Sweep Eurovision Song Contest. Directors of Contest –
Brandybee and Lover. It's that magic time of year again when the Eurovision Song Contest will grace our screens and pollute, oops, I mean enrich our ears. The 2016 Eurovision Song Contest will take place in the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden and be hosted by Måns Zelmerlöw and Petra Mede. The Semi-Finals will be held on 10th and 12th May. The Grand Final will take place on Saturday 14th May. All shows will be broadcast at 21:00 CEST. Did you know the first ever Eurovision Song Contest took place 1956 ? The 42 countries taking part this year are :-
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/stockholm-2016/all-participants2016 Eurovision Song Contest - Semi-Final 1- Tues 10 May 2016 01 Finland
02 Greece
03 Moldova
04 Hungary
05 Croatia
06 The Netherlands
07 Armenia
08 San Marino
09 Russia
10 Czech Republic
11 Cyprus
12 Austria
13 Estonia
14 Azerbaijan
15 Montenegro
16 Iceland
17 Bosnia & Herzegovina
18 Malta
2016 Eurovision Song Contest - Semi-Final 1- Thurs 12 May 2016 01 Latvia
02 Poland
03 Switzerland
04 Israel
05 Belarus
06 Serbia
07 Ireland
08 F.Y.R. Macedonia
09 Lithuania
10 Australia
11 Slovenia
12 Bulgaria
13 Denmark
14 Ukraine
15 Norway
16 Georgia
17 Albania
18 Belgium
2016 Eurovision Song Contest - Grand Final - Sat 14 May 2016 1. France
2. Germany
3. Italy
4. Spain
5. Sweden
6. United Kingdom
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I propose a little sweep stake here, depending on how many are interested. Sign up here...
The countries are shared out between the volunteers, by random chance. A live draw will happen at
The Square, http://achatsquare.chatango.com/
date yet to be fixed. Watch out for details here.
The volunteers gift A$50 to play to Pythia, our Forum bank account
The first 3 winners takes all collected.
1st place = 50% of the takings
2nd place = 30%
3rd place = 20%.
Sign up to show your interest. Once the players ( Sweepers ) are known, countries are shared equally. The Stake of A$50 is paid to Pythia.
When the Eurovision Song contest final is broadcast and winners decided. The players here holding the winning countries , wins the Stake , ie – all the A$ collected as indicated above. If in the event the actual winners are not held by a Sweeper, then the sweeper holding the next highest rated country will win the Stake indicated.
You only qualify as playing this sweepstake , when your donation is received by Pythia. Please PM the directors when you have made your A$50 donation so we can confirm it has been received and also please post your interest to play in this topic. Thank you.The winners receive the collected amount as soon as possible after the winning countries are announced in the media, and following a confirmation Post by a director of the winner.
This is a bit of fun and it’s always nice to receive a little windfall. Hopefully there will be enough interest for the winner to buy a new pose or outfit.
Good luck to all. Tell you your friends...
To find out more about the contest and listen to the songs -
The 2016 Eurovision Song Contest http://www.eurovision.tv/page/stockholm-2016/about and
http://www.eurovision.tv/page/stockholm-2016/all-participants Sweep Stake will be closed to new players once the 42 slots are taken or an hour before the contest begins in Stockholm, Sweden .