Michael Rice performs at Eurovision in Tel Aviv, Israel
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The UK’s last-placed Eurovision Song Contest entry has its score lowered by five points.
A revision of scores by the judges means Michael Rice’s song ‘Bigger Than Us’ picked up just 11 points from Saturday’s final.
The contest said a wrong calculation had been used to create a “substitute” set of points after the Belarusian jury were dismissed.
The contest’s top four remains the same – and Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands stays the winner with his song ‘Arcade’.
Rice originally secured 16 points at the contest’s final in Tel Aviv, Israel – including three from the public vote – ending up in 26th place.
After the revision of scores, the 13 points he was awarded by the juries from the other participating countries dropped to 8 points.
The Belarusian jury had been dismissed after their votes from the first semi-final were revealed, against the contest rules.
The Eurovision Broadcast Union said it created a “substitute aggregated result” based on the results of other countries with similar voting records to determine the Belarusian jury scores for the final.
However, “due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used”.
It added: “The EBU and its partners… deeply regret that this error was not identified earlier and will review the processes and controls in place to prevent this from happening again.”
Despite the UK result, Rice says he enjoyed taking part, adding: “I’m so thankful to the fans… as well as my whole team who have supported me throughout this whole amazing journey.”
Short HeadlineUK's Eurovision entry score worse than thought
StandfirstJudges revise the UK's score after being too generous
The UK’s last-placed Eurovision Song Contest entry has its score lowered by five points.
A revision of scores by the judges means Michael Rice’s song ‘Bigger Than Us’ picked up just 11 points from Saturday’s final.
The contest said a wrong calculation had been used to create a “substitute” set of points after the Belarusian jury were dismissed.
The contest’s top four remains the same – and Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands stays the winner with his song ‘Arcade’.
Rice originally secured 16 points at the contest’s final in Tel Aviv, Israel – including three from the public vote – ending up in 26th place.
After the revision of scores, the 13 points he was awarded by the juries from the other participating countries dropped to 8 points.
The Belarusian jury had been dismissed after their votes from the first semi-final were revealed, against the contest rules.
The Eurovision Broadcast Union said it created a “substitute aggregated result” based on the results of other countries with similar voting records to determine the Belarusian jury scores for the final.
However, “due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used”.
It added: “The EBU and its partners… deeply regret that this error was not identified earlier and will review the processes and controls in place to prevent this from happening again.”
Despite the UK result, Rice says he enjoyed taking part, adding: “I’m so thankful to the fans… as well as my whole team who have supported me throughout this whole amazing journey.”
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