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 | |||||
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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 |
Congratulations, Switzerland! Thank you all who voted for Florence. We’ll try to to better next time :)
Well after being in the top 5 for a little while I actually thought we might get a god result, but nevermind, Emma you did so well! Well done Malta and well done too Switzerland! :)
Emma’s actually pretty popular here in Italy rn as she got really far in an X-Factor kind of TV show this year. She’ll be fine!
Congrats to Ovi and Switzerland for the win and Razvan and Morgan for the top-3.It was a thrilling night.

Many thanks to Morgan for the wonderful hosting.
Let’s go blind now:
;)
Well done Ovi! In the only 2 new countries in the top10 but both did really well at least.
Best result for Russia and Bulgaria. Poland, Moldova, Armenia, Belarus and somehow Romania were close from improving it.
Moldova was actually 11th on its previous participation, but I am glad they managed to almost go in the top 10 :)
So Ovi becomes the first person EVER to win FdlC, VFoS and now ETSC!!! And with a great song!!! Well done to you and well done to Razvan and Morgan for putting up such a fight :)
So the prediction got 7/10 right but the projected winner was not even in the top10. Neither is Russia ( :( ) and Iceland. And Israel managed to crawl back in the top10 in the last minute and Finland/Poland also defied predictions!
A huge thanks to all the voters for our wonderful first top5 placing! Dagny and the rest of the delegation are about to burst into the streets Wearing Nothing!
Ovi becomes the first person EVER to win FdlC, VFoS and now ETSC…
More than impressive!!!
So, top 15 it is! Not bad at all, although I believe the Spanish song deserved an even higher placing!
Thank you everyone who voted for spain! (too tired atm to thank everyone individually :P )
Of course congratulations to Morgan and rest of the top 10! Well done 😃
sad to see russia missing that top10 spot at the last set of votes…
Very… On the other hand, Switzerland, Lebanon, Russia and Bulgaria all got their best results ever :)
True.
Well I guess I was one of the few voting for the entire top 5 lol, the hint prophecy came true :( I am still repping for being one of the ETSC mainstream voters lulz.
Filling out my top 10 sheet atm 8th place check, now on to 1st, 3rd, 5th, 7th and 9th and I just noticed, when I wrote this that I only have gotten even numbers in the top 10 haha
Thanks for all who voted for Belgium which I think was a risk in submitting as it doesn’t really feel typically me tbh! Congratz Switzerland! My 1st place! <3 God so exciting!
And 3 HoDs for the first time in ETSCs top10, Jerry, Patrick and Dominik the newcomer!
yup, “more than one” was evasive enough I hope ;)
Hadn’t realised that Patrick had never made it to the top10 until now, tbh :o
Of ETSC, yes.
I will post all kind of stats next. But know that Switzerland lead throughout the entire voting after the 8th voter: it’s always the case for me as I receive votes in another order and since it’s often the same people early and the same people late, I tend to know very early who will win, but the last day had 10 voters left and since Denmark and France wouldn’t leave as it often happens, I ended up making three beautiful logos!
ETSC 1 (28 participants)
Winner – 155pts (voted by 22 people, 5x12pts)
Second – 124pts (voted by 17 people, 4x12pts)
Third – 107pts (voted by 14 people, 1x12pts)
ETSC 2 (37 participants)
Winner – 156pts (voted by 24 people, 4x12pts)
Second – 103pts (voted by 16 people, 2x12pts)
Third – 100pts (voted by 16 people, 2x12pts)
ETSC 3 (42 participants)
Winner – 146pts (voted by 21 people, 4x12pts)
Second – 125pts (voted by 21 people, 1x12pts)
Third – 106pts (voted by 18 people, 2x12pts)
ETSC 4 (45 participants)
Winner – 151pts (voted by 17 people, 6x12pts)
Second – 117pts ( voted by 21 people, 1x12pts)
Third – 110pts (voted by 19 people, 3x12pts)
ETSC 5 (45 participants)
Winner – 179pts (voted by 26 people, 3x12pts)
Second – 130pts (voted by 19 people, 2x12pts)
Third – 115pts (voted by 17 people, 2x12pts)
ETSC 6 (45 participants)
Winner – 171pts (voted by 23 people, 5x12pts)
Second – 170pts (voted by 24 people, 5x12pts)
Third – 131pts (voted by 22 people, 3x12pts)
ETSC 7 (42 participants)
Winner – 154pts (voted by 23 people, 4x12pts)
Second – 148pts (voted by 22 people, 3x12pts)
Third – 115pts (voted by 20 people, 2x12pts)
ETSC 8 (42 participants)
Winner – 152pts (voted by 19 people, 4x12pts)
Second – 140pts (voted by 21 people, 3x12pts)
Third – 121pts (voted by 19 people, 1x12pts)
ETSC 9 (41 participants)
Winner – 166pts (voted by 25 people, 4x12pts)
Second – 164pts (voted by 23 people, 5x12pts)
Third – 161pts (voted by 24 people, 5x12pts)
Very concentrated voting! A lot of people voted for the top3!
My 164 pts is the 5th best result ever points wise! :o Probably lower though if we look at percentages.
third is of course one of my worst placing ever… but it’s also my highest pointwise lol
lol
Wow Ovi! Our first grand slam! Hands off for the true champion 😃
A very Eurovision 2003 result at the top! Congrats to Switzerland! I enjoyed the entry as well and I believe I had it 5th! Congrats to everyone else in the Top 3 and to all who participated! I enjoyed my first ETSC very much.
