ESC 2015 in Austria - all the news

[Mlyn]

Does this forum support tweet-tags? Those tweets are really hilarious

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ok, it doesnt, fine

 

[Mlyn]

"Have you completely understood the rules?" - "No, you?" - "Nope." - "Great, let's do it" #allocationdraw #esc2015

 

[anselm]

Ikr I hope we'll get more from that person (whoever it is).

 

[Mlyn]

Glass studio concept for ORF's ESC Live show, do we see a green room in this pic?

 

[Schlagerman1]

Glass studio concept for ORF's ESC Live show, do we see a green room in this pic?

Oh possibly, and when the winner is announced, the winner will walk on a bridge over the audience to the stage? (just like in 2013)

 

[anselm]

Yes, that's the green room.

 

[marty]

looks really great. now i am curious how the artists will get from the greenroom to the stage, if there will be some form of a bridge.

 

[tuorem]

And please Austria, do not imitate Sweden and Denmark by announcing the winner in advance. Two years in a row, the last 3-4 countries were despised during the voting. Just cut 4 minutes of your show and show some respect to the participating countries!

 

[Leydan]

And please Austria, do not imitate Sweden and Denmark by announcing the winner in advance. Two years in a row, the last 3-4 countries were despised during the voting. Just cut 4 minutes of your show and show some respect to the participating countries!

Omg this annoyed me to no end. At least in Sweden they had a legit reason for it (worries over the time it would take to get there and the bridge issues they had). Denmark just did it for the sake of it. I feel sorry for last 3/4 countries voting because their points become meaningless.

 

[anselm]

More green room pics:

 

[marty]

More green room pics:

am i right that there is a stage in front of the greenroom?
and it looks like the seats in the corner will not be used. since the main stage is quite big too there will probably be a lot of restricted view seats.

 

[tuorem]

Omg this annoyed me to no end. At least in Sweden they had a legit reason for it (worries over the time it would take to get there and the bridge issues they had). Denmark just did it for the sake of it. I feel sorry for last 3/4 countries voting because their points become meaningless.

I agree, but I also thought Sweden could have calculated it during the rehearsals, they could have skipped something (I mean I'm sure they could have saved 5 minutes somewhere) because they were late. On one hand, it was rude to the remaining countries, on the other hand, we didn't get to see Emmelie's whole way to the stage. And sure it kills the excitement of the end of the voting.

In Denmark, that was unjustified like: "ok, all that counts is we know the winner. Who cares about how Swiss and Slovenians voted?". Overall, I think the shows were really good, but this, I cannot accept. Moreover, I also didn't like how they wanted the spokespeople to rush, interrumping their speech to say "may we have your points please?"... :? What are spokespeople for? Giving points, right? I think it's annoying when someone takes to much time to tell which country received points, but I guess they have the right to do a little speech to thank the host/present their country/make a joke/whatever.

 

[anselm]

am i right that there is a stage in front of the greenroom?
and it looks like the seats in the corner will not be used. since the main stage is quite big too there will probably be a lot of restricted view seats.

Hmm, I think it's rather just reserved space for all the technicians.

 

[Sim]

The pots for the allocation draw:

Pot 1:
Albania
Macedonia
Montenegro
Slovenia
Switzerland
Serbia
Malta

Pot 2:
Denmark
Finland
Estonia
Norway
Sweden
Iceland
Latvia

Pot 3:
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Georgia
Israel
Russia
Armenia
Lithuania

Pot 4:
Belgium
Cyprus
Greece
Ireland
Netherlands
San Marino

Pot 5:
Hungary
Moldova
Romania
Portugal
Poland
Czech Republic

 

[tuorem]

The pots seem quite ok. Of course, some countries are always out of place, but overall, it's fairly distributed.

Will San Marino will be allocated to the semi-final Italy will vote in?

I hope Latvia and Estonia will get a second half. For two years in a row, they got the first half and were screwed by the broadcaster (1st & 2nd in 2013 ; 2nd & 3rd in 2014).

 

[Matt]

Great, I posted this today on our website and the Jedwards fans are already mad at me for #16. Truth hurts, I suppose

20 things that are going to happen at Eurovision this year | ESCunited.com

 

[Leydan]

Number 4. We all know the UK is going to clearly win when we internally select Lauren Harries.

#UK2016
#LaurenHarries4Eurovision
#420Points

 

[CPV4931]

If someone still needs tickets for the Semi-final TV-shows: There will be a second wave of that tickets on Thursday (More tickets for Eurovision 2015 on sale Thursday | News | Eurovision Song Contest)

Tickets for the Jury and Family shows are still avaliabe.

 

[Anjeza]

Great, I posted this today on our website and the Jedwards fans are already mad at me for #16. Truth hurts, I suppose

20 things that are going to happen at Eurovision this year | ESCunited.com

#21: Me and my friends will be drunk after the final But I love #16 and totally agree with #13 (#bringbackLynda)

 

[Mlyn]

Tomorrow only tickets for semifinals will be on sale!

Tickets for the Semifinals of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest will go on sale this Thursday (January 29) at 09.00 CET. Now that it’s clear which country will start in which Semifinal, the current wave of exclusive tickets for jury-, family- and TV shows from Semifinal 1 and Semifinal 2 go on sale.

When tickets for other shows are available, it will be announced soon - this is likely to be the case in February.

For more information on tickets, click here!