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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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JamieBrown

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We'll recreate a feeling of mass disappointment when huge favourites crash and burn in the semis for something no one likes and leave every one vexed at the end when there is winner everyone has to settle for but no one truly loves and it then later turns out several jurors voted incorrectly. xheart

Awkward winners speech included?
 

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Awkward winners speech included?
The uncomfortable winners are "Fai rumore" (Diodato), "Still breathing" (Samanta Tina) and "My last breath" (James Newman). For Eurofans, the drastic situation of this period can affect the voting. In 2021, they hope that the 2020 songs will not be reconfirmed at the cost of losing some songs they love (masterpieces like "Uno", "Feker libi" etc ...). The danger is that, if the songs are reconfirmed, because of the "Coronavirus" the votes will be directed with full certainty towards songs that they don't like. I agree with them. It is important for me to see their smile (as beautiful as that of a newborn baby).
 

ESCREGION

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Let's do anything in order to be this year memorable!!!
 

Mainshow

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Seriously, I have thought about this.. I think we should make a list of people being interested and try to come up with 82 or 84 individual juries consisting of the same amount of people and try to draw people based on nationalities, ethnicities or "close ties to a country" (or similar taste in music). Maybe we could even distinguish between people being able to play instruments/journalists (juries) and avid fans (televoting) to make the results more exciting and diverse.
 

FilipFromSweden

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I think one should be jury or televote based on who they usually agree with. I’m personally a little jury pig
 

Zonne147

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I usually do my jury votes every year and I had them ready for this year, and they look pretty different from my personal taste - I try to be as objective as possible but sometimes well, if I'm between two songs... I go with the one I like the most...
I can't resist to a hot mess :ROFLMAO: but I can also appreciate a professional song even if sometimes the song is not really my thing...
 

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The rules have been added.
Everyone can participate in the contest as jury or/and televoter, doesn't matter what country you are from.
We tried to make the rules as close to real Eurovision as possible. So we have 50% jury/50% televoting results, jury having 5 members who rank all songs and televoters have SMS voting with 20 SMS as on real Eurovision.
Note that we can't predict for now how many people participate, so we can extend some rules according to situation.
We will try to invite as many forum members from different countries as possible.
In a few days we will announce the dates of event happens, start voting and set deadlines.
 

crashworld

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By the way, just want to check, if I am a jury for one semi, but can I be a televoter in the other semi? Or can I still be a televoter at all?
 
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