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  It's time for smoke, wind machines, swearing at the national juries, and drunkenly figuring out how the new points allocation system works! Normally here I write a recap of last year, but this time we have Lynda Woodruff, spokesperson for the EBU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aB2AklGatE This year's contest takes place the week of 9 May. Semi-Final 1 is on 10 May, Semi-Final 2 is on 12 May and the Grand Final is on 14 May.  Once a year, the internet becomes flooded with ridiculously strange/awesome images, GIFs, and music videos that resemble nothing so much as American Idol on LSD. The Eurovision Song Contest is the longest-running annual international TV song competition, held primarily among the member countries of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1956. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition. Viewers in the countries of the Participating Broadcasters are invited to vote for their favourite songs (without the possibility of voting for the song representing their own country) by means of televoting, which shall be implemented in all the countries of the Participating Broadcasters. In both Semi-Finals and in the Final, the final scores of the songs in each country shall be calculated on the basis of both the results of televoting and the National Jury's vote. Since 2008, the Eurovision Song Contest consists of three live shows, aired prime-time to millions of homes across Europe. During two Semi-Finals, viewers and juries across Europe determine which countries will be represented in the Final.  Some famous artists have gotten their start in the ESC, such as Celine Dion and ABBA. Why we actually care is this contest gives life to performances that can only be described as Eurovision such as the ones mentioned below (though there are many others as well.) Winning the Eurovision Song Contest provides a short-term boost to the winning artists' career, but rarely results in long-term success.   SVT announced on 24 May, the day after winning the 2015 Contest, that the Tele2 Arena in Stockholm was their first choice of venue to hold the contest. Tele2 Arena said no because it'd interfere with football matches scheduled so we're at the Ericsson Globe instead! The Globe hosted the contest back in 2000 and has done Melodifestivalen a bunch of times as well.  10 May. Voting open to participating countries plus France, Spain, and Sweden.  Finland - Sandhja - Sing It Away Greece - Argo - Utopian Land Moldova - Lidia Isac - Falling Stars Hungary - Freddie - Pioneer Croatia - Nina Kraljić - Lighthouse The Netherlands - Douwe Bob - Slow Down Armenia - Iveta Mukuchyan - LoveWave San Marino - Serhat - I Didn't Know Russia - Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One Czech Republic - Gabriela Gunčíková - I Stand Cyprus - Minus One - Alter Ego Austria - ZOË - Loin d'ici Estonia - Jüri Pootsmann - Play Azerbaijan - Samra - Miracle Montenegro - Highway - The Real Thing Iceland - Greta Salóme - Hear Them Calling Bosnia & Herzegovina - Dalal & Deen feat. Ana Rucner and Jala - Ljubav Je Malta - Ira Losco - Walk On Water 12 May. Voting open to participating countries plus Germany, Italy, and the UK.  Latvia - Justs - Heartbeat Poland - Michał Szpak - Color Of Your Life Switzerland - Rykka - The Last Of Our Kind Israel - Hovi Star - Made Of Stars Belarus - IVAN - Help You Fly Serbia - Sanja Vučić ZAA - Goodbye (Shelter) Ireland - Nicky Byrne - Sunlight Macedonia - Kaliopi - Dona Lithuania - Donny Montell - I've Been Waiting for This Night Australia - Dami Im - Sound Of Silence Slovenia - ManuElla - Blue And Red Bulgaria - Poli Genova - If Love Was A Crime Denmark - Lighthouse X - Soldiers Of Love Ukraine - Jamala - 1944 Norway - Agnete - Icebreaker Georgia - Nika Kocharov and Young Georgian Lolitaz - Midnight Gold Albania - Eneda Tarifa - Fairytale Belgium - Laura Tesoro - What's The Pressure On 23 May the top 10 countries from the semi-finals will join Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK in the Grand Final. The big 5 get in the final automatically because they bankroll a large portion of the costs of the event. However, Australia doesn't get a free pass this time! Belgium - Laura Tesoro - What's The Pressure Czech Republic - Gabriela Gunčíková - I Stand The Netherlands - Douwe Bob - Slow Down Azerbaijan - Samra - Miracle Hungary - Freddie - Pioneer Italy - Francesca Michielin - No Degree Of Separation Israel - Hovi Star - Made Of Stars Bulgaria - Poli Genova - If Love Was A Crime Sweden - Frans - If I Were Sorry Germany - Jamie-Lee - Ghost France - Amir - J'ai cherché Poland - Michał Szpak - Color Of Your Life Australia - Dami Im - Sound Of Silence Cyprus - Minus One - Alter Ego Serbia - Sanja Vučić ZAA - Goodbye (Shelter) Lithuania - Donny Montell - I've Been Waiting for This Night Croatia - Nina Kraljić - Lighthouse Russia - Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One Spain - Barei - Say Yay! Latvia - Justs - Heartbeat Ukraine - Jamala - 1944 Malta - Ira Losco - Walk On Water Georgia - Nika Kocharov and Young Georgian Lolitaz - Midnight Gold Austria - ZOË - Loin d'ici United Kingdom - Joe and Jake - You're Not Alone Armenia - Iveta Mukuchyan - LoveWave As we all remember, last year Australia was allowed to enter the contest as a special event for the 60th anniversary of Eurovision. Last year they said if Australia wins, they would be able to return for the 2016 edition, which would be organised by SBS but held in a European host city of its choice. Australia  They did give Sweden 12 points last year... Also returning this year is Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, and the Ukraine!  