Firstly: Heres how the voting will work. Overall we will probably end up with about 10 countries/participants, so each participant will award the following points:
12 points (to their absolute favourite)
10 points (to their second favourite)
8 points
6 points
4 points
2 points
1 point

So that means out of approximately 9 countries you will be able to award points to, 2 will go without getting points so potentially, we could have a nul points situation! But hopefully not ofcourse And ofcourse you send your votes to: [email protected] I hope thats all clear?

Secondly: Here is a list of all the participants/countries entered so far, + a couple who I am certain will participate cos their NF's are in full swing (in italics):
Jonny --> BLACK DAISYSTAN
Sheep --> SHEEPMARK
Ollie --> FUSONIA
Mina --> SAN MININO
Stewart --> NOVA NOVA SCOTIA
Aaron --> MOOFISTAN
Kevin --> ÞIÐBANIÐ
Stockholm Calling --> THE STATE OF THE ARK
David --> DAVIS ISLAND
Mark --> ISHTARISTAN


NB. Remember if you haven't submitted an entry yet and you're not on the list, you're still welcome to do so as long as its before the final deadline of Friday morning!

Thirdly: The contest has a new, (to be!) more informative, and professional website, which is currently being updated as I write! This is where all the entries will be uploaded to on Friday evening when they're presented. So i'll start a thread saying that they've been uploaded, with a link to the website where you can all go check them out. Here: www.escchatsongcontest.webs.com

Fourthly: The final dates.
I've decided that as soon as the entries are all on the internet you can all start voting, and the voting will simply close when:
a) I have all the participants votes
b) Friday the 1st of May if not everybody has voted by then (those who don't vote will simply be disqaulified!)

Finally: Good luck!

jonny, the upercase form of Þiðbandid is: ÞIÐBANIÐ

Thankk youuuu I'll admit, the name of your country had left me utterly confuzzled!!

lol

it uses two letters from icelandic (which i have incorporated into my own language lol )

since i am soo stupid i dont know how to make one of this countrys LOL

Aww Fredde - if you want some help then I'm sure one of the guys here would oblige - don't ask Stew though 'cuz it was all going wrong for him last night... Kevin seems to be the expert! Hit up Điđbandiđ for some help!

Jonny, my nation is Davis Island - further details to come!

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David Thank you! I'll add it asap!

Patte: If I were you i'd ask Kevin like David said, his country website is bloody amazing!! Btw do you wanna take part in our contest!? If so just email me the song you wanna take part with (it can't be an esc or NF song)

i know, how cool are we (very technologically advanced)

MARK!!! Remember today is the last full day for submitting songs so if you still wanna take part je voudrais votre chanson soon please!! Just reminding you so you don't forget!

Hey everyone,

I've done something which should hopefully be useful in advance of the contest... Our countries TRANSLATED INTO FRENCH! Except for Kevin's, because I thought you might like to do it yourself (and I didn't know whether there was already a translation, or how to translate the Icelandic bits to English so I could then translate it to French - sorry!), so you can add yours to the list later on.

Here we go:

Jonny >> BLACK DAISYSTAN >> LE MARGUERITE-NOIRISTAN
Sheep >> SHEEPMARK >> LE MOUTONMARK
Ollie >> FUSONIA >> LA FUSIONIE
Mina >> SAN MININO >> LE SAINT-MINAIN
Stewart >> NOVA NOVA SCOTIA >> LA NOUVELLE NOUVELLE-ÉCOSSE
Aaron >> MOOFISTAN >> LA MOUFISTAN
Kevin >> ÞIÐBANDIÐ >>
Stockholm >> THE STATE OF THE ARK >> L'ÉTAT DE L'ARCHE
David >> DAVIS ISLAND >> L'ÎLE DE DAVIS
Mark >> ISHTARISTAN >> L'ISHTARISTAN

Hope that's handy!

Lots of Frenchie love

x

I believe the literal translation is: Les Vous-Groupe, but if you treat Þiðbandið purely as a name, then it would be Le Þiðbandið or Le Thithbandith (i think)

Thanks David I hope the French members of the forum appreciate it lmao

Its a shame there aren't any french eurovision fans, and quite surprising. I know they have crap viewing figures and all but its one of those traditional countries which you'd expect to have alot of fans, especially from the older era where the contest was popular in france

the french don't even like themselves, maybe there are many, but they pretend not to be french

Ishtaristan is clearly La Ishtaristan in french - pfft. of the day !!