E-Eurovision Song Contest

e-Eurovision Song Contest is an idea which origins from Ireland and is about countries sharing their music.

The concept is the same as the real Eurovision, but virtually. That is, a song contest. One real song that represents an e-country in a battle among other countries and their citizens are voting for the best song of all. Not to be confused with karaoke.

Representatives from each participating country gathered and decided the rules for the 1st contest and also that the contest will take place each 6 months. In fact, the contest takes place whenever a country takes the initiative.

1st Contest - Ireland

Logo of the 1st eEurovision Song Contest.

The 1st contest was hosted by Ireland and the venue was eIreland's Radio channel on plug.dj on Thursday 11 June 2015 at 8:00 eRepublik time and 14 countries presented there their songs.

Executive Supervisor was Raven Anarcho, as Minister of Community at that time.

The competing countries were:

Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Ukraine.

Before the contest, a total of 18 countries had expressed their interest to join. Romania & Sweden never sent a song, while Albania & Lithuania submitted songs, but never presented them so all 4 were excluded from the final list.

The voting system was the 6-point (6, 4, 3, 2 and 1).

Each country hold its own national poll to make the final votes.

#	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Belarus	English	The Toobes	"Say hello to my baby"	-	6	14
02	Belgium	French	Stromae	"Alors on danse"	So we just dance	2	38
03	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnian	Fazla	"Sva bol svijeta"	All the pain in the world	11	2
04	Czech Republic	Czech	Karel Gott	"Vcelka Maja"	Maya the Bee	10	4
05	Denmark	Instrumental	Safri Duo	"Played-A-Live (The Bongo Song)"	-	8	11
06	Finland	Instrumental	Darude	"Sandstorm"	-	3	33
07	Greece	Greek	Melisses	"Kryfa"	Secretly	9	7
08	Ireland	English	The Cranberries	"Zombie"	-	1	51
09	Netherlands	English	Kensington	"War"	-	4	28
10	Norway	English	The Green Children	"Norwegian dream"	-	5	21
11	Portugal	Portuguese	Ana Moura	"Ate ao verao"	Until summer	12	1
12	Spain	Spanish	Manolo Kabezabolo	"Spiz amarillo"	Spiz yellow	14	0
13	Switzerland	German	QL	"Swiss lady"	-	12	1
14	Ukraine	Ukrainian	Khrystyna Soloviy	"Trymaj"	Keep	7	13

As it was decided before the contest, if the winner was Ireland, the next contest would take place at the runner-up country. As a result, Belgium was the country that would host the 2nd contest 6 months later, at December.

The preparations for the 2nd contest were due to begin in November. Even though there were plans for the contest, due to communication problems with the hosts, the contest was paused.

2nd Contest - Geneva, Switzerland

Logo of the 2nd eEurovision Song Contest.

The contest was reborn by Switzerland at the beginning of March 2016 and the venue was eEurovision Song Contest's channel on dubtrack.fm on Sunday 27 March 2016 at 12:00 eRepublik time and 26 countries presented there their songs.

Executive Supervisor was mungos032 as President at that time.

As eEurovision was greatly accepted by other countries at the 1st contest, thus the highly increased number of the participants. The contest took place on dubtrack.fm, as plug.dj wasn't available anymore. The new host venue was proposed to be used in the future contests aswell.

An exception was made for that contest and a Croatian M.U. named Foxland Family took part as Foxland.

The competing countries were:

Albania, Armenia, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Foxland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Republic of Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Countries that participated in the 1st contest, but withdrew from the 2nd:

Belarus, Denmark, Finland, Spain and Ukraine.

The voting system that was used, due to the high number of participants, was the 12-point (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1).

Albania got disqualified for not voting, losing all of the points it received.

