Sentence examples for professional juries from inspiring English sources

Under the complicated selection system, the winner is chosen in telephone voting by viewers from the 43 countries that participate, as well as panels of professional juries.

TV audiences and professional juries from every participating country selected the winners by vote, with countries forbidden to vote for their own singers.

At the Stockholm final, the professional juries and the public voters from each country will award a set of points with both sets then combined.

For the first time, the professional juries and the public voters from each country will both award a set of points from one to eight, 10 and 12 for the top 10 places.

Lazarev came out on top in the popular vote, while the professional juries placed the contestant from Australia (a minor European nation, for the purposes of this contest) in first.

The drama of the final – the organisers insist – has been undergone a major revamp of the already bewildering voting system, separating the scores of the professional juries and the viewers voting by app or text message, "adding a new level of excitement for hundreds of millions of viewers in Europe and beyond".

"But if they wanted a professional jury they would have asked for it," she said.

Each country in Eurovision splits its vote between a professional jury and a public televote.

Organisers have promised the biggest voting changes since 1975, with the votes of a professional jury presented separately to the public vote.

In each country these votes are combined with the scores of a professional jury and the top ten songs are awarded points from 12 to 1.

A round of public voting will decide the top three innovations and then a professional jury will decide which of the three will win the award.