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After two long years it's finally time. Eurovision is back, and it's shaping up to be the most exciting final in many years with no clear favourite.
Who do you want to win, and who do you think will win? Post a comment below.

We hope you will also join us in our Telegram chat and share your favourites and opinions with us there. There's always a reason to talk Eurovision.
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We are getting very close to the host city decision. The three Dutch host broadcasters have narrowed their list down to Rotterdam and Maastricht. The two cities have now been given Friday as a deadline to deliver some final updates to their bid books before one of them is chosen.
On the surface Rotterdam may seem like the runaway winner, with the superior venue and hotel capacity. Maastricht has proven to be a far tougher competition than anyone anticipated with their enthusiasm, extensive plans for city wide events and strong financial support.

Who will be the host city of Eurovision 2020? We will most likely find out next week.

Last Saturday The Netherlands won the 64th Eurovision Song Contest with Duncan Laurence and the song Arcade. While this may be their fifth win, The Netherlands last won in 1975 making it 44 years since they last claimed the trophy.

The race to host the event is now on in The Netherlands, with seemingly all of the country launching bids to host. Some already began several weeks prior to Duncan even arriving in Tel Aviv.


While Arcade might have won overall, it was in fact neither the jury nor televote winner. The juries favored Jon Lundgren from Sweden, while the public preferred KEiiNO from Norway.
It was also a welcome return to the final for several nations. North Macedonia qualified for the first time since 2012 and got their best result ever at 8th place. San Marino, Switzerland and Iceland made it for the first time since 2014. San Marino also managed their best ever result, coming 20th.

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After three months we finally have all 41 songs for Eurovision 2019!

After a slow start it's been a proper avalanche these past few days as all the remaining countries rushed out their songs before today's deadline.
It's time to finalize your top lists, guess the running order, bet on who qualifies and wonder if Macedonia will finally have good staging this year.

We highly recommend the My Eurovision Scoreboard app to easily keep track of which songs you like, and which you'd rather not have making it to the grand final.

The 2019 season is upon us!

Tel Aviv has been chosen as the host city, Dare to dream is the slogan, and numerous national finals are rapidly approaching. In Sweden several names have been leaked prior to the november 27th reveal.
Estonia and Albania have both revealed their competitors already, with Estonia releasing the songs on December 1st.
In San Marino the 1in360 format has been rejected. What, if anything, will take it's place is unknown. 1in360 has in response approached other nations, including Montenegro with their concept.
Romania is giving it's Melodifestivalen like tour concept another go, but in a smaller version.
Malta, Georgia, Israel, and to an extend Spain, are all hosting X-factor like shows to find an artist to represent them, while Switzerland will have it's first internal selection in a long time.

Which national final are you most excited about? How many do you plan to follow?

Another Eurovision is over, and for the fourth time Israel reigns victorious. Netta scored a clear victory conning in nearly 100 points over runner up Eleni from Cyprus.
Are you happy with the results? How did your favorite fare?

Eurovision week is upon us again. The opening ceremony is just an hour away, and the first semifinal just two days from now. 43 nations are about to serenade us live on stage to become the 63rd winner of the contest, and win the right to host the competition next year.
While Israel is still the odds favorite to win, this year is pretty even and open, no one is absolutely sure on who's going to win. Do you have a favorite to win? Tell us in the comments. And come chat with us on Telegram https://t.me/joinchat/BG0XSz84G20SDHTrhbocfg.

The first artists have been known for a while, the first song since December 23rd. More and more countries release lineups, snippets and full songs.
It's beginning to look a lot like Eurovision.

The eurovision gears are gaining momentum all over Europe. France is just a few days away from choosing their song, and several other selection shows are well on their way. The high season is just a couple weekends away with multiple shows every weekend.
For a lot of fans the first heat of the Swedish Melodifestivalen, arguably the most anticipated selection show every year, is the start of the proper Eurovision season.

The only country to choose a song so far is Albania, who through their traditional Festival Kenges chose the song Mall for Lisbon. A popular choice by the jury, both among fans and Albanians. Many predict a triumphant return to the final for the nation.

On Saturday France will choose their entry in the final of their Destination Eurovision. The return of a French national final has been warmly welcomed by fans, and there is a wide consensus that it's a strong national final that will probably lead to a good score for France.

What do you think of the Albanian entry? And who should France chose to achieve the best possible score? Comment below, or join our telegram chat @ escfurs and discuss it there.

