Chat Awards 2015 – Your nominations, please!
The Chat Awards 2015 are launched - submit your nominations now! In the past two years, this relatively new annual event has already become one of the biggest traditions of our #esc chat. This is our chance to look back on the year gone by: What was the most...
escgo! Classic #2: Vesa-Matti Loiri
Finland has had a tough time of it in the Eurovision Song Contest. The famous 2006 triumph of masked rockers Lordi tends to make people think the Finns are a more successful ESC nation than they actually are. In fact, other than a clutch of lower-top-10 results, the...
SongHunt 2015 – The Grand Final
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt comes to its end soon - at least for 2015! Let’s find the very best song from this national final season. This is the Grand Final, featuring the 12 most popular songs...
escgo! Classic #1: Trio Rona – Fjollat
Back when I first became a hardcore Eurovision fan and started diving into the older contests that I'd missed by virtue of being too young or (in most cases) not yet born, I vividly remember a thought occurring to me: "One day I'll have seen and heard every Eurovision...
Introducing: escgo! Classics
It's the height of summer - even if the weather might suggest otherwise - and the Eurovision fan community is firmly in "off-season mode" now. While the news about the 2016 contest slowly starts to drip in, here at escgo! we've decided to pass the time by taking a...
SongHunt 2015, Semi-final 2
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from this national final season! This is semi-final 2, featuring 12 randomly allocated songs that qualified from the...
Globen in Stockholm to host ESC 2016!
It was always seen as the most likely option, and today it has been confirmed: Stockholm's Globe Arena - or, as we fans know it, just plain Globen - will host the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest! In the wake of Måns Zelmerlöw's victory in Vienna back in May, there had...
SongHunt 2015, Semi-final 1
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from this national final season! This is semi-final 1, featuring 12 randomly allocated songs that qualified from the...
SongHunt 2015, Quarter-final 4
[introduction and detailed rules] | [SongHunt explained in 90 seconds] | [results page] The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from this national final season! This is quarter-final 4, featuring 12 randomly allocated songs that qualified from the heats...
Editorial: escgo! after Vienna – looking to the future!
And yet another Eurovision Song Contest is over! It was the 6th consecutive year for us (formerly esc-chat.com, now escgo!) covering the contest in the respective host city. And Vienna was a good host! We were amazed by the friendliness of the staff and the locals,...
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1st Dress Rehearsal semi 2 – LIVE!
Hello and welcome to the press centre for the first dress rehearsal of the second semi-final for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest! The show begins at 15:00 CET, also join the chat for our Live-Chat, where we can comment directly from the press centre. 18:03 And we're...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Tuesday
Salam again dear readers from Baku, where we've managed to drag ourselves to the Press Centre for the EBU press conference this afternoon despite not getting back to the apartment until 7am - that's the perils of the show starting at midnight for you! We had a rather...
Semi-final 1: Qualifiers and final draw!
Tonight saw the first semi-final of the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Baku, Azerbaijan. There were arguably no great surprises among the qualifiers, with Hungary and Albania representing perhaps the closest thing to a bookmakers' nightmare. Meanwhile, the EBU...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Monday
Yesterday saw the first 2 dress rehearsals of semi final one, and esc-chat.com were in the Press Centre blogging live for you! If you missed that, you can still catch the article here. Overall, despite a few technical hitches the rehearsal went well, and the stage...
Today: Semi-Final 1 – Our prediction
Tonight, the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be held! 18 entries will compete for the privilege of ending up in one of the 10 envelopes for the final. As we learned yesterday, 9 envelopes will be digital (as they have been in recent years),...
1st Dress Rehearsal semi 1 – LIVE!
Hello and welcome to the press centre for the first dress rehearsal of the first semi-final for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest! The show begins at 15:00 CET, also join the chat for our Live-Chat, where we can comment directly from the press centre. 18:08 We're LIVE...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Sunday
We're now LIVE in the Press Centre waiting for the first dress rehearsal to start, but before we do, we'd better tell you about yesterday's goings on here in Baku! We arrived in the Press Centre yesterday in time to see the second dress rehearsals of the Big 5 plus...
Rehearsals Day 8
Can you believe we're here already? It hardly feels like a moment since Rambo Amadeus christened the Baku stage with a massive cardboard donkey last weekend, and now we've reached the end of the technical rehearsals for the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest. At a personal...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Saturday
Salam! We've arrived in the Press Centre a little later than we'd planed (blame the free alcohol at the Welcome Party last night) but we are in time to see the Big 5 plus Azerbaijan do their second dress rehearsal. We're particuarly looking forward to seeing France...
Rehearsals Day 7
So we got to the end of the first week, and today saw a few highlights: The Big 5 + the host country were rehearsing for the first time, and thanks to our editor Danny, we had our first ever interview on esc-chat.com - in which the Slovenian entrant Eva Boto spoke...
Interview: Eva Boto speaks to esc-chat.com!
We were lucky to interview the absolutely lovely Eva Boto from Slovenia earlier this afternoon after her second rehearsal today, for the first EVER interview esc-chat.com have ever done! She has become a bit of a favourite of ours so we were really pleased to sit down...
Eurovision in Baku: Our Friday
Hello again peeps! Another day dawns in Baku and the Eurofun begins again. Friday was esc-chat.com's first proper day in Baku and we were up early to get to the press centre to catch some of the rehearsals! We managed to see the run throughs of quite a few songs, and...
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Some of our favourite tweets from last night’s show
Twitter is never more fun than when the Eurovision Song Contest is taking place. We collected some of our favourite tweets from last night’s show!
Portugal wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2017
Congratulations to Portugal, which has won the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time ever, with Salvador Sobral and his song "Amar Pelos Dois". In the grand final, Portugal was the clear favourite of the juries and televoters alike, amassing a huge total of 758...
Who will win the Eurovision Song Contest 2017? Our prediction for the final
Happy Eurovision – the big day has arrived! Tonight the grand final of ESC 2017 will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine. Who will hold the trophy at the end of the show? It’s time for our team’s predictions!
Shi’s San Francisco final preview
And just like that, this is it. That big day, the one before the PED - but I won’t bring up such depressing topics right now. Instead, how about a preview of sorts? You might have noticed that I have ignored the direct finalists until now. I realized two things: the...
Five interesting bets for tonight’s Eurovision final
Martin turns his gambler’s eye to the grand final of ESC 2017 and picks out some interesting bets that might be worth your attention.
Voting sheet for the final (printer-friendly!)
Print your voting sheet for the second semi-final! It’s printer-friendly: greyscales only, no flags, no images.
SongHunt 2017 finalist presentation: “Lo que nunca fue” by Paula Rojo
Paula Rojo could be in Kyiv now, representing Spain with her song “Lo que nunca fue”. But our SongHunt rules only allow songs that didn’t win their national finals, but got a lot of love in our Eurovision chat. This love took the song to the heats, the quarter-finals,...
Stage verdict: France, Germany and Ukraine
Felix takes a look at how the next three countries are selling their songs on stage at ESC 2017 in Kyiv based on what we’ve seen in the rehearsals so far.
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