The UK’s last-placed Eurovision Song Contest entry has had its score lowered by five points, organisers say.
A revision of scores means Michael Rice’s song Bigger Than Us picked up only 11 points from Saturday’s final.
The contest said an incorrect calculation had been used to create a “substitute” set of points after the Belarusian jury was dismissed.
The contest top four is unchanged – and Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands stays the winner with his song Arcade.
Rice originally secured 16 points at the event in Tel Aviv, Israel – including three from the public vote – ending up in 26th place.
After the revision of scores, the 13 points he was awarded by the juries from the other participating countries dropped to eight points.
The Belarusian jury had been dismissed after their votes from the first semi-final were revealed, against the contest rules.
The Eurovision Broadcast Union said it then created a “substitute aggregated result” based on the results of other countries with similar voting records to determine the Belarusian jury scores for the final.
However, “due to a human error an incorrect aggregated result was used”.
