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Jessica Sansome

'Human error' changes Eurovision results - and it's even worse for the UK

Eurovision Song Contest bosses have had to confess to a 'human error' over the results of the competition - and it hasn't made the UK look any better.

The major music event took place last Saturday in Tel Aviv and saw the Netherlands entry Duncan Laurence sweep to victory.

But now, the Eurovision Broadcast Union have released a statement that a massive mistake was made during the jury's results, the Mirror reports.

The Belarusian jury was dismissed after their votes from the first semi-final of the singing contest were revealed, which is against the rules.

For the grand final, the EBU created an aggregated result "based on the results of other countries with similar voting records".

Duncan Laurence won the 64th annual Eurovision Song Contest (Michael Campanella/Getty Images)

This was approved by voting monitor Ernst & Young, but an "incorrect aggregated result" was used.

Whilst the blunder doesn't change the top four, it has altered the score for the United Kingdom.

Micheal Rice, who represented the country at the contest, performed track Bigger Than Us but only received a score of 16 and finished in last place.

The mistake has now seen the UK lose another five points leaving us on only 11.

The  statement on the results of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest from the EBU said: "The EBU can confirm, following standard review practices, we have discovered that due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used. This had no impact on the calculation of points derived from televoting across the 41 participating countries and the overall winner and Top 4 songs of the Contest remain unchanged.

Micheal performed in Tel Aviv on Saturday (Guy Levy/BBC/BBC/PA Wire)

"To respect both the artists and EBU Members which took part, we wish to correct the final results in accordance with the rules. The correct jury points have now been added to the scoreboard and the revised totals for each participating broadcaster, and their country, have been published on eurovision.tv.

"The EBU and its partners digame and Ernst & Young deeply regret that this error was not identified earlier and will review the processes and controls in place to prevent this from happening again."

The correct results in full:

  1. Netherlands (498 points)
  2. Italy (472 points)
  3. Russia (370 points)
  4. Switzerland (364 points)
  5. Sweden (334 points)
  6. Norway (331 points)
  7. North Macedonia (305 points)
  8. Azerbaijan (302 points)
  9. Australia (284 points)
  10. Iceland (232 points)
  11. Czech Republic (157 points)
  12. Denmark (120 points)
  13. Cyprus (109 points)
  14. Malta (107 points)
  15. Slovenia (105 points)
  16. France (105 points)
  17. Albania (90 points)
  18. Serbia (89 points)
  19. San Marino (77 points)
  20. Estonia (76 points)
  21. Greece (74 points)
  22. Spain (54 points)
  23. Israel (35 points)
  24. Belarus (31 points)
  25. Germany (24 points)
  26. United Kingdom (11 points)
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