After a first round open for people to sign up with a country and send a song, we got 42 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. You can click on the picture below to listen to the songs again:
Results will come in shortly. In the meantime, we get to gossip and predict, and discuss songs more openly as nothing more is at stake. And I drop hints!
Now time for the prediction game! It was first started in ETSC 4 “hint” article and back then I wrote this: “We can play a guessing game, people wishing to participate can post a “prediction” top 10 and I’ll award points based on the countries that are in the actual top 10 and predicted in yours accorddingly. I wont reveal the results until after the voting and winner is announced, but we’d get an extra side bet to care about ;)” In the end, a good 15 people or so played and Donnie was the winner, though no one predicted Austria to win or France to be runner-up. The prediction game was again open for ETSC 5, which was won by Nick P!
However the game took a very serious turn in ETSC 6, where I put it all in an excel to keep track of everyone’s prediction and the overall predicted results. This edition was won by a landslide by Donnie! In that edition, 8/10 were predicted correctly, with the full Top 5 predicted right (though in almost reverse order); two countries were even predicted at the right place too! Two mistakes, the “infamous” Greece and Norway being the two “overestimated” countries each time. They did come close to our Top 10! Bosnia and Estonia were predicted a bit lower, 15th and 16th, than their final result. So don’t underestimate all genre of music has its place in ETSC Top 10!
We reprised in ETSC 7. This is what we got:
PREDICTED TOP TEN | CORRECT TOP TEN | |||||
1 | France (1) | 1 | France (1) | |||
2 | Denmark (4) | 2 | Netherlands (5) | |||
3 | Belgium (8) | 3 | Italy (13) | |||
4 | Sweden (5) | 4 | Denmark (2) | |||
5 | Netherlands (2) | 5 | Sweden (4) | |||
6 | Serbia (6) | 6 | Serbia (6) | |||
7 | Azerbaijan (21) | 7 | Finland (17) | |||
8 | Spain (14) | 8 | Belgium (3) | |||
9 | UK (16) | 9 | Israel (11) | |||
10 | Lebanon (12) | 10 | Norway (14) |
This prediction game was won by a new winner: Dimitris! As a collective, we didot as good as ETSC 6: we only got 6 right, with even a song in the Top 3 missing! One predicted song as low as 21st and one song predicted only 17th finally making it! Let’s do it again. Until the reveal begin, you can put a top 10 prediction in order (since most people predict the same 8 or so songs, it would be better to have an order so that thanks to mathematics, we do get someone who was “closer” to the final results). However, there are a few specific rules:
- There is an extra 100pts if you guess ALL 10 songs right whatever the order! This was already the case in ETSC 6 which no one got!
- There is an extra 100pts if you guess AT LEAST 10 HoD right!
I’ll award points accordingly and announce the winner along with the revealing of ETSC 9 logo! If you feel like revealing predictions on the comment section is too much info, you can do it by email. However, as voting is closed, you dont need to worry affecting votes, just maybe people’s interpretation of your predictions (but we’re all esc fans and know predictions aren’t our own rankings!) This is a second crown to grab, good luck everyone!
Irl-tecku
Lit-nick
Blr-sedapsi
Isr-dimitri
Isl-gregor
Bih-andy
Cze-luke
Mor-michos
Gre-ellie
Tur-mike
Ned-donnie
Pol-martin
Swe-pablo
Egy-rob
Por-shevek
Arm-avat
Cyp-oxi
Uk-mermaid
Aut-matt d
Rus-anders
Ita-david
Fin-razvan
Lat-patrick
Mne-paschalis
Swi-william
Hun-niclas
Ser-bay
Est-hjallis
Esp-pj
Fra-morgan
Ukr-arpatilaos
Alb-alex
Bel-ovidarch
Cro-mylor
Aus-caolan
Nor-dino
Ger-daniel
Svk-lars
Bul-kostas
Leb-franco
Mlt-cyphermusic
Den-cathal
Did you make a result prediction too?
No… only named 4 plausible winners.
So you’re basically playing only for the 100pts? lol… You can always try a top 10 :)
lol i’ll think about it.
Yay! I have a new country :)
Cyprus for you? You will most probably do well then. :)
Throwback Thursday:
Here’s my HoD prediction:
France – Morgan
Lithuania – Nick
Sweden – Pablo
Russia – Anders
Iceland – Ovi
Montenegro – Sedapsi
Hungary – Niclas
Switzerland – Franco
Bosnia – Andy
Czech Republic – Lars
Croatia – William
Turkey – Alex
Serbia – Mermaid
UK – Tecku
Greece – Oxi
Estonia – Hjallis
Netherlands – Donnie
Belarus – Mylor
You can be the Netherlands as well. :)
But how can he call himself a player… when he’s just half of an HoD?
