wyq614
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Hi, everyone, although I haven't logged onto this forum for a long time, as a Chinese man based in China I'm gladly seeing Chinese ESC fandom is actually increasing and our community in China is stronger than ever before despite of Mango TV's scandalous cut of Ryan O'Shaughnessy's show that led to the termination of any ESC broadcast in our country.
Recently we talked about what rule may ESC have a change in the future (certainly with a Chinese ESC fan point of view), I came up with these points:
1- One singer with two songs. I don't know if you feel boring watching the same song and same performance in semifinal and final. To make ESC a bit more dramatic, is it possible that one participant prepare two songs, one for the semifinal and the other for the final (if he/she can make it), to choose which song must be sung in the semifinal and which in the final can be a strategic matter. And it may boost semifinal viewing figures I think, and favors the POTENTIAL ESC fans (people thinking "I don't care who wins, I'm not voting, I just watch the final and listen to the songs), maybe some people are not willing to watch the same performance for two times, they may choose to ignore semifinal and directly watch the grand final.
2- Elimination of highest and lowest score. That is to lower the influence of block voting and rival voting (eg. Armenia/Azerbaijan), and you can avoid having to think of putting certain countries in different pots during drawing time and in different semifinals.
3- Special voting country. Additional voting countries should be invited where there is a ESC spin-off, for example the US with American Song Contest, the host country of Hispavision, etc, thus ESC viewers can experience culture differences and preference differences, see how the countries from outside Europe would vote, and it may encourage more ESC spin-offs.
4- Limited revamp rule. Before entering in ESC some songs may be revamped, and sounds quite different from their national final performance. Maybe EBU should put a limit to revamp, only allowing minor changes to a winning song of a certain NF, so that broadcasters will take NF more seriously.
Believe it or not, in China there's 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 special municipalities and 2 Special Administrative Regions (HK, Macau), we also have the condition to hold an ESC spin-off, and there WERE proposals for that, but till now have not been carried out.
Recently we talked about what rule may ESC have a change in the future (certainly with a Chinese ESC fan point of view), I came up with these points:
1- One singer with two songs. I don't know if you feel boring watching the same song and same performance in semifinal and final. To make ESC a bit more dramatic, is it possible that one participant prepare two songs, one for the semifinal and the other for the final (if he/she can make it), to choose which song must be sung in the semifinal and which in the final can be a strategic matter. And it may boost semifinal viewing figures I think, and favors the POTENTIAL ESC fans (people thinking "I don't care who wins, I'm not voting, I just watch the final and listen to the songs), maybe some people are not willing to watch the same performance for two times, they may choose to ignore semifinal and directly watch the grand final.
2- Elimination of highest and lowest score. That is to lower the influence of block voting and rival voting (eg. Armenia/Azerbaijan), and you can avoid having to think of putting certain countries in different pots during drawing time and in different semifinals.
3- Special voting country. Additional voting countries should be invited where there is a ESC spin-off, for example the US with American Song Contest, the host country of Hispavision, etc, thus ESC viewers can experience culture differences and preference differences, see how the countries from outside Europe would vote, and it may encourage more ESC spin-offs.
4- Limited revamp rule. Before entering in ESC some songs may be revamped, and sounds quite different from their national final performance. Maybe EBU should put a limit to revamp, only allowing minor changes to a winning song of a certain NF, so that broadcasters will take NF more seriously.
Believe it or not, in China there's 23 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 special municipalities and 2 Special Administrative Regions (HK, Macau), we also have the condition to hold an ESC spin-off, and there WERE proposals for that, but till now have not been carried out.
