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Champion of Champions 2014
TerryP
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Hi all, in preparation for the start of CofC 2014, I have decided to open up the new thread so we can start sorting out all the details.
I have updated the CofC page and it can all be seen here: http://dsfe.wikia.com/wiki/Champion_of_Champions_2014
Notice someone has put a link to each country NF at the top of the page, Cyprus is missing, I tried adding it but couldn't work out how to, so if someone in the know can do, that would be great. I will probably hand over page updating to AxG now as he normally deals with results.
Anyway, we are good to go now, so dylan if you are happy to start up tonight that would be grand, here is a reminder of the 4 batches of NFs.
Batch #1 - dylanpartyon
1. Aland Islands
2. Albania
3. Algeria
4. Andorra
5. Austria (2 qualify)
6. Azerbaijan
7. Belarus
8. Belgium
9. Bosnia & Herzegovina
10. Bulgaria (2 qualify)
11. Croatia
12. Cyprus
13. Czech Republic
14. Denmark
15. England (3 qualify)
16. Estonia (2 qualify)
Batch #2
17. Faroe Islands (2 qualify)
18. Finland
19. France
20. Germany (2 qualify)
21. Gotland (2 qualify)
22. Greece
23. Greenland
24. Hungary
25. Iceland
26. Iran
27. Ireland
28. Isle of Man
29. Israel (2 qualify)
30. Italy
31. Jersey (3 qualify)
32. Kazakhstan
Batch #3
33. Kosovo
34. Liechtenstein (2 qualify)
35. Lithuania
36. Luxembourg
37. Macedonia
38. Malta
39. Moldova
40. Monaco
41. Netherlands
42. Northern Ireland
43. Norway
44. Poland
45. Portugal (2 qualify)
46. Romania
47. Russia
Batch #4 - mikabv
48. San Marino
49. Scotland
50. Shetland Islands
51. Slovakia
52. Slovenia
53. Spain
54. Svalbard
55. Sweden
56. Switzerland
57. Transnistria
58. Turkey
59. Ukraine
60. Wales
61. Western Asia
62. Wildcard (2 qualify)
We have hosts for the 1st and 4th batch, avb you can take either number 2 or 3, I think Yugi was the other one offering to do a batch (please correct me if I am wrong). Whoever it is you can take the other one.
Me, Carlisle and Gwen will do a SF each, I guess we can sort that out closer to the time once we know dates, I will need to make sure I am hosting one where I can do results on a day off. Then Alexos will do the final. I will bring over the stats I have posted over in the other thread to here for all to see.
By the way, can anyone remember what the scoring system for the country NFs were? Also how many are we going to put through from the SFs to the final, in the first 2 years we took 10 through from each for a 30 song final, but last year it was just the top 8 for a 24 song final.
I have updated the CofC page and it can all be seen here: http://dsfe.wikia.com/wiki/Champion_of_Champions_2014
Notice someone has put a link to each country NF at the top of the page, Cyprus is missing, I tried adding it but couldn't work out how to, so if someone in the know can do, that would be great. I will probably hand over page updating to AxG now as he normally deals with results.
Anyway, we are good to go now, so dylan if you are happy to start up tonight that would be grand, here is a reminder of the 4 batches of NFs.
Batch #1 - dylanpartyon
1. Aland Islands
2. Albania
3. Algeria
4. Andorra
5. Austria (2 qualify)
6. Azerbaijan
7. Belarus
8. Belgium
9. Bosnia & Herzegovina
10. Bulgaria (2 qualify)
11. Croatia
12. Cyprus
13. Czech Republic
14. Denmark
15. England (3 qualify)
16. Estonia (2 qualify)
Batch #2
17. Faroe Islands (2 qualify)
18. Finland
19. France
20. Germany (2 qualify)
21. Gotland (2 qualify)
22. Greece
23. Greenland
24. Hungary
25. Iceland
26. Iran
27. Ireland
28. Isle of Man
29. Israel (2 qualify)
30. Italy
31. Jersey (3 qualify)
32. Kazakhstan
Batch #3
33. Kosovo
34. Liechtenstein (2 qualify)
35. Lithuania
36. Luxembourg
37. Macedonia
38. Malta
39. Moldova
40. Monaco
41. Netherlands
42. Northern Ireland
43. Norway
44. Poland
45. Portugal (2 qualify)
46. Romania
47. Russia
Batch #4 - mikabv
48. San Marino
49. Scotland
50. Shetland Islands
51. Slovakia
52. Slovenia
53. Spain
54. Svalbard
55. Sweden
56. Switzerland
57. Transnistria
58. Turkey
59. Ukraine
60. Wales
61. Western Asia
62. Wildcard (2 qualify)
We have hosts for the 1st and 4th batch, avb you can take either number 2 or 3, I think Yugi was the other one offering to do a batch (please correct me if I am wrong). Whoever it is you can take the other one.
