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Line-up check 2021: Cyprus
The escgo! team turns its attention to “El Diablo” by Elena Tsagrinou in its latest review.
“Behöver inte dig idag” by Clara Klingenström wins SongHunt 2021!
SongHunt 2021 has concluded – and the best non-winning song of the season is “Behöver inte dig idag” by Clara Klingenström from Sweden!
Line-up check 2021: Ireland
The escgo! team reviews “Maps” by Lesley Roy, the Irish entry for Eurovision 2021!
Line-up check 2021: North Macedonia
The escgo! team reviews “Here I Stand” by Vasil.
Line-up check 2021: Australia
The escgo! team reviews “Technicolour” by Montaigne.
Line-up check 2021: Our views on the first semi-finalists
The Eurovision 2021 line-up check continues! Our team of editors reviews the entries in the first semi-final, from Lithuania to Malta.
Line-up check 2021: Sweden
The escgo! team reviews the Melodifestivalen winner and Swedish entry, “Voices” by Tusse.
Line-up check 2021: Russia
The escgo! team reviews “Russian Woman” by Manizha.
Introducing the SongHunt 2021 finalists!
Still deciding who to vote for in our search for the best national final song of the season? Then check out our guide to all 15 finalists!
27 good reasons to vote tonight
You're a Eurovision fan. It's your moral duty to use your televoting fingers tonight. But who to vote for? escgo! gives you 27 good reasons, one per country. Vote for Slovenia! Because it's the escgo! ChatVote winner. Vote for France! Because it's the most impressive...
ESC 2015 grand final: Five bets to consider
So here we are, just a few hours away from the start of this year's grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest! For 90%+ of ordinary viewers, this is where the show really begins - and whether you made money on the semi-finals or not (and our recommended bets were, it...
ESC 2015 grand final: The escgo.com! team’s predictions
We're just over 12 hours away from the real results, and then we will know where Eurovision is heading to in 2016! It's time for escgo!'s Vienna team (Martin and Felix) to predict the outcome of the grand final. On Thursday night, Felix got 9 out of 10 qualifiers...
Rehearsal live: Jury Final of the Grand Final
Conclusion Tonight, the ones with the biggest vocal issues were Serbia's Bojana and Poland's Monika. Perfection was delivered by Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Latvia, Romania and Italy. There is a huge ballad competition in there, which is probably won by Italy and Russia....
Semi-final 2 results – these are our ten qualifiers
The second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is over! The ten happy qualifiers are: Lithuania Norway Israel Latvia Sweden Cyprus Slovenia Poland Montenegro Azerbaijan The grand final will take place on Saturday night at 21:00 CET, 27 countries will...
Semi 2: Five bets to consider
It may not have been an entirely successful Tuesday night for the escgo! team in terms of our predictions, but we already know that two of my recommended bets were successful - and there's a decent chance that a couple of the others will have come in too (we'll find...
Semi 2: The escgo! team’s predictions
It's time for our diligent bloggers Felix and Martin to give their predictions for the ten qualifiers from tonight's second semi-final! On Tuesday night, they each got (a different) 7 out of 10 right. They'll be hoping to improve on that score tonight, so here are...
First Dress Rehearsal of Semi-final 2
Good Morning Australia, Good Evening Europe - that was it from the 1st dress rehearsal of the 2nd semi-final. Conclusions: I am less sceptical about Israel, even more convinced about Latvia, worried about Norway and still not overwhelmed by the actual show - it's once...
Gallery: Best of Big 7 rehearsals
All photos by FelixK (escgo) - see more for each country on our Vienna page [gallery grids="Eurovision Live" image_size="large" size="medium"...
Live Rehearsals Day 8 – Italy to Australia
And this was it - our last rehearsal blog from the individual country rehearsals for this year! Thank you for staying with us on escgo.com - and do come back later, for our liveblog from the first dress rehearsal of semi-final 2. Australia I am still not convinced....
Semi-final 1 results – these are our ten qualifiers
The first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 is over! The ten happy qualifiers are: Albania Armenia Russia Romania Hungary Greece Estonia Georgia Serbia Belgium Moldova, Netherlands, Finland, Macedonia, Belarus and Denmark are out. The second semi-final...