#	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Serbia	Serbian	Etno Grupa Trag	"Crven cvete"	Red flower	5	76
02	France	French	Matmatah	"Lambé an dro"	A turn in Lambe	10	54
03	Slovenia	English	Klemen Slakonja	"Putin, Putout"	-	2	137
04	United Kingdom	English	The Kinks	"You really got me"	-	4	88
05	Hungary	Hungarian	Oláh Ibolya	"Magyarország"	Hungary	14	49
06	Estonia	Estonian	Epp Kõiv	"Linn on minu (Demie remix)"	The town is mine	17	42
07	Sweden	English	Avicii	"Addicted to you"	-	1	171
08	Russia	Russian	Neyromonakh Feofan	"Kamysh"	Reed	7	66
09	Moldova	Romanian	Zdob si Zdub	"Moldovenii s-au născut"	The Moldovans were born	12	52
10	Netherlands	English	Eva Simons ft. Sidney Samson	"Bludfire"	-	9	57
11	Norway	English	a-ha	"Forest fire"	-	15	48
12	Albania	Albanian	Era Istrefi	"Bonbon"	-	26	0
13	Portugal	Portuguese	Mariza	"Chuva"	Rain	20	31
14	Switzerland	English	Sebalter	"Hunter of stars"	-	8	62
15	Belgium	French	Grand Jojo	"Chef, un p'tit verre on a soif"	Chef, a little glass I'm thirsty	19	36
16	Cyprus	Greek, English	ANONIMUST	"You are welcome friends to Cyprus (Parody)"	-	24	15
17	F.Y.R.O.M.	English	Tose Proeski	"If you wanna leave me"	-	21	28
18	Czech Republic	Czech	Pavel Callta	"Naštěstí"	Fortunately	23	23
19	Greece	Greek	Tzimis Panousis	"Ah Evropi"	Ah Europe	11	53
20	Armenia	Armenian	Sirusho	"PreGomesh"	-	6	67
21	Bulgaria	Bulgarian	Gery-Nikol ft. Krisko	"Ela i si vzemi"	Come and get it	13	52
22	Italy	English	Matteo Renzi e l'inglese	"Shish is the word"	-	18	41
23	Ireland	English	Mundy & Sharon Shannon	"Galway girl"	-	3	105
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	English(*)	Dubioza Kolektiv	"Euro Song"	-	16	43
25	Israel	English(**)	Infected Mushroom	"Stuck in a loop"	-	25	13
26	Foxland	English	AlexMCS182	"Happy birthday Federico"	-	22	26

(*) Contains words in German, Turkish, Italian and French.
(**) Yes, behind those sounds there are actual words and that's why it isn't considered as an instrumental song.

3rd Contest - Alexandroupoli, Greece

Logo of the 3rd eEurovision Song Contest.

The third contest was organized by Greece by governmental initiative once again at late-May 2017. The venue was e-Eurovision 2017's channel on dubtrack.fm on Tuesday 13 June 2017 at 11:00 eRepublik time and 15 countries presented there their songs.

Executive Supervisor was Jimkats1 as Minister of Press at that time.

Three changes featured this edition:

• A cash prize for the winner was introduced. In particular, CC and gold were gathered from donations which were later donated to the winning country's treasury.
• A Rest of the World (RotW) jury was added among the rest of the countries-voters. It means that any citizen from a non-participating country was able to vote as well, under the same "team" of voters.
• A reserve point was introduced in the voting system. That way, if one country didn't vote, the points it received would be "distributed" to the rest:
  • Each country voted for their top 11 (top 10 + 11th place). In case a country didn't vote and that country was in the top 10 of a country's voting, at the final votes counting, the non-voting country is excluded and every other country below it goes up one place (so the 11th placed country is now 10th and receives 1 point).

The competing countries were:

Armenia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Greece, France, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine.

Countries that returned from the 1st contest:

Belarus, Spain and Ukraine.

Countries that participated in the 2nd contest, but withdrew from the 3rd:

Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Foxland, Hungary, Ireland, Republic of Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Before the live event, the participating countries were 17. Both Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro submitted songs, but due to Bosnia's objection regarding Montenegro's entry, it resulted in Bosnia's withdrawal and Montenegro's disqualification two days before the live event.

The voting system was the 12-point (12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 and 1).

France got disqualified for not voting, losing all of the points it received.