Me, Carlisle and Gwen will do a SF each, I guess we can sort that out closer to the time once we know dates, I will need to make sure I am hosting one where I can do results on a day off. Then Alexos will do the final. I will bring over the stats I have posted over in the other thread to here for all to see.
By the way, can anyone remember what the scoring system for the country NFs were? Also how many are we going to put through from the SFs to the final, in the first 2 years we took 10 through from each for a 30 song final, but last year it was just the top 8 for a 24 song final.
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19 Songs
Alexos
Here is a semi-final draw I conducted last night, making sure all countries with more than one song qualifying through the NFs are kept apart, feel free to use it if your happy with it
Semi-Final 1
1. Portugal 2
2. Northern Ireland
3. Bosnia & H
4. Israel 1
5. Austria 2
6. England 2
7. Slovenia
8. Lithuania
9. Germany 1
10. Kazakhstan
11. Svalbard
12. Gotland 2
13. France
14. Estonia 1
15. Spain
16. Jersey 1
17. Bulgaria 2
18. Sweden
19. Ukraine
20. Greenland
21. Netherlands
22. Luxembourg
23. Cyprus
24. Belarus
25. Wales
26. Belgium
Semi-Final 2
1. Faroe Islands
2. Iceland
3. Wildcard 1
4. Monaco
5. Portugal 1
6. Germany 2
7. Finland 2
8. Estonia 2
9. Azerbaijan
10. Jersey 2
11. Italy
12. Macedonia
13. Switzerland
14. Liechtenstein 2
15. San Marino
16. England 3
17. Shetland Islands
18. Austria 1
19. Albania
20. Moldova
21. Scotland
22. Malta
23. Gotland 1
24. Iran
25. Norway
Semi-Final 3
1. Bulgaria 1
2. Wildcard 2
3. Liechtenstein 1
4. Croatia
5. Ireland
6. Finland 1
7. Russia
8. Jersey 3
9. Andorra
10. Isle of Man
11. Kosovo
12. Transnistria
13. Algeria
14. Poland
15. Czech Republic
16. Greece
17. Denmark
18. Hungary
19. Turkey
20. Aland Islands
21. England 1
22. Israel 2
23. Western Asia
24. Slovakia
25. Romania
Longyearbyen - 22
Tallinn - 22
London - 17
Neuss - 20
Tirana - 20
Sofia - 20
Reading - 19
Saint Helier - 21
God - 23
Almaty - 18
Oulu - 22
Vaduz - 21
Lisbon - 21
Batch 1 - 18th-22nd
Batch 2 - 20th-24th
Batch 3 - 22nd-26th
Batch 4 - 24th-28th
That allows no results on xmas day, there are results on xmas eve and boxing day but they can be adjusted slightly if needs be.
Semi 1 - 28th - Jan 1st
Semi 2 - 29th - Jan 3rd
Semi 3 - 31st - Jan 5th
Final 5th-9th
That gets results done by the 9th, if Carlisle (or whoever hosts the first proper contest of the year wants the can open the thread start of Jan and allow sign ups, then the countries can all be handed out on the 9th and we can get straight on with contest 61.
Sometimes I see my whole life passing by with each CofC as it doesn't feel that long ago since the last one, but excited for this and thanks again Terry for all your work!
Also Sons & Lovers isnt on youtube anymore, but its on Vimeo so I'm linking to that, and putting an audio in the playlist...
Also yeah that timetable sounds good to me. And since no one has commented on it Terry, Im gonna do the votes as 5, 3, 2, 1 like last year, that alright??
To vote you are going to send me a PM, and vote as follows: 5-3-2-1. The top scoring song from each NF will qualify, apart from Austria, Bulgaria and Estonia who'll have 2 qualifiers, and England who'll have 3, due to their respective wins.
Voting will close on the 22nd, at 8:00 PM, with results sometime after that. Have fun voting...
