ESC 2019 General Discussion Thread

[Preuss]

I looked who are the Greek jurors and one of them is an actor and another one is costume designer. At least the 2 other ones are singers (one is opera singer) and one is a radio director.

Costume designer? Well that's interesting for sure
The opera singer better rank Kate high

 

[Citelis]

Its actually makes sense. I mean juries vote for staging too so a costume designer is not completely nonsense.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ofa5Zpo7gs
Irini Karagianni (opera singer) is probably her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtHUuEAngH4
Thats probably Thanasis Alevras which is actor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idR2EqjeHEo
And thats probably the other singer Nena Xronaioy

 

[Preuss]

Yes I agree but does she or him have any musical background or is the concerned one just a costume designer...?

 

[Citelis]

Yes I agree but does she or him have any musical background or is the concerned one just a costume designer...?

I'm not sure to be honest. He is working on theater.

 

[Preuss]

Okay my question is only how will these people in the juries rank my favorites this year

 

[Citelis]

Hopefully they give Australia 1st place in the semifinal.

 

[Preuss]

Yes vote for Kate and Katerine and John please

 

[crashworld]

Credit: OGAE International - https://ogaeinternational.org/annual-ogae-poll/2019-ogae-poll/2019-ogae-poll-results/

So the OGAE votes are in. Italy won. Think this year's competition can go either way. So exciting.

 

[Preuss]

It really looks like a 3-horse-race between Luca, Mahmood and Duncan - in the fan polls at least, there's many challengers
I really like them all and their songs

 

[Nicholas123]

Yes I agree but does she or him have any musical background or is the concerned one just a costume designer...?

He is a theatrical set designer as well. One of the best we have in Greece. He has also collaborated with literally every big name of our music industry.
I am actually very impressed with our jury this year. It is a huge step forward, compared to recent years.

 

[Realest]

RIP to our jury... Bruno Berberes, who is responsible for 99% of our failures this century is our chairperson

He gave 12 points to Sisters at our NF. Im curious tto ffind out how he judges them at ESC.

 

[Preuss]

What exactly is the "chairperson"?

 

[Decayingbooks]

A quick look at the Norwegian jury;

Knut Bjørnar Asphol's got a master in music but apparently he produced Rybak's "That's how you write a song" which should say enough about him lol
I googled Finn-Ulrik Berntsen and the first article that showed up was an article all the way back to 2006 where he's in charge of what music is played in the eastern part of Norway
Kamilla Wigestrand participated in Idol last year and came 7th - has a stunning amount of 319 likes on Facebook
Maiken Kroken has about 700 likes on Facebook!
Jenny Jenssen middle aged woman and works as a vocalist and artist

Oh dear oh dear

Following Preuss idea:

Quick look at the portuguese jury:

Ana Paulo/Manager - Has many experience in publicity and booking management, works for "Fado in a Box" (that seems to be the company that represents Salvador Sobral)

Matay/Singer - Participated in 2019 Festival da Canção with the song "Perfeito". He was part of the projects Soul Gospel Project and Gospel Collective. Other song "Não chores mais" e "O que tu dás".

Ana Cláudia/Singer - Participated in 2019 Festival da canção with the song "Inércia", studied jazz, bossa nova, tradicional portuguese music and african percussion, also studied trapezium and contemporary dance. She was part of the project Tucanas in 2008 and in 2014 published the project "De Outono" and as been working with the band D'Alva in the last years.

Renato Júnior/Composer - Composer and musical producer is know for to have work with singers Susana Félix and Simonde de Oliveira. Participated as a composer in Festival da canção in 2006, 2008 ("Canção Pop") and 2015 ("À espera das canções") and was jury back in 2015.

Paulo Castelo/Radio producer - Works for Antena 3 (a radio station part of the rtp network), was unable to find much about him, but is best of 2018, best of 2017 and "best of 2016" could tell you which kind of music he likes and probably who he will vote on

 

[Pawhlen]

Okay my question is only how will these people in the juries rank my favorites this year

We all know one thing for sure

Fans If they rank high SOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCoOXoOXoOXoOXoOX

but if they rank low,

 

[Lonter]

We all know one thing for sure

Fans If they rank high SOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCoOXoOXoOXoOXoOX

but if they rank low,

The victim complex is strong on this one

 

[Pawhlen]

The victim complex is strong on this one

It´s the truth sadly

 

[Realest]

We all know one thing for sure

Fans If they rank high SOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCSOOCoOXoOXoOXoOXoOX

but if they rank low,

It depends on how well does with the Televoters in Comparison.

 

[LalehForWD]

The victim complex is strong on this one

What is a victim complex and how is it applicable to Eurovision? Cowing mentality?

 

[esc87fan]

For all the Canadian ESC fans...

Omni Television has confirmed that all three shows will air on TV on a same-day delay, beginning at 9pm Eastern time on OMNI 1. TV coverage is only limited to British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario, but the shows will also be streamed nationwide on their website, omnitv.ca

So if you wanted to, you could potentially watch every show twice!

Time zone conversions from EDT:

Newfoundland: 10:30pm
Atlantic: 10:00pm
Central: 8:00pm
Mountain: 7:00pm
Pacific: 6:00pm

 

[Zonne147]

Only 3 days until the rehearsals start