It’s a conundrum. Lol
Witty 😊
You don’t dare predicting me :p ?
I haven’t figured you out yet.:p
I didn’t figure you out yet. :p
Some more predictions added:
Albania – Kostas
Ireland – David
Israel – Dimitris
Australia – Gregor
Latvia – Patrick
Italy – Caolan
Cyprus – Ellie
After just getting in from another fabulous gig,
Am knackered. 4 gigs of six done…….
I can quite categorically say nobody has me guessed right as of yet! :)
Nor have they voted for me either by the looks of it…… :(
….. perhaps
:o
Same here (the part about the mirror lol ). Get some rest and good luck.
Take your time and enjoy your dinner, Morgan.
Beach is over, mountains, next Sunday.
P.S. – People should take into consideration what I have sent in the past both here and in FdlC.
Portugal
Perhaps. :) Could you tell the name of the online song contest you talked about in the past, please?
*tell me
ALC
Is it about the country you HODing? If you asked me about that, you can be Albania or Norway, then
Noted. No, I was actually asking for the full name, so that I can visit the site. :)
https://eurovisionindonesia.wordpress.com/2017/05/17/222/
There were the 7th and 8th edition (the latter is suspended) but I am too lazy to make a wordpress post
Here is the playlist
ALC 7: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjch1pGV8CvaOiO4J5fQ4oCoifwtsPhVf
Winner : Becka (Singapore)
ALC 8 OST edition (suspended)
ALC 8: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjch1pGV8CvY5IuBs3-Vo4VDRk3jcnEJj
Thanks. :)
If you are not Portugal then you must given it points.
Perhaps.
The one he is running?
Yes.
Nooooooo….don’t give clues to the ones that have never predicted HoDs😫
After Oxi’s and Razvan’s HoDs predictions, here’s how I stand :
NLD X3 (Dino, Oxi, Razvan)
GRC X 3 (Anders, Shevek, PJ)
DNK X 2 (Mermaid, Rob)
UK (Martin)
BEL (Pablo)
So, the results are tonight but later than usual? or will it be postponed?
Most probably today but delayed.
I thought so too…
Apparently none read my comment in FdlC and shortly after ETSC7. It offers clues.
You don’t sound like Portugal Israel or Croatia,Dino but If I have to pick one let it be Portugal….still did not get the connection with leopard
Why did you narrowed it down to those 3?
These are the ones I saw😜I am not a good detective!I have other responsibilities 😜
Rowing with Roo.
We can’t row forever you know…Have to step foot on the ground
You are MLT
Dino could be Malta but he may also be Czech Rep perhaps…..
Write rhis off. I was referring to Oxi
Could be :)
Μy prediction for tonight: Clear skies, moderate northerly winds, temperature at 24 degrees Celsius.
The most scientific one!
😀
Some HoDs wild guessing
ISR Mermaid
SVK PJ
IRL Tecku
BGR Rob
MOR Mylor
GRC Michos
MLT Oxi
CYP Paschalis
SRB Sedapsi
RUS Anders
I think Anders being Russia, is the most common, and obvious at the same time I’d say, prediction by most of us. We may be all wrong, of course :)
There are other more safe guesses than Anders being Russia imo
Not to me though :D :P
It was really, really hard making the list I posted above!
Yes, he was saying he had a song ready from Russia
It is really wild😂
Where is Dhaibidh?
I gave him a clue in previous post as he asked me for a clue
Dhaibidh had reached the regional finals of the highland dancing competition at Cock Bridge in the Cairngorms National Park area of Scotland. He is spending all his time practising at the moment.
What a name for a bridge!
David loves it at Cock Bridge.
It’s a popular hangout! 😂
Yes, I’m currently learning the traditional sword dance, but this geyser thinks he owns Scotland and invited some of his “business” colleagues to a local ceilidh. The invited parties got a little too carried away with the swords.
Hi Bay, here I am. I think you might be Latvia……..and I think I’m also Waaaaay off the mark, lol. 😂
So sorry I miss the results. I have to give key note speech and participate in panel saturday mid morning outside Helsinki and have to go bed early. The project is best ever, but most time consuming.
We understand, and even support you. No key note speech was ever as European as that one with ET support <3
The way the votes are revealing in ETSC mean that you can relive it live (without checking the "discover the winner" article and reading the comments)! So that's that!
Thank you so much and that’s exactly what I’m going to do!
Ι am going to go straight to the final scoreboard tomorrow morning :)
I can understand, but havent you been around for old Eurovision or even watch them? The slow reveal one by one is really exciting there and I’m trying to give that to esc fans who nowadays deal with just announcing a 12 :/
Of course results should be anounced one by one. But I have to start early for the beach tomorrow morning, so I will probably go for the big picture first before zooming in on the details.
