{"id":13607,"date":"2011-05-27T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2011-05-27T18:29:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T17:29:53","slug":"they-were-lucky-italy-didnt-win-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/they-were-lucky-italy-didnt-win-2\/","title":{"rendered":"They were lucky Italy didn&#039;t win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>European Broadcasting Union<\/i> have just released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/news?id=36713&#038;_t=ebu_reveals_split_televoting_and_jury_results\">details of the voting split<\/a> of the recent Eurovision contest.<\/p>\n<p>On their website, it&#8217;s just numbers, so I&#8217;ve made a pretty graph to illustrate the difference between the juries&#8217; opinions and how people voted in their living rooms:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/eurovision.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/eurovision.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Eurovision 2011\" width=\"95%\"  class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3904\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is clear that they were very lucky Azerbaijan won, given that it was the popular winner, too.<\/p>\n<p>If Italy had won, there would have been an uproar today &ndash; after all, ten other songs were more popular in the televoting process, so the Italian song really wasn&#8217;t the people&#8217;s favourite (although I rather liked it).<\/p>\n<p>I wonder whether they&#8217;ll continue releasing the voting splits, or whether they&#8217;ll stop as soon as the popular winner loses because of the juries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Broadcasting Union have just released the details of the voting split of the recent Eurovision contest. On their website, it&#8217;s just numbers, so I&#8217;ve made a pretty graph to illustrate the difference between the juries&#8217; opinions and how people voted in their living rooms: It is clear that they were very lucky Azerbaijan won, given that it was the popular winner, too. If Italy had won, there would have been an uproar today &ndash; after all, ten other songs were more popular in the televoting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,119,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-media","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}