Welcome to the 5th edition of ESCT Second Chance Contest, held in Kaunas, Lithuania after Paula won the first place last edition with the song "How The Hell You Can Fight It?".
In this little contest, only the songs that didn't make it through their national final in ESCT30 will participate and just one of them will be choosen as the best non-selected song in ESCT30.
Since now until next Sunday, May 27th you can now CONFIRM your participation and publish your entry (before of that you must send it to me to aprove it).
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RULES FOR PARTICIPATION
If you would like to join this event, make sure to follow the following rules:
• Every participant country must have had a public national selection to choose their entry for ESCT #30.
• To take part, you must confirm below in the thread!
• Every country can only have one entry!
• Songs must be chosen internally and have to be announced below in this thread.
• Songs have to be from the national selection for ESCT #30 of that country.
They must have been part of the final; the semi-final eliminated songs are not allowed to enter.
Depending on the format of your national selection, the rule may not apply to you.
• After you've submitted your entry, you can not change it!
• The deadline to confirm participation and your entry is next Sunday, May 27th 2018.
• A maximum of 25 countries and a minimum of 11 will be allowed to participate each edition.
• All the countries that participated in ESCT #30 and did not hold a national final, will be able to vote as a juror. But first, those countries must confirm as jurors below this thread.
• All the songs participating in the ESCT Second Chance Contest won't be able to participate in following editions of ESCT or in any national finals.
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RULES FOR VOTING
• The voting will open for probably 5-6 days.
• Only participating countries must vote. The non-participant countries can vote as jurors.
• Voting will be Eurovision style.
• The song with the most points wins.
• The winning country will have the honour to organize the ESCT Second Chance Contest #31!
Have fun and good luck! :)
The potential countries which can participate as they organized a national final in ESCT30 are:
🇦🇹 Austria
🇨🇾 Cyprus
🇪🇪 Estonia
🇫🇷 France
🇩🇪 Germany
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇸 Iceland
🇮🇱 Israel
🇮🇹 Italia
🇱🇹 Lithuania
🇲🇩 Moldova
🇳🇱 Netherlands
If any country doesn't confirm on time because its owner is missing or doesn't want to participate, any other country/user that wants to participate with that country, will be able to do it.
If you are not going to participate, please decline your participation in this thread.
Hungary presents Adri Nagy as the official entry for ESCT Second Chance 30
Finally, Hungary has made a decision. It wasn't easy to choose between two songs that we really liked, but after thinking over and over, the delegagion has decided to choose Adri Nagy with the song "Sosem Múlik El" which finished in 2nd place in the national final A Dal.
We are expecting a good position and we wish all the countries good luck.
Today, it has been confirmed that 🇨🇾 Cyprus is free for the current ESCT Second Chance 30 edition, therefore all the people who applied for being a juror and the ones who can still apply, might participate this edition with 🇨🇾 Cyprus with one of the non winning songs from the national final. A draw to choose who wins 🇨🇾 Cyprus will take place tonight.
Austria presents its entry in ESCT Second Chance Contest 30!
After barely missing the chance to represent Austria in ESCT 30 big contest, Pizzera & Jaus will finally have the chance to be part of an ESCT international contest. They are trying to give a strong message with their song 'Unerhört solide', so Austria decided to translate the song for the public, translation which will be part of the video during the contest.
Finally, after the draw that took place a few minutes ago, the winner is Rodrigueseve and he will be able to participate with 🇨🇾 Cyprus only for this edition. He has only a few hours to choose a song to represent the country in the ESCT Second Chance 30.
As the temporary owner of Cyprus having therefore the chance to participate in 2nd Chances, I chose the song that not only appealed more to me but I think will appeal more to all of you. I leave you guys with Giorgos Papadoupolos with Mou Xe Pei
Once we already know the 12 participants which will compete to reach the final prize, we can start with the voting process. Since now, all the participating countries, even the extra-juries (Belarus, Monaco, Portugal, Spain and Sweden), must vote to choose the winner of this 5th edition in Kaunas, Lithuania.
The voting will be open since today Monday, May 28th until next Saturday June 2nd. You must give 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1 point to the songs you like the most. On the following days after the deadline, the Grand Final will be celebrated.
You must send your votes to me. If you can't vote for any reason you should tell me as soon as possible to find a juror to replace you. The players who don't vote will be disqualified.