Melodifestivalen 2019, the Swedish selection for the Eurovision song contest heats up with voting changes.
The SMS voting disappears and the jury groups become fewer. From this year’s MF, it will no longer be possible to vote via SMS. There will also be fewer countries in the international jury, now 8 instead of 11.
These are some of the changes that SVT decided to introduce the current voting which they believe will make things even more exciting.
Voting via the app is as follows: All incoming votes must be divided according to seven different age categories, which are then weighted against each other. The age groups will be divided and colored in the app heart in the following way:
• Green: 3–9 years (interesting but then young young people learn technology quite fast)
• Turquoise: 10–15 years
• Blue: 16–29 years (quite a big group here)
• Purple: 30–44 years
• Pink: 45–59 years
• Red: 60–74 years
• Orange: 75+ (not sure how many people are in this group)
Furthermore, the voting heart visible on the TV screen will change as well. The heart will only pound, not be on fire, and the variations will be considerably subtler. This way, it will be harder to figure out the result by watching the heart. Also, the heart will change colour based on the age groups that shows the highest engagement at the moment.
Lets see how these chances will work in practice.