ETSC 8: Discover the Draw!

ETSC – Every year, the summer is the calm after the storm so it’s the perfect time to resume the highly anticipated the Eurovision Times Song Contest! Each one of you can represent an European country and get to send a song and then vote in a fake Eurovision! 43 of you entered for the August 2017 edition and a random draw will be made soon! Discover the draw as soon as it’s released!

Each summer, a good number of regular readers stay around for different reasons (they don’t get breaks from work or don’t go on holidays…) but there aren’t much news to keep us going. So the last few years we introduced all sort of games. The Eurovision Times Awards (Fridas) and the Douze Points Trivia Quiz kept us going in 2013 and Fridas have made come-backs the past four years. Three years ago, a lot of you asked for a fake Eurovision where each one of us would send songs and get to vote. And that was it: the Eurovision Times Song Contest, from then on known as ETSC.

We’ve therefore had 7 editions of ETSC, two in 2014: July 2014 and August 2014, both won by France; the third edition was held in July 2015 and won by the United-Kingdom; the fourth edition was held in Augusut 2015 and was won by Austria; the fifth edition was held in July 2016 and was won by Israel; the sixth edition was held in August 2016 and won by Denmark. Last month, the 7th edition took place and crowned France’s Juliette Armanet with “L’Amour En Solitaire“. For more information, you can discover our new page dedicated to the contest, with its history, all songs participating and the rankings here. You can also find it by clicking on the “Specials” section of the site, in the top menu in the red box, just under the site’s name. “ETSC 8 – August 2017” will be officially held in Paris and as for venue, it’ll be the Palais des Sports! The logo for it is inspired by the winner again:

After a first round open for people to sign up with a country and send a song, we got 43 people in. Songs will be revealed Saturday night. In the meantime, to keep us busy, I made a random draw. I also made personal postcards for each entry which will be revealed along with the songs. Everyone can request to see their own postcards for now.

Does the draw really matter? Maybe so, after all #1 and #12 spots both got Top 3 in the first two editions! In ETSC 1 France won going as #12 while Norway was runner-up going as #1. In ETSC 2 the United-Kingdom went as #12 to achieve second place and Bosnia & Herezgovina finished 3rd going first! Last edition, draw #1 confirmed with a third second place (Norway ETSC 1, Sweden in ETSC 5 and Netherlands in ETSC 7), while Italy finished third at draw… #11! Close but not quite! But in an online game, people get to listen multiple times to the songs, and in any order they want. So it’s quite possible to say that the draw is more of a gimmick than a true influence on the results.

However, since this is a blind edition, knowing the draw means knowing the countries that will participate! So, here’s the draw:

1		Ireland
2		Lithuania
3		Belarus
4		Israel
5		Iceland
6		Bosnia & Herzegovina
7		Czech Republic
8		Morocco
9		Greece
10		Turkey
11		Netherlands
12		Poland
13		Sweden
14		Egypt
15		Portugal
16		Armenia
17		Cyprus
18		United-Kingdom
19		Austria
20		Russia
21		Italy
22		Finland
23		Latvia
24		Montenegro
25		Switzerland
26		Hungary
27		Serbia
28		Estonia
29		Romania
30		Spain
31		France
32		Ukraine
33		Albania
34		Belgium
35		Croatia
36		Australia
37		Norway
38		Germany
39		Slovakia
40		Bulgaria
41		Lebanon
42		Malta
43		Denmark