How To Fix Eurovision
I love the unintended double meaning in this blog post from Daniel Sullivan. With the title ‘Eurovision to be Fixed,’ he points out his delight at the re-introduction of the jury vote. Of course, with perhaps only eight people in the jury to influence, rather than a whole country voting on the phon, doesn’t this fix make ‘fixing’ Eurovision (in the sense of Franco, Spain and Cliff Richard’s “Congratulations”) a little bit easier?
I’ll stop giggling quietly to myself now.
Who says it was unintended? Seriously, (OK as serious as one can be about the Eurovision) I think the intent is to have a mix of jury and popular vote. So if song X get 3rd on the popular vote and 9th in jury selection it goes in as the 6th song for the final result.
Or they could get jury members to adopt songs and fight it out in coleslaw while wearing bikinis.