Regulations of the Éire O'Vision Song Contest
2027 - Dublin
§1 -
Application for the contest
§1.1 - Application
Every mentor that
participated in the first Éire O'Vision Song Contest has the prerogative right
to confirm his/her application for the county he/she took part with in 2026.
The deadline to confirm the participation for the same country for another year
is set on 17/05/2026. After the deadline has past, everyone has the right to
send an application for the county. The 75 mentors are already informed via PM
or email. Once the country has been taken it appears on the official website
eireovision.blogspot.com. The 75 mentors from 2026 have a guaranteed spot in
the edition of 2027 despite chosing another new country.
After the first deadline
has passed there is another deadline set on 30/08/2026 for any other person who
is interested in participation of Éire O’Vision 2027. Every country that have
not been chosen is available for participation. The maximum number of
applications for Éire O’Vision 2027 is limited to 89 countries as there are no
semi-finals planned.
§1.2 - Confirmation
Every mentor will
receive a confirmation of the country he/she applied for. If there are more
than one mentor asking for a certain country, the time of receipt of the application
is decisive. Ultimately, it is up to the organizer to allocate the countries to
the mentors.
§1.3 - Song Selection
After all countries have
been selected the deadline to submit an entry is set on 15/12/2026. Every entry
of a participating country must be sung by a citizen of the country he/she/they
represents. Otherwise the song must be sung in one of the official languages of
that country. For example: Cyprus - the participating act is not native and
does not hold the Cypriot citizenship but the song is sung in Greek, the song
is eligable to participate in the contest. If the song from Andorra is sung in
English and the performer is from Spain, the song is not valid according to the
rules. Once the jury chairman received a PM or email, you can be sure that
everything about your act is according to the rules.
§1.3 - Announcement Of The Songs
In the end of 2026 all
songs will be published in a short sneak peak first. The full versions of all
songs will be available on 01/01/2027. If there is anything unclear or a song
is not permitted to take part the organizer will contact the jury chairman
directly.
§2 - Guidelines
and Values
The Éire O'Vision is
about togetherness and enjoying music around the globe. Any songs with a deep
political message, hate speech, discrimination or any other problems that will
disgrace the values of the contest will be disqualified. Please make sure you
agree to these terms and celebrate a mighty craic competition with us. This is
not the place for a political, anti-social or discrimination views. Any
violations will be reported and punished immediately. The Éire O’Vision Song
Contest will uphold the values the Eurovision Song Contest was once known for.
§3 - National
Juries
§3.1 - National Jury Members
The national Jury of
Each country will at least consist of two jury members, the Chairman who is
responsible for the whole participation and one other person that is nominated
by the jury chairman. The maximum number of jury members per country is limited
to four. Once all jury members have been selected, the organizer of Éire
O’Vision will receive a complete list of all jury members (now called J2 to
J4).
§3.2 - Jury Members
Every jury member will
listen to all the participating songs and will create its own and independent
ranking. A voting sheet will be published later on. Please vote your top 15
songs. Once every Jury member has created its own voting, the total amount of
points will be calculated together and a final national voting will be
generated by the jury chairman. Every jury member will make its own decision
independent and secretly from everyone else. There is no open discussion about
the ranking with other jury members. You can discuss about your favorites but
not the exact number of points to give out.
§3.2 - Voting Procedure Per Jury Member
Every jury member will
select its personal Top 15 and rank them. The deadline to create a voting and
submit it to your national jury chairman is set 07/02/2027. The jury chairman
will add all valid jury votes to a total rank of the national jury and give 20
points to the entry that received the most points in total. The second-most
voted song will receive 18 points, the third-most voted song will receive 15
points then 12 points and so on down to one point. Every national jury will
give out points to 15 entries. Despite only these Top 15 will receive points it
is necessary to submit the full voting sheet with all entries below in case any
participating country will be disqualified during the contest or voting time
slot. In this case the 16th ranked country will automatically jump into the
points. If there will be more difficulties it will be commented by the
organizer of Éire O’Vision Song Contest.
§3.3 - Voting Restrictions
As in any other
international competition you are not allowed to rank your own entry. You can
not vote for the country you are participating for. Furthermore you are not
allowed to have two or more entries with a tie. In this case the higher vote of
the jury chairman will count. If the jury chairman did not give out any points
to the tied countries the higher number in single votes will be in charge for
the better result. If anything is not clear please contact me. Final voting
results of participating nations will be accepted until 07/02/2027. If this is
not possible there will be additional time but only if requested.
§3.4 - Irish National Jury
To prevent and avoid bias
or direct influence, the Irish jury is required to finalize and submit its
assessment one week in advance. The final assessment from the Republic of
Ireland is then sent to two members of the reference group, which serves as a
form of notarial oversight. The members of the reference group are the mentors
from Brazil, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Serbia, Scotland, Spain, and
Wales.
§4 - Presentation
§4.1 - Final results
Once all national jury
votes are in they will be calculated and validated by the organizers of Éire
O’Vision Song Contest. The preparation of the voting presentation will take
some time. We expect to start the voting presentation on 16/02/2027. There will
be a point-by-point-reveal until we have found the first winner of Éire
O’Vision Song Contest 2027. The voting will be splitted into five sequences
just in last years contest.
§4.1 - Scoreboard
The countries will
announce their points according to the running order from one to 20 points. In
case of a tie the entries will be ranked alphabetically. If there is a tie at
the end of the voting sequence on the very top of the competition, the higher number
of maximum points will have the final word. If the number of 20 points is
equal, the number of 18 points is decisive and so on. In the very unlikely case
that all points are equal, the country with the lower slot in the running order
will declared the winner.
§5 - Final Quotes
With your vote you agree
to these terms and conditions above. We hope everything will work according to
plan and we don’t have withdrew any competitors. These rules are valid in
English language and could be changed immediately if necessary. If there are
any rule changes you will immediately hear directly from the organizer.
This set up rules is valid in its version of 08/03/2026