Switzerland – If you want the chance to represent Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest, you have until 22nd September 2017 at 8pm (local time) to submit your entry. You can enter a song on its own or one with a singer already in place. You can be from any country but Swiss nationals and residents may be given priority.
A 20-strong panel will then choose which 6 songs go through to a national final, and also decide who they think the best singer is for each song. They may throw in a wild card too. The national final will be shown on 4th February 2018 and the winner will be chosen by 50/50 televote and jury vote.
To enter, go HERE.
Since the introduction of the semi-finals, Switzerland has only qualified for the grand final 5 times out of 14 attempts which is not the best of results. In two of those failures they also came bottom of their semi-finals. The highest finish was 8th in 2005 with Vanilla Ninja, who were actually Estonian and entered Eurolaul in 2007 for Estonia.
The Eurovision Times 
Hmm, do I have time to assemble my team in order to win in Switzerland? I’m not dumb, it won’t be me entering since I can’t sing, but I will be director of staging instead.
Guaranteed my entry will be the beat staged entry of all time. Gimmicks on top of the gimmicks. Ok, maybe I end up on stage somehow, but I promise to be in the background. I’m not the type that goes looking for attention, I’m quiet.
https://virtualfestivalofsongs.wordpress.com/2017/09/07/vfos-no1-london/
I submitted my country. I have the song already too. No screwing around. I got a winner.
The submission period kicks off on Saturday,18:00 CET.It’s noon,New York time.
Manel Navarro’s moving message to Salvador Sobral: “If your heart is tired, please use mine”
What we miss in esc nowadays :
On cultural diversity:
I have just watched an one hour long post ESC 2017 interview with Peter Urban, who has provided the Germany commentary since 1997. He said that 2017 was his favourite contest among those he was involved in because it had most diversity song-wise (plus he adored the Portuguese entry from day 1). He also pointed out that we saw the most diverse top 10 ever … and couldn’t refrain from adding that he did not like the Swedish song at all (my soulmate? LOL).
Both Portugal, Hungary and Moldova in the same top 10 feels quite refrshing indeed! Then there’s Italy (sophisticated fun) and Romania (bit of trashy still enjoyable for many),
the modern MTV ballad from Bulgaria, the Belgian indie pop anthem and Norway’s electronic dance music.
Sweden no matter what you may think of it lyrics, is a credible performance of a well produced song.
I could have lived without Australia which is rather basic imo.
“Samiid ædnan” ❤
Judging by the final remark “Which genre do you want us to cover next”, they must be viewing “Folk & Cultural Influences” as one genre. Which is wrong imo. We are speaking of a different styles of music here which don’t relate to each other.
I wonder whether RTP will hire the same international production team (mostly Germans and Swedes) that have made ESC such a uniform experience production-wise since 2011. I hope not but fear that the EBU might put pressure on RTP.
https://www.escxtra.com/2017/09/20/rtp-turn-swedish-production-team-eurovision-2018/
Switzerland had record number of entries… 670.