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Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest 2003 - Rules. Part 6
XII. FINAL DRESS REHEARSAL - VOTING
The final dress rehearsal shall be produced in full and under the same conditions as the Contest Final.
1. Each participant shall make a recording of the final dress rehearsal.
2. Each participant shall be required to order the circuits for the voting procedure as specified by the EBU Operations Department in agreement with the producing organization .
3. Each participant’s spokesperson shall hold a rehearsal of the voting procedure in accordance with instructions issued by the Permanent Services.
4. The national real or standby jury shall assemble for the final dress rehearsal on 24 May 2003, the day of the Contest Final.
5. The real or standby juries shall receive the sound and vision of the final dress rehearsal of each song presented. They shall then hold a rehearsal of the voting procedure in accordance with instructions issued by the Permanent Services.
6. During the break between the end of that rehearsal and the broadcast, the juries may view/listen to this recording if they so wish.
XIII. FINAL VOTE BY THE PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
1. There shall be an interval of at least seven minutes after the recapitulative run-through of all the songs. After the voting has been completed, the secretary in charge in each country shall add up the number of votes obtained by each song. He/she shall allocate 12 points to the song gaining the most votes, 10 points to the song gaining the second highest number of votes, 8 points to the song gaining the third highest number of votes, 7 points to the next, and so on down to 1 point for the song gaining the tenth highest number of votes. The spokesperson shall stand by to make the public announcement of these results.
2. For the stand-by jury’s results, should there be a tie for any of the above positions, the order of the tying songs shall be ascertained by a show of hands by the jury members. If two or more songs tie for the same place, and if there is still a tie after the show of hands, the final order shall be decided by the vote of the youngest member of the jury.
XIV. FINAL CLASSIFICATION
1. The points allocated by each participant must be announced in ascending order, beginning with the minimum number of points (1) and ending with the maximum (12). Thus, the attribution of points shall take place in the following order: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12.
2. When called upon to announce the final points allocated, the spokesperson shall, in English or in French, state the name of the country for which he/she is speaking and then announce, in ascending order, how the points have been awarded.
3. The spokespersons are not necessarily called in the order in which the songs were presented.
4. The producing organization shall provide a suitable scoreboard in full view of the audience on which the cumulative points for each song shall be displayed as the points are announced by the spokespersons.
5. The total number of points and the final classification of the songs shall be established when the announcements of all the national votes have been completed.
6. The Scrutineer shall satisfy himself / herself as to the correctness of the voting operations leading up to the final classification. The Scrutineer shall be responsible for any decisions required in the course of the voting and for giving any necessary instructions to the presenter and the scoreboard operator(s).
The official materials (SPG 02-12058) from European Broadcasting Union / Union Europeenne de Radio-Television had been used at creation of this part of the site
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