I'm at the Eurovision Song Contest grand final.
That is the stage behind me.
This is the enormous B&W Hallerne
which is just absolutely astonishing.
Pictures even on the television, even with all they've got here
cannot get across the sheer size of this place.
In less than two hours, it will be the grand final on
that stage right there.
My heart's with the United Kingdom, but let's
be honest, it's probably gonna be Sweden or Austria.
Which is interesting.
Because it's a very close Eurovision this year.
The bookies' odds are all over the place.
There are any number of possible winners.
And well, it's possible there could be a tie.
So how does Eurovision break ties?
First rule, if the number of points is the same,
then it goes to how many countries gave the two, or
three or four people at the top any number of points.
If that matches, it goes to how many gave them twelve points,
the maximum.
If that matches, to ten.
And that's happened once, back in 1991.
But if it keeps going, if it goes to eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, all the way, if
two countries have exactly the same voting pattern,
it goes to the one that was earliest in the show.
And there's a reason for that.
It's been 10 years since any song in the first half of the Eurovision song contest
actually managed to win.
Ten years.
And in those years, the 16th, 17th, 18th place has won 6 times.
Now, partly that's because it's not a random draw.
They draw for the first or second half.
But, well, after that it's up to the producers: so they put the good songs there.
But, also it's because, well
more people will watch the late parts of the show, so more people will vote for those songs.
As for Molly, from the United Kingdom, well she's 26th today,
might not be a good spot, but, well here's hoping.
In the meantime, from the Eurovision Song Contest, and I cannot believe I'm saying that,
that's something you might not have known. See you on the telly in a couple of hours.
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