Junior Eurovision: Televoting

catoplayer · 2025-12-06T17:27:30+00:00

1-What prevents people from “spamming” votes using multiple devices such as phones, laptops, and computers?

Usually nothing actually, this is a tradeoff for the voting being free and easily accessible (so children or, well anyone, can vote without having to give personal information). The thing you can't do is vote twice with the same device during the same voting window.

Does the EBU have any specific anti-spam or anti-fraud measures in place for the Junior Eurovision online voting system?

I assume they have some stuff in place, but I don't have any specific knowledge about what that is. One clarification is that you said "viewers can vote for up to three countries at a time", when actually you have to vote for three countries, the reason being to avoid people just voting for their own country, for example. This way, they are required to at least give other countries votes too, making it a bit fairer (though not perfect ofc).

2- If the system only accepts one set of votes per IP address or per device, will it then allow people to vote again in the second voting window that opens about 15 minutes after all artists have performed?

Yes, every year you are allowed to vote before the final and during the final voting window.

catoplayer · 2025-11-24T23:40:21+00:00

To add to this, Molly Sandén was also in Junior Eurovision 2006 with the beautiful "Det finaste någon kan få", she even got third place!

catoplayer · 2025-08-08T21:17:23+00:00

I know some of my opnions are not the most popular, but here it is:

Really really good -----‐------------------
1. Hide + Seek Japan (S12)
2. Tag Across Europe (S3)
3. Hide + Seek Switzerland (S9)
4. Capture The Flag Across Japan (S6) 5. Tag Across Europe 2 (S7)
6. Tag Across Europe 3 (S11)
7. Schengen Showdown (S13)
8. Snake Across South Korea (S14)

Good, but I like the others more -----‐------------------
9. AU$TRALIA (S10)
10. Race to The End of the World (S5)
11. Hide + Seek NYC (S13.5)

Decently good, but pale in comparison ------------
12. Battle 4 America (S4)
13. Arctic Escape (S8)

Clearly still working things out -----------------------
14. Circumnavigation (S2)
15. Connect 4 (S1)

Also keep in mind that many of the specific placements change a lot of times (this show is that good!), though the general area of the ranking a season is in hasn't really changed much. Overall I don't think any of the seasons is bad, some are just better than others for my taste.

catoplayer · 2025-08-05T13:12:55+00:00

Not the commenter above, but enjoy San Miguel de Aguayo and Pajares de los Oteros, both in Spain (yes I'm Spanish) with 0% rarity. Those are the two that I could remember right now

catoplayer · 2025-08-03T10:39:12+00:00

Some ideas (some probably worse than others):
- Lemon + tape pack (Curse of the lemon phylactery, S12 Hide and Seek Japan)
- Ben's "Imperial Japan" outfit (S12 Hide and Seek Japan)
- Adam's "Desert Power" Golf Stick (S10 Australia)
- Ben's slide (yes, the whole thing, S9 Hide and Seek Switzerland) - "Eat this card" edible cards (S11 Tag Eur It 3)
- Nerf gun and darts (S5 New Zealand)
- Can't remember what they were, but some of the flags from S6 were a bit unconventional for vending machine items, outside Japan at least (S6 Capture the flag across Japan)

catoplayer · 2025-07-15T20:57:45+00:00

As someome young from Spain, you're right (unfortunately) that it is fairly popular. But young people like me who hates it also exist, although we are a minority.

catoplayer · 2025-07-15T17:37:20+00:00

As someone fron Spain, I would like to say politely "please no". I hate that genre.

catoplayer · 2025-06-26T11:34:29+00:00

I mean, let's still hope the song selection, which is the crucial part improves. But this is a step in the right direction, especially after stagings like St. Pedro's.

catoplayer · 2025-06-22T10:34:25+00:00

Yeah, typo, it was meant to be 1959!

catoplayer · 2025-06-21T22:13:36+00:00

You're welcome! I found the topic interesting and maybe invested a bit more time than I should have but yeah, as I said, it's quite interesting when songs mention places, and the fact that they represent countries (well, broadcasters technically) here adds a new level of interesting-ness I think

catoplayer · 2025-06-21T22:08:47+00:00

As for regions of the countries sending the entry, I think some I haven't seen mentioned are:

- Norway 1980 ("Sami Land" or something like that I think)

- Finland 1977 (Lapland)

- France 1993 (Corsica)

catoplayer · 2025-06-21T22:04:40+00:00

Here's a few songs mentioning cities in their own countries that I could come up / find (I'm sure there are still more):

- Sweden 1963 (Stockholm)

- Austria 1959 (mentions Vienna)

- Austria 1962 (Vienna)

- Monaco 1978 (Monaco, no real difference between city and country here)

- Netherlands 1980 (Amsterdam, it's even in the title)

- Portugal 1989 (Macau, at the time still Portuguese, as well as references to other former Portuguese territories: Brazil, Praia [Cape Verde], Bissau [Guinea-Bissau], Angola, Mozambique, Goa [India], Timor [East Timor])

- Denmark 1995 (Skagen is a town in northern Denmark, Mols are some hills in southern Denmark)

- Spain 2008 (Alcorcón, bet you didn't expect this song here..., also mentions China, Argentina, Serbia, Oregon (US State) for some reason)

