High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There have been many varied voting systems at the Eurovision Song Contest. Currently, the winner of the Contest is selected by means of a positional voting system. Each country ranks all the entries and assigns twelve points to their favorite entry; ten points to their second favorite entry; and eight down to one point to their third to tenth favorites. Countries are not allowed to vote for themselves.The current method for ranking entries, first introduced in 2009 in the final, and in 2010 in the semi-finals, is a 50/50 mixture of both telephone vote and the votes of juries made up of music professionals.