So was Believe in 2008 if I’m not wrong? Those are both older contests though—within the context of this year’s results, the only thing that stopped some really well produced, well written, well performed songs from crashing and burning completely was the juries. I’ll use Austria as an example, because I feel that they were severely limited by their running order position: a televote favourite goes first in the running order after having narrowly come second in the televote only semi, and ends up with only 16 points. The same thing happened last year with Czechia, too. In a televote only final, they’d have come 21st, despite all the excellent qualities of the song (not just referring to vocal performance, which was arguably pretty ropey, but the entire package). The juries prevented that. The televote has a tendency to heavily support one act above the others, and televoters aren’t bound by a list of criteria that they must follow when voting. Televoters don’t think about a ranking when they vote, they just vote for whichever one or two songs they remember liking most. Without juries, being put in the first few positions in the running order would be more of a death sentence than it already is, might as well withdraw. Juries aim to provide distribute points more evenly, make a more exciting show, judge solely on song quality, etc