The Full NZ Jury Ranking for Eurovision 2021

Ahead of the Grand Final, we revealed our jury’s favourite acts from the Eurovision Song Contest 2021. If you missed it, check it first below.

While the Top 10 is nice, it’s perhaps even more fun to see which songs we collectively put at the…other end of the list.

Here’s the full ranking of the NZ jury: the individual rankings are anonymised.

Rank	Country	Artist	Song	Juror A	Juror B	Juror C	Juror D
1	Switzerland	Gjon’s Tears	Tout l’Univers	7	3	2	7
2	Italy	Måneskin	Zitti e buoni	12	13	1	2
3	San Marino	Senhit	Adrenalina	2	4	4	21
4	France	Barbara Pravi	Voilà	1	10	8	9
5	Cyprus	Elena Tsagrinou	El diablo	3	5	6	15
6	Russia	Manizha	Russian Woman	14	23	5	1
7	Bulgaria	Victoria	Growing Up Is Getting Old	5	2	20	11
8	Netherlands	Jeangu Macrooy	Birth of a New Age	10	6	15	3
9	Spain	Blas Cantó	Voy a quedarme	26	1	19	8
10	Ukraine	Go_A	Shum (Шум)	13	9	3	12
11	Malta	Destiny	Je me casse	6	14	14	4
12	Belgium	Hooverphonic	The Wrong Place	8	7	9	20
13	Serbia	Hurricane	Loco Loco	4	22	10	23
14	Iceland	Daði og Gagnamagnið	10 Years	19	19	12	5
15	Norway	Tix	Fallen Angel	18	8	7	22
16	Finland	Blind Channel	Dark Side	9	11	11	14
17	Lithuania	The Roop	Discoteque	15	26	17	6
18	Albania	Anxhela Peristeri	Karma	21	15	13	13
19	Portugal	The Black Mamba	Love Is on My Side	24	21	16	10
20	Azerbaijan	Efendi	Mata Hari	11	16	21	24
21	Sweden	Tusse	Voices	16	12	24	18
22	Greece	Stefania	Last Dance	20	17	22	16
23	United Kingdom	James Newman	Embers	17	20	25	19
24	Moldova	Natalia Gordienko	Sugar	25	18	26	17
25	Germany	Jendrik	I Don’t Feel Hate	23	25	18	25
26	Israel	Eden Alene	Set Me Free	22	24	23	26

Sorry to Eden.

How we found the jury results

Just like a real Eurovision jury, our jurors were asked to rank the Grand Finalists from favourite to least favourite, focusing on the performer’s vocal capacity, the onstage performance, the composition and originality of the song, and their overall impression of the act.

The jury members ranked first their favourite song, second, their second favourite song, third, their third favourite song, and so on until their least favourite song, which was ranked last. Every juror ranked every song.

From there, we applied an exponential weight model to each juror’s rankings. This is the same process that the EBU follows with the real juries. 

Rather than giving each rank given by a juror the same weight, the EBU allocates predefined ‘score values’ to each ranking position, intentionally increasing the value of the top-10 ranks: the top-3 in particular. These score values start with the value of 12 for the first rank and will decrease exponentially further down the ranking list. The sum of the scores for all 26 songs from the five jurors creates the national jury result where the resulting top 10 ranked countries will be awarded that jury’s 12, 10, 8 points and so on.

Nobody knows what the EBU’s ‘score values’ are, but others have guessed and have come very close, so we’re using our best guess, too. We checked our guess against the real juries rankings and they match, so this is a faithful model.