The venerable Eurovision song contest is changing the voting system whereby each country has 2 lots of votes each - the 'jury' of (presumably) experts and the general public, thereby reducing the risk of 'null points' to those unlucky songs at the bottom end of the talent spectrum.
Until now, the marks have been combined, giving the marks to the countries top 8 (or is it 10?) songs. The new system will potentially have a maximum of 16 (20?) scoring countries, so the chances of anyone missing out at the end of the night is doubtful, although not impossible.
I read a book a few years ago based around these null-pointers, starting with the competitions' first ignominious loser from Norway. A very entertaining book if I remember rightly, and charted the subsequent success (or not) of the various performers.
An interesting read can be found by perusing the British food survey which has been collating data since 1974. Stand out headlines to me are that tea consumption has halved since the 70s, and I now eat 75g of pizza a week, none at all in 1974.
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