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Our big day has arrived! Tonight, the grand final of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will be held in Stockholm, Sweden. For fans around the continent and beyond, it's the climax to the most exciting time of the year, the conclusion of an on-season that can be said to...
Another semi final came and went, and just like that, even though it feels like only yesterday we sat through the first day of rehearsals, we now have our full final line-up. Not without putting a third of Europe through a collective heart attack first, though. Not...
The second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is over! Time to look at some facts and give a personal verdict on the show. The ten happy qualifiers are: Latvia Georgia Bulgaria Australia Ukraine Serbia Poland Israel Lithuania Belgium The ChatVote analysis...
The lead-up to the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest is always a time for "lessons learned". Several of the assumptions we make about ESC voting went out of the window on Tuesday night: Greece and Bosnia & Herzegovina lost their 100% qualification...
Tonight it's time for the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016! Once again, just like for semi-final 1, us escgo! editors try to predict the 10 qualifiers of the show. You can see the choices of Martin, Felix and Shi in the table below - followed by a...
Going through the second semi-final, I realized I am not quite as emotionally attached to the songs here as I was to the songs in the first semi. This heat, as it turns out, is more about the songs I want to stay in it than the ones I want to see going through. And...
A little late, because real life interfered - RUDE, I know - but here I am, and I have big news: I'm not a complete idiot! I actually managed to get stuff mostly right! It's all very exciting, but I'm sure it will change by the end of the second semi. For now, though,...
The first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 is over! Time to look at some facts and give a personal verdict on the show. The ten happy qualifiers are: Azerbaijan Russia The Netherlands Hungary Croatia Austria Armenia Czech Republic Cyprus Malta The...
It's the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 tonight! While we all wait impatiently, I've sat down for a moment or two and thought about all kinds of things that could happen tonight. So... what if…? …Austria doesn't qualify We've seen it before: Big...
With my escgo! colleagues having kept you informed and entertained over the last week (and a bit) with their analysis of the rehearsals and staging from this year's Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, it's time for me to dive into my own area of - supposed -...
Tonight sees the first semi-final of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest, and it’s time for the escgo! team to predict which ten of the 18 candidates they think will progress to Saturday’s grand final. You can see the choices of Martin, Felix and Shi in the table below -...
The last 24 hours before any Eurovision night are always so difficult. The seconds slow down until they're standing still, and time definitely doesn't feel like thunder (oh oh). In these hours of need and struggle, I find the only thing I can do is come up with a...
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