#I've been exhausted and my brain is still fried from the trip

[because-its-eurovision]

I really hope more delegations call for a re-evaluation of the jurys like Norway is doing. KEiiNO, Subwoolfer and Alessandra all got more than 100 points less from the jurys than the public. But I'm also hoping that Finland will not be one of the first delegations to agree with Norway because certain people would call them bitter

I agree. I think some changes are for certain coming, because we did see those after the 2015 voting scandal, and it wasn't nearly as big as this. People were also angry back then, but it was mostly fans who went to see the split results after the contest, and the casual audience outside Italy probaby didn't know of care. In 2019 Norway got their huge televote points so early that many viewers probably didn't even realise they'd won it as the focus was on the top-3 after jury vote. But this time everyone could see how big the difference was between Sweden and Finland and that the latter won the televote. All over the official FB page, Instagram, YouTube comments, people are super pissed, and EBU knows that. They have to do something. Unfortunately it won't give Käärijä the trophy of 2023.

It might also be that the change in vote in 2016 was not mainly inspired by the need to make rankings more transparent, but to bring Eurovision closer to Melodifestivalen which has slowly been happening especially when Björkman was in charge. My personal wish is still not getting rid of the juries, but to make them less biased. How that could be achieved is something the EBU reference group should really think of, whether it would be bringing a demographic jury in alongside the professional one, raising the number of jurors from five to ten, making them evaluate the performances without telling them which country they are from, or something completely different.