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The Eurovision 2020 Online Dates


Semi-Final 1: Wednesday, 8 April 2020
Semi-Final 2: Friday, 10 April 2020
Final: Saturday, 25 April 2020


The voting in the Semi-Finals:
from 23 March to 5 April (2 weeks)
The voting for in the Final:
from 11 April to 19 April (9 days)​


In order to keep the Eurovision spirit alive and well, we intend to hold a full vote of our community here on the forum and enjoy what could have happened in May.

The Rules

The Jury


APPLY HERE TO BE A JUROR

1. Every country's jury has 5 members. Anyone can join a jury before it is complete.

2. As a member of jury you can only take part from the country you are from. If your country has reached the 5 members max, you can still take part but you will be allocated to one of the countries listed in rule 3 (below).

3. If you are from a country outside of the participants of 2020 (USA, Brazil, Indonesia, Turkey etc) then you can take part from countries with very few or no members, these include:

  • Iceland
  • Belarus
  • Norway
  • Czech Republic
  • Georgia
  • Malta
  • Latvia
  • Israel

4. During the voting you rank each song in the semi from 1 to 16 (if you vote in the 1st Semi-final), from 1 to 17 (if you vote in the 2nd Semi-final) not including your own country or from 1 to 17-18 (if you vote as jury of Big5 or The Netherlands), and then from 1 to 25 in the final (if your country participates) or 1 to 26 if it does not participate in the final. You must send your votes to your head of Jury.


Head of Jury


1. Each country will have 1 Head of Jury who you will send your votes to.

2. As Head of Jury, you are responsible for combing all of the ranks to create 1 set of 12, 10, 8-1 votes from the jury and then sending these votes to the main host by the specified deadline. Only be a HoJ if you’re a fully active member of the forum with time. We don’t want to be chasing the HoJ up to send votes.

3. After all 5 members cast their votes to the HOJ, the average place of each country will be counted, the highest ranked country gets 12 points and so on by Eurovision system. These points as well as the spreadsheet showing the juries full breakdown must be sent to the Eurovision account.

4. All details of your juries voting must be kept private to your jury until after the final results, or you will be disqualified. However, jurors can share how they voted with other members of their own jury. For example if you’re in the British Jury, you can show the other members of the British jury, but not the German Jury.

The Televoting

1. Every forum member can vote in the televoting of any Semifinal and/or Final.

2. As a televoter you will have 20 'SMS' votes to allocate as you wish among the songs. You cannot vote for the country you are from. You must send your 'SMS' votes to the host account Eurovision

3. All the televoting 'SMS' will be counted all together and translated (by percentage) to equal to juries number of points.


It is important to note that we intend to have a jury vote from every country. While we are hopeful we can achieve this, it does mean that should we fail to receive a jury vote from any country, we will create an aggregated jury vote for them based on the jury votes of their pot members (or the other PQ countries in the case of the big 5 + host). In the same style the EBU would in Eurovision with a disqualified jury.


❗Note that we can't predict for now how many people participate, so we can extend some rules according to situation
 
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Nemo89

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So how would that matter (as long as people can’t vote for their own country)?
I was waiting for this answer. If the catchment area of this forum has the majority of Nordic or Baltic Eurofans an exchange of votes is likely for three reasons: friendship, alliance and greater appreciation for a musical genre close one's tastes.
 

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But you can't televote for your own country, right?

no. We'll check IPs also so people don't vote for their own country.
 

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I was waiting for this answer. If the catchment area of this forum has the majority of Nordic or Baltic Eurofans an exchange of votes is likely for three reasons: friendship, alliance and greater appreciation for a musical genre close one's tastes.

To be honest: I don’t think this will happen. I don’t think anything like neighbour or diaspora votes happen on this forum. Not much at least.
As far as I’ve read when I went to through votes in the big weekly polls from time to time there is no member that has ever been specifically voting for their neighbour countries.

And even if 100 Danes voted for Sweden, what does it matter? Sweden doesn’t get the points x 100. In the end it‘s ONE result only.
 

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This has me wondering if Azerbaijan and Armenia will finally exchange points. :D

Actually, for the full Eurovision experience I'd like to request a rule stating the Jurors and Armenia and Azerbaijan are forced to rank each other last, Greece and Cyprus must exchange 12s and whatever other blocs there is do their thing x

If we don't have drama about bloc votes after this i'll be upset.
 

Mainshow

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Maybe Swedish guys should be sent to Norwegian, Danish, Australian juries instead?
 

Gabor77

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I'd like to participate xheat I am genuinely happy that y'all are organizing this xlove
 

DanielLuis

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I have so much time on my hands now that I don't have a job and uni closed, and I hosted WorldVision once, so hit me up if you need any help!

Just want to say that I'm basically in the same exact position and that I'd be glad to help organizing this in whatever way I can!

Also, on r/eurovision they're going to simulate the full contest in may and they're contacting websites and forums to be part of the juries. If that goes ahead it would be pretty cool if ESCUnited could participate, maybe with the results of this forum version doubling as ESCUnited's jury scores for the reddit contest?
 

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Hey, can we get some more info about

- when will the voting start? Talking specifically about the Juryvote, when are the results due that is?

- how are the HOJ supposed to calculate and combine the ranks? Any specific programme, template, form whatsoever in mind?
 

Petar

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In Excel, or a similar software. I already made a spreadsheet.

You don't have to use this one, but it's a good template. You just insert the rankings of all juries and use average function to count the average placement for each song. Then you just sort them from lowest to highest and voila, you have your points.
 

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We probably start voting very soon when we get closer to have equipped jury (or at least 3-5 members in each and people still can join after) and have voting opened around 2 weeks. Televoting will be same.
In our plans to have live shows (probably on plug.dj) in mid April and on them after all songs we have results at once. No need to wait 2 month till May + we want to keep interest alive
 
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