Line-up check 2015: Italy
Italy, the classic Eurovision country that returned to the contest after a long break, has been mostly successful ever since its comeback in 2011. It automatically joined the privileged group of countries that have a default place in the final without having to...
Line-up check 2015: Israel
It's been a tough decade for Israel. Back in 2010, Harel Skaat was tipped for a podium finish only to end up in 14th place. Since then, the country on the fringes of Europe has continued to slip backwards, failing to qualify for the grand final on four successive...
Line-up check 2015: Ireland
Ireland, one of the grand old nations of the Eurovision Song Contest, must be looking over its shoulder nervously. If bookies' favourite Måns Zelmerlöw really does take the victory at ESC 2015, Sweden will be just one behind the self-proclaimed "home of Eurovision" in...
Line-up check 2015: Iceland
Iceland hasn't been very successful in the Eurovision Song Contest lately, aside from Yohanna's podium finish that is slowly disappearing over the horizon. Pollapönk, something different for the Nordic country at Eurovision, didn't really change that situation either...
Line-up check 2015: Germany
As you might have noticed, escgo! is a Eurovision chat website. What does it mean? Many things, but among others, it means that every year during the national final season, many of us gather in a virtual room and watch all the national finals together. We’ve been...
SongHunt 2015: Quarter-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 quarter-final 2, featuring 12 randomly allocated songs that qualified from the heats...
ChatVote 2015: Qualifiers revealed, final voting begins!
The semi-final qualifiers that will compete in our ChatVote 2015 final have been revealed! Semi 1 qualifiers: Belgium, Netherlands, Estonia, Macedonia, Serbia, Belarus, Russia, Albania, Romania, Georgia. Semi 2 qualifiers: Lithuania, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Israel,...
Line-up check 2015: Greece
The Greek ESC bandwagon has slowed a little lately, although the wheels are by no means falling off. Following a clutch of podium positions in the previous decade, culminating in Helena Paparizou's victory with My Number One, two of the last three Greek entries have...
Line-up check 2015: Hungary
Hungary achieved one of its best results ever when András Kállay-Saunders came 5th in last year's Eurovision final with his song Running. The Hungarian national final, A Dal, remains a huge local success even in 2015. Will its winner, Boggie, manage to reach a similar...
Line-up check 2015: Georgia
This year, Georgia returned to using a national final again after two years of internal selection. Erovnuli Shesarcevi konkursi happened already a while ago, and memories of the daytime show are very vague, but I remember we didn't get to see any full live...
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SongHunt 2017: Semi-final 2
The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from the new national final season! This is semi-final 2, featuring twelve qualifiers from the SongHunt quarter-finals. The 6 songs with the most votes will proceed to the grand final. This poll is closed. A video...
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.
Line-up check 2017: Second half of semi-final 2
As the first rehearsals in Kyiv come ever closer, it’s time for the escgo! line-up check to complete its analysis of the songs of the second semi-final. As always, the entries have been split between our editors – Felix, Shi and Martin – to give their personal preferences and predictions in text and emoji form. The non-assigned authors also get a 30-word “right of reply” afterwards.
Line-up check 2017: First half of semi-final 2
The annual escgo! line-up check for 2017 has reached the second semi-final, to be held in Kyiv on Thursday 11 May. And while Russia’s withdrawal was an unnecessarily long, drawn-out and uncomfortable process for all concerned, at least it means the remaining 18 songs can now be neatly split between two blog posts. Which is very thoughtful of them. Anyway, it’s time to join our editors Felix, Martin and Shi as they turn their attention (and their emoji rayguns) to the next contenders for the Eurovision crown…
SongHunt 2017 – Semi-final 1
The SongHunt continues – let’s find the best song from the new national final season! This is semi-final 1, featuring twelve qualifiers from the SongHunt quarter-finals. The 6 songs with the most votes will proceed to the grand final. This poll is...
Line-up check 2017: Second half of semi-final 1
The escgo! line-up check for 2017 continues as we turn our attention to the remaining songs of the first semi-final. Like last time, each song has been assigned to one of our editors, who has 100 words to give their opinion – accompanied by some emojis illustrating their prediction and preference. Then the other two editors each get a 30-word “right of reply”.
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