Coming soon: ETNW 2012

If you’re reading this, you must have stumbled across it by accident or been checking the site for updates, thus showing a remarkable (if slightly worrying) enthusiasm for the contest. Or seen whatever it is I’ll’ve posted by now on the message board on www.escnation.com. In any event, welcome to the no-submissions-aren’t-open prologue to the Eurovision That Never Was 2012!

For those of you who have no idea what ETNW is about… well, in a nutshell, it’s this: have you ever heard a song and immediately thought “That sounds just like the kind of thing Finland would have entered in the mid-’80s/Georgia would have come up with had they been taking part in 1963/Luxembourg would have sent to Düsseldorf if they were still in it”? If so, this is your chance to see whether others agree with you.

The third edition of ETNW will have the same set-up as the previous two, more or less, but the rules have again changed slightly, so check them out in the next post. (I’m also planning to do something innovative* with the voting, but more on that later.) You won’t be able to submit anything for a while yet; I’ll let you know the email address in due course.

In the meantime, get your thinking caps on about the kind of thing you might want to enter. While the 2010 edition made a good start, the 2011 edition was even better, with people getting more of a handle on and even more into the spirit of the contest, so let’s see if we can keep that up in 2012.

Further updates will follow the rules post, all of which will be signposted on the MB and Facebook. So no excuses for missing anything ;) Enjoy the Eurovision That Never Was 2012!

*in the sense of it not having been done before with an MB contest, to the best of my knowledge; not never having been done before. And kinda retro anyway, which is in keeping with the feel of the contest! Anyway, more on that down the line :)