Dear r/eurovision community,

As all of you are aware, the results of the EBU General Assembly have significantly shaken the whole fan community, and we in the mod team are no different. As a consequence, a number of us have become disillusioned with the current prospects of the contest and have elected to step down. As of 12th December 2025, the following moderators will be stepping down:

u/Carmen_Caramel

u/CaptainAnaAmari

u/SkyGinge

u/-Effing-

u/Kystaal

u/Pappagallo_fpr

u/hannahspants

This does not come as an easy decision as all of us have put significant time and energy into fostering a positive and constructive space to discuss all things Eurovision, some of us having done so for multiple Eurovision seasons. However, as we are uncomfortable with what the contest has become and are challenged in our ability to continue being fans, it means that there is little reason to continue being moderators of this subreddit. Note that while we have chosen to step down because of this reason, this does not mean that the rest of the mod team does not share some of those same concerns or that this decision comes from any internal disagreements.

Thank you to the team, it was a pleasure to work together even at the most stressful and chaotic of times. It's likely not going to become an easier job in the coming months, and we wish you the strength and luck to still persevere.

To the community, thank you all as well. You are the reason why any of the amazing and fun things here have even been possible. It is a difficult time to be a Eurovision fan now, but especially now, please don't forget to be kind and to look out for each other (including towards the mod team; they really are trying their best).

Take care,

The (former) r/eurovision mods

To our community,

As many of you are aware, we made the difficult decision to temporarily lock down our subreddit for 12 hours last night, after the Grand Final had ended. This decision wasn’t taken lightly from our side, and we knew many of you would justifiably want answers as to why we did this.

First of all, our subreddit is not owned or controlled by the EBU or anyone working directly with the Eurovision Song Contest. Yes, we worked with the ESC social media team to create exclusive content for you all, but no one on the mod team is officially employed by ESC or EBU / any national broadcaster, or affiliated with anyone. Our team is nothing more than passionate fans from around the world. We are parents, students, office workers, women, men, non-binary people, straight, queer - almost as diverse as the community itself. What brings us together is our love and passion for Eurovision. We are superfans, just like many of you.

After last year’s events, we did try our best to prepare and plan if this year would also be difficult somehow. Last year put a large mental strain on many of us, with some of us even experiencing burnout after ESC week from the sheer amount of work we had to do in the subreddit. We took many measures, were confident we’d manage.

Despite our best efforts, we were once again overwhelmed.

If we were simply dealing with an increase in memes and shitposts, things would be much more manageable. This was not the case. The truth is that, with current events being what they are, and with online discussions being what they are, it is almost unheard of that people are able to discuss and communicate in a way that makes everyone in our diverse community feel safe.

On top of this, we were also being bombarded with comments from users from outside of our community posting racist, homophobic, antisemitic, Islamophobic, and other hateful comments. Even with our mod tools and a full team, and even though it was 01:00 AM.
Our options were either forcing several members of the team, who’d already been actively working throughout the evening, to stay up all night reading some of the worst hate speech there is, which can be exhausting for even the most seasoned of moderators, or give the team time to regroup, plan, look after kids and pets, and most importantly - rest, to avoid burnout.

We know that many of you are angry and disappointed, and we completely understand your feelings. We’re fully aware that we could have prepared even more than we thought we had, and will be using this as a lesson moving into the 2026 season. That said, there’s no way to know that, even with even more prep, we could have found a solution to last night’s events that would have pleased everyone.
We also hope you understand that we love Eurovision, and we are not emotionally immune to the controversies of the last two years.

We hope that the conversations and criticisms happening, both within our subreddit and all over the Eurovision universe, can stay constructive and respectful. The goal of commenting on a thread should not be to “own” someone or celebrate their perceived tears or sadness. We hope that the 2026 Eurovision season can be one of peace and joy for everyone-

With love,
The /r/Eurovision mod team

We don't know if your favourites made it or not, but just in case they didn't ...

This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to or about someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions check out the results announcements and individual performance videos.

Hello everyone,

Earlier this week, there was a post asking to consider a Twitter/X ban. This came following a wave of similar posts in subreddits across the site. Thank you for sharing your opinions, it definitely helped us reach our decision and change the rules.

The majority of people supported a ban of links to x.com for various reasons. If you see an announcement, news, a video, or anything that would be valuable to share here, we ask you to find the original source or a news site reporting on the incident.

We asked for your opinion on allowing screenshots and the reaction was mixed. Screenshots of tweets do not require an account or give traffic to the site, so they are still allowed for certain pieces of content. Obviously, since x.com cannot be posted as a source link, any news is off limits. However interactions between artists or similar unique content can be shared via screenshot.

