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I'm at the Eurovision Song Contest grand final.

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That is the stage behind me.

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This is the enormous B&W Hallerne

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which is just absolutely astonishing.

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Pictures even on the television, even with all they've got here

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cannot get across the sheer size of this place.

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In less than two hours, it will be the grand final on

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that stage right there.

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My heart's with the United Kingdom, but let's

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be honest, it's probably gonna be Sweden or Austria.

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Which is interesting.

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Because it's a very close Eurovision this year.

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The bookies' odds are all over the place.

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There are any number of possible winners.

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And well, it's possible there could be a tie.

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So how does Eurovision break ties?

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First rule, if the number of points is the same,

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then it goes to how many countries gave the two, or

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three or four people at the top any number of points.

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If that matches, it goes to how many gave them twelve points,

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the maximum.

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If that matches, to ten.

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And that's happened once, back in 1991.

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But if it keeps going, if it goes to eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, all the way, if

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two countries have exactly the same voting pattern,

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it goes to the one that was earliest in the show.

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And there's a reason for that.

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It's been 10 years since any song in the first half of the Eurovision song contest

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actually managed to win.

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Ten years.

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And in those years, the 16th, 17th, 18th place has won 6 times.

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Now, partly that's because it's not a random draw.

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They draw for the first or second half.

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But, well, after that it's up to the producers: so they put the good songs there.

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But, also it's because, well

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more people will watch the late parts of the show, so more people will vote for those songs.

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As for Molly, from the United Kingdom, well she's 26th today,

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might not be a good spot, but, well here's hoping.

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In the meantime, from the Eurovision Song Contest, and I cannot believe I'm saying that,

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that's something you might not have known. See you on the telly in a couple of hours.

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