Eurovision Alternate History - Tirana 2011 (Ddl: 19/1 21 CET)

[Schlagerman1]

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:

1. If a nation that qualifies for the next year has withdrawn, the next nation in the previous year ranking take the spot.
2. Debutants, and countries that has withdrawn and come back after a longer period of time get the advantage of taking a spot before anyone in the queue does.
3. A country that succeded to reach the the top 10 and withdrawn in the past, but do come back the following year, gets their spot back before any anyone else in the queue does.

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.

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.

BIG 5:
Top 10 from 2010:
Debutants: -
Returnees:

Here are the 26 countries competing in ESC 2011:
1. DENMARK - "New Tomorrow" A Friend In London
2. GREECE - "Watch My Dance" Loucas Yiorkas feat. Stereo Mike
3. ALBANIA - "Feel The Passion" Aurela Gaçe
4. SLOVAKIA - "I'm Still Alive" TWiiNS
5. TURKEY - "Live It Up" Yüksek Sadakat
6. LITHUANIA - "C'est Ma Vie" Evelina Sašenko
7. ARMENIA - "Boom Boom" Emmy
8. FRANCE - "Sognu" Amaury Vassili
9. ESTONIA - "Rockefeller Street" Getter Jaani
10. ITALY - "Madness Of Love" Raphael Gualazzi
11. HUNGARY - "What About My Dreams?" Kati Wolf
12. BELGIUM - "With Love Baby" Witloof Bay
13. FINLAND - "Da Da Dam" Paradise Oskar
14. MOLDOVA - "So Lucky" Zdob și Zdub
15. ICELAND - "Coming Home" Sjonni's Friends
16. CYPRUS - "San Aggelos S'Agapisa" Christos Mylordos
17. ROMANIA - "Change" Hotel FM
18. AUSTRIA - "The Secret Is Love" Nadine Beiler
19. GERMANY - "Taken By A Stranger" Lena
20. SPAIN - "Que Me Quiten Lo Bailao" Lucia Pérez
21. GEORGIA - "One More Day" Eldrine
22. CROATIA - "Celebrate" Daria
23. UKRAINE - "Angel" Mika Newton
24. ISRAEL - "Ding Dong" Dana International
25. SAN MARINO - "Stand By" Senit
26. UNITED KINGDOM - "I Can" Blue

Playlist of all the 26 songs: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLToFhbaeiV0aPP9hbx3yEw48pfl41Nfrp&si=OmMkXhaBCobRjBVx

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 19th of January at 21 CET!

Queue list (the nations that are waiting in line to compete in the near future):

Withdrawn to never come back (for now):

Let's redo this contest!

 

[Schlagerman1]

Full results from Dürres 2010:

1. ALBANIA 46p
2. ARMENIA 47p
3. ROMANIA 56p
4. FRANCE 58p
5. TURKEY 59p
6. ICELAND 64p
7. MOLDOVA 66p
8. UKRAINE 71p
9. CROATIA 84p
10. GERMANY 86p
11. DENMARK 86p
12. GEORGIA 91p
13. RUSSIA 92p
14. IRELAND 95p
15. AZERBAIJAN 95p
16. SWEDEN 96p
17. SPAIN 102p
18. PORTUGAL 102p
19. BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA 118p
20. MALTA 121p
21. LATVIA 123p
22. SWITZERLAND 130p
23. FYR MACEDONIA 133p
24. BULGARIA 133p
25. NORWAY 145p
26. UNITED KINGDOM 158p

That means that we will be going back to Tirana in 2011, where the countries in gold will compete as well! But before we completely bankrupt the country, I think we should take a short break of a few weeks and we will be back in January with some more Eurovision Alternate History. So until then...

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!

 

[NikolaiMoller]

ALBANIAAAAAAAA

Getting the justice they deserve

 

[Zorjan]

Whoa, Albania is owning this contest big time

 

[Drationi]

Albania once again I hope they'll continue their slayage with the next entry
Surprised to see quite low and quite high considering their history with ESCfans. I also eventually grew to like "Lost and Forgotten" so I'm happy with that

 

[Schlagerman1]

Hope you all have had some nice holidays! Time to start the 2011 contest, live from Tirana, Albania! You have to Sunday next week on you!

 

[Schlagerman1]

There is still time to vote, so if you haven't yet, don't forget to do so!