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! 43 of you entered for the August 2017 edition and a random draw was made! Discover the songs live tonight at 9 PM CET!
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!
After a first round open for people to sign up with a country and send a song, we got 43 people in. 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. Someone did not send a song in time, so we move to 42 official entries in this edition!
Here are a few facts about the 42 entries:
- This is a rather well spread out contest: 22 female vocals / 17 male vocals, plus 3 duets, an almost equal result for once!
- Well just like in the Eurovision Song Contest, English has won us over… and the blind edition may have pushed us a tiny bit more than usual in that department… as we moved from 15 songs in English in ETSC 7 to 19 in ETSC 8! But we’re still below Summer 2016 with ETSC5’s record of 28 songs in English and 21 in ETSC6! Ok besides that, we keep the now tradition of 1 song in French in the edition and the rest is as follows: 3 songs in arabic, 3 songs in serbo-croat, 3 in Russian, 2 in Albanian, 1 in Czech, 1 in Finnish, 1 in German, 1 in Greek, 1 in Hungarian, 1 in Italian, 1 in Latvian, 1 in Maltese, 1 in Slovakian, 1 in Spanish and 1 in Swedish
- We only have 2 ETSC returnees!
Before the show starts, we get the live reprise of the winning song:
Can we beat last years’ editions in comments? ETSC 7 reached an all time record of 2,704 by the end of the voting! You can also use the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UsYbProrac&list=PLgCuJvprQh4wh3e3vEWNgaHtALywqE2qY
Rules: the voting will open at midnight Sunday 13th CET! You can vote until Wednesday 23rd at midnight CET! Results will probably be revealed Friday 25th at 9PM CET! In the meantime, you cannot do promo for your entry in the comment section here (because this is a blind edition). So in order to do so, email me what you want me to post! Once you’ve voted, you can not change your votes, so wait until you’re sure. Also, you have to send me your 11th and 12th in case something goes wrong and we sadly have a DQ. Moreover, you need to send me a city, a hall venue and a host for the next edition if you win!
Good luck everyone!
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Trick question/statement.
The lady is not the spokesperson for Donnie. It’s the legs :P
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I’m Ireland!
Enjoy studio, sorry about overboiled live.
Holy smoke! It’s Cole! He did Judas Iskariot in Westend! Vote for Cole!
OMG, that was the most over the top hilarious performance ever.
Yes it was!
He was one of the best if not thee best at singing as Valjean in Les Miserables.
Based on your exhibit, I would say you have very solid case, Mister!
Totally agree with you Martin, Colm Wilkinson was the best Valjean. 😀
Hello guys. Ive been busy away as uni reopens but I just had dinner with colleagues. Now Im going to see “120 bpm”. Ill be back around midnight and Ill open prediction article rigjt away. In the meantime, be nice
Another french film that seems interesting: A guy leaves his parisian boyfriend to drive across France, looking for men through Grindr. Boyfriend uses Grindr in his turn to try and track him down. It’s called “Jours de France” and reviews have been very positive so far:
It looks really interesting.
Yes. Definitely based on real life experiences, lol :-P
Ive seen it. Cute.
Théo & Hugo dans le même bateau, 120 beats per minute, La Vie d’Adèle, Les invisibles, L’ inconnu du lac, Quand on a 17 ans… I like how french cinema has become so adept at telling stories that do justice to actual real life gay experience in all its modern aspects.
Agreed! Far from Birdcage!
I’d say movies that feel real to some aspect of gay experience instead of preaching. I can only remember a few english-speaking films that were interested in doing that in recent years (like Weekend, Pride and Love is strange)
“Love is strange” was great though!
All the ones I mentioned were.
Im going for a nap, with uni work slowly kicking in I’ll be more tired now, almost normal lol
Have a good day, my friend! :)
Have you guys watched this one?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262826/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I am not sure I want to…
True. It’s rather divisive. I remember watching it at a movie-theater during summer 2001 and I had this bitter-sweet taste in my mouth afterwards. It is an extremely interesting topic nevertheless.
