Eurostream 2020 : Grand final show set to take place tonight

Eurostream 2020 : Grand final show set to take place tonight
Saturday, 09 May 2020

  • Tonight the grand final show of Eurostream 2020 is scheduled to go online and crown the final winner of the alternative online contest run by fans and media outlets.

    The 2020 Eurovision edition has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Depsite the unprecedent decision, a group of Eurovision fan media outlets deicided to run an alternative online version of the contest : Eurostream 2020! The sites that have collaborated for the project are: 12 Points From America, Aussievision, Ding-a-Dong Podcast, ESCDaily, escgo!, ESC Insight, ESCKAZ, ESC Nation, ESC Plus, ESCplus España, EuroVisionary, Eurovision Union, Eurovision Universe, evrovizija.rs/ESCSerbia,ScoreWIZ, Songfestival.be, Songfestivalforum.nl, Songfestivalweblog.nl, The EuroWhat? Podcast , XAZ.

    Eurostream 2020 includes the 41 competing countries that were to take part in this year’s cancelled Eurovision Song Contest. The competition released entirely online included three parts of live streaming , on 5, 7 and 9 May, resembling to the ESC format.  The 41 countries were split up in two semi final heats that took place on  5 and 7 May according to the draw allocation taken place back in January. 10 countries from each semi final qualified to tonight's  Grand final, where they will join the ESC 2020 host country, The Netherlands, and the Big-5 countries ( France, UK, Spain, Italy, Germany), just exactly as in real Eurovision.

     

    THE GRAND FINAL

    The grand final is scheduled for this evening and will feature snippets of the ESC 2020 entries, as they can’t be aired in full version due to copyright law, followed by the jury voting and the online fan voting. In tonight’s final we will see the following countries compete in the following running order as pictured below:

     

    THE FINAL OUTCOME

    A body of jurors will influence the 50% of the resutls while the fan voting will  determine the rest 50% of the result. Regarding the members of the juries you can check out the personality that will make up the Eurostream’s juries HERE. The votes coming from the fans will not be presented from each country separately, but the presentation will unfold with the points awarded to each country depending on the percentage it got in the overall fan voting, like in Junior Eurovision. The window for voting has opened since 12:00pm CET and will close during the show . Fan can cast their vote in the following link 

    The running order of the countries' voting will unfold as pictured below:

    The final will be presented to us by : Gunther Ooms & Joël Braem (opening), Lisa-Jayne Lewis (commentator of the songs), Brandon McCann (Social media), Jonathan Hendrickx (voting and closing the show).

    You can wathc the show on Youtube channel at 21:00 CET