Aland Islands
Suvi Teräniska - Vaiettu rakkaus
Suvi - Find You
Eva & Manu - Cinnamon Hearts
Jenni Vartiainen - Selvästi Päihtynyt
PLAYLIST
Albania
Eleni Foureira - Anemos Agapis
Alana Lee - Dream Out Loud
Miriam Cani - Shiu Im
Samanta Karavella - Me Jeto
PLAYLIST
Algeria
Gravitonas ft. Army of Lovers - People Are Lonely
Chimène Badi - Ma Liberté
Lynda Thalie - Dance Your Pain Away
Mani - Bang Bang
PLAYLIST
Andorra
Pastora Soler - Vive
Auryn - Make My Day
Auryn - Puppeteer
Anael - [URL=""]Piénsame[/URL]
PLAYLIST
Austria
Conchita Wurst - Heroes
Como - Suitcase
Lola Blanc - Bad Tattoo
Farewell Dear Ghost - Wake Up
PLAYLIST
Azerbaijan
Laleh - Stars Again
Letife Soyuoz - Hedef
Laleh - Goliat
Timur Rodriguez - Heroes
PLAYLIST
Belarus
The National Fanfare of Kadebostany - Walking With A Ghost
Ruslan Alekhno & Valeriya - Heart of Glass
Alexander Rybak - Into A Fantasy
Kadebostany - Castle In The Snow
PLAYLIST
Belgium
Customs - Harlequins
Maya's Moving Castle - When You Wish Upon The Stars
Yannick Bovy - Six
Trixie Whitley - Never Enough
Shindu - Down The Line
Milow - Against The Tide
PLAYLIST
Bos. & Herz.
Haris - Gold
30 Seconds To Mars - Do Or Die
Pamela Ramljak - Kad Tad
Eldin Huseinbegovic - Oko Moje
PLAYLIST
Bulgaria
Oonagh - Orome
Zhana Bergendorff - Samuray
Ilona - Love Is Stupid
Ilona - 1966
Oonagh - Eldamar
PLAYLIST
Croatia
Guano Apes - Sunday Lover
Guano Apes - Close To The Sun
Jelena Rozga - Nirvana
Lidija Bacic - Nasmij Se Sestro
PLAYLIST
Cyprus
Irene Skylakaki - Clock
Katerina Lioliou - Itan Ligo
Eleni C - Leap of Faith
Anna Vissi - I Kathimerinotita Mas
PLAYLIST
Czech Republic
Lucie Vondrackova - Zombie
Aneta Langerove - Vzpominka
IYES - 'Til Infinity
David Deyl - Lez A Nech Si Lhat
Elis - Shubidu
PLAYLIST
Denmark
Emmelie de Forest - Drunk Tonight
Julias Moon - Bay
Volbeat ft. Sarah Blackwood - Lonesome Rider
Ginger Ninja - Faucets
PLAYLIST
England
Foxes - Let Go For Tonight
Ella Eyre - If I Go
George Ezra - Did You Hear The Rain?
Sons & Lovers - Lover
Rae Morris - Under The Shadows
PLAYLIST
Estonia
Elina Born - Miss Calculation
Getter Jaani & Koit Toome - Rannamaja
Sandra Nurmsalu - Vaike Eestimaa
Karl-Erik Taukar - Kel Kuus
PLAYLIST
Also, I celebrate Christmas on the 24th, so I'll have to open batch 4 either the day before or after.
That's fine, maybe open the day before, as I imagine the amount of people coming online xmas day (and even boxing day) will be less than usual.
I think it is still 5-3-2-1 even if there is more than 4 songs, and in CofC unlike the main contest, you can vote for your own song if you so wish.
I think I can do batch 3 if I can do results on the 27th, would struggle to do the 24th or the 26th.
That's cool, the 27th would work too, just looking for someone to take on batch 2 now.
I've calculated the results for the best of 60 editions run down, it will feature the top 3 across all 60 contests ranked in order of total percentage points scored from total points available, I can possibly begin that either tomorrow night or Saturday and run it over xmas/new year whilst this is going on (I will make a separate thread for it).
Also eagerly awaiting Alexos' little side task he has planned for us as well, when will we find out what it is?
Finishing it off as we speak
We have the official country ranking of 2014 but this is missing some important information such as bias towards hilarious trainwreck songs that went out in the semi-finals and other controversial opinions. As such, here begins a rundown of my personal judgement of each of the countries that took part in 2014, ranked 90 - 1 which will run parallel to the usual fun and games of CofC. Feel free to either ignore or embrace it.
