Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

EBU has revealed yesterday the juries that come up with the 50% of the final result, but with new counting system for them:Each country still has a jury with five members Each of the five jury members still rank the songs from 1 (best) to 26 (worst). The combined ranking from a country's jury is now calculated based on an "exponential weight model". The better a jury member ranks a song, the more weight it will have in the jury's combined ranking. In other words: The lower a juror ranks a song, the smaller the impact of that ranking on the overall result, while the higher a juror ranks a song, the more impact that ranking will have. This is to even the cases if a juror puts a song last in purpore it won't harm it so much anymore, and the top ones get more weight. In other words: Divisive songs stand out better against average ones no one neither likes nor dislikes.  Among the jurors dozens of familiar names from national finals like Bryan Rice (Denmark), ...

Checking out the votes given by various juries there's a curious foursome that seem to like each other a lot. Or rather a threesome that liked the fourth one that failed to make the final after all, despite getting almost half of its 46 jury points from these three, who then got the top marks in both semi final and final from it.  Now that's an interesting coincidence, isn't it? ..... Just sayin'.... Russia gives Armenia 24 points (12 in both semi final and final) Russia gives Malta 16 points  (8 in both semi final and final) Russia gives Montenegro 3 points (semi final only) Armenia gives Malta 20 points (12 in semi final and 8 in final) Armenia gives Russia 9 points (7 in semi final and 2 in final) Armenia gives Montenegro 10 points (semi final only) Malta gives Armenia 19 points (12 in semi final and 7 in final) Malta gives Russia 14 points  (10 in semifinal and 4 in final) Malta gives Montenegro 7 points (semi final onl...