neighbours, bot you'r near Greenland (Denmark) and Norway. And you count like a Nordic country. In old time Iceland wasn't Iceland, it was Norway/Denmark. Don't forget that Finland gave you 8points and they are Nordic as well. I think you deserved our 8points more then Bosnia & Herzegovina. P.S i'm from Sweden :)

[arnor17]

@EurovisonSverige no we dont get points from all the time... this year sweden gave us 1, denmark 6 and finland and norway only 8.... we have no neighbours

[rogerfedererfan98]

hey bud,norway deserved that

[Giradox]

Nice, you actually know what you're doing. :)

One should also remember that Eastern Europe seems to take the competition more seriously and therefore sends better songs. And UK, Benelux, France and Germany always give tons of points to Turkey, Armenia etc. That's disapora voting, not bloc voting.

[EurovisonSverige]

You forgot that Iceland always get points from the Nordic countries because Iceland counts like a Nordic contry..

[martpast1]

@martpast1 one important point:Russians have been living with You. Have You ever noticed that they were interested to learn Your language or they always expected You to speak Russian to them inside Your republic of Estonia?

[sorenti]

@martpast1 and i have been observing young estonians for my whole life (not that i would have had choice) and i can tell you very many different views about russians. well, one thing is attitude towards people - language/culture. don't know lots of people who would dislike russians just for those two. but i hardly know anyone who would like russian politics, its foreign policy, it's attitude towards its neighbours, its own past and victims of it

[martpast1]

@sorenti hm, an unexpectable turn. i think thats because 1)still a lot of Russians are in Baltic republics 2)i observed young Lithuanians and they speak Russian as if they like it and they like old Soviet films--even if you made these exams of your language for Russians.