There must be lots of things to zoom on the beach!
Let’s hope!
There’s actually lots EU money involved, so this support is more than spot on 😊
:(((((((((((
Exactly!
Will you be around for the early part at least, Hjallis? It will not be the same without you!
No! Robbie! No! I would totally be unable to leave 😃
This is turning in to a travesty before it has begun! Is there a live broadcast of your keynote so I can tune in? :)
Hahhahhahaa!
Robbie, don’t tell anyone, but there will be a huge travesty crying after the next edition has been announced. It will be Tottenham and it will be Adele edition.
Yes, I’m UK with runaway winner Roo.
I hope so! I really do. I knew Roo and knew you knew Roo too, so I am hoping you win. Adele wrote the song for Roo and taught him how to row, so it is only fair that the UK edition is Adele themed and in Tottenham :) Good choice.
But no more crying, please – there has been too much of that lately!
No, she will set fire to the rain. This time gayest way ever as she is totally motoblancoed. Sorry all you heterosexual white male lurking around looking for safe corner in ET.
After all, Roo is doing Adele song.
Are you sure? Just for a little while? :(
I have to be in bed by eleven! I hate early mornings unless I have stayed up all night. Of course I could try this:
I use this for the Saturday Breakfast show opener. On again tomorrow from 7.30-9.30am Irish Time and am back again for Afternoon Delight on Sunday Noon-1.30pm
:)
❤️😘❤️😘💪🏼
I miss it damn. You must tell me afterwards what you said!
Cheers for those chilled mornings after danced away nights 😃
No probs. Maybe you are around for Sunday’s show unless you are partying :)
LOL I will turn on tomorrow!
Cool That would be nice :)
😂😂😂…….I can hear Morgan saying, “flirty, flirty”!
I hope all goes well, tomorrow!
Thanks! I love this kind of things 😃
Yes, Hjallis, all the best for tomorrow!
Cheers, Mr PJ! ⭐️
Sad to have heard you’ll not be around tonight, but happy for your projects!
I’m sad about it too. Hugs.
Nooooooo Hjallis…….we’ll miss your witty repartee!
Oh David! I found your pic. It’s my new screen saver!
Lol…….my calves are way bigger! Glad he’s wearing thick socks, make his legs look bigger. Nothing worse than skinny legs in a kilt.
LOL, so glad to hear your calves are bigger and totally agree that you need strong legs to wear kilt. Just like nice arse for jeans.
You also need good muscly arse to wear kilt too, otherwise it just hangs with no shape. lol
I know! That makes kilt so fucking masculine if you just got what it takes.
As you know I live in England…….it always makes me Lol when English friends think it’s “girlie” to wear a kilt and they freak out when I suggest they should wear it just once.
I guess being brought up, taking it for granted it’s part of who we are, we never give wearing the kilt a second thought that it’s anything less than masculine……. it’s just normal for us……. I tell you what though, it feels sexy as fuck when I do wear it. 😀
Maybe they just think HRH Prince Charles wearing it!
Well, I’m sure ex gymnast like you look sexy as well when wearing it. Hey, you sent me the videos 😃
HRH wearing it is enough to put anyone off….. he’s got no legs, arse or charisma. I’m sure you’re loving those videos…….they sure know their market and not afraid to milk it! 😀
Just the way it should be!
Thighs and arses tend to go together 😃
Lol…….they do seem linked somehow. 😂
😊
Did you see my comment on Amirkhani’s legs?
Not yet…….just going through comments from last night and catching up with responses.
I’ll be a real party pooper tonight by looking at my phone every 5 minutes😬 #blindeditionsacrifices
Anxious about your first victory? :-P
Not really…More like,anxious to find who is who😎
I just saw that there will only be 7 episodes of GOT this year 😢 And the final one is this Sunday! Where are my three extra episodes????!!! 😲
Yes but Sunday’s one will be 80 minutes long. Almost a movie!
Oh ok some good news at least!
I may be the only person on this planet that doesn’t watch/follow Game of Thrones :)
I don’t either Oxi :) We are the only two. I was tempted, but I would need a month in front of the TV to catch up! :)
Then there were three.
I see what you mean. Boy that makes us three already then (Hjallis too). It comes as a surprise tbh; I thought I was alone on this. It’s the talk of the town for years here and especially this last season. Pure obsession.
I am sure I would like it if I started watching it, but there are just so many things to watch!!!
Took me 5 weeks to watch it from beginning again …….. you’re such Party poopers! 😂
Perhaps I will give it a go :)
You should, but be warned, it’s addictive.
