MediaHandbook2013_v1

JURY
RULES
• The jury voting will be monitored by an
independent notary in each country;
• The jury should consist of a variety of members in
terms of age, gender, and background;
• All jury members must be citizens of the country
they are representing;
• None of the jury members must be connected to
any of the participating songs/artists in such a way
that they cannot vote independently. The
participating broadcasters must send a letter of
compliance with the voting instructions together
with signed declarations by each jury member
stating that they will vote independently;
• The names of the jury members must be revealed
by the relevant participating broadcasters during
the Final;
• Each jury member of each national jury will rank
all songs in the show;
• The combined rank of each country’s jury
members determines the jury result of that
particular country;
• By judging each song each jury member will focus
on the vocal capacity of the artist(s), the
performance on stage, the composition and
originality of the song, and the overall impression
by the act..
MERGING
RESULTS
• In each country, the televoting and jury voting
result in two ranked lists of all songs;
• The EBU’s televoting partner Digame will
determine the national result by merging these two
ranked lists, and will award 12 points to the country
with the best rank, then 10 points to country with
the second-best combined rank, etc. The country
ranked 10th in the combined ranking receives 1
point;
• If there is a tie between two or more songs in the
combined ranking between televotes and the jury,
the song that obtain more votes from the audience
is ranked highest;
• The ranking of the jury vote will be published by
the EBU’s Executive Supervisor of the Eurovision
Song Contest on www.eurovision.tv within four
weeks after the Final.
Eurovision Song Contest Malmö 2013 / Media Handbook 21