The most biased contest on earth!

[Crystalmaster Mike]

Eurovision 101: In which country, there are 2 different television stations selecting the candidates for the Eurovision Song Festival?

Answer: Belgium. One year, the Flemish choose, the next year, it's the Wallons' turn.

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The sad thing, there's so much money and effort put in the project each year.
2 years ago, the Minister of Culture sponsored a tour for our candidate around Europe.
Every year, we're hosting this long contest to choose our candidate (à la Idols). The jury doesn't know what to look for no more. You could go for originality, or for multicultural sound (which boils down to using Irish and Slavic melodies, and either English or a made-up language), but in the end, you only get votes if there are other countries that

• speak the same language;
• neighbour yours;
• have a lot of immigrants from your country.

Which ends up with having Greece and a big bunch of Eastern European and Scandinavian countries scoring the loot, whether they deserve it or not.

And of course, there's the fact the 4 sponsoring countries, besides the host, always automatically are in the finals.

[Ultimate Charizard]

Yeah but who are the Sponsors?

Im assuming its someone like Uk, France, Germany, Spain etc. Yet its those countries that generally have been finishing bottom.
Its like the other countries say 'thankyou for paying for this, now we rig it and will win it with no real talent while you come at the bottom.

I agree with what you say though. Its so political that no matter what certain countries send their results are usually already set.

Also as i understand it the acts/writers performing arent supposed to be paid proffesional acts so when you hear "this guy is the biggest pop star in Moldova" or whatever its a little bit 'wtf?'

[Crystalmaster Mike]

Actually, those are exactly the sponsoring countries.

And about the acts, today I don't think that ball is still rolling. Some of the potential candidates we had here were established, popular musicians... even Idols finalists, so...