#	Country	Language	Artist	Song	English translation	Place	Points
01	Sweden	English	Tove Styrke	"Borderline"	-	1	116
02	Greece	English, Greek	Koza Mostra	"Lianohortaroudia"	-	5	81
03	Ukraine	English, Ukrainian	ONUKA ft. NAONI Orchestra	"Megamix"	-	7	65
04	Belgium	Dutch	Clouseau	"Daar gaat ze"	There she goes	10	45
05	France	French	Debut de Soirée	"Nuit de folie"	Crazy night	15	0
06	Italy	Italian	Francesco Gabbani	"Occidentali's karma"	Western's karma	2	93
07	Belarus	Belarusian	beZ bileta	"Friday"	-	9	55
08	Norway	English	The Green Children	"Dreamers (Embody remix)"	-	3	87
09	Brazil	Portuguese	Molejo	"Voltei"	Come back	13	16
10	Spain	Spanish	Siddy	"Soy un momio"	I'm a mummy	14	16
11	Netherlands	English	Mr Probz	"Waves"	-	4	85
12	Portugal	Portuguese	Salvador Sobral	"Amar pelos dois"	Love for both	12	40
13	Austria	Instrumental	Beethoven	"Moonlight sonata"	-	6	70
14	Armenia	Armenian	Reincarnation	"Ashkharhums imn dun is"	You are my only one in this world	8	60
15	Israel	Hebrew	Nathan Goshen	"26"	-	11	41

Article about the results: https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/e-eurovision-2017-results-finally-2644134/1/20

At the beginning of the live show, a trailer of that edition was shown. You can watch it here.

Notable is Austria's entry, of which the video used had duration of 15 minutes. Due to that extensive duration of the song, after it caused reactions during the live show, it was decided that from the next contest there would be a duration limit to the songs.

4th Contest - Sweden 2018

The next edition of the competition was set by zzzingo (CP of Sweden during the previous contest) to take place in Sweden in early 2018, but no action was done. The contest was paused once again, this time maybe permanently if no one else is gonna revive it in the future.

Award

Designed by tommot.

The award of the winning country is the ability to host the next contest and also fame.
Since the 3rd contest, there has also been prize money that is deposited to the winning country's treasury.

The prize money for the 3rd contest was in total 45000 CC and 70 gold, gathered from various donators.

Rules

Those rules are either for organizing a contest as the host or as a participant country either for song itself.

From the 1st contest, there have been decided few and basic rules, as it was the first time something like this was organized. Each country may have its own rules when it selects its entry, but in the end it must within the limits. Citizens of a country, are referred as the the players who have the CS of that country.

Representative

Representative is the member of the government or a citizen appointed by the government, responsible for organizing the participation of his/hers country at the contest. He/She is the one responsible for the communication with the hosting committee of the contest, the song selection and the voting of his/hers country.

The representative may have other players helping him. If there's any problem, he/she can appoint another player for specific jobs with the hosting committee.

Song selection

A country has the option of:

- holding a national final, where citizens from that country propose their songs and later they vote to select the winning song.
- a direct assignment of the entry, where the government or the appointed representative selects the entry him/herself.

Songs

The artist(s) of the song must be from the country they represent.
There's no limitation at the duration of the song.
There's no limitation at the language of the song.
There's no limitation at the release year of the song.
Instrumental songs are allowed.
Real Eurovision songs are allowed.

Note: Questionable at this moment are the origin & excessive career of an artist in the representing country, duration of the song and karaoke covers of songs.

Voting

The countries should hold national polls where they vote for other countries. How they will hold it it's up to them, but all countries must make the poll during the voting deadline, else if no poll is made thus no votes from that country, then it will be disqualified.

In case of ties, no matter if it's the final scoreboard or each country's internal voting, the real Eurovision's tie-breaking rule is followed:

• First, it's most voters.
• If still tie, then most 12's, 10's etc..
• If still tie, then the country that performed first during the contest, unless it's the host country.

Statistics

Countries that placed in Top 3: # Country 1st 2nd 3rd Total 1 Sweden 2 - - 2 2 Ireland 1 - 1 2 3 Belgium - 1 - 1 - Slovenia - 1 - 1 - Italy - 1 - 1 4 Finland - - 1 1 - Norway - - 1 1

Amount of times a language has been used in a song (individual words aren't taken into account): Times Languages 22 English 4 French, Greek, Portuguese 3 Instrumental 2 Armenian, Czech, Spanish, Ukrainian 1 Albanian, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Estonian, Hebrew, Hungarian, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian

Out of all 55 songs: 4 are real Eurovision entries 1 is karaoke 1 is player-made

Countries with the most participations, that is 3: Belgium, Greece, Netherlands, Norway and Portugal

Gallery

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  Voting table of 2015

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  Voting table of 2016

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  Voting table of 2017