More and more information is emerging about Eurovision 2018 in Lisbon. San Marino is launching a worldwide internet search, France returns to a national final format, Israel is not gone, and lots more has been revealed over the past couple months.
In just over two months we'll know the first song(s), and the first wave of tickets will most likely have gone on sale.
Are you hyped and ready for the Eurovision high season to kick in? What's your hopes, fears and predictions for the coming season?

On Friday during Eurofurence in Berlin, just two weeks from now, there will be a Eurovision fans meet and greet.
At 22:00 Friday evening in the room Nizza.

Come chat about your favorite entries, this year's result, expectations for next year, and whatever else you feel like talking about.
For those of you who attended the NordicFuzzCon meet and greet, it will be pretty much like that.

https://www.eurofurence.org/EF23/sc.....s/1273.en.html

The furry community has alot of talented musicians in it. All the way from indie and folk, to hardstyle and edm, furries are probably represented in every genre.
So far the closest we've come to furries in Eurovision is this year's Italian dancing gorilla and Irlands Dustin the Turkey in 2008.
Isn't it time for furries to take the step and represent our fandom in the biggest music show in the world?
Which furry musician would you like to see the most, and representing which country?

Another season of Europe's favorite TV event has come to an end. 26 different acts shined on stage, doing their very best to earn the favor of the televoters.
With the exception of a few sour notes here and there, the competition went by flawlessly. And apart from one incident during the interval acts, so did the rest of the show.
When the jury votes came in it became clear that Portugal was to be strong contender, picking up 12 after 12. The pre-contest favorite Italy failed to impress, and it was clear the battle would be between Portugal and Bulgaria when the televotes were added.
As it turned out, Portugal won the televote as well, thus winning the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest by a landslide.
With both juries and televoters having the same winner, no none can call Salavdor Sobral's magnificent victory undeserved. He caught the hearts of both jurors and TV viewers across the continent with his understated, quiet little ballad about love.

Prior to the contest we asked for people to give us their predictions. All 5 who answered had Portugal as a favorite, with Italy and Belgium also sailing high.
Shortly before the Grand Final we asked our followers and chatters to predict again. Once more Portugal was the most prominent song with Italy and Bulgaria following close. Belgium had also climbed into several top lists.
At the opposite side of the prediction scoreboard we found Spain on all lists, and Germany on most.

The overall result matches fairly well with the predictions made by the furry Eurovision fans who've found this little page.

We hope you're all excited for Lisbon 2018 and hope you'll want to keep following Eurovision with us!

Full scoreboard and more: https://eurovision.tv/event/kyiv-2017

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Congratulations Portugal!

It's finally here, the Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final. 26 acts are ready to sing for you, and hopefully earn your support in the televote.

The big favourites are Bulgaria and Portugal, with Italy slipping from it's spot as certain winner. Neither Bulgaria nor Portugal has won the competing before, which means we might get our first new winning country since Azerbaijan in 2011.

In the other end of the scale Germany and Spain are expected to fight for the last place, with Spain being the clear favorite to score the 26th place.


2017 has been a troublesome year for Eurovision with several hiccups along the line.
In the end it all came together, but I'm sure once tonight is over Jon Ola Sand and the rest of the team will breathe out in relief and hope for a simpler event next year.


How do you think the night will end? Please post your top three and your bottom three below.

The 10 final songs for this years final are ready:

Bulgaria
Belarus
Croatia
Hungary
Denmark
Israel
Romania
Norway
Netherlands
Austria

Did you get all your favorites in? Did your least favorite steal a spot from someone better?
Share your opinions below.

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We now also know the full line-up for Saturdays grand final. A few hours ago ebu released the running order:

1. Israel
2. Poland
3. Belarus
4. Austria
5. Armenia
6. The Netherlands
7. Moldova
8. Hungary
9. Italy
10. Denmark
11. Portugal
12. Azerbaijan
13. Croatia
14. Australia
15. Greece
16. Spain
17. Norway
18. United Kingdom
19. Cyprus
20. Romania
21. Germany
22. Ukraine
23. Belgium
24. Sweden
25. Bulgaria
26. France

Yesterday the first semifinal of 2017 took place. The qualifiers were as follows:

Moldova
Azerbaijan
Greece
Sweden
Portugal
Poland
Armenia
Australia
Cyprus
Belgium

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Did all your favorites make it? Who's the most deserving qualifiers? Who are the least deserving?
Share your thoughts below.