Who do we say goodbye to this year? Portugal couldn't decide on a method to pick their entry, and they never do very well anyways so they've decided to skip a year and come back in 2017, hopefully with a better selection process. We also say goodbye to a Goon favourite, Romania. Romania had picked a song to send to the contest, but turns out they haven't been paying their bills for the contest for quite some time! To my surprise they currently owe the EBU €15 million, and the EBU has finally had enough of it. They've been given the boot until they pay up.  Some are classics, some are new and take us by surprise, some make Belarus really mad seemingly every year. We look back at some of the best Eurovision has to offer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHWFiavqjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkmncrAPILw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAh9NRGNhUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYJwnCsMBfo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjHJneVonE  Here's a comprehensive ESC drinking game to ensure you end up in the hospital by Saturday night: http://www.aleth.talktalk.net/eurosong.html Join us in irc.synirc.net channel #eurovision as we get ready for this year, and drink straight through it!  Thanks to EL BROMANCE, Goons were able to perform a televote! No longer would we have to wonder where our douze points would go to if only we were a voting bloc. The site is live at : http://crucialweb.net/eurovision Previous years sites are at the following if you want to see how the goon vote went in years past: http://crucialweb.net/eurovision2014 http://crucialweb.net/eurovision2013 http://crucialweb.net/eurovision2012    They've also changed the voting system this year! Just going to copy/paste it because I haven't read it myself tbh. The EBU announced on 18 February 2016 that a new voting system would be implemented at the contest for the first time since 1975. The new system, inspired by the voting system of Melodifestivalen, involves each country now awarding two sets of points from 1-8, 10 and 12: one from their professional jury and the other from televoting. After viewers have cast their votes, the results of each professional jury will be presented, with countries receiving 1-8 and 10 points being displayed on-screen instead of 1-7, which had been the case since 2006, and the national spokesperson only announcing the country receiving 12 points. After the results of the professional juries are presented, the televoting points from all participating countries will be combined, providing one score from each song. The results of countries finishing between 11th and 26th in the public vote will be automatically added to the scoreboard, with only the results of the top ten countries being announced by the hosts. The new voting system will also be used to determine the qualifiers from each semi-final, but as before the qualifiers will be announced in a random order. As the new voting system gives equal weight to both jury and televoting results, a national televoting/jury result cannot be used as backup result for the jury/televoting. Therefore, if a country cannot deliver a valid televoting/jury result, a substitute result is calculated by the jury/televoting result of a pre-selected group of countries approved by the contest's Reference Group. The Director General of Radiotelevisione della Repubblica di San Marino (SMRTV), Carlo Romeo, stated on 23 February that the use of a substitute televoting result discriminated against microstates like San Marino, which only used a professional jury due to their use of the Italian phone system and would therefore have its voting representation diminished under the new system, and criticised the EBU for not contacting its members before making the decision.  2015 2014 - Radium 12 Points! 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 less than three fucked around with this message at 15:47 on May 14, 2016 |
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 Stream links: Probably best for most countries: http://www.svtplay.se/ ESC Official: http://www.eurovision.tv/page/news?id=watch_tonight_the_first_semi-final_live_from_stockholm less than three fucked around with this message at 16:01 on May 11, 2016 |
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Eurovision. Big fan.
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A very european event
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how many trannies do you think there will be this year?
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Apr 23, 2016 11:29
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LordArgh posted:how many trannies do you think there will be this year? I'm thinking 0. Bad hosts don't enter the competition again.
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Apr 23, 2016 11:45
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Man check out the effort on that op guys, 
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Apr 23, 2016 11:51
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So, is the new voting sistem any good? I can't really say right now...
