Countries over the last decade - Part I

Many things have happened in the last ten years:

• A semi final was introduced replacing the 'in and out', 5 year adherence and other crazy rules.
• A second semi final was introduced when the number of countries escalated to 40+
• Juries, while departed, came back in various forms
• Orchestra still missing

Anyway, today I will begin the ranking of the countries in accordance to number of votes scored in the ESC finals from 2002 through to 2011. Some are surprising - others are obvious.
41 seperate countries have contested the finals in these 10 years; three of these have appeared once and I've removed them from the deliberations:

• BULGARIA - 2005 - Water
• ITALY - 2011 - Follia d'amore
• MONTENEGRO - 2005 - Zauvijek moja (Montenegrin song as part of Serbia-Montenegro

Everyone else is fair game...

ESC 2011 #34: POLAND - Jestem - Magdalena Tul

[rating before - 20th; after - 37th]



I'm not sure about something with this song: was it nerves or was she doing too much on the night? I'm going with nerves. It's a good song and regardless of the poor-ish out of breath performance on the night, I hoped it got to the final.