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Azerbaijan dissatisfied with counting of votes in Eurovision 2014 song contest

15 May 2014 09:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. The European Broadcasting Union announced the results of the voting in the final of Eurovision 2014 song contest that took place in Copenhagen, Denmark on May 10, PR manager of ITV's "Big Stage" program Narmina Mammadova told APA.

She said that points given by the judges and the audience were shown separately and it let us see the difference and doubt on the counting of final results: “Professional jury from 37 countries gave high points to Azerbaijan's representative Dilara Kazimova placing her in the 8th place, but finally she ranked the 22nd place. What actually happened in Eurovision 2014 song contest? Dilara's song "Start a Fire" was welcomed by journalists, fans and bookmakers before the contest. Dilara’s song has been included in TOP-12 songs of bookmakers and TOP-5 songs on Eurovision websites till the final of the contest. Dilara performed at number 3 in the final that seems to have a negative impact on the voting. Performing numbers have been determined by the local organizers of the contest since 2013, while allocation draw was held among representatives in Eurovision 2012 song contest that took place in Baku. The jury placed Dilara in the 8th place, but the audience in the 21^st place. Then an unexpected thing happened, Dilara Kazimova ranked the 22^nd place. Besides, the Italian representative who scored the same points with Dilara, ranked the 21^st place”.

N. Mammadova noted that Azerbaijan is not the only country which suffers from the new system. “Polish representatives Donatan and Cleo were placed in the 1^st place by the Great Britain audience but the jury placed them in the last place. Consequently, in accordance with the new rules, Poland didn’t receive a point from Great Britain. It means that the audience’s decision was neglected. Another misinterpretation is about Norway. Norwegian representative who was placed by the audience in the 17^th place and by the jury in the 9^th place, ranked the 23rd. In the final table he was in the 8^th place.

Final voting table of “Eurovision” - TOP-10

â„–	Voting by jury	Voting by audience	Final result
1	Austria - 224 points	Austria - 311 points	Austria - 290 points
2	Netherlands - 203 points	Netherlands - 222 points	Netherlands - 238 points
3	Sweden - 201 points	Armenia - 193 points	Sweden - 218 points
4	Hungary - 138 points	Sweden - 190 points	Armenia - 174 points
5	Armenia - 125 points	Poland - 162 points	Hungary - 143 points
6	Malta - 119 points	Russian - 132 points	Ukraine - 113 points
7	Finland – 114 points	Switzerland - 114 points	Russia - 89 points
8	Azerbaijan - 108 points	Ukraine - 112 points	Norway - 88 points
9	Norway - 102 points	Romania - 103 points	Denmark - 74 points
10	Denmark - 85 points	Hungary - 98 points	Spain - 74 points
		Azerbaijan - 26 points	Azerbaijan - 33 points