I ofc shall be taking part, I just hope I don't end up with Y Merjan

ps happy birthday

You would have been eligible, but we need an even number of participants to divide them into teams, so unfortunately that would make an odd number. But you are free to participate in the next edition of the normal contest.

As for the rest of you, the draw will be conducted in two parts later this evening.

The draw was conducted in chat earlier tonight. Thanks again to Wiggles and Curtis for providing the tools used in each phase of the draw. The final pairings are:

CTP and Hanita
Gianluca and Curtis (no joke)
Bruno and Oswald
TWO and Jonny
Rua and Teodor
Wiggles and 2703
Denniston and C
Luis and BAS
Sok and Anette (lol)
James and Sandera
Nessie and Mina
Julio and Merjan

At this point you should enter negotiations with your partner to decide upon a song. When you're both happy, you should BOTH submit your song and agreed recap time via PM here.

You have until 9th April to decide and send your song. Sorry for the short deadline, but with 3 contests on the go at once, we need to get things moving.

With just one team left to submit their song, it is time to move on to the next phase.

As a team, you must decide between you which one will be the leader. You have until Saturday to decide and both must PM me confirming the same name.

The leader's votes will take priority in certain voting situations where the points combination cannot be cleanly converted into 12-1 points via any other tiebreak methods. Namely, if person A gives Song 1 12p and Song 2 10p, and person B gives Song 1 10p and Song 2 12p, there would be no way to break the tie.

In that case, if person A was the leader, then Song 1 would get the overall 12p, with Song 2 getting 10p. If person B was the leader, Song 2 would get the 12p instead.

In addition, you must both decide on a team name that will represent you on the scoreboard. Again, both members must agree on the name and PM it by Saturday.

Here are the songs in T1, the first (and possibly last) team edition of the escChat Song Contest.

8 Track Flashback (CTP and Hanita):


Beauty and the Beast (James and Sandera):


Lulufilia (BAS and Luis):


Lepresalonik (Rua and Teodor):


Welsh Daisystan (TWO and Jonny):


Nagorno-Karabakh (Curtis and Gianluca):


The Lucky Stars (Bruno and Oswald):


Schapensof (C and Denniston):


Team Dima (Mina and Nessie):


πlanders (Wiggles and Miltz);


Inspired Planet (STRANGLES and Janet):


Fossilia (Anette and Sok):


DO observe that the first name that is written after each team name is the designated leader.

IMPORTANT: Your teamwork duties are now over, so you will work independently for the rest of this edition. It is implicit, therefore, that you must not confer or discuss your votes with your team member. You must vote on your own, in private.

Additionally, remember it is compulsory to record a video or audio vote of yourself announcing your votes. I must receive your voting video/audio clip no later than Friday 18th April. If you fail to do, your team will be disqualified, so you owe it to the other member of your team not to let them down.

You will announce ALL points from 1 to 12 in your voting video/audio clip. Send your votes via PM here and submit your audio or video vote via e-mail (either as an attachment or as a link to download it) to [email protected].

DON'T exceed 3 minutes. DON'T race through them so quickly that the scoreboard can't keep up either (CTP).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In your video/audio, refer to yourself by your team name, not your nation name.

Serves you right for picking an unpronounceable name doesn't it, fallsdown.