Hi,

As everyone has submitted their songs for #80 already, there is no point waiting until weekend for the songs to be published and for voting to begin, especially as we are trying to speed things up to reach #100 by the end of the year.

Therefore, the new revised schedule is as follows:

Tuesday 7th April (today): Songs revealed in chat (recaps + Contest TV playthrough) at 21:30 UK time. Voting opens.

Saturday 11th April: Voting closes at 21:30 UK time. Saturday voting is an exception, not to be repeated, and please don't leave it this late if possible.

Sunday 12th April: Results at 21:00 UK time.

This has the overall effect of reducing the gap by 1 week and only means you have 1 day less than normal to vote, so hopefully everybody can accommodate this. It also means that the reveal won't be impacted by the Country Nights which start on Wednesday.

I think, generally speaking, when a contest event occurs on a Country Night, the CN should start at 8pm rather than 9pm, but if you won't be here at that time, doing it afterwards is the next best thing. Or we can do the CN at 9pm and the results afterwards, I don't mind.