Tamilla Shirinova to announce Azerbaijan`s votes at Eurovision-2013 Grand Final
Baku, May 18 (AZERTAC). TV presenter Tamilla Shirinova will announce Azerbaijan`s votes at the Grand Final of Eurovision-2013 Song Contest.
There have been many varied voting systems at the Eurovision Song Contest. Currently, the winner of the Contest is selected by means of a positional voting system. Each country ranks all the entries and assigns twelve points to their favourite entry, ten points to their second favourite entry, and eight down to one point to their third to tenth favourites. Countries are not allowed to vote for themselves.
The current method for ranking entries, first used in the final of 2009 edition, and extended the next year to semifinals, is a 50/50 combination of both telephone vote and the votes of juries made up of music professionals. In the past, small demographically-balanced juries made up of ordinary people were used to rank the entries. After the widespread implementation of telephone vote in 1998, juries were only used in case of televoting malfunctions or a weak telephone system. In 2003, Eircom`s telephone polls system ceased to operate normally; the Irish broadcaster, RTÉ, did not receive the votes on time and instead used the votes of a panel of judges. In the first years of the telephone vote, the lines were opened for a short period after the performance of the final song. This was changed on the 2010 Contest, in which the lines opened before the first song, allowing viewers to vote during the performances, but this change was reverted for the 2012 contest.
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