EUROVISION 2020 - General Discussion Thread

[escYOUnited]

Please post any and all discussions regarding the contest itself, host country and city, organisation, rumours and other topics not related to any specific country's selection process.

 

[marty]

I am sorry, I still find this hard to believe. The counting itself is a matter of (milli)seconds for computers. Given enough time, any reasonably skilled web developer can create a system that will have the final results in a matter of seconds, if integrated properly with the phone companies software. Even if you had one person per every country who would have to enter the points manually into the central system, you still only need a minute or two. You can still have 10 minutes to decide in which order will the presenters go, and you are good to start calling. With a little effort, you could actually design and implement the whole thing in a way that there's no human intervention needed, with an algorithm that determines the most exciting order (I guess they might even be using one already?) and start announcing the results the second you hear "stop voting now". I am not saying we need that last case, but I really don't think that "we need the time to count" is a good and valid argument to not be able to swap without significant delay.

It is not the counting that needs time. it is the preparation for the announcement, the briefing for the hosts, producer, camera operators, etc.

 

[BarefootBoogaloo]

I'd ideally prefer if they scored during the family show, so many artists treat the rehearsal as such, and end up getting slaughtered by the juries.

 

[FRFanESC]

Show the televote results would make people feel like juries are deciding the winner. It also an argument for the producers to say "here are the juries votes, but your votes can change everything, let's see what is the song you voted for the most".

 

[Loindici]

And 5 is way too low indeed, 10 would be better even I'm more for 15-20.

Well, managing the scores of 210 people still results in upside down scoreboards, so imagine what would happen with 420 people... or 630 people... or 840 people...

I'm more into a criteria restriction, that's realistically more capable to be done. Plus, if necessary, they can put a regulation to have the juries score in separate locations with no communication devices available while scoring.

 

[Sammy]

Eurovision Icons even make it into the world of classics...

Conchita must be so proud! La Bartoli is a goddess!

 

[B3stbeats]

Why not?

 

[Loindici]

I mean, in the age of having appr. 40 acts per year plus TONS of rehearsals... this feels like an overcomplication.

 

[HayashiM]

Why not?

I don't know if I would like to see that happening every year. But just as the 2018 edition didn't have the LED's (which many seem to hate, but I absolutely loved it), I wouldn't mind a return of the live orchestra as a one-time experiment.

I am not sure how does it exactly work at Sanremo, probably not as many rehearsals take place, but still... If it can work there in the 2010's, it could perhaps work at Eurovision too.

 

[tomos2019]

I care more about the language rule than the live orchestra tbh. I would like them to try one with the language rule just to see how it goes but that's not likely to happen nowadays.

 

[Morpheus]

I care more about the language rule than the live orchestra tbh. I would like them to try one with the language rule just to see how it goes but that's not likely to happen nowadays.

I would like to see this as well. I don't know if this would be a *good* idea, and I'm sure it would incite massive negative reactions if announced, but I would still like to see it happen once, just to hear my own language on the ESC stage.

 

[Realest]

https://twitter.com/Eurovision/status/1185149729866502145

The Slogan will be decided today. Last Year the Reveal was 28.10.

 

[ESC94]

Hopefully it won´t be such a generic theme from the kind "love, peace, harmony". xboring

 

[HayashiM]

"So long and thanks for all the fish"?

 

[Morpheus]

How about "LOL, No Thanks"?

 

[Ezio]

Winner is coming

 

[Loindici]

Seems we won't have more of those 'jumpscare' performer announcements like what Spain did this year.

 

[Mainshow]

I would like the slogan to be "Eurovision and Chill", tbh xD

 

[Loindici]

https://eurovoix.com/2019/10/22/ebu-consulting-about-possible-changes-to-eurovision-voting/

Interesting.

 

[Preuss]

Jon Ola Sand said after KEIINO won the televote last year that there won't be any changes to the current system... however he's leaving so perhaps there's a different approach to it now

 

[ESC94]

Actually I´m quite satisfied with the current system, I wouldn´t need a change.