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Ehm, is Salvador really designing the stage or we're just pointlessly speculating?

There is only thing I'm worried with next year hosting and that's the tempo. FdC's worst thing for me: it was extremely slow, it was like they were in absolute no hurry to advance, like a total calm everywhere and everytime (other than that it's a decent show).
I love Portuguese sweet, relaxed, easy, sort of melancholic personality, but I expect something different in a TV show like Eurovision.
 

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People are saying (inside information from RTP) that Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela are the possible hosts with Fernando Mendes in the green room. I'm super ok for Filomena, ok-ish for Catarina but please NO FERNANDO MENDES! He doesn't even know any english... oh god no .

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People are saying (inside information from RTP) that Catarina Furtado and Filomena Cautela are the possible hosts with Fernando Mendes in the green room. I'm super ok for Filomena, ok-ish for Catarina but please NO FERNANDO MENDES! He doesn't even know any english... oh god no .

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Obviously dunno who they are, but it can't be much worse than the Ukraine 2017 hosting, and as we could see speaking (somewhat) good English is not a guarantee for success either, and Timur who was suppose to be the "best" of the Ukrainian trio ended up being the worst in English... so it can all get mixed up... but sure English knowledge is important.
 

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One of Salvador's quotes throughout this ESC campaign should be next year's slogan!!!
 

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Slogan: "Celebrate real music"
 

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Portugal stayed away from ESC 2013 and 2016, when Sweden was hosting and I think that is not just a coincidence. I don't know what kind of beef they have with SVT, but maybe they were silently protesting against the rule changes they imposed in those years. So I am eager to seeing and I really hope, that RTP will turn back at least the abomination of producer's draw. Maybe they would throw overboard as well the presentation of votes. Sobral himself stated, you would need to be a mathematician to understand what's going on here.

I also would not expect a comical script woodenly and awkwardly performed.

2018 is the closest we would ever get to seeing different levels of Eurovision getting purified.
 

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Portugal stayed away from ESC 2013 and 2016, when Sweden was hosting and I think that is not just a coincidence. I don't know what kind of beef they have with SVT, but maybe they were silently protesting against the rule changes they imposed in those years. So I am eager to seeing and I really hope, that RTP will turn back at least the abomination of producer's draw. Maybe they would throw overboard as well the presentation of votes. Sobral himself stated, you would need to be a mathematician to understand what's going on here.

I also would not expect a comical script woodenly and awkwardly performed.

2018 is the closest we would ever get to seeing different levels of Eurovision getting purified.

You don't need to be a "mathematician". You only need to be a person that is interested in the contest, which salvador definitely isn't.
 

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TBH i like FDC 2017's graphics and postcards. Especially the postcards, which is simple yet interesting.

Looking forward on how they host the real thing :mrgreen:
 

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I was talking to my friend today who's been to Portugal loads of times and she said it's a great country, Lisbon is fab apparently. I definitely hope that Portugal uses the opportunity to promote themselves and their culture, a bit like Greece did, especially as they've been waiting so long for a win.

It's also good that the likely arena will be double the size of the venue this year. Kyiv's arena looked great but was a tad on the small size I thought.


I hope however that the opportunity isn't taken by some to try and slander or denegrate "fast food pop", as Robin called it. That kind of music has been central to Eurovision pretty much since the Contest started, certainly since the 1960's anyway.
 

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TBH i like FDC 2017's graphics and postcards. Especially the postcards, which is simple yet interesting.

Looking forward on how they host the real thing :mrgreen:

FdC 2017's postcards and graphics were great and very modern. RTP can do those things well by themselves
 

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Cristiano Ronaldo kicking off the votes. Europe start voting now!

Cheesy? Yeah... but it would be great (I'm not a fan of him but he is the most famous Portuguese these days) but I doubt he'd do it for free or just love for his country, money talks.
 

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You don't need to be a "mathematician". You only need to be a person that is interested in the contest, which salvador definitely isn't.

This! It's not that hard to understand the voting, and in fact the current system is better as it gives the public a bit more say (although juries still manipulate in their favor).

However what I would preferred, is that that jury votes gets combined in the beginning, and then afterwards presenters give the public points, the public vote now looks less important.
 