To my 12 points:
Win dammit!!!
Thank you, Michos! :P
Whoever it is, a small token of my appreciation:
Beautiful tulips!
Is it spring? Already? Thank you 😘
I see many candidates but only one gets the bouquet!
We might end up sending bouquets to same HoD. I wouldn’t be surprised. Or is it actually really you 😃?
Who knows? Or will we both send it to the same person?
Exactly! Does anyone want to predict? Are leading bookies interested to have a go? 😃
Thank you, Michos. They’re beautiful 😊
Do you think it is a realistic contender for the trophy?
History says my 12 doesn’t miss the top3. But my 12 has never won ETSC either.
My 12 pts are far from being a favourite. I hope I’m proven wrong.
Well, they will have at least one 12 to thank for!
I tried a Bulgarian chicken ragout with walnuts for dinner. Delicious.
Sounds yummy! But what do you mean “Bulgarian” chicken? Is it a Bulgarian recipe?
He might have ordered a live chicken online :p
A live chicken? You mean it’s going to sing?
ROFL
According to the cookbook I used, yes.
I’ve never heard of this recipe before.What makes it special?
Don’t know how special it is, the cookbook just lists it as a Bulgarian recipe.
The ingredients: A chicken, cut to pieces, walnuts, onions, olive oil, paprika, flour, tomato paste.
It sounds delicious. :)
And it is. Simple, but yummy :)
Maybe you can guess all the HoDs but can’t do this!!!!
Only Asians can do this because their willies are small.
😬don’t know…haven’t seen one!
Dino has travelled the world sampling them, so I guess we have to take his word for it!
LOL according to this map,they look fine 😉Has Dino been to Congo?😂
Nope but…I met a Ghanaian a Angolan and ex was Cameroonia by decent :p
No, but now he has seen this he will be booking his flight tonight!
Yeah precisely! I was with an asian one and he was quite well endowed or at least above average :P So this map doesn’t really prove the range of the sizes as I also have been with a black man who didn’t really have anything to show for.
Conclusion: Gregor’s a slut :p
Am not now at least haha 😜
They aren’t easily visible :p
You mean Mermaid didn’t try Thai stick whilst on vacation?
If you mean Marijuana by “Thai stick” NO…that would be too dangerous in Thailand😜
lol, no, not that sort of Thai stick ;)
Male stick.
Got you…as I said,I haven’t seen one…and I collect magnets not sticks ;)
LOL :)
Is that targetted at me or Bay? :p
Here I am. What have I missed?
I have a feeling I have got 12 from Michos!
I am sure you can do the trick Mermaid posted just above.
I think I could actually. I will try later.
Perhaps the tulips are for you then!
Fire and fury!
PMSL :D
Peter Serafinowicz does a perfect job :)
Indeed, he’s from Liverpool. I’ve just discovered his channel today.
Yes :) I had seen him in things, but I did not know he was from the UK!
He is. Working in the US, but a Scouser 😊 (at least, that’s what I heard him saying in an interview…)
Hahahahahahha best voiceover ever!!!
Stop posting…I’ll start liking him😂
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I guess voting deadline has expired, so… :)
I won’t post any specific top10 this time since ETSC7 was the first and, apparently, the last time I did so :D
All I can say is that the winner will be among: the Netherlands, the UK, France and Australia.
Cyprus, Norway, Italy and Ireland will do really well too.
Good luck and good night, everyone!
My complete top10 in order will not be posted here but will be send to Morgan by email.
Down below is a rough prediction.
Contenders: IRL, GBR, FRA.
Top5: ITA and FIN.
Then…
Top10: ISL, ISR, CYP, BEL, BEL.
11-15: GRC, NLD, POL, MNE, DEU.
16-21: BIH, POR, LVA, CHE, UKR, BLG.