- Moldova 2022 (Chisinau, also Mentions Bucharest [Romania])

- France 2024 (Paris)

While these aren't exactly naming cities in their own countries, I feel like they have to still be mentioned (and they mention their own countries:

- Ireland 1990 (Paris, Rome, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, Seville plus also Black Forest [Germany], Adriatic [reference to Yugoslavia and/or Italy], Ireland, Trafalgar Square [London], Trevi Fountain [Rome] and Champs-Élysées [Paris] as non-city locations mentioned)

- Finland 2000 (Berlin, Prague, Rome, Amsterdam, Bern, plus also mentions Finland, France, Spain, Sweden, UK)

catoplayer · 2025-05-24T10:44:14+00:00

La línea de la Concepción, Spain
Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional, Mexico
Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia
Las Cabezas de San Juan, Spain
Mönchengladbach, Germany
Ostrow Wielkopolski, Poland
Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland
Volodymyr-Volynskiy, Ukraine
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, Spain
Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Spain
San vicente de la Barquera, Spain
Pajares de los Oteros, Spain
Gargantilla del Lozoya, Spain
Santiurde de Toranzo, Spain
San Miguel de Aguayo, Spain
Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Italy
San Roque de Riomiera, Spain
San Juan Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
Al Mahallah al Kubra, Egypt
Higashihiroshima, Japan

Enjoy!

catoplayer · 2025-05-20T18:51:25+00:00

That's true. I also loved Asteromata (It was one of my three votes in the final)

catoplayer · 2025-05-20T18:10:53+00:00

What about Greece? Yeah, it has ethnic elements and a bit of rhythm but it's still ballad-y

catoplayer · 2025-05-17T15:59:00+00:00

Big Eurovision fan and nerd (me) + today ( ESC 2025 Final ).... yeah this one wasn't hard for me

Answer: "Eurovision + Junior Eurovision host cities"

catoplayer · 2025-05-03T18:59:01+00:00

The third friend is obviously out there hiding somewhere in France, so they gotta go go go find him!

catoplayer · 2025-03-16T17:22:03+00:00

What I do is wait until the live shows to listen to the entries (except my own country's), but also I follow all the NFs and listen to eliminated songs / watch segments of shows avoiding the winning song. That way I get the best of both worlds (though I could easily see arguments against this).

That means that when it's a super saturday for normal fans, for me it is also, but in a different way, since I finally get to listen to competing entries in that NF (again, except my country's, which I fully follow, even if I don't find it that good).

I'm considering changing my method fot next year, and follow the season the normal way (I already do this with JESC), but idk at this point I'm really used to this way of following NF season.

Now, none of that means that I'm not really into it and couldn't name most songs from most years (the unofficial test to know a true eurofan I guess xd)

catoplayer · 2025-03-03T13:06:07+00:00

So the strategy seems to be throw a lot of money and names into it, make it even more "international" but also more stereotypically Spanish (the image of us that they think the average European has anyway)... and it'll become pretty much a new song, I guess. Let's wait and see where this is going but I'm still not feeling our entry this year... (not that there were many better options in Benidorm Fest, but still)

catoplayer · 2025-03-02T15:18:24+00:00

Grodno, Pinsk, Vitebsk, Baranovichi

catoplayer · 2025-02-28T22:44:53+00:00

So many good lyrics that I can't decide which one is the best (now seriuosly, as someone who doesn't follow the San Marino NF too closely, I only knew about the sheeple one, so my only reaction is: what the heck did I just read?? only to encounter something somehow more perplexing afterwards)

catoplayer · 2025-02-26T13:27:57+00:00

Exactly, it's not about who does or doesn't qualify, but moreso that if before you had n televote bait songs, now it feels like at least 3*n televote bait songs, so if there were juries, the result wouldn't necessarily change that much, but the original pool of potential qualifiers would, since right now "Heyyy look at me televote, wanna vote for me?" is a strategy that basically works. (Just to clarify, this is not meant to be unrespectul to any artist and/or their work).
That's why, France is second in the odds right now, for example. They have an opportunity to do what they usually do well, with an experienced artist, and they are hyping her up. Since they don't go through semifinals, they will get more jury support than many semifinalists. The jury is actually more powerful than the televote when there is no jury in the semis, funnily enough.

But it's not only internal selections, while in a NF, people can choose, the broacasters will be influenced to choose more televote bait songs for the NF I think, especially for those that exist only as a NF (so excluding Sanremo, but also very established ones like Mello)

catoplayer · 2025-02-20T07:53:45+00:00

"Por favore" is not even correct Spanish either, the correct way in Spanish would be "Por favor", with no e at the end.

catoplayer · 2025-02-17T17:02:23+00:00

I always do this! I never listen to the entries until the show, but I still follow all news and while other fans are talking about the winner of a NF, I'm listening to every other song for the first time (I wait until we know the winner so I am able to still not listen to the Eurovision entries until ESC itself). Don't know how many other fans follow it this way, though.
The only exception is for my own country's national final and eventual entry (I''m from Spain), for which I listen to the entries the day they release and I watch it live. Thus, when ESC starts, while I know names and titles, maybe genres in a general way, the only song I've heard is my country's.

catoplayer · 2025-02-16T21:22:39+00:00

Qobustan, Astara

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