Scoreboard

"Will Sweden give us any points this year?!"

The Scoreboard is used in the Eurovision Song Contest to display all the votes from the various countries, and has changed in various styles and operations throughout the years.

Behind the older scoreboards, are operators who display the countries and numbers, and sometimes the scoreboard does go a little awry, with the wrong country's points being updated, a delay in updating, or the scoreboard changes colour, such as the 1984 scoreboard.  The first computer-generated scoreboard was used at the 1988 contest in Dublin. Jury spokespersons also gave their votes through the phone or have the Jury present in the hall, before there were satellites beginning in 1994 to transmit spokespersons from their own country and displayed on screen.

In 1996 and 2014 there were hologramic versions of the scoreboard on stage (2014's being in the big LED grid) which were also shown on the television in graphic format.

Nowadays, computers are used and are more accurate with more fancy graphics, but they don't create some of the funny moments that they've had in previous years. After 2006, the EBU decided to save some time when voting, instead of each point being read out individually, points 1-7 were already allocated and the spokesperson only has to read out points 8, 10 and 12. The voting still takes about an hour even with this method, due to the number of participating countries.

The funniest moments in the Eurovision Voting

A video compiled by YouTube user escbelgium that includes the funny moments

But sometimes the voting spokesperson does mess up their votes, or just wants to play funny.

In 2012, the Swedish spokesperson was the character "Lynda Woodruff" (aka Sarah Dawn Finer), who is known for various funny sketches throughout Eurovision shows. This caused some laughter.

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The 2015 scoreboard

The 2013 scoreboard

The 2004 scoreboard

The 1997 scoreboard

The 1991 scoreboard

The 1986 scoreboard

The 1983 scoreboard

The 1977 scoreboard

The 1971 scoreboard

The 1965 scoreboard

The 1961 scoreboard

The 1959 scoreboard

The 1958 scoreboard

The 1957 scoreboard