ESCBubble’s series “Public Reacts to Eurovision” is back for its 10th season, and it will help us choose ESCBubble’s winner of Eurovision once again! Non-Eurovision fans – casual viewers of the Eurovision Song Contest, of different ages and professions and from different parts of the world listen to all 37 competing songs for the very first time, and react to them.
As always, we are going to combine the scores of the reviewers with scores of our team members, as well as YOU – our readers, in order to select ESCBubble’s winner of Eurovision 2025.
Who are our reviewers?
In this year’s season of Public Reactions a total of 18 people of different ages and professions taking part. From students, to pensioners, musicians to teachers, from people who work in hospitality to people who work in the IT or hospitals – we have them all. All of them are casual viewers of Eurovision. A couple of the faces will already be familiar, as they took part in our project last year as well. These include:
- 🇬🇧 Angela, Gemma, JP & Claudia
- 🇭🇷 Ivana
- 🇦🇲 Marine
- 🇦🇺 Nick and Ryan
After a few years away, these two reviewers are once again back:
- 🇬🇧 Faye
- 🇲🇪 Stefan
They are joined by a total of eight ‘newcomers’ to our series:
- 🇬🇷 Efi
- 🇲🇹 Gaby & Katrina
- 🇺🇦 Galosha
- 🇲🇪 Matija
- 🇮🇹 Nicoletta
- 🇬🇧 Simon & Mel
We played all of the selected songs for Eurovision 2025 to them for the first time, and asked them for their honest first impressions for each of the songs. As always, we will present to you their comments for each song, one by one, starting on tomorrow, with Iceland – “Róa” by Væb.
Contrary to the past years, we will reveal only the total scores of our reviewers at the end of each video. All individual scores will be revealed at the end of our “Public Reacts” series, after we posted the last Public Reacts video – Switzerland.
How will we choose ESCBubble’s winner of Eurovision 2025?
As always, our selection will go through two voting rounds. In the first round, the “Public Reacts” scores and our readers’ votes will select our ten qualifiers in each Semi Final. Each of the votes will weigh 50% of the final result.
All of our reviewers were asked to score each of the 37 songs from 1 to 10, meaning that each song can get a minimum of 18 and a maximum of 180 points.
The scores from our readers will be calculated to have the same weight as those from our reviewers. If only maximum scores are received in our daily polls, the song will get 180 points, and lower scores will reduce this accordingly. The polls will be open as the article with the reviews is published, and will close the following day with the next article.
The top 10 songs from both semi finals will qualify for ESCBubble’s Final. In case of a tie, the votes of our reviewers will be the tie-breaker. If the tie is not broken, the country that got more overall votes in the daily poll will be the one to get advantage.
ESCBubble’s Final
The ‘Big Five’ countries, Switzerland, and our 20 qualifiers (10 from each semi) will compete in ESCBubble’s Final. The winner of our final is going to be selected by the following three sets of votes:
- All scores of our reviewers from the first round remain, and represent the first vote;
- Our jury panel consisting of our team members will vote Eurovision style for their 10 favorite songs of our 26 finalists, and this will represent the second vote;
- The third vote will be from our readers in our Final Poll. The Final poll will be opened as soon as all the 26 finalists are known, and it will run for five days. The points awarded to each song will correspond to the percentage each song received in our Final poll, and the total amount of points will equal the amount of points given out by our jury panel.
- In case of any ties, the results from our readers via our poll are going to be the tie-breaker.
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Our winner last year was Baby Lasagna from Croatia, and you can see here just how pleased he was to receive the trophy in Malmö:
