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Semi final split results: Who the jury hurt at Eurovision 2015

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️Tue May 26 2015

The EBU has revealed the Eurovision 2015 semi final split results, and they suggest that the professional juries focused on the music rather than the moving backstories.

In semi final 1, Finland’s Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät (PKN) — whose members have Down syndrome and autism — showed the world that people with special needs can rock out. The jury ranked them dead last anyway, awarding them just one point. That put them 41 points behind next-to-last Macedonia. Had the semi been determined strictly by the televote, PKN would have advanced. The public gave them 51 points, which was good enough for tenth place.

In semi final 2, Poland’s Monika Kuszynska told a story of perseverance — and flashed images of herself from before the tragic car accident that left her paraplegic in 2006. It didn’t help. The jury ranked her next-to-last with just 10 points. That’s a staggering 104 points less than the public, who ranked her fourth.

Interestingly, the jury also hurt pre-contest favourites Elina & Stig from Estonia. While the public ranked them second in semi final 1 with 129 points, the jury thought they were only good enough for tenth. They handed them just 60 points.

You can see the full jury-televote split for each semi final below, along with a table that shows the difference between jury votes and televotes. What surprises you? And who has better taste: The public or the professionals?

Semi final 1 split results

Semi final 1: Who the jury hurt

The jury helped Trijntje from the Netherlands more than anyone else in this heat, giving her 47 more points than the public. They also threw major love at Uzari & Maimuna from Belarus (+33) and Greece’s Maria Elena Kyriakou (+30). Besides Finland’s PKN and Estonia’s Elina & Stig, they also hurt Serbia’s Bojana Stamenov (-35) and Romania’s Voltaj (-29).

A positive difference shows the jury helped an act, while a negative difference shows they hurt them.

Country	Jury	Televote	Difference
Netherlands	70	23	47
Belarus	65	32	33
Greece	89	59	30
Denmark	51	23	28
Belgium	139	112	27
Hungary	68	45	23
Macedonia	42	22	20
Russia	159	145	14
Moldova	46	48	-2
Albania	61	66	-5
Georgia	90	96	-6
Armenia	54	80	-26
Romania	64	93	-29
Serbia	43	78	-35
Finland	1	51	-50
Estonia	60	129	-69

Reacting to the semi final 1 split

Semi final 2 split results

Semi final 2: Who the jury hurt

Ireland’s Molly Sterling was the biggest benefactor of jury love. She got an extra 70 points from the professionals. Malta’s Amber (+52), Norway’s Morland & Debrah Scarlett (+40), and Latvia’s Aminata (+39) also got some major love.

Beside’s Poland’s Monika, the jury also lowered the overall score of Lithuania’s Monika & Vaidas (-46) and Israel’s Nadav Guedj (-43), among others.

A positive difference shows the jury helped an act, while a negative difference shows they hurt them.

Country	Jury	Televote	Difference
Ireland	84	14	70
Malta	84	32	52
Norway	144	104	40
Latvia	155	116	39
Azerbaijan	67	37	30
Sweden	208	195	13
Switzerland	15	6	9
Portugal	23	24	-1
Cyprus	76	80	-4
Iceland	15	21	-6
San Marino	6	16	-10
Montenegro	47	58	-11
Slovenia	84	95	-11
Czech Republic	34	51	-17
Israel	114	157	-43
Lithuania	52	98	-46
Poland	10	114	-104