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Eurovision voting system fails again

With changes made to the voting system for the Eurovision 2010 contest, some people held high hopes that the system would bring a fairer contest and see better songs make their way through.

WRONG! Once again the Eurovision voting system is a disaster, and a pathetic failure.

Dont take it personally, EUB but you got it wrong, again.

The problem is the regional voting patterns.

Here is the solution.

Once upon a time you could vote, but not for your own country. Thats when there were only a handful of entrants.

Now we have dozens of entrants and regional voting blocks are a problem.

I would extend the philosophy of not voting for your own country to not voting for your own region.

Group all entrants into regional blocks of 6 and you can not vote for a country in your own regional block.

This would immediately remove the impact of regional voting and ensure a fairer Eurovision system.

What do you think?

An alternative would be to group all entrants into groups of 6, and they have a mini final against each other so that only one entrants goes to the final from that region, with wildcards given to the next highest placings.

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