What If?

Today I ask the simple question: What if the only the countries with songs in the each contest actually were the ones who could vote. Essentially this means that the six automatic qualifiers are excluded from the semi-finals.

Interestingly in the semi-finals this would not have changed the qualifiers.

Semi 1 

1. Russia - 135

2. Albania - 118

3. Greece - 98

4. Romania - 91

5. Ireland - 83

6. Moldova - 80

7. Cyprus - 75

8. Iceland - 67

9. Denmark - 57

10. Hungary - 50

As you can see the qualifiers don't change but the order of them does. Finland would also have come 11th with Pernilla getting 41 points. In semi-final 2 it was a similar situation.

1. Sweden - 155

2. Serbia -134

3. Lithuania - 89

4. Estonia - 76

5. Bosnia + Herzegovina - 67 

6. Turkey - 61

7. Ukraine - 60

8. Malta - 58

9. Macedonia - 53

10. Norway - 45

This might not seem to make a vast amount of sense but it does show which countries got through with the support of Eastern Europe rather than countries like Estonia who nearly got 1/4 of their points from Germany, Spain and the UK.

Stats from the final will be up shortly