May 28, 201510 yr 01 Copenhagen 2014 02 Moscow 2009 03 Helsinki 2007 04 Belgrade 2008 05 Baku 2012 06 Athens 2006 07 Malmö 2013 08 Oslo 2010 09 Vienna 2015 10 Düsseldorf 2011 tbh
May 28, 201510 yr Christer said they are going to downsize the contest even FURTHER in 2016. Oops Seriously though? :nocheer: BAH, Russia should've won. :kink: Also, why is everyone rating Vienna so low? It wasn't that bad of a contest was it? :huh:
May 28, 201510 yr It wasn't bad but all the f*** ups and lack of amazing interval acts or fabulous jokes (other than Conchita's ofc) add up. There really were no super bad or super amazing contests so it's hard to rank them.
May 28, 201510 yr It wasn't bad but all the f*** ups and lack of amazing interval acts or fabulous jokes (other than Conchita's ofc) add up. There really were no super bad or super amazing contests so it's hard to rank them. Mirjam's sarcasm and unimpressed attitude though :wub: Alice: "Thank you Valentina, see you next year in the Eurovision stage!" Mirjam: "Yeah... Can't wait..." Gold. But yes it was very poor host and entertainment wise. I still rank it all higher than Baku though, that really was an appalling contest to me. Stiff hosts, horrid interval acts (wtf was that 'past winner Waterloo tribute' thing?). I only liked the Arena lit up from the outside really. We should do a rate.~
May 28, 201510 yr Standard first glance choices there. I think Sweden will not go in a direction that obvious.
May 30, 201510 yr Author Christer said they are going to downsize the contest even FURTHER in 2016. Oops Only just seen this, why would he want to do that? :angry: It's already so tricky for fans to get tickets when capacity is around 10k, and in Sweden they'd easily fill the Tele 2 Arena for example. Surely there's money to be made from ticket sales and subsequent increase in tourism to more than offset the cost of using a bigger arena? I fear pre-recorded backing vocals are going to be "the big change" for 2016 as I'm sure we'll get one with Christer in charge, with "better sounding performances" and "lower costs for participants due to being able to have smaller delegations" the main reasons given for the change. I guess it works okay in Melodifestivalen but at the same time some Melodifestivalen acts rely so heavily on backing vocals that the artist barely sing themselves and I'm not sure that's fair.
June 2, 201510 yr Tele 2 and Friends Arena are all booked up for next May so only Globen is left. SVT are considering Göteborg and Linköping as the host cities villages. http://www.expressen.se/noje/svts-hemliga-...rovision-arena/
June 2, 201510 yr Author I'm sure the Wiener Stadthalle was booked up too, but they moved the booked events to other places. ESC Today are reporting that Tele 2 and Friends have both confirmed they are amongst Stockholm's bid: http://esctoday.com/104526/eurovision-2016...tential-venues/ That said, Gothenburg wouldn't be too bad although I think Scandinavium is even smaller, slightly, than Malmo Arena?
June 2, 201510 yr I think Friends would be a bad choice, by all accounts the acoustics there aren't brilliant and I think there comes a point where a big arena is too big (Parken in 2001 anybody?). Tele2 seems like a slightly better version of Friends but with essentially all the same problems so Globen would be my call for the venue.
June 2, 201510 yr Author Petrit Selimi @Petrit Just so we are clear: I actually KNOW #Kosovo will participate in next years @Eurovision #ESC2016 event. I can't tell you how yet though ;) He is the deputy foreign minister of Kosovo or something along those lines, I'm not sure how this can happen though? :o
July 8, 201510 yr Globen in Stockholm has been confirmed as the venue for Eurovision 2016. LOVE this venue, happy memories of Melodifestivalen 2009 <3 Perfect little area around the arena for fan parties and random little shopping mall PA's as well :D
July 8, 201510 yr Rita Ora for Kosovo 2016. *United Kingdom maybe we'd actually do well this year if that happened :)
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