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Post by Poland on Apr 14, 2021 15:44:28 GMT 1
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2021 will be held in 28 November 2021, hosted in France after Valentina win in last year. Provisional list of participants:
France HOST Georgia Germany Ireland The Netherlands Poland Russia Spain |
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Post by basil on Apr 15, 2021 12:22:01 GMT 1
but paris is hosting no it's true it's true
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Post by Holland on May 16, 2021 15:18:43 GMT 1
saur false saur false
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Post by Jeffry on May 28, 2021 8:47:14 GMT 1
Of course The Netherlands are back, wishing France good luck with hosting!
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Post by Wys on Sept 2, 2021 11:10:29 GMT 1
We have a full country list!
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Post by anonymoustly on Sept 14, 2021 17:45:23 GMT 1
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Hello to my dear friends around the world!
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Post by zaman224 on Sept 27, 2021 13:24:02 GMT 1
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Post by shanfachai on Nov 12, 2021 16:49:10 GMT 1
WINNER ALERT!!!! Italy just dropped the bomb!
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Post by drj on Nov 14, 2021 8:47:41 GMT 1
Lisa Lizza? Little Signorina Maneskin? Winner alert? Impossible! The JESC audience, mostly ages 10-15, hates dark rock.
I thought Italy as a country was doing better this year. Why are all their songs so angry this year?
Lisa, break the specchio and zitti i buoni!
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Post by drj on Nov 17, 2021 2:57:15 GMT 1
This is what I wrote on wiwibloggs in 2020 shortly after the victory of Valentina Tronel (or, she would say "of France") in Junior Eurovision. Yet it is not about Junior Eurovision 2020: it is about the contest as structured today.
What do you think? Do you agree?
If you want, I will make a new post applying it to Junior Eurovision 2021 and tell you who the two most likely winners are (or, more accurately, why two contestants come at the top of all the polls, one of whom is quite likely to win).
General Observations
"Are you a national broadcaster who wants to win JESC?
Now you have a few models to choose from:
2003-2015 – Find a talented kid who has written a song (from 2013, in Malta, the kid was more and more a “co-writer”)
2016-2017 – Put a talented kid with your professionally-written song
2018-2019 – Get the most viewers on JESC from your country and online voting will do the rest – if your talented kid is old enough that the teen voters in your country identify with her (but cf 2020 – if JESC requires voters to vote for 3 countries the strategy does not work anymore – your vote is too diluted)
2020 – Get a talented kid but especially one who is already a superstar in your country with 300,000 Instagram followers, who will tell her followers to vote for her so your country wins – then, so long as most of them vote at least twice (they can vote 5 times but have to vote for 3 countries), you can win with 16% of the vote.
(a) Kazakh alternative – even if your talented kid is not a superstar, let her do online concerts on the popular national TV station in your national language and get endorsements from superstars in your country (Kudaibergen) to mobilise your national vote – almost worked.
(b) Serbian alternative – Sing your song in the languages of the countries with the largest voting blocs in videos on youtube – works especially well if your talented kid can accompany himself on an instrument and is a teen heartthrob – took Serbia from nowhere to somewhere and could work in the future si les instagrammers ne soient pas en marche.
Note that, over time, first the song becomes less and less important, then the kid becomes less and less important. At the end, only the strategy becomes important. And the strategies that have worked since 2018 are nationalist ones, based on outvoting other countries with your own voters, not European ones.
It is not a story of progress.
JESC needs to do better.
(1) Consider only accepting kids who are singing songs that they originated, like 2003-2015, so the broadcasters are not so directly invested in the process.
(2) Celebrate Valentina’s victory by adopting a French election scheme – after the first round of voting there should be a 2nd round with voters choosing only between the top 2 vote-getters, immediately after announcement of the 1st round’s results, with 3 minutes to vote to prevent multiple voting – the “European” representative should never have only 16% of the vote (a “landslide”?) and the 2nd round could probably never be won with only the winner’s home country’s votes."
Pensez, JESC! Une reforme est necessaire.
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