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The Eurovision Song Contest 1980 was the 25th . Israel , winner in 1979 , declined to host the show for the second time in a row, as the IBA could not fund another international production, and the Israeli government turned down a request to extend the IBA budget. Moreover, the date that was eventually set for the 1980 contest by the European Broadcasting Union coincided with Israel's Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust, so Israel decided not to participate at all. After Spain, the 2nd place winner of 1979, and reportedly the UK, refused to host, the Netherlands finally agreed to put on the show providing they were allowed to scale back the production. Morocco joined the Eurovision family for the first (and so far only) time. Johnny Logan representing Ireland was the winner of this Eurovision with the song, What's Another Year? . This was Ireland's second time winning the competition. Ireland first won in 1970 with ''All Kinds of Everything''. RESULTS
SCORE SHEET Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 points for their top ten songs. However this year for the first time, countries were required to cast their votes in ascending order, 1,2,3 etc. This change made for the added excitement of waiting for each country to award their highest 12 points at the end of each voting round.
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