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Yesterday I began reviewing this year’s rehearsals, and much like the real-life first rehearsals, I found the first round to be very educational. For example, I learned that Europe has many Republics, that I really can’t come up with proper adjectives to describe San...
It’s been a good decade since I last attended Eurovision rehearsals, and that decade, apart from making me older than I'd like to admit, also taught me a few things about obsessing about - analyzing, I mean analyzing - rehearsals from a distance. Don't get me wrong:...
You might have heard it on our social media already, but the escgo! team will not be live in Stockholm for this year's Eurovision Song Contest. Since 2010, we have covered the competition directly from the host cities and the heart of the press centre, but personal...
It's the final part of the escgo! line-up check for 2016, which means it's time for our editors, Felix, Martin and Shi, to turn their attention to the countries that are automatically qualified for the grand final of ESC 2016: the "big five" and the host country,...
In the fourth and penultimate part of our ESC 2016 line-up check series, it’s time for our editors – Felix, Martin and Shi – to give their views on the songs in the second half of the second semi-final! Just like in our first, second and third articles, each entry has...
In the third part of our ESC 2016 line-up check series, it’s time for our editors – Felix, Martin and Shi – to give their views on the songs in the first half of the second semi-final! Just like in our first and second articles, each entry has been randomly assigned...
In the second part of our ESC 2016 line-up check series, it's time for our editors - Felix, Martin and Shi - to give their views on the songs in the second half of the first semi-final! Just like in our first article, each entry has been randomly assigned to one of...
In the world of the Eurovision Song Contest, April is the month for analysis and anticipation. Now it's time for us here at escgo! to make our contribution with our annual line-up check series! This year we've tweaked the format slightly. Each entry has been randomly...
The running orders for the semi-finals of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest were announced early this morning. As has been the case since 2013, the running orders were determined by the producers of the show and approved by the EBU, the aim being to ensure an exciting...
Latvia has won the 12th annual edition of ChatVote, the traditional event held by escgo.com and the #esc chatroom to find our favourite song ahead of each year's Eurovision Song Contest! In the 2016 edition, "Heartbeat" by Justs received a total of 305 points, ahead...
This evening the 2016 edition of our ChatVote event reaches its climax with the grand final, live in our #esc chat from 21:00 CET! What exactly happens tonight? The event will begin with us watching a quick reprise of our 26 finalists. Then - in a NEW feature for this...
Following two nights of preview video viewing, live voting and opening of virtual envelopes in our new live stream, the semi-final qualifiers that will compete in our ChatVote 2016 final are now known! Semi 1 qualifiers: Armenia, Estonia, Russia, Cyprus, Iceland,...
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