Line-up check 2019: Georgia
The escgo! team reviews “Keep On Going” by Oto Nemsadze.
Line-up check 2019: Belgium
The escgo! team reviews “Wake Up” by Eliot.
Line-up check 2019: Serbia
The escgo! team reviews “Kruna” by Nevena Božović.
Line-up check 2019: Belarus
The escgo! team reviews “Like It” by ZENA.
ChatVote 2019: Qualifiers revealed, final voting begins!
If you’re one of our #esc chat regulars, you’ll want to know the finalists for this year’s ChatVote. They’re in here along with all the other details you’ll need to take part in our grand final!
Line-up check 2019: Hungary
The escgo! team reviews “Az én apám” by Joci Pápai.
Line-up check 2019: Czech Republic
The escgo! team reviews “Friend Of A Friend” by Lake Malawi.
SongHunt 2019 – Quarter-Final 2
SongHunt 2019 continues with the second quarter-final. Things are hotting up – and YOUR votes are needed in our quest to find the best national final song of the season!
Line-up check 2019: Slovenia
The escgo! team reviews “Sebi” by Zala Kralj & Gašper Šantl.
Line-up check 2019: Poland
The escgo! team reviews “Fire Of Love (Pali się)” by Tulia.
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A German in Lisbon: First impressions from the host city
As Felix decided to not spend all of his time cooped up in the arena, he went on a quick bus tour around Lisbon and collected some first impressions of the host city!
The View from San Francisco: Second Rehearsals, Day 5
Portugal is an Atlantic-facing country. On the other side of the Atlantic and beyond is San Francisco. Shi is there, and she will give you all the analysis you need and more. Day 5, you have been warned!
A German in Lisbon: The first full day
As anyone who ever lived in Cologne would say: "Et es wie et es, et kütt wie et kütt, un et hätt noch emmer joot jejange." That's Cologne dialect for "It's how it is, it will be like it is, and it has always worked out fine in the end." It's time for me to adopt this...
A quick update from the arena
Hello from Felix in the Altice Arena! It's this website's first full day in Lisbon, it's the first day of open rehearsals, and… well, let's just say things went a bit differently to how we imagined. So we're adapting to the situation and changing our plan to something...
The View from San Francisco: First Rehearsals, Day 4
Over in San Francisco, Shi has now seen all of the semi-finalists rehearse once. But is she any the wiser? And what does Harry Potter have to do with all of this?
Lisbon Day 4: The view from… Lisbon!
Felix casts his eye over the fourth day of rehearsals in concise form. Sometimes you don’t need many words.
A German in Lisbon: The arrival
Felix’s daily reviews from Berlin are a thing of the past – because they’re now daily reviews from the host city Lisbon!
escgo! has arrived in Lisbon!
It's late in the afternoon, or early in the evening, however you want to define this time of the day, but: We, escgo - I, Felix - have arrived to the bubble! It's my first time with F accreditation, and the only editor from our team on-location, so things will be a...
The View from San Francisco: First Rehearsals, Day 3
Day three in the Lisbon madhouse, and our foreign correspondent Shi is trying to take it all in from the other side of the Atlantic.
Lisbon Day 3: The view from Berlin
Tomorrow Felix travels to Lisbon, where he’ll be blogging for us throughout the rest of the ESC weeks! But before that, how did he see day 3 from home base?
The View from San Francisco: First Rehearsals, Day 2
Shi’s “View from San Francisco” series continues! Pull up a chair and join our foreign correspondent as she examines the second day of rehearsals in Lisbon.
Lisbon Day 2: The view from Berlin
Felix is busy packing his bags for Lisbon – but he’s putting that on hold for a few moments to turn his attention to day 2 of rehearsals at the Altice Arena.
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Here’s another fine mess EBU’ve gotten us into…
The full results of the ESC 2019 grand final have been revised following the EBU’s admission that it messed up the calculation of the Belarusian jury votes. We have questions.
SongHunt 2019 – The Final!
It’s the grand final of SongHunt 2019 – and YOUR votes will decide the best national final song of the season!
After 44 years, the Netherlands win Eurovision!
The winner of the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest is "Arcade" by Duncan Laurence from the Netherlands - ending a 44-year wait for the country dating back to Teach-In and "Ding-A-Dong" in 1975. In an incredibly exciting results presentation, Sweden won the jury vote...
Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2019? Our prediction for the final
Happy Eurovision – the big day has arrived! Tonight the grand final of ESC 2019 will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel. But who will hold the trophy at the end of the show? It’s time for our team’s predictions!
Better love: Some of the bets to look out for at Eurovision 2019!
It’s time for us to take our usual look at some of the most interesting betting markets for tonight’s Eurovision grand final!
Jury Final: Live Blog from the Press Center
We’re live in the press center for the jury final!
ESC 2019: The semi 2 qualifiers and the final running order!
Eight more songs left us on Thursday night, and we now have the full line-up of the 26 finalists for the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Check it out!
ESC 2019: The escgo! predictions for tonight’s second semi-final
The second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 is just a few hours away, and so it’s time for us in the escgo! team to predict the second batch of ten qualifiers for the grand final on Saturday.
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The View from San Francisco – First Semi Final, Second Rehearsals
Last year, when I wrote my view from San Francisco series, I was a full time freelancer and as I knew the chance of work happening during rehearsal week was The MakeMakes and Ann-Sophie, I just told my clients I wasn’t available until later in May. This year, however,...
The View from San Francisco – Second Semi Final, First Rehearsals
It’s a new day, a new semi-final, 18 new rehearsals, and I am feeling like I’m really ready for it to be next week already. Hi! Serbia: Much like Sweden, Serbia makes sure we get an easy landing at the beginning of the second semi-final, opting for a staging that...
First no Stockholm, and now no Kyiv? A personal editorial.
escgo! is back from a long hibernation. You might have noticed that we haven’t posted a lot about Eurovision recently, other than our own events and polls. | Why we at escgo! took a longer break, and why we just relaunched with a fresh new website.
The View from San Francisco – First Semi Final, First Rehearsals
Missed me? Last year, out of complete boredom and a great need to obsess about rehearsals despite being on the other side of the world, I decided to take advantage of the fact I co-manage this website and ramble my random rehearsal thoughts away. Somehow people cared...
Welcome to the new escgo!
Surprise, surprise: Here we are, with an all new escgo! The team has been working hard behind the scenes, and now we can proudly present you a whole new website with a fresh new look. We are quite sure you will find your way around rather easily, but here are a few...
Pre-rehearsal betting: Who will be the semi-final qualifiers?
We take a look at the betting odds for the ESC 2017 semi-finals to find out which countries will the markets think will qualify for the grand final ahead of the first rehearsals.
1956: Let the Eurovision Song Contest begin!
The escgo! team looks back at the very first Eurovision Song Contest and picks out some of its favourite entries for you to enjoy.