Eurovision 2026 Douze-Points Audit: Every Country That Received A 12-Point Set In Vienna — And The Cross-Show Pattern Almost Nobody Spotted

A "set of 12" is the highest score a single voting bloc can award. Each country's jury gives one set; each country's televote gives one set; the aggregated Rest-of-the-World online vote gives one set. Track who collected the most of those across the three Vienna 2026 shows and you get a much sharper picture of where genuine consensus formed — and where the points-curve hid weaker entries that limped through on a long tail of 4s, 5s and 6s.

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The headline number

Across the three shows, the maximum award (12 points) was handed out 102 separate times:

• Semi-Final 1 — 17 voting blocs × 2 votes (jury + televote) = 34 sets of 12 in play. (15 competing countries + Italy + Germany; plus Rest-of-the-World counted once.)
• Semi-Final 2 — 18 voting blocs × 2 votes = 36 sets of 12 in play. (15 competing + Austria + France + UK; plus RoW.)
• Grand Final — 35 jury + 36 televote pools (35 countries + RoW) = 71 sets of 12 in play.

Below is the cross-show audit, ranked by which countries collected sets of 12 most consistently.

Grand Final · Jury 12-points received

Eighteen of the 25 finalists received at least one jury 12 in the Grand Final. The seven countries that received zero: Croatia, Lithuania, Moldova, Sweden, Germany, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Poland tied with Bulgaria on jury 12s (4 each) but trailed by 71 jury points overall (133 vs 204). The difference: Poland's long-tail of mid-range scores was thinner — they took four 12s but missed out on enough 10s, 8s and 7s to keep up.

The cross-show consistency check — who topped jury 12s in multiple shows

Poland's nine total jury 12s across SF1 + Final is the highest cross-show jury haul of any country in 2026 — and Poland still finished 12th overall (150 points) because its televote (17 public points) was almost non-existent. Malta's six with three in each show represents the most consistent jury appeal across the contest, yet Malta finished 18th overall because the public gave it eight televote points total. The 12-points layer reveals jury-favourite entries that the format then punished severely.

Grand Final · Televote leaders

Wikipedia's aggregate covers the SF2 televote dominance (Bulgaria 8+RoW) — covered in our separate SF2 recap. Here's how Grand Final televote totals stacked up, with the points-per-share figure included:

The top 5 alone took 53% of the entire 2,088-point televote pool. The remaining 20 finalists split 47% — and three of them (Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom) split 0 of that, receiving no televote points at all.

The countries that received zero from the public

The UK's single point came from one country's jury awarding the entry one point. ESSYLA's "Dancing on the Ice" for Belgium and Sarah Engels' "Fire" for Germany were dragged into the points only by professional juries. All three failed to register with the public anywhere across the 36 televote pools — meaning Belgium and Germany's entries collected zero, zero across the board, while the UK's televote total was the lowest possible (a clean zero from every single bloc).

Compare that to the contest's televote winner (Bulgaria) which received maximum 12 from at least six of those pools, and the gap is roughly 60 points just from the maximum-award layer.

Cross-show jury vs televote agreement matrix

Counting how many entries placed in the jury top 5 AND the televote top 5 in the same show:

The jury and the televote disagreed on roughly 4 of every 5 top-5 picks in each show. The 2026 finals scoreboard is therefore a structural compromise: a country needs either both groups to mildly like them or one group to love them. Bulgaria did the second — and it loved them more than any country has been loved at the top end of either pool since the 50/50 system began.

Why this matters for the 2027 outright market

The single most-undervalued signal pre-final was Bulgaria's SF2 televote dominance — eight different competing countries plus the Rest-of-the-World online aggregate awarded 12 points to Bangaranga in the same show. UK outright pricing on Bulgaria moved roughly 25/1 → 15/1 in the 24 hours after SF2. With hindsight that should have been 8/1 or shorter. The lesson for 2027 bettors: when a single entry pulls maximum awards from more than five voting blocs in a single show, the prior on outright winner needs to compress hard, not creep.

Related

• Full SF1 + SF2 + Final douze-points distribution
• SF2 recap — Bulgaria's 9× televote 12s
• Grand Final recap — record 173-point margin

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