ETSC 9 – The Results Tonight!

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! 41 of you entered for the July 2018 edition and the voting went on for ten days! The results are coming tonight!

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 sorts 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 five years. Four 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 8 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; the 7th edition was held in July 2017 and was won again by France. The last edition to date was ETSC 8, held in August 2017, and it was the first one that went “blind”, meaning people did not know who sent what. It crowned Greece’s Dimitra Selemidou feat. Phoevos Delivoriás with “O monos ke i moni“. 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.

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. Everyone can request to see their own postcards for now.

You can click on the picture below to listen to the songs again:

It was two weeks ago that we discovered each song individually in a dramatic night reveal-show. And after that, each of the 41 players cast a vote. All votes are now in and we have a winner (also a full ranking, obviously). So gather around, for “ETSC 9 – July 2018″ is about to come to an end!

This ninth event is officially hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece. The hosts will be Katia Zygouli (model-actress), Nikos Kouris (actor), and Avgoustos Kortó (writer)! The venue is the Music Hall, nicknamed by locals as “Megaron”:

And so this is what bookies have for tonight:

PREDICTED TOP TEN				CORRECT TOP TEN
1		Ireland (?)		1
2		Denmark (?)		2
3		France (?)		3
4		Belgium (?)		4
5		Greece (?)		5
6		Switzerland (?)		6
7		Lebanon (?)		7
8		Russia (?)		8
9		Norway (?)		9
10		Iceland (?)		10

​Now, all you need to do is get ready and prepared. The votes will be revealed one by one, following the random draw in which the songs were presented (so from Russia to Romania). One vote at a time, with a few minutes in between to give enough time for people to react, predict, comment, discuss. Also, if the person is around, he can, if he wishes to, explain a bit further his votes, what he thought of the songs. The votes are all on a scoreboard, to not reveal too much for people who can’t make it tonight, and you’ll see links for them in this page (so you’ll need to refresh often).

Vote 1		Russia
Vote 2		Norway
Vote 3		Czech Republic
Vote 4		Slovenia
Vote 5		Ireland
Vote 6		Ukraine
Vote 7		Estonia
Vote 8		Austria
Vote 9		France
Vote 10		Poland
Vote 11		Spain
Vote 12		Moldova
Vote 13		Libya
Vote 14		Lebanon
Vote 15		Lithuania
Vote 16		Denmark
Vote 17		Portugal
Vote 18		Israel
Vote 19		Cyprus
Vote 20		Iceland
Vote 21		Belarus
Vote 22		Turkey
Vote 23		Belgium
Vote 24		Italy
Vote 25		Azerbaijan
Vote 26		Finland
Vote 27		F.Y.R. Macedonia
Vote 28		Malta
Vote 29		Latvia
Vote 30		Sweden
Vote 31		Armenia
Vote 32		Australia
Vote 33		Bulgaria
Vote 34		Switzerland
Vote 35		Slovakia
Vote 36		Greece
Vote 37		Albania
Vote 38		Netherlands
Vote 39		United-Kingdom
Vote 40		Tunisia
Vote 41		Germany
Vote 42		Romania