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Apr 23, 2016 12:05
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Let's face it Australia did win last year and all the Eurovoting blocks hosed us over.  Oh boy I'm blaming voting blocks for things now, my Euromania is growing. Seriously though I wanted France to win, Mustache was great Looking forward to this year!
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Without Romania who will Moldova give 12 points to?
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Apr 23, 2016 12:37
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I'm obliged to link this former contestant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vQUnjMMHXw
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My fave event, Eurovision owns
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The San Marino dude this year is the creepiest monocle wearing person I've ever seen, and that says a lot. Cool song though.
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Apr 23, 2016 13:25
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Blocs.
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Apr 23, 2016 13:44
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less than three posted:
what the gently caress eurovision
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Apr 23, 2016 14:12
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is it gonna be a bunch of songs about allah this year
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Apr 23, 2016 14:20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTCyTGSd3Gw
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Apr 23, 2016 14:26
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For the most parts its the acts that don't make it to the final that are the most interesting like good ol Estonia in 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dllo85ZSUk Or Finland last year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Y0HOPL5GU
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Not watched any of the final entries this year, apart from the UK's usual bottom-of-the-table submission, but I remember a Swedish person sending me this (no idea if it made it to the finals). As with all Swedepop it's catchy as hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0kp66ZYtA Bravest choice of Eurovision so far - Slovenia running this as the interval show in their national final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wFKNy0MZQ Winny Puuh *neverforget* Yes it was in the post above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dllo85ZSUk Clyde Radcliffe fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Apr 24, 2016 |
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Välkommen till djungeln vi har kul och spel vi har allting ni vill ha honung, vi vet namnen vi är de som kan hitta det du behöver Om du har pengar, honung Vi har din sjukdom.
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mit livs kærlighed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RocwgGq9iAc
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 In days of yore our national pride was built on the quality of our Eurovision entries. We may have been a forgotten backwater of Europe, but we knew how to belt out a tune. Proud martyrs such as Dana https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhQjT14cdA and Johnny Logan (what is dead may never die) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qURxESCEENc laid down their lives to win the Eurosong. Out of respect, we let a few other countries win before dropping the mic with Riverdance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mC0rWgUqTc and condemning every other Eurosong winner to try to outspend and outdo us in interval acts. The Danes tried to upstage us by having the hot chick from Aqua shouting "gently caress off, Ken" live to x million households https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fTS1dQR3k, but it wasn't until Norway 2010 that someone finally beat us in the interval act game. Norway 2010 - Glow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32lpdFS7rPM Here I was going to put all the usual :ireland: links to Dustin the Turkey and Jedward, but to hell with that. Just watch the Madcon - Glow flashmob link above to realise just how awesome Eurovision can be.
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I still think that Verka Serduchka (Ukraine 2007) was one of the high-water marks for Eurovision. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfjHJneVonE She's pretty crazy.
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Three-Phase posted:I still think that Verka Serduchka (Ukraine 2007) was one of the high-water marks for Eurovision. And she moves pretty well for a fat lass.
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Everybody remembers Moldova for the 2010 sax guy song, but the 2011 entry is also dope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHAY_OVN_gY
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDnNHNpH4gM&t=66s Speaking of songs not making it all the way to Eurovision.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yolao4JAXdk First time I saw him my dick exploded.
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Watch Russia start a new war when Ukraine wins this year.
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I still have no idea how to bake that cake https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0D1Ya3NBQs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbNfxTtJp0M
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Ahundredbux posted:My fave event, Eurovision owns
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The Irish entry is realllllly bland this year, sorry guys. Our national broadcaster decided to get rid of public vote our competition to decide a song and instead entered one of their paid radio DJs / former boyband members. Song blows. Bring back Jedward
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Too many boring ballads and pop songs again.
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Belarus sounds like a rejected The Crow soundtrack song. This is the guy who wants to be naked on stage with a wolf though so he's probably OK with that comparison.
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Unguided posted:Too many boring ballads and pop songs again.
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I'm voting for Cyprus San Marino had a nice disco feel too
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All I known about eurovision is lordi was in it and didn't win so gently caress it
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Taking a week off work for eurovision. I plan on being drunk most of it. It helps.
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Last year I had non stop database problems with the voting site and I've not real reason to believe they will have disappeared. My code is bad and MySQL just kept falling over. Maybe it was a crud version of the software and it's silently updated. We shall have to find out. This year I shall be stateside, and the current idea in my head is to go down to a drag bar and convince them to put it on because I honestly don't think I'll have any luck elsewhere. My fiancé has never seen Eurovision and seems thoroughly disgusted by the whole concept. I showed her the drinking rules, though, and that caused some interest.
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