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Azores
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bulgaria
China
Corsica
Crimea
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
England
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
Flanders
France
Georgia
Germany
Gibraltar
Gotland
Greece
Greenland
Guernsey
Hungary
Iceland
Iran
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jersey
Kaliningrad
Kazakhstan
Kosovo
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Morocco
Nagorno-Karabakh
Netherlands
North Africa
Northern Cyprus
Northern Ireland
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
Saaremaa
San Marino
Scotland
Serbia
Shetland Islands
Sicily
Slovakia
Slovenia
South Holland
Spain
Svalbard
Sweden
Switzerland
Transnistria
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
Uzbekistan
Vatican City
Vojvodina
Wales
Wallonia
Western Asia
The methodology btw was giving each song a mark out of 10 with .5s included and then using Excel to find the average for each country. Countries with six or fewer songs have been penalised accordingly. In actuality my scoring system is probably flawed and unpredictable based upon how I'm feeling at any given moment, but you get the idea.
Please note this ranking will not take into account players or previous placement, just the songs themselves (although I will probs make reference to both) and I will post the subjective worst countries sometime soon!
Aland Islands
Suvi T. is better than I remembered, quite a strong song to start off, Suvi's still as good as I remember, really like this one too. Eva and Manu are quite cute too so hard to choose between the three first. Jenni's song is completely pointless though, so that's out for sure.
Albania
4 power ballads. I really like both Me Jeto and Dream Out Loud. Shiu Im is another good surprise as it's grown on me a lot since last. Still don't understand how Anemos Agapis placed so high though.
Algeria
Quite a bit of variety here. People are lonely is still as brilliant (and creepy!) as last. Ma Liberté is pretty nice too, as is Dance the Pain Away. Bang Bang is a big disappointment though, I remembered it being far better than this...
Contributors: Cuishla
Only song: Aldadyn - Mirbek Atabekov
There are a few UTR countries that can only be judged on one song and unfortunately most of these don't have a brimming pool of artists from which to choose. So I feel a little bad to give Kyrgyzstan the RLOD based on their semi final hijack during Almaty. I have a slight post-contest appreciation of this video but I think I would enjoy it more if I understood Kyrgyz or even had a vague idea of what was going on. Sadly Kyrgyzstan's journey ends as tragically as Mirbek's quest for his runaway bride, apologies Cuishla
89. China
Contributors: phill363
Only song: Overdose - Exo-M
I am not the best person to judge Chinese boybands as obv Exo-M have a tonne of fans and actually I did enjoy a few of their other songs that I just listened to
88. Sicily
Contributors: mikabv
Only song: Parla Con Me - Eros Ramazzotti
I huge a lot of appreciation for Italian music, but this one suffers from having both a boring video and song. Neither are actually painful but I don't get the whole texting thing? And there were no star characters to carry that narrative so unfortunately I found myself wanting to move on rather quickly. What's worse is that this SF exit destroyed Sicily's 100% Final record for all eternity. How could you, mika?
87 remain!
More details to be released over the Christmas period!
To clarify the whole texting thing.... The song is called Parla Con Me (talk to me) and from what I understand, it wants to show how enclosed we are becoming in our modern society, always sitting with our devices, and all he wants to do is actually talk to someone.
Also, the song is not boring.
I thought Yugi was down to host this but if not, I can open it later.
Andorra
Puppeteer is clearly the best of the two Auryn songs. Pastora Soler's song is nice too, although some transitions I still find too abrupt, and Anael is just very meh in comparison to the rest.
Austria
4 strong songs here, very different from each other too. I will always have a soft spot for the Como song, and I really like Bad Tattoo now as well. Conchita's song I'm getting a bit bored of even if it's very strong and Farewell Dear Ghost is good too, although it's a shame I had to go to ITunes to find it. Hard to choose here.
Azerbaijan
A much weaker bunch here. I like both Laleh songs although they aren't her best, Timur Rodruguez is decent enough too, and Hedef is okay too, if not a bit too dramatic to my taste.
I thought so too, but I've not seen him around anywhere.
Well inside the top 100, success for Kyrgyzstan. It was more the video than the song that I entered but I was satisfied with having Kyrgyzstan in the semi final for only the third time ever
I was surprised to find there were three other entries with a lower score than this from first round entries and tied with one of Icelands, although it was the lowest score of this year.
It still makes me laugh remembering when you said my uzbek song beat yours before I knew that you were Kyrgyzstan...