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! 40 of you have expressed the desire to join the August 2018 edition and a random draw was made! Discover the songs 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 9 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 8th edition was held in August 2017, and it was the first one that went “blind”, meaning people did not know who sent what. It crowned Greece. The last edition to date was hosted last July and was won by Switzerland’s CRIMER with “Brotherlove“. 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 10 – August 2018” will be officially held in St Gallen as the winner’s birthplace.
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.
People are starting to gather at the Tonhalle St. Gallen. Here are the hosts for tonight’s show: Lauriane Gilliéron, Peter Stamm and James Gruntz.
Before the show starts, we get the live reprise of the winning song:
Rules: the voting will open tonight at midnight (time of Paris)! You can vote until Friday 31st at midnight! Results will be revealed the following weekend, Saturday 1st! In order to do promotion, you need to email me all materials you want to post (including lyrics translation). 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!
No prediction yet. 7h left to vote!
How many left to vote?
3
Otra Bien Querida :-)
This is 70’s pop perfection!
:)
You knew it?
Oh yes! Haven’t heard it for such a long time, too long time I would say now 😃
There is also quite bad Finnish version of it 😃
Aahaha really? I tried to find it on YT, but all I found was a video with the lyrics translated to Finnish.
Here! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4yIqCk-0g
Just love this “video art” 😃
Ahahaha… that’s so funny to hear it in Finnish… What year, do you know?
It’s from 1977 and it was big hit from her debut album. You Stole My Heart is the title and it features classy line “I didn’t have better gift to give than the one you took laughing, you stole my heart.
Porque te vas is like the most famous Spanish song here, as it’s taught in France in Spanish classes in middle school!
Wouldn’t ‘La La La’ be more appropriate? 😁
Tick tock, tick tock…
Has everyone voted?
You chose a green board… mmmm… not a red one… not a yellow one…
based on the official logo
Ok :)
You want the colors of German flag?😁
Yes, my dear, I would like a yellow board! To make a last promo moment for the country you’re hoding 😁
Can you tell us if the results went as you thought they’d go when you first heard and ranked the songs or if there were some results that surprised you?
there’ll be surprises, there always is
Midnight CET? That’s bad to leave in the east 😓😢
Though I am sure that everything will be ok with my winner and it will win this edition and my entry will be somethere in the middle of 30s
Just easier for me, plus I try to find a middle ground with the few ET members who live in the American continent! Anyway, it’s only to start prediction!
Can we? I am impatient 😋😄
As always I hope that all songs got points. :)
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