The second Belgium is Australia.
I have a feeling my votes will be rather out of sync with the overall result this time… In any case, statistically the winner should receive nothing from me.
Didn’t you give points to France in ET7?
Yes I did. I have given points to the winner every second time: In ETSC 1, 3, 5 and 7, so statistically there should be no points from me to the winner in this edition.
OK, got it now 😊
Aww :'(
Where are the predictions?
So for now and in running order, top 10 contenders :
IRL
ISR
GRC
NLD
POL
GBR
FIN
FRA
BEL
DEU
We largely agree.
And this time you predict yourself in top10, whereas in non-blind editions you don’t.
Blind allows naughty stuff 😂
I agree with Óxi that the winner will be the UK, France or Australia.
On Top10 I will place also: Finland, Montenegro, Ireland, Cyprus, Norway; Italy and Portugal maybe too.
We agree largely bar Norway. Though I am not quite Portugal. Top20 yes but not top10. Don’t think Australia will go that far but top10 is plausible.
Dont forget to publish it in the prediction article, in order!
OK, I’ll have to think of an order…
Alrighty so I see the voting has closed, thus I will now post my official top 5 (in a separate post because I like spamming)
LOL
Here goes:
Places 2-5 first:
2. Malta
3. Bulgaria
4. Sweden
5. Italy
Just missing out:
Netherlands and Poland
And finally, the winner:
G R E E C E
Well done to whoever is HoDing these countries and sorry I wasn’t around to give yous points :D
Great Top5! That changes everything! 😊 Thank you, Tehoe
I can’t officially react as it might spoil, but have these two gifs. Pick whatever one you feel
Sweden.
OMG. Why didn’t you vote, why, why?? :((
I revisited some of my votes in the last two ETSCs, and some stuff might have changed if I voted now.
ETSC 5:
-Netherlands would have scored higher than 3.
-Sweden would have gotten the 10 instead of 8, with Romania doing it viceversa
ETSC 6:
-Then, UK narrowly beat Germany, but right now, they’re both amazing songs, and pretty much interchangeable in their final scores. Anything could happen if it was today.
-I would have put Belgium in my top 3 with 8 instead of the original 7, Norway fell down form their 8 points.
-Lebanon (4) and Latvia (5) would swap points.
-My 11th and 12th wouldn’t be Greece and Romania, but rather Romania and Spain (!)
You just forgot to say that Baustelle would have had your 12 points now 😊
Likely, but the Demons running in my head wouldn’t let me ;P
P.S: Be thankful, since Italy did knock down Sweden from 5 points in the last second :P
I am, Pablito! 😊
:)
The only thing I would have changed in my votes ex-post-facto would be in ETSC6: Finland 7 (up from 3 points), Estonia 6 (down from 7) and the UK 3 (down from 6). Everything else would be unchanged. The finnish song grew a lot on me after the contest, while I stll appreciate the british song but it did not survive in my playlist for long.
So many predictions and so many travesties!
They will all be slapped in the face😉
There have been quite a few tantrums on here lately, so now it is my turn to have one because my country is being ignored:
Go for it👊🏻
To all who voted for Ireland:
I got a confession…
I AM… Oasisoffear
THEREFORE… I am Ireland
If you don’t believe me. TRAVESTY
Rofl
If you are me, then who am I?
Irelandhod?
So I am Irelandhod, you are oasisoffear (and Ireland), so who is Pablo?
Exactly who you’d expect.
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What the devil is this?
LOL we’re on the other thread now Rob :)
I’m thinking,
1. Greece
2. UK
3. Norway
4. Israel
5. Netherlands
6. France
7. Czech Republic
8. Montenegro
9. Denmark
10. Ireland
War of the ET mafias? (Greece and UK)
Problem is: UK HoD does not belong to any of those gangs! 😊
That will make Dino happy 😊
What?
Tecku’s Top10 😊
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