The Reorder Board is a project started by David Hughes, mainly as a way to get through the lockdown in Europe during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and following the cancellation of the 2020 contest.
The 2003 contest was the first to use a reactive scoreboard, as points were assigned the countries' placement on the scoreboard would change. This scoreboard continues to be used to this day. Hughes decided to take that format and configure it for the scoreboards for all past contests from 1957 to 2002. Part 1 of the project covered the contests from 1980 to 2002. Part 2 covered the 1957 to 1979 contests.
Design and Format[]
For all scoreboards, the characteristics and theme of each edition is incorporated into the design as well as the language of the host nation. It also keeps track of the points a country received in the last 3 rounds of voting and the average total of points received. For the years where the relegation rule was enforced, the bottom countries would either be marked or shaded to show that they were in the relegation zone.
Each video features a truncated version of the start of the broadcast, a supercut of the participating songs, a snippet of the interval act, the voting window introduction, the full voting sequence, a recap of the top 3 (including winner's encore) and part of the closing credits.
Featured Uses[]
The Reorder Board scoreboards for the 1980 and 1992 contests were used by the EBU with permission from Hughes for the July and August 2021 airings of Eurovision Again. It was done in a way to make the scoring easier to follow.