And thanks to all those that voted for Albania and those who enjoyed it!
Finally, thanks to Morgan for your amazing work hosting! Can’t wait till ETSC 10!
Norway finishes above rather than below predictions for once. Phewww, I thought they were jinxed :)
Congartulations to Ovi and Switzerland. :) So far, I have only had time to listen to the songs once but I really enjoyed the Swiss song. Congratulations to Denmark and France too. Even though I had no points for Denmark I liked both songs.
Naturally, there are some songs in the top 10 I don’t get at all but well … celebrate diversity. Perhaps I will change my mind once I listen to the songs again.
Finally, two lady HoDs gave top scores to Slovenia. I loved the attitude of Senidah … perhaps that is the feminist in me. LOL
When I won FdlC for Switzerland, I hosted in beautiful Fribourg. Let’s see where Ovi will take the ETSC caraven.
Yes queen senidah song oosed women power for me! Loved it. Will you be joining the next edition?
I don’t know. I am still terribly busy and want to go on holiday from end of August to beginning of October. Everything needs to be in order by that time. :)
You and mermy gave 24 whereas all the guys together only had 4 pts for Slovenia …
On the other hand, rosalina ignored Slovenia.
Ovi chose St. Gallen :)
Love the library. :)
Literature guy speaking …
Thank you for the great job once again, Morgan!
I should congratulate myself for getting the worst result for Turkey 🙂
Congratulations Mermaid!
😃
LOL I guess I can’t visit Azerbaijan :P
Your artist is already performing at Zhara Fest in Baku ;)
The stage looked great with water :P
I liked your video, there’s a lot of work but they made it look simple ;)
So, after Greece winning last time from predictions’ #7, now Switzerland from #6! ;)
To be fair, I didn’t really think Ireland could win (it is a very VFoS rather than ETSC entry, the exact opposite of CHE or NOR for that matter) but I don’t think it deserved to finish outside the top10 either…
I love everything about the Irish entry!
I didn’t think it could win but I was a little disappointed to fall so far from the top 10. 13th is still best for me. Cursed to not get in to top 10
Whens the next edition! Really want Malta again lol
That’s the spirit! <3
Macedonia certainly did not deserve to come last. And Lybia was criminally underrated too imo. On the other hand, I have 1 top 10 song in 40th place. :)
Norway! :-P
LOL
Since I have given my 12 to you in the past, I will say ‘correct’. From what I remember it isn’t a bad song but just not for me …
I don’t mind! Second is quite a distinction, even if it is second from last :-P
That is the true Saara Aalto spirit. :)
You did well and therefore I must have missed sth. Perhaps I was cleaning the toilet when the song came on …
It’s perfect for cleaning the toilet wearing nothing! If you like that sort of thing :-P
ROFL
Just be careful where those chemicals go! :-P
I loved that hajdeee feeling in the song. Hence my 3 pts ;)
Some fun facts: if Martin had voted, Denmark would have won, if Toggie had voted, France would have won (based on the points they showed us)
In my absolute first voting set, I had Denmark 1 and Switzerland 5 which would have meant Dk winning by 1pt over tied Switzerland and France!
How about if they both voted?
Oops just seen your post lol
then Denmark would have won I think
Every little counts…
Ouch! Still it was a fine Top 3 result all round.
Sorry Razvan :/
How would it be had we both voted?
I would’ve won virtually, but then again if you guys would’ve participated then your own songs would’ve influenced the whole scoreboard too. :p
Of course, there is that too. I would most probably have won! Ha ha ha! :D
Haha :P
Congrats, Ovi ! REALLY WELL deserved winner !!!!
I had both DNK and FRA in my top 20 but not inside points’ area as Switzerland, so if anyone made the difference in favor of Crimer, that’s me :P
I also voted for 4 other songs in top 10 (LBN, FIN, BEL, GRC)
GREAT edition, marvellous hosting! Can’t wait for blind!
Ah, in such a close scenario everyone made a difference :p
I know, just wanted to tease you :P
Ahh, so you’re to blame then! :p ;)
Oops! :P
Second and first are 6th picks ;)
And #5 is 4th pick :-P
With bith toggie and Martin in i would have finished with 106 pts. :/’
Yup you did say you’d miss those points (18 is quite a bit tbh) but still a fine placing for Greece :)
Indeed.I have now finished 7th in 3 ETSC editions.
Nice statistic. I have finished 17th in 3 editions elsewhere, not such a great statistic ROFL :D
Killing my first top5. How can you? :-P
I’d love to.lol
Just be careful where those chemicals go, lol :-P
Oops sorry, wrong answer, I thought you were Toggie :-P
Of course Greece would like to be in the top5 instead of Norway. Funny thing is NOR has been out of the top5 longer than GRE (ETSC1 was their only other top5!)
Congratulations Switzerland and Ovi on your ‘triple crown’
Truly fantastic!
Very exciting voting. Denmark and France were so close.
Excellent job Morgan with everything, great hosting once again.
Well done Oxi on your hosting too.
Onwards to Blind Edition 2 – ETSC 10.
Thank you! Morgan did everything :)
Yes but you selected the venue etc and your enthusiasm kept me watching on the side lines and determined to at least listen to the songs and ‘virtually vote’ :)
You are a star, Martin!
<3 <3