Finally, I would like to remind you of a mod post after the 2024 final about misinformation. Tweets were often shared as fact rather than opinion, speculation, or otherwise. This is just a general reminder to think critically and not believe everything you read.

This all comes in with immediate effect, and we will be adding this to the rule list, and formatting Automod to remove x.com links in due course. We will also reevaluate any other rules to ensure they are all consistent.

Happy eurovision month!

The old thread about flairs will soon be archived, so time for another reminder/guide about how to set your user flair on this subreddit.
With your user flair you can display any eurovision song. You can pick your favourite, or one that you believe isn't appreciated enough, or maybe just one for the memes. I'm curious why you picked your flair, please feel free to share!

There are over 1800 eurovision songs, but only 300 slots for custom flairs. So in 2024 I have added a command to u/esc-song-bot to help users set their flair.

Here is how it works:
The bot scans for <country> <year> combinations in any new comment.
If the comment also contains the string "!setflair" then, instead of commenting with the song, it will set your flair to the country flag and the song title of that entry.
This might take up to a minute.

For example commenting

!setflair Austria 2025

will set your flair to :at: Wasted Love. You'll get a chat message with a confirmation. No need to accept the chat invite or reply, I don't check the bot's chats.

This works on ALL threads on r/eurovision! Not just this thread.
It will remove your comment when the thread flair is not the "Subreddit/Meta" flair, so you don't need to worry that your comment can be seen as off topic.
Occasionally the mods might still reapprove the comment.

The bot chooses the first entry it encounters for the flair. In 1956 there were two entries per country, and the bot lists them in order of appearance. So if you want for example the ":ch: Refrain" flair, please send us a mod mail, so we can set it manually.

This year's songs are available the regular way through the sidebar until at least, 1 September, the end of the eurovision year. Once the first entry of the new year is known we'll discontinue the previous year's flairs through the sidebar.
No need to worry let's write a story, you still keep your flair if you set it that way. And the other flairs are of course also available through the "!setflair" command.

Some more useful/fun information regarding the bot:

• Bot reads edits! Might take up to 3 minutes for it to change its comment. Due to reddit limitations it only reads one edit after the 3 minute mark.
  
• The bot scans entries in the form <list of countries> <list of years> and <list of years> <list of countries>, where a list is any summation delimited by slashes/commas, and "and" or "or" + "+". So you don't need to type out a country (or year) 10 times when you are listing entries from a single country (or year).
• The regex the bot uses to parse each comment is 6000 characters long, yet it still parses every comment within a second.

I'm always open to questions, suggestions and feedback for the bot or flairs! But keep in mind I'll turn off notifications for this thread, as it will become very spammy with people setting their flairs. Once this thread is more than few days old, it is better send a mod mail.

Hello!

The old thread about flairs has been archived, so time for another reminder/guide about how to set your user flair on this subreddit.
With your user flair you can display any eurovision song. You can pick your favourite, or one that you believe isn't appreciated enough, or maybe just one for the memes. I'm curious why you picked your flair, please feel free to share!

There are over 1800 eurovision songs, but only 300 slots for custom flairs. So in 2024 I have added a command to u/esc-song-bot to help users set their flair.

Here is how it works:
The bot scans for <country> <year> combinations in any new comment.
If the comment also contains the string "!setflair" then, instead of commenting with the song, it will set your flair to the country flag and the song title of that entry.
This might take up to a minute.

So for example commenting

!setflair Austria 2025

will set your flair to :at: Wasted Love. You'll get a pm with a confirmation.

This works on ALL threads on r/eurovision! Not just this thread.
It will remove your comment when the thread flair is not the "Subreddit/Meta" flair, so you don't need to worry that your comment can be seen as off topic.
Occasionally the mods might still reapprove the comment.

The bot chooses the first entry it encounters for the flair. In 1956 there were two entries per country, and the bot lists them in order of appearance. So if you want for example the ":ch: Refrain" flair, please contact me personally or send us a mod mail, so we can set it manually. (Hasn't been a need for yet)

This year's songs are available the regular way through the sidebar until at least the end of the eurovision year. Once the first entry of new year is known we'll discontinue the previous year's flairs through the sidebar.
No need to worry let's write a story, you still keep your flair if you set it that way. And the other flairs are of course also available through the "!setflair" command.

Some more useful/fun information regarding the bot:

• I have finally added the entries that failed to qualify for the 1993 and 1996 contests to the bot. Which means you can now also have your "Planet of Blue" flair if you want!
• Bot reads edits! Might take up to 3 minutes for it to change its comment. Due to reddit limitations it only reads one edit after the 3 minute mark.
  
