Free Eurovision jury ballot (PDF)

Think your friends have terrible taste? Prove it. This jury-style ballot has every guest score every act on four things — the song, the vocals, the staging and the overall impression — so the winner is decided by numbers, not by who argues loudest.

Download the template (PDF) HERE and print one copy per player.

What's on the sheet

The ballot has a header where players write their name and the date, followed by a table with 26 numbered rows (one per running-order slot), a column for the country, and four score columns: Song, Vocals, Staging and Overall. A final Total column sits at the end of each row.

Every category is scored from 1 to 5, where 5 is the best. Add the four scores across each row to get a total out of 20. The act with the highest total on your ballot is your personal jury winner, and if two acts tie, the one with the higher Overall score takes it.

How to use it

1. Write your name and the date at the top.
2. As each act performs, write the country into the next free row so the sheet follows the running order.
3. Right after the performance, give the act 1–5 for Song, Vocals, Staging and Overall. Go with your first instinct — you can't rewind the show.
4. Judge each column on its own: Song is the song itself, Vocals is the singing, Staging is lights, camera work, props and choreography, and Overall is the whole package.
5. After the last act, add up each row and write the result in the Total column.
6. Collect everyone's ballots and add up each country's totals across all players to find the group's jury winner — then compare it with the real result.

Printing tips

• A4 and Letter both print cleanly (choose "fit to page" if your printer asks).
• Black-and-white is fine — the sheet is just black lines and text, with no shading, so it uses very little ink and you don't need a color printer.
• The score boxes are small, so a sharpened pencil or a fine pen works best.
• For a sturdier sheet that survives a full evening of writing and rewriting, print on 120gsm paper or card stock.
• A clipboard or a firm magazine underneath makes writing easier if you're on a sofa.

Why a paper version

Scoring four things for every act is exactly the kind of job that gets lost in a phone app mid-song. On paper, the whole jury sheet fits on one page and you can watch your scores build up row by row, with no tapping and no scrolling.

If you want to run a live digital scoreboard alongside the paper versions, you can create a room here and everyone can join from their own device.