Schlagerman1
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Hey there! I am back again, this time with a little different contest which I hope people will enjoy voting in. As you all know, in 2004 came the introduction of the Semifinals and the number of participating nations increased from 26 in 2003 to 36 in 2004. But what if that didn't happen? What if the placements of the previous years mattered on which nations were allowed to compete, just like they did in 2000 and forward. So I decided to see which songs would be able to compete in 2004 if that rules were implemented and I need your help to decide what our outcome of it would look like, now over 20 years later.
So for every week (except for a break during the holidays), we will see 26 songs from every year compete for getting the trophy. You will work as jury members, ranking all 26 songs from #1 (the best) to #26 (the worst). The top 10 for every year (excluding the Big 4/5) will secure a place for coming year.
There is also a queue system, where the nations not competing is waiting to return, also determined after the placement they did in the previous edition they competed in. But there is a rule system for who gets in and not:
The running order for each year is also slightly changed, using the modern method of "Producers choice", with countries put in the same half in the final (and dividing the non-qualifiers depending on running order in semis) are being sorted to make it as good genre-wise as possible. From 2013 and forward, I use the running order in the final mostly, allowing all countries (except for the host) to be moved one position earlier or later. The songs that got eliminated are still divided after half and put in to make a variation in genre as much as possible.
So for this edition, we are going for the third time in a row to Albania! Here are how the nations got selected for this contest.
Here are the 26 countries competing in ESC 2013:
1.
LATVIA - "Here We Go" PeR
2. FRANCE - "L'Enfer Et Moi" Amandine Bourgeois
3. LITHUANIA - "Something" Andrius Pojavis
4. MOLDOVA - "O Mie" Aliona Moon
5. SPAIN - "Contigo Hasta El Final (With You Until The End)" ESDM
6. FYR MACEDONIA - "Pred Da Se Razdeni" Esma & Lozano
7. ESTONIA - "Et Uus Saaks Alguse" Birgit
8. BULGARIA - "Samo Shampioni" Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov
9. CYPRUS - "An Me Thimasai" Despina Olympiou
10. MALTA - "Tomorrow" Gianluca
11. RUSSIA - "What If" Dina Garipova
12. GERMANY - "Glorious" Cascada
13. ISRAEL - "Rak Bishvilo" Moran Mazor
14. ROMANIA - "It's My Life" Cezar
15. UNITED KINGDOM - "Believe In Me" Bonnie Tyler
16. SWEDEN - "You" Robin Stjernberg
17. SERBIA - "Ljubav Je Svuda" Moje 3
18. DENMARK - "Only Teardrops" Emmelie de Forest
19. ICELAND - "Ég Á Líf" Eythor Ingi
20. SWITZERLAND - "You And Me" Takasa
21. AZERBAIJAN - "Hold Me" Farid Mammadov
22. GREECE - "Alcohol Is Free" Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis
23. UKRAINE - "Gravity" Zlata Ognevich
24. ITALY - "L'Essenziale" Marco Mengoni
25. NORWAY - "I Feed You My Love" Margaret Berger
26. ALBANIA - "Identitet" Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar Sejko
Playlist of all the 26 songs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLToFhbaeiV0b7gSJxMmn2TS6txBqy4xtp&si=ACqVSSK3uEPa6mhx
How to vote:
You vote by sending a message to me here on the forum, ranking all 26 songs from 1 (the best) to 26 (the worst).
You got approximately a week on you to vote, so the deadline ends on Sunday the 2nd of February at 21 CET!
Queue list (the nations that are waiting in line to compete in the near future):
Let's redo this contest!
So for every week (except for a break during the holidays), we will see 26 songs from every year compete for getting the trophy. You will work as jury members, ranking all 26 songs from #1 (the best) to #26 (the worst). The top 10 for every year (excluding the Big 4/5) will secure a place for coming year.
There is also a queue system, where the nations not competing is waiting to return, also determined after the placement they did in the previous edition they competed in. But there is a rule system for who gets in and not:
The running order for each year is also slightly changed, using the modern method of "Producers choice", with countries put in the same half in the final (and dividing the non-qualifiers depending on running order in semis) are being sorted to make it as good genre-wise as possible. From 2013 and forward, I use the running order in the final mostly, allowing all countries (except for the host) to be moved one position earlier or later. The songs that got eliminated are still divided after half and put in to make a variation in genre as much as possible.
So for this edition, we are going for the third time in a row to Albania! Here are how the nations got selected for this contest.
Here are the 26 countries competing in ESC 2013:
1.
LATVIA - "Here We Go" PeR2.
FRANCE - "L'Enfer Et Moi" Amandine Bourgeois3.
LITHUANIA - "Something" Andrius Pojavis4.
MOLDOVA - "O Mie" Aliona Moon5.
SPAIN - "Contigo Hasta El Final (With You Until The End)" ESDM6.
FYR MACEDONIA - "Pred Da Se Razdeni" Esma & Lozano7.
ESTONIA - "Et Uus Saaks Alguse" Birgit8.
BULGARIA - "Samo Shampioni" Elitsa Todorova & Stoyan Yankulov9.
CYPRUS - "An Me Thimasai" Despina Olympiou10.
MALTA - "Tomorrow" Gianluca11.
RUSSIA - "What If" Dina Garipova12.
GERMANY - "Glorious" Cascada13.
ISRAEL - "Rak Bishvilo" Moran Mazor14.
ROMANIA - "It's My Life" Cezar15.
UNITED KINGDOM - "Believe In Me" Bonnie Tyler16.
SWEDEN - "You" Robin Stjernberg17.
SERBIA - "Ljubav Je Svuda" Moje 318.
DENMARK - "Only Teardrops" Emmelie de Forest19.
ICELAND - "Ég Á Líf" Eythor Ingi20.
SWITZERLAND - "You And Me" Takasa21.
AZERBAIJAN - "Hold Me" Farid Mammadov22.
GREECE - "Alcohol Is Free" Koza Mostra feat. Agathon Iakovidis23.
UKRAINE - "Gravity" Zlata Ognevich24.
ITALY - "L'Essenziale" Marco Mengoni25.
NORWAY - "I Feed You My Love" Margaret Berger26.
ALBANIA - "Identitet" Adrian Lulgjuraj & Bledar SejkoPlaylist of all the 26 songs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLToFhbaeiV0b7gSJxMmn2TS6txBqy4xtp&si=ACqVSSK3uEPa6mhx
How to vote:
You vote by sending a message to me here on the forum, ranking all 26 songs from 1 (the best) to 26 (the worst).
You got approximately a week on you to vote, so the deadline ends on Sunday the 2nd of February at 21 CET!
Queue list (the nations that are waiting in line to compete in the near future):
Let's redo this contest!
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