In case you missed it, the results show for I’m Sorry, Points! was held on Monday, October 5th 2020 on Twitter. Catch up here:
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I’m Sorry, Points: Voting in the Grand Final is now open!
Inspired by the infamous line uttered by ESC host Bar Refaeli during the 2019 voting sequence, I’m Sorry, Points! is a second chance style competition for all the Eurovision entries throughout the years that have failed to accumulate a single point during the voting. Of all 38 ‘nul-pointers’ that competed in the semifinals, 22 have qualified and are one step closer to getting the justice they deserve… if you still think they deserve it, that is.
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I’m Sorry, Points: Voting in the semifinals is now open!
Inspired by the infamous line uttered by ESC host Bar Refaeli during the 2019 voting sequence, I’m Sorry, Points! is a second chance style competition for all the Eurovision entries throughout the years that have failed to accumulate a single point during the voting. All 38 ‘nul pointers’ will get a chance to get the justice they deserve… if you think they deserve it, that is.
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Introducing: I’m Sorry, Points!
Throughout the years, there have been entries at the Eurovision Song Contest that fail to get a single vote from any country at the end of the night. This was particularly prominent in the 1960s where juries only gave points to a very small percentage of countries, but even as the voting structure changed to allow more countries to get votes, we still saw the occasional nul points occur every now and then.
With the introduction of semifinals, it ensured that the ESC final would be filled with more popular songs which offered voters many good choices, thus reducing chances that a song in the final would go home empty-handed.
Indeed, you can look at the numbers: since 2004, only 4 songs have failed to get any points. Half of them did not progress past the semifinals, and the other half automatically qualified to the final. This is a stark contrast from 50 years ago where 4 songs a year would get no votes.
Still, many of us recognize that many of these songs were good and deserved better. So what if we were to give all these songs a second chance?
Let me introduce to you: I’m Sorry, Points!