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Eurovision Nation 2008 Scoreboard Simulator
No two simulations are alike!

What's changed from the 2007 simulator?

- The scoreboard adapted the changes in ESC: Two semifinals, each with nine televoting winners plus a jury wild card.

- To find out which country qualified with the wild card, click 'Semifinal results' at the end of the voting. The wild card is marked with an asterisk.

- A voting progress bar is indicated at the bottom.

How this works

- Each time you run the scoreboard, success chances are randomly created and normally distributed (using Gauss curve).

- The countries qualified from the Semifinal maintain their chances of success in the final (with slight changes that can result from better/worse performance or draw). This is why Semifinal qualifiers have a small chance to end at the bottom 5 of the final. The winner can still come from a direct finalist, though.

- If you choose to define your own chances, setting a high chance doesn't guarantee success. It just increases that country's chances to succeed. Likewise with low chances. Just like with ESC, you will not always be happy with the result!

- Neighbour/diaspora voting increases some countries' chances to award points to some others, based on our observations from Televoting years.

- This scoreboard is based on the previous Scorewiz and Eileen Dunne simulators.