• The bot scans entries in the form <list of countries> <list of years> and <list of years> <list of countries>, where a list is any summation delimited by slashes/commas, and "and" or "or" + "+". So you don't need to type out a country (or year) 10 times when you are listing entries from a single country (or year).
• The regex the bot uses to parse each comment is 6000 characters long, yet it still parses every comment within a second.
• I have optimised the amount of API calls the bot makes. It initially couldn't keep up with most NF live threads, but it went through 50000 comments in 4 hours fine during the grand final! Still responding within 10 seconds.

I'm always open to questions, suggestions and feedback for the bot or flairs! But keep in mind I'll turn off notifications for this thread, as it will become very spammy with people setting their flairs. Once this thread is more than few days old, it is better to either tag me or send a mod mail.

Dear members,

we have a new subreddit icon for our newest Eurovision winner, JJ. We hope you like it!

Hi everyone,

We’re going to be rather blunt here: Our subreddit is meant to be a place to discuss Eurovision. Over the last week, however, the discussion has almost entirely centered around Israel. Due to the nature of this topic, almost every thread about it turns toxic, fast.

It is unfair to all the competitors and unpleasant for the community. We need to put guidelines in place to ensure this stays a Eurovision subreddit.

For this one discussion point to not completely overshadow the subreddit, we have created this megathread.

What belongs in this thread: Any statements, questions, or editorials by national broadcasters and Eurovision contestants about Israel, their participation, and voting as it relates to Israel

What doesn’t belong in this thread or this subreddit: Israel-Palestine war discussion Politics as a whole. Hatred towards anyone.

You can help keep things tidy by reporting comments that break our rules. This allows us to see rule-breaking comments faster.

If the EBU makes any major announcements or changes, this post will be closed and the discussion moved.

Thank you for understanding. The /r/Eurovision mod team

We don't know if your favourite won or not, but just in case they didn't ...

This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to or about someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about the results check out the results announcements or live threads.

Hello!

The old thread about flairs has been long archived, so time for another reminder/guide about how to set your user flair on this subreddit.
With your user flair you can display any eurovision song. You can pick your favourite, or one that you believe isn't appreciated enough, or maybe just one for the memes. I'm curious why you picked your flair, please feel free to share!

There are over 1800 eurovision songs, but only 300 slots for custom flairs. So in 2024 I have added a command to u/esc-song-bot to help users set their flair.

Here is how it works:

The bot scans for <country> <year> combinations in any new comment.
If the comment also contains the string "!setflair" then, instead of commenting with the song, it will set your flair to the country flag and the song title of that entry.
This might take up to a minute.

So for example commenting

!setflair Austria 2025

will set your flair to :at: Wasted Love. You'll get a pm with a confirmation.

This works on ALL threads on r/eurovision! Not just this thread.
It will remove your comment when the thread flair is not the "Subreddit/Meta" flair, so you don't need to worry that your comment can be seen as off topic.
Occasionally the mods might still reapprove the comment.

The bot chooses the first entry it encounters for the flair. In 1956 there were two entries per country, and the bot lists them in order of appearance. So if you want for example the ":ch: Refrain" flair, please contact me personally or send us a mod mail, so we can set it manually. (Hasn't been a need for yet)

This year's songs are available the regular way through the sidebar until at least the end of the eurovision year. Once the first entry of new year is known we'll discontinue the previous year's flairs through the sidebar to make room for the new entries.
No need to worry let's write a story, you still keep your flair if you set it that way. And the other flairs are of course also available through the "!setflair" command.

Some more useful/fun information regarding the bot:

• I have finally added the entries that failed to qualify for the 1993 and 1996 contests to the bot. Which means you can now also have your "Planet of Blue" flair if you want!
• Bot reads edits! Might take up to 3 minutes for it to change its comment. Due to reddit limitations it only reads one edit after the 3 minute mark.
  
• The bot scans entries in the form <list of countries> <list of years> and <list of years> <list of countries>, where a list is any summation delimited by slashes/commas, and "and" or "or" + "+". So you don't need to type out a country (or year) 10 times when you are listing entries from a single country (or year).
• The regex the bot uses to parse each comment is 6000 characters long, yet it still parses every comment within a second.
• I have optimised the amount of API calls the bot makes. It initially couldn't keep up with most NF live threads, but it went through 50000 comments in 4 hours fine during the grand final! Still responding within 10 seconds.

