Describe your perfect eurovision

[EscGeek]

Guys and girls,it's time to fantasize
This is how I imagine "the perfect eurovision"

-51 participating countries:37 of this year + Bulgaria,Serbia,Bosnia&Herzegovina,Croatia,Cyprus,Turkey,Slovakia,Czech Republic,Andorra,Luxembourg,Monaco + Liechtenstein,Kazakhstan and Kosovo
-no automatic qualifiers
-3 semi finals (Tuesday,Wednesday,Thursday)
-17 countries in each semi final
-10 qualifiers from each semi final = 30 finalists
-the average amount of points in the final (or in semi final if the country didn't make it) from the last 5 participations would decide in wich semi final is one country
-1st semi final:

1-Azerbaijan 191,4 (207+145+221+150+234=957/5=191,4) (hope you know what i mean)
2-Sweden 142,8
3-Russia 138,2
4-Denmark 131,8
5-Norway 130
6-Turkey 128,8
7-Ukraine 124,4
8-Greece 119,2
9-Italy 115
10-Armenia 105.4
11-Germany 103,2
12-Serbia 95,4
13-Bosnia & Herzegovina 89,4
14-Romania 83 (In case of a tie,the country with better placings in the last 5 years has the advantage)
15-Georgia 83
16-Iceland 82,6
17-Estonia 70,2

-2nd semi final

18-Moldova 69
19-Albania 66,8
20-United Kingdom 63,6
21-France 61,2
22-Malta 58,2
23-Belgium 56,8
24-Ireland 49,4
25-Spain 49,2
26-Israel 47
27-Portugal 46
28-Lithuania 43,4
29-Macedonia 43,4
30-Netherlands 40,4
31-Croatia 39,8
32-Poland 38,8
33-Finland 36,4
34-Hungary 35,6

-3rd semi final

35-Belarus 34,2
36-Monaco 33
37-Bulgaria 32,8
38-Montenegro 32,2
39-Slovenia 31
40-Cyprus 30,2
41-San Marino 29,25
42-Andorra 29
43-Austria 26,6
44-Switzerland 24,4
45-Slovakia 22
46-Luxembourg 19,2
47-Latvia 14,6
48-Czech Republic 3,33
49-Kazakhstan 0
50-Kosovo 0
51-Liechtenstein 0

-all countries vote in all 3 semi finals + in the final
-one vote per person
-orchestra becomes optional
-running order decided by draw only (no wildcards...)
-other rules i didn't mention,remain unchanged

 

[GRE]

What a nice thread !
My perfect Eurovision will have:
-At least 48 countries (among them Liechtenstein,Morocco,Lebanon,Tunisia)
-3 semifinals (6 qualifiers from each semi +6 in the Final)
-5 votes per phone
-10 jury members for each country

 

[greece]

My perfect Eurovision
-50+ countries
-4semi finals
-2 ex soviet in each semi(or 3)
-One nordic in each semi
-2 Balkan countries in each semi
-NO JURIES
-Only televoting sistem
-Big five+host would sing live in each semi (2 in the first two semis and 1 in two last semis)

 

[WuttabKR]

- All EBU broadcasters in Caucasia and Europe
- Eastern Block and Balkan Block and Nordic Block are split equally in 2 semifinals
- The Big 5 are disbanded into semifinals
- ALL JURIES
- Juries must be professional and NOT politically aligned
- Orchestra is recommended
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[Jim]

-An open "Eurovision song contest", which it means to see also countries from other continents if they are interested to participate, like Australia, South Africa, Argentina, Japan or Canada...
-At least 50 countries in the contest
-Maybe all the countries will have to qualify through the semi-finals into the grand final of the contest
-All the countries will can choose how to vote, for example Greece 100% televoting, Spain 50-50 or Brazil 100% jury.
-Juries must contain 5-10 persons.
-If a country wants to use orchestra, then it can use it!

 

[esc87fan]

If this ranking and averages system were to stay in place, I think it would be neat to add two wildcard entries - one for the best jury average and one for the best televote average among the non-qualifiers

 

[ParadiseES]

My country winning every year. The rest is up to EBU

 

[Salmon]

Replace it with NSC.

But seriously:

• No juries
• Language rule (though that one is debatable)
• Orchestra
• ONE (sic) vote per phone
• Azerbaijan being banned
• MOAR EHTNO
• As many countries returning as possible
• Top 6 of the previous year prequalifying (lol NSC)
• National commentators no longer brabbling into half of the performances

Yeah, I'm quite a traditionalist.

 

[zoyuxi]

No one mentioning allowing instrumental songs??

 

[Gera11]

Editions in non-winning countries. Like at Olympic Games. This way some countries would not sent trashy/bland just to avoid winning.
But, of course, the winning country has priority.

 

[doctormalisimo]

Songwriters have to be citizens of their country
No Big 5 - Top 5/10 of last year automatically in the final
One vote per phone
One semi full of Nordics, USSR and Balkans (eg Semi 1 - Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Romania, Greece, Bosnia, Serbia, Moldova)
Top 8 from each semi qualify, along with highest televote and juries pick (eg last years qualifiers would have been Denmark, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belgium, Netherlands, Belarus, Ireland, Austria (jury pick) and Montenegro (televote pick); Azerbaijan, Greece, Norway, Malta, Romania, Iceland, Armenia, Hungary, Georgia (jury pick) and Switzerland (televote pick)
Jurors must be actual people that people have heard of

Dubstep recommended
No ballads

 

[Salmon]

Editions in non-winning countries. Like at Olympic Games. This way some countries would not sent trashy/bland just to avoid winning.
But, of course, the winning country has priority.

In my mind, I already see the Azeri delegation in front of the EBU headquarters, carrying several suitcases full of money...

And btw, I agree with every single of David's words

 

[lilka]

My country winning every year. The rest is up to EBU

Oh, a nice idea, I was going to write the same about my country.
And Petra Mede as the host every year.

 

[Jim]

Oh, a nice idea, I was going to write the same about my country.
And Petra Mede as the host every year.

Petra Mede was very cold as a hostess. I don't like her so much...

 

[ParadiseES]

Petra Mede was very cold as a hostess. I don't like her so much...

She was a great host, but I agree she was a bit cold and lacked of spontaneity. But I think it was not her fault, but the producers and scriptwriters of the show's.

 

[r3gg13]

The perfect ESC would be when an American broadcaster finally airs this show on TV Live preferably... who watches afternoon golf anyway, let's just replace that with ESC ... but I'm willing to compromise with a delayed telecast. As long as I can watch the show in HD, or hell even in standard definition, at one point during ESC night, I would be a happy camper.

 

[Leydan]

My perfect eurovision would be where the BBC actually tries.

 

[Happiness]

I don't get the wish of less qualifiers. What point makes Eurovision better by this? More withdraws and shorter final night?

 

[Jim]

I don't get the wish of less qualifiers. What point makes Eurovision better by this? More withdraws and shorter final night?

I agree!

 

[lilka]

My perfect eurovision would be where the BBC actually tries.

The same for TVP.