After the message I left yesterday I feel the need to clarify a few things because there were probably some misunderstandings. Unfortunately, sometimes it is not easy to express yourself in a language other than your own and even the lack of tone of voice and use of emojis can change the intention of some statements.
I start by saying that I am not "upset" about the fact that the eligibility of Sanremo entries in the game is being questioned, I used the word "uncomfortable" because of course being the poll directed towards the choices of one nation, I feel I am the center of attention, but it is not something that causes me displeasure, I want to emphasize that. It's just a game, after all!
Since I entered the game, I too have wondered why Sanremo songs were choosable while those of other selections were not. However, since it was part of the rules, I agreed to share them knowing that I wasn't going against the rules of the game. And I knew that some players would have liked to see some of those songs in the game.
There are so many good Sanremo songs every year, in fact apart from one time (with Loredana Bertè) the other times I have always organized a selection to be helped by other players to choose what to play because it was too hard for me to choose just one song. I've been a big fan of the Italian festival for more than twenty years and I've been following it religiously since 1999, so much so that I've called it the "holy week", that's why it's an honor for me to enter Sanremo songs into this competition and I never thought of playing them to have an advantage for the victory, I never considered this aspect.
However, Worldvision is a game in constant evolution, many players remain, but we also have new ones. In life we grow and change our minds, and things around us change as well.
Yes, I even won once with a song that participated in Sanremo, a sign that for many players, at that time, it was not a problem that the song was sung there. But I understand very well then that, after a couple of years, considering how the "relationship" between Sanremo and Eurovision is changing, and the attention and enthusiasm towards the festival of my nation from eurofans, there is now a thin line between the festival and a Eurovision selection, and it's okay that things are questioned even after years.
In the last selection I held, I received some votes from ana (whom I invited to vote after voting in her selection) and I was honestly told that I could also not accept them because, for her respectable choice, she would not have voted any of the songs once the edition started. As she stated above she does not vote for songs that are presented in Eurovision selections. I realize other players may share the same respectable opinion. I understood very well the motivation and I accepted the votes anyway, considering that they are the expression of a taste present in the game.
So I asked myself if it was the case to enter Sanremo songs from now on well before the poll and the question was opened. When I write that in the future I will prefer not to enter Sanremo songs from 2011 onwards, I don't say it with any displeasure or offense. In the end, out of the dozen songs that I play every year, only one usually comes from the Sanremo edition that just ended, but in the Italian music scene there are so many songs to play (and also entries presented at Sanremo when Italy was not at Eurovision such as Sentimento by Avion Travel, Il passo silenzioso della neve, or the songs I played ages ago for Puglia, which of course I will still consider). So despite my love for the kermesse, I have so many other options to consider, whatever the outcome of the poll.