I'm always open to questions, suggestions and feedback for the bot or flairs! But keep in mind I'll turn off notifications for this thread, as it will become very spammy with people setting their flairs. Once this thread is more than few days old, it is better to either tag me or send a mod mail.

We don't know if your favourites won or not, but just in case they didn't ...

This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about the results check out the winner or results announcement threads, or live threads.

Even if the only thing wrong is having to wait until morning for the results from Poland, here is your vent space.

This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about the results check out the results announcement thread, or live thread.

TL:DR You can be salty, but don't be insulting.

I don't know if it's just me, but especially the last couple of years, I feel like the online community has gotten more and more toxic.. I've been following for 15+ years and I know that there has always been an small minority who were always toxic.. Though I feel like it's growing year by year.

People take it waaaaay to seriously.. At the end of the day, it's a music competition and supposed to be a celebration, yet people treat it like it's life or death.
If you disagree with the general opinion, you get downvoted to oblivion, insulted and told you're clueless.

Why has it gotten to this point? I feel like I have to walk on eggshells when discussing Eurovision online.. If an opinion is just somewhat controversial, then you can expect a wave of negativity.

It's like people take your opinions about songs as personal attacks on them or their country.

Like if you said: (And this is just an example!!) "I'm not really feeling Finland's song this year" - suddenly the toxic crowd come out and start berating you about how your opinion is terrible and how dare you not like that song!
Like?? Nothing bad was said about the singer or the country or anything.. just that a song doesn't really fit my taste.

It's just tiring.

We don't know if your favourites won or not, but just in case they didn't ...

This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about the results check out the winner or results announcement threads, or live threads.

I don't know if you need this tonight, but here is your vent space.

This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about the results check out the results announcement thread, or live thread.

TL:DR You can be salty, but don't be insulting.

I am writing this before the voting even starts so who knows if your favourite won or not, but just in case it didn't...

This thread is for expressing your disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about a selection's results, check out the dedicated results threads, winner announcement threads, or live threads.

edit: forgot the formatting

The second wave of tickets go on sale at 15:00 CET.
Resales open in April.

Please keep all ticket discussions in this thread and help each other by answering questions.
Don't forget to check the FAQs

Pre-registration is required to buy tickets for Vienna 2026. You needed to create a fan account at eurovision.com and an account at oeticket.com using the same email address.

Prepare

For your best chance of getting tickets make sure you are ready at least a few minutes before the sale starts.
• be logged in to your account at https://www.oeticket.com/
• have your unique access code ready
• prepare a list of names for anyone you are buying tickets for
• have your payment details on hand

We do not allow transactions in this community.

Please do not ask for or offer access codes or tickets.

I don't know if your favourite won or not, but just in case it didn't...

This thread is for expressing your disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about a selection's results, check out the dedicated results threads, winner announcement threads, or live threads.

We don't know if your favourite won or not, but just in case they didn't ...

This thread is for expressing your general reactions and disappointment but

...please practice good Reddiquette and keep your comments within the rules of this subreddit. This applies to artists, delegations, production personnel, volunteers, and other fans!

Be nice, be welcoming, and be constructive

Remember the human.
When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen. When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself "Would I say it to the person's face?" or "Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?"

For more specific discussions about the results check out the results announcement thread, or live thread.

Hello everyone.

I know that a certain level of ribbing, jokes, and good-natured teasing of songs has always existed within the Eurovision community. Still, I think many on Reddit often forget that Reddit is a massive social media platform. As such, our sub is regularly viewed by actual ESC artists, their friends and family, and other people connected to the artists and technical crews. 

All ESC artists are people, too. Many of them have had long careers before participating in national finals or ESC, and ALL of them have lives, hopes, fears, dreams, insecurities, trauma, and their own lives - just like you and me. Even those whose songs you don’t like. 

Every artist who creates art accepts that it won’t always land with people, and that’s fine. But when people’s criticisms get personal, mean-spirited, and/or hateful, we cross a line that no one signs up for.  We're always going to have songs we like and don't like. But this subreddit has over 300,000 subscribers and thousands of visitors every day, and most of those are going to have different tastes and opinions than I do and than you do. 

So the next time you are about to write something exceptionally negative about an artist or a song, I want you to stop and ask yourself if you’d be comfortable saying this to the person’s face, or the face of their spouse, best friend, dancer, producer, etc - because it is entirely possible that you are doing just that. And ruining a total stranger’s day shouldn’t ever be your goal. This is why our Subreddit’s first rule is to be nice, welcoming, and constructive. Rude and hateful behavior is against our community’s rules. We hope that everyone who sees these kinds of comments and threads will report them using the “report” button, this way we can remove them as quickly as possible.

Thank you.