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>>> I couldnt get my head round the popular vote. How could about five countries get no points?
The way it works, Roopower, is that each country allocates points to the songs in the same that its jury has already done, with the most popular song gaining 12 points, the second most popular getting 10 and then going down from 8 to 1 points for the 3rd to 10th most popular. The points from all 39 countries that have voted are then added together to produce the totals.
So, in order for a country in the final to get at least one point, it must get ranked within the top ten most popular songs with at least one nation that votes. If every single voting country ranks a song in 11th place (i.e. everyone thinks that it at least deserves a 'top half' ranking), it will still end up with zero points because it's only 'top ten' songs that can ever be awarded any.