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For those who are not Portuguese, the girl in this video is Filomena Cautela, the name that has been talked about the most for hosting (and apparently she is practicing already :lol:)
As for Catarina Furtado I don't know if I like the idea. She's a great host, but when she hosted "The Voice" her pronunciation when saying the names of the songs in English was kind of bad, which makes me think her English is not very good...

 

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I like Filomena Cautela, she has a funny, yet direct, way of talking!

But it will probably be Catarina Furtado, she won't pass this opportunity.
 

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FdC 2017's postcards and graphics were great and very modern. RTP can do those things well by themselves

The name of the country, which is being displayed from 2016 with those enormous letters is AMAZING, though they could've used several fonts in the same way as the 2016's postcards. By the way, the background music of the postcards in 2016 was way better than those from 2017, along with the two rectangles below the name of the country. The colours remained the same (blue and yellow), whereas it was far from appearing like that in 2016.
 

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Guys, I am sure that 1, 2 or maybe even the 3 of the hosts is in this photo. Possibly even more if you consider other events like the Allocation Draw or the Opening Ceremony!

 

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^ Well, I hope you are right if only for the fact Catarina Furtado isn't on that picture.

Like I said they deliver all the major entertainment events @ RTP to her on a silver plate because of her status quo. But last I check she was "Portugal's sweetheart" in the 90's...and last I checked on her I notice once more what has already been said by someone else on this thread - her English is atrocious. Please not her...if you are among those who think Timur & co. were bad you will be begging for them to return if you get to see this lady hosting.

But let's see who's on the picture..

Far left on the top...Cautela. Like I said, decent choice, stands out physically. Tonight I was zapping and caught her presenting her talk show but I had to switch when she started making international politics jokes...that's one side of her I don't like. But I'm pretty sure EBU won't be allowing that on stage so I'm still okay with her.

To her right...who's that? Her sidekick on the show, right? Never got her name. She's certainly not important enough yet. Just a sidekick. Unless she's sidekicking Mena in her personal life as well ;) Then the whole lobby situation would change things. But I am unaware of such thing - though it is well known Filomena is lesbian/bi.
Personal relations aside, could only see this girl getting a spot for the sake of chemistry.

Sílvia Alberto on the far left below. Liked I said bit out of favor. But I have no problem with her as long as she doesn't burst out into laughter every 5 minutes.
If we're to decide now based on this picture and the main criteria is legs, she has my vote though ;)

To her right...no idea who that is.

At the center...Vanessa Oliveira? Isn't she with SIC with Baião or something? Anyway, ugh, no. Low IQ diva :mrgreen:

To her right, Sónia Araújo. As said before, would be good choice...talented at dancing (could pull a Petra Mede musical number of sorts, etc.) and so on. But I thought she was out of favor with RTP recently.
Gets legs approval vote as well ;)
But if she is chosen...it will probably be noticed she hasn't that great of a sense of humor. And she can be snotty. Not to the level of complete arrogance though.
Wasn't her one of the reasons why Goucha departed for TVI? Lady was stealing the spotlight from the fabulous Manuel so he had to leave and get a sidekick with an IQ at level with Vanessa Oliveira :lol: (ok, Cristina is not that dumb...but she is a countryside girl, you know what I mean).

And finally to the right...is that Tânia Ribas de Oliveira? If so that's a lot of weight lost. If that's Catarina Furtado or someone else...excuse my poor tired eyes then.

Someone I didn't mention before...I would quite like to see Diana Bouça-Nova up to the test! I loved her on CC but that was 7 years ago :p I think she matured a lot meanwhile though.
Although she's more behind the scenes now, I think. But she's very easy to like, not pretentious at all. Great communicator. And with good sense of humor. Also, due to her age, would be very relatable to younger audiences.

If they can re-unite Rui Pêgo with her, that would be great :lol: They had great chemistry.
But unfortunately they are not big names...maybe in 20 years when we win aga...wait :( Only in 60+ years now again, damn.

Fernando Mendes has to be a joke, obviously.
Although it would be funny seeing him pulling a Verka :mrgreen: À la teatro de revista.
 
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