There's one unclear moment I want to clarify: when I say televoting in this video, I really mean it. Because not all the televoting results between 2008 and 2023 are really 100% televoting. The examples are as follows: - In 2023, when the televote only system in the semi finals was re-introduced, San Marino used jury voting instead of artificially collected "televoting". So, I deduct all the points from San Marino in the 2nd semi final to get televote only ranking. So, Slovenia becomes 4th and Lithuania 5th, as their official difference in points is 7 points but Sammarinese juries gave 12 points to Lithuania and 0 to Slovenia. Hence, the maximum possible televote score becomes 12 points less too. - The same is for 2009 that had televote only semis and 50/50 final and for 2008 that had both semis and final televote only. Some single countries used only jury voting, so I didn't considered their points too. - Before 2016, the voting system required countries to combine their 50/50 jury and televotes to get one set of Eurovision points. But there were countries that used only jury voting or only televoting by various reasons. So, I didn't consider points from countries that used only jury voting. Also, I had to make new split jury/televote rankings, as the official ones from Wikipedia/EBU include all the jury points in the televote rankings from the countries that used only them (and the other way around, they also include televote points in the jury rankings from the countries that didn't have juries). So, don't say me I'm wrong because in Wikipedia the split televote rankings are different, no, it's just I deducted all the hidden jury points from them. The detailed results for 2010 - 2013 are not released (with 2013 we don't even have points in the split jury/televote results, only average places). So, I don't know which countries used only juries or only televote and have no choice but to consider the official jury/televote rankings and to treat it like all the countries had televote, even San Marino (while the surely didn't every year until 2016 when the artificially collected televote for them was introduced). From 2016, with the new voting system, every country had to have some kind of televote, so I couldn't deduct anything there too.

Australia got hurt by the two horse race between Finland and Sweden. A lot of people said they wanted to give Australia votes but threw them all at Finland due to wanting to overcome the Jury scores.

We are Domi, Teya & Salena and Destiny were hurt by the running order. We can see a lot of songs from Semi-Final 2 of 2023, where songs from Australia, Belgium, Estonia, Lithuania and Austria were saved by the juries in the Grand Final. The highest-ranked song was Solo by Blanka. And we all knew how the fans reacted when she was selected to represent Poland. All the televote favorites came from the first Semi-final in 2023. Allocation draw is also very important. This year (2024) I could see Finland or Switzerland doing great at their Semi's and at the grand final doing not so well... We will see... Interesting video once again.

It's interesting how a lot of these performed very late in their semis and then were hurt by the running order in the final A lot of semi closers made it very high on this list

Australia was low because lot of their fans voted for Finland.

what this video clearly shows is that running order matters so much

Still so sad about Lights Off being an underrated masterpiece

We are domi, Teya & Salena and Vesna😭

Still makes me so upset that both teya and selina, destiny and Hera got robbed so badly in the finals

And there are still people who really think that "as long as you have a good song, running order doesn't matter" 💀💀. They should watch this video.

Years passed but I still have that "crazy feeling" about Iceland 2010.

I noticed you often mention that the televote is unpredictable. Looking at the Top 10 of this video I have to agree. Many of these seem like "televote friendly" songs and fan favourites. I guess they got the expected result in the semis and worse than expected in the final

Very nice video ❤ keep up the great work

Golden Boy from Israel is such an iconic song

Hera my queen 😞

Seeing 3 out of my top 5 Hungarian contestants on this list hurt my soul, they deserved better

Wow great video, must've taken a lot of time to collect all this data. Interested to see what would happen if you'd take the relative difference instead of the absolute percentages...

Important thing to note is that we might be seeing this more often with tele-only qualifiers. Songs that are too jury-friendly get eliminated in the semis since televote decides every song that makes it to the final. That means instead of having a few jury-bait songs receive low televote scores in the final, the televote is suddenly spread thin across 20 songs that all did well enough with the televote to qualify. Jury votes, however, will funnel towards the few jury-friendly songs that were strong enough to make it to the final.

Hera Björk and Destiny❤

I can see how much work was put into this video! Thank you

It seems like Hungary and Israel had to suffer quite often. Imri even had to suffer twice. Once himself and once as a dancer / supporting vocalist.

I had quite a large bet on Australia to win their SF in 2023, so it was a very large swing of emotions going from certain I'd got the bet wrong after seeing their GF televote score to confused relief a couple hours later after seeing they'd somehow still won the SF

Hysterical to see place 26 and 25 after each other, that was basically the same chorus

Cool

I see several songs from 2010 & 2011 in this video, which makes me think that maybe the open voting lines during the grand final this year will unfortunately not minimize the running order bias. I guess the best solution would be to reduce the number of countries in the grand final. Anyway, are you going to do the opposite as well?

Blanka))

Will you do it with: - Jury voting - Final result - Growes instead of droppers

Czechia 2022 these Drops its been because they starting like a First :(

Je Nais Sais Quoi should have won.

The top 4 all icons

How about Czechia 2016 and Austria 2017?

Is it only me or is the audio on number 30 very bad? Edit: all of 2014 has this bad audio, is it the video or something else

Portugal 2008 and turkey 2009 having the same percentage is hurting my brain, i hate math ☹️

Czechia always get a rough deal - Vesna & We Are Domi were my favourites in their respective years

cause u cant pay to 40 countries, Malta

moldova and island wont qualify croatia, serbia, slovenia, lithuania, cyprus are best in semi final 1.

mostly stupid list, only the top10 is interesting.

14:27 the concept of FLOP 😂😂😂😂 likely TVM bought votes instead and then had wasted all the money 😂