Semifinal 1 is now just two hours away. The first 18 songs of the 2017 season are ready to fight for the 10 spots in Saturdays Grand Final. Among tonight's favorites we find Portugal and Sweden, both tipped to breeze through to the Grand Final.
It's time to focus on Kiev and Celebrate Diversity!

The grand final of Eurovision 2017 is just a little over two weeks away. There has been loads of pictures and info from the production, and a few leaks of secret footage.
On Sunday the first rehearsals start, which means we'll be getting footage of this year's performances and finally see the stage in full action.

Italy is this year's runaway favorite, and most predictions says they will win a landslide victory. How do you think the various songs will fare? Will Italy win? Will San Marino make the final? Will Belgium deliver live?
Leave your predictions, hopes and comments below. They will be summarised and compared to the actual results in a journal after the grand final.

The first artists have been known for a while, and Albania has already chosen their song. The new season of Eurovision is here!

We're about to enter the most exciting time of the Eurovision year. Over the next three months 42 songs are to be chosen and revealed for the shows in Kiev in may. In just a few weeks SVT is ready with this years Melodifestivalen, the NF highlight for many fans. Israel is looking for their artist through a talent show, and Finland has released music videos of all their entries.
To help us keep track of whats going on, EBU has a calendar on the Eurovision telling you when and where things are happening.
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/calendar

ESCfurs hope you'll have a great Eurovision year!

After lots of rumors and delays it was finally revealed a few days ago, the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will take place in Kiev.

The dates for the shows are 9, 11 and 13th of may.

It has been more than ten weeks since Jamala won and the 2016 Eurovision season ended. Heated feelings on who should have won, who should have qualified and who should not have qualified, has cooled down. So how do you feel now that it's all more distanced? Was your favorite entry really that good? Did that country maybe deserve to qualify after all?


In Ukraine the focus now is on where to host. Kiev, Dnipro and Odessa are the remaining cities in the race to host. Previous favorite Lviv failed to live up to the expectations of the organizing comitee.
There are also already artist speculations, most notably the rumor that Sergey might return to claim victory.

Where do you think the contest is headed, who would you like to see there? ESCfurs invites you to tell us about your thoughts on the 2016 edition are after weeks of contemplating, and to share your hopes and speculations for the 2017 edition, in the comments here or on our Telegram group.

Eurovision has come and gone for this year and ESCfurs are finally back up and running after a week in Stockholm and the following FA problems.

As expected SVT provided us with a great show. Good hosts, good writing and great interval acts led us safely through all 42 competing songs. The new voting system kept tensions high to the very end, but did spark some debate as it was later revealed Australia would have won if the old system had still been in place. In Russia there's has also been a lot of commotion over them winning the televote, but only finishing 3rd. Their anger is probably fueld by the political situation between them and our winner, Ukraine.

Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 with the song 1944 by Jamala. The song tells the story of her grandmother and the rest of the Crimean Tartars deportation from Crimea in 1944 and has been criticized for really being a coment on today's situation.
Nevertheless, Europe was touched by Jamalas personal entry and impressive vocals and voted her to victory.
The plans for hosting next year's contest is already in planning with the 2005 host city Kiev, and Lviv being the frontrunners as host cities.

It's almost time. The Eurovision week is upon us. Two semifinals and the grand final will unfold over the coming week to reveal where we will be heading next year.
The big favorites this year are Russia and France, with Bulgaria, Malta and Sweden close by. Sweden is all set to win on home ground, but is Frans strong enough to accomplish that? Russia is betting there money on a strong pop song with fancy choreography, but might be end up to much like last years Heroes. France is betting on charm and a strong song but seems to be coming up short when it comes to stage performance.
Without a really big favorite we seem set for an exciting week filled with surprises and tension.

Have a great ESC week, and may the best song win!

There has been several ESC news recently. The first wave of tickets have been made aviable for purchase, Australia has been invited back and several countries return to the contest next year. For fresh news and good articles I recommend that you keep track of the official website eurovision.tv and the biggest fanmedia esctoday.com. They are able to deliver faster and better than I am here.

The most recent news of note is the host announcement. We will see Petra Meede return to host, this time joined by Måns Zelmerløv.

During a concert in Madrid Måns surprised his Spanish fans by singing this years Spanish entry, Amanecer. ESCtoday has collected to videos of the event.

http://esctoday.com/106570/sweden-m.....cer-in-madrid/