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Interesting Facts about Eurovision Song Contest

According to the Eurovision executives, about 3-4 women win for every 1 man that wins the Contest. Er, so how is it that in 2005, that men were in the lead with 11 performers, and women with 21?

The most controversial winner of the Eurovison Song Contest is an Israeli transsexual, Dana International in 1998. He, or she, is participating again in the 2011 Eurovison.

Eurovision Song Contest has used many different voting systems over the years. After each entry was ranked according to the participating countries, they were assigned twelve points (Douze) for their favorite entry, ten points for their second entry, and so on. Since 2009, the points system has changed to a 50/50 ranking between telephone votes, and jury votes.

Loukas Giorka (Greece)