You should! Even though as it is wrapping up the fantasy/action element has completely taken over, in earlier seasons the focus on individual characters, social structures and relations in a medieval setting (albeit a fictional one) made it the special show that it is. If I wanted to interest kids in medieval history, not the names and dates, but how society actually worked there is nothing better.
A few years ago when it was aired on skai, I watched S1E1. But I didn’t go… “omg, can’t wait for next episode”. So, that was where it ended for me. I have an issue with tv series in general. I get bored really easily, so I almost never get to season 2, 3 etc of any of them (not even the ones with which all this tv series madness started 13 years ago; namely: Lost and Prison Break).
There is a big, like huge, exception though: Six Feet Under, which I consider the best tv series EVER. A league of its own.
I watced all the first season in a couple of days. I was hooked immediately!
Yes…nothing like Six Feet Under❤️
<3 <3 <3
Except Xfiles
It’s in a league on its own ;)
No you are not! Happy to not watch it with you! 😃
LOL
Haha na I dont think so, many dont watch it I have discovered! :O
Four! :)
:D
5 ;)
LOL ;)
it’s one book split into two seasons, but witohut enough material for 20 episodes… so basically 7+7 (but it’s a trend in every TV shows recently to have the official last season being in two paprt over two years (Mad Men and Breaking Bad both did it too))
Yeah I know, just read that Grorge rr Martin have postponed his sixth installment like 5 times already lulz
Btw, not a fan of X files either :P
Lol. Can’t stop laughing.
Every single prediction about my representative involves the hot girl one way or another.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why that is the case.
Did you bring a hot boy?
Time will tell of course.
The answer is obviously no. Lol
Éla nte!!! :D
Q for Morgan,
Are the HoDs behind the entries more or less what expected to be or are there any huge surprises? :)
…or am I asking for too much? :P :D
I think a lot of it makes sense. But it’s very hard for me to say, when I got people’s country and then songs, it all made sense to me. I can’t imagine it otherwise. However I can reveal that so far no one got the extra bonus, so maybe it’s more complicated than I thought to connect the right dot. A simple mistake and the whole picture is blurred!
More complicated that I thought…
Hmmm that can only be very interesting to me. the suspence is growing for tonight!
It will be tonight, right?
Exactly! It’s enough to get some wrong and because of those mistakes you make others, it’s like a chain reaction. :p
*the ones expected to be
Are there people out there (Dimitris, Donnie, Oxi…) who wish to participate in the prediction game still?!
I think I’ll decline ;)
Have you received more predictions?
Yes, but all in private!
Hahaha they are collecting every little evidence to finalize their list…They don’t want to be decrowned ;)
Probably! it would be interesting to see their predictions before we start ;)
I’m driving back home.
I just came back from the beach. don’t know if i’ll make it.I’ll try to but it’s such a lost cause.As you said one wrong allocation and then you may lose 10 Hods.I’ll have to do some things now and then i’ll focus on my top-10 prediction.Maybe i’ll just send some sort of an HoD prediction before 21:00 CET.
Surprisingly a good fanbased top, was expecting Ukraine to flop and Georgia to be last and russia being first, but was proven wrong in all accounts!
Jerry? LOL. The ETSC7 HoD?
OMG I hadn’t thaught about that!! MAYBE??!!
That stupid chrome is acting up again It won’t let me open my notifications by clicking on the orange point on the bell at the up right corner of my screen. Grrrr
Well it is always acting up for me, cant click it when I am in an article, but can when it’s in the homepage etc. I use Firefox. I have simply given up in fixing it, it is probably a wordpress problem :P
WP… again… Grrrrr LOL :P
Here’s my pathetic attempt at un-masking some of the least mentioned HoD’s taking part in this edition. I have no reasoning behind it, other than you are all such lovely folk and I wanted to mention you!
Sorry guys…….I know it’s wild, you can throw me to the wolves later! 😂
Czech Republic Cyphermusic (Tristian)
United-Kingdom Caolán
Latvia Bay
Switzerland Andy
Hungary Ellie
Serbia William
Albania Patrick
Germany Daniel
Slovakia Lars
Malta Nick
I am sure you”l do better than me. :)
P.S. – Spain or Estonia for you. :)
I think we’ll all such at this HoD prediction……btw, I have you down as Montenegro. 😂
lol…..*suck*
:D
Song predictions – the usual suspects, quoting Michos; personally, I’ll end up somewhere on the right hand side of the board.
HoD predictions – 100% fun!
Totally agree……this HoD game is pure fun, not to be taken seriously.
You could be Egypt or Serbia ;)
Finland
UK
Italy
Iceland
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Ireland
Israel
Germany
Just missing out: Cyprus,Ukraine,Portugal,Poland,Norway,Montenegro,Greece,Turkey,B&H,Australia