Semi 1: Five bets to consider
With tonight's first semi-final fast approaching, it's time to take a look at some of the betting options available to you for tonight's show. Most of the betting sites are offering pretty similar odds for the various markets this year, meaning there's little in the...
Semi 1: The escgo! team’s predictions
Tonight sees the first semi-final of the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest, and it's time for the escgo! team to predict which ten of the 16 candidates they think will progress to Saturday's grand final! Felix is still in Vienna, taking in everything live, and Martin has...
First Dress Rehearsal of Semi-Final One
This post is now in chronological order. 14:40 The final week of Eurovision 2015 has arrived, and my escgo colleague MartinF has left into a well deserved holiday, after been on blogging duty throughout the first week. This means, you will now have to do with me...
Live Rehearsals Day 7 – Italy to Australia
So, with that terribly useful "anything could happen" verdict on Australia, that's the end of my live blogging from Vienna! But fear not - I'll be here throughout the next week with predictions, betting tips and suchlike, and more importantly, Felix will be...
Live Rehearsals Day 6 – Iceland to Poland
And that, dear friends, completes our journey through the second semi-final! Are you any closer to knowing who the ten qualifiers will be? I'm not entirely sure I am, but we're getting there, slowly but surely. And by early afternoon tomorrow we will definitely have...
Live Rehearsals Day 6 – Portugal to Azerbaijan
And that completes our second blog post of the day! Join us very shortly for the run through from Iceland all the way to Poland. We'll be here for you, here for you. AZERBAIJAN The opening shot is now a side-on view of Elnur and his werewolf-like high note, only...
Live Rehearsals Day 6 – Lithuania to Norway
And that completes the first part of today's rehearsals, and hence this particular blog post. We break for lunch for an hour now, and in that time I'm going to do something particularly radical and un-press-centre-like: I'm going to go and sit in the sunshine for a...
Live Rehearsals Day 5 – Russia to Georgia
So there we have it! The second rehearsals of the first semi-final are complete, and now all that remains is for us to tidy up our stuff and head out for the evening. The San Marino and Nordic parties await (apparently there are separate gatherings for Montenegro and...
Live Rehearsals Day 5 – Estonia to Belarus
And that completes the middle section of today's rehearsals - join us here for the second set of run-throughs from Russia through to Georgia! BELARUS After the first run-through, I asked our desk if they could answer a simple question: "What is time like? Clue: The...
Live Rehearsals Day 5 – Moldova to Greece
And that completes our live blog from the "morning session" in Vienna. Join us here as the afternoon continues with Estonia! GREECE I believe it's important to be scrupulously honest as a blogger, so here's the naked truth: I'm buggering off to film a little section...
Live Rehearsals Day 4 – Sweden to Poland
And that completes escgo's live coverage of today's rehearsals! Tomorrow, all 16 songs in the first semi-final will be rehearsed for the second time - and we'll be here to tell you what's changed and try and give you an impression of who's qualifying, and who might be...
Live Rehearsals Day 4 – Israel to Iceland
And that completes the first rehearsal session of this fourth day in Vienna! We're off for a late lunch now - the press centre canteen has promised us POLENTA - but we'll be back in good time for Sweden and co. in a fresh new post on this site later on. Stay tuned!...
Live Rehearsals Day 3 – Malta to Czech Republic
That brings our coverage of today's rehearsals to a close! Once you've checked out the official clips, do stop by and let us know the ones you thought were best and worst. We'll be gathering again tomorrow, when we get the first run-throughs of some of the biggest...
Live Rehearsals Day 3 – Lithuania to Montenegro
And that concludes the first session of today's rehearsals from the Stadthalle in Vienna! We'll be back with a separate rehearsal article for the performances from Malta through to the Czech Republic, which you can now read here! MONTENEGRO The prevailing visual theme...
Live Rehearsals Day 2 – Denmark to Georgia
And that completes our rehearsal blog from the second day in Vienna! If you think you've spotted the 10 qualifiers yet, come and let us know on social media or in our chat. In the meantime, see you tomorrow as the first rehearsals for the second semi-final begin!...
Live Rehearsals Day 2 – Serbia to Russia
This post is not live anymore - click here for the 2nd part of today's rehearsal blogging (Denmark, Albania, Romania, Georgia). And that's all for what I keep wanting to call the "morning" session of rehearsals, even though it's already mid-afternoon! There's a lunch...