Eurovision Song Contest Drinking Game
A brief guide to TV drinking games
Television drinking games are celebrations of cliche. The idea is to
have a small drink every time a cliche is shown, and a large drink every time
a cliche is broken. The original TV drinking game was allegedly the
Dallas drinking game, where you had to match any drink that any
character was shown having. Dangerous stuff.
In this drinking game, there are three sizes of drink; in ascending order:
sip, slurp and
chug. Please scale these to the drink you're having.
For beer, they would be about a swig, a full mouthful, and three gulps
respectively. For spirits, they would be about a quarter, a half and a whole
shot glass respectively.
Have fun, but know your limits!
The Game
Unless stated otherwise, all events listed below deserve one
sip.
Presenters
There are always two presenters on screen, a Host and a Hostess. Each
broadcaster usually provides an additional Commentator to provide voice-over
translations, background information and witty sarcasm.
- The Commentator makes a satirical comment that no-one laughs at
- The Host and Hostess try and fail to be funny
- The Host and Hostess sing
- The Host and Hostess speak in rhyme
- The Host and Hostess gaze into each others eyes
- The Host and Hostess kiss: chug
- The Hostess changes her dress
- The Host changes his outfit: slurp
- Presenters having a time-wasting conversation that no-one can follow,
understand or care less about
Performances — general points
- Song has a tacky or nonsensical title (shoo-wop etc.)
- Politically-related metaphor (e.g. breaking out of chains, shedding a
black cloak to reveal white clothes)
- Lyrics are literally demonstrated in the performance
- Act steals ideas from Eurovision acts from previous years
- Use of props (e.g. candles, ribbons, dummies, mobile phones)
- Use of pyrotechnics or lasers; if they go wrong: chug
- Interaction with the audience; if the audience is unusually passive:
slurp
- Any time the song goes up a key
- France conducts a musical experiment
- France sings in English: chug
- A country from Former Yugoslavia has a depressing
song
- Germany's song mentions peace, harmony or love
(one sip each)
- A country borrows any performer from another country
- if the borrowed performer is Irish:
slurp
- if the country doing the borrowing is Ireland:
chug
For future reference (see Judging below), make a note
of any:
- predictions that the Commentator makes about the song
- acts where the attractiveness of the performer(s) is the only thing going
for it
Appearance of performers
- Retro/out-of-date clothing and hairstyles
- Bad dress-sense; if utterly offensive:
slurp
- Experimental make-up
- Indecently revealing or figure-hugging costumes:
slurp
- Overt displays of cleavage
- Codpiece(s): chug
- Faked blond hair (East European countries
only)
- Hat(s); if horned: chug
- Sunglasses
- Moustache(s); if female with moustache:
chug
- Main singer is grossly overweight
- Malta: male singer does not have a hairy chest:
slurp
- Mid-performance costume change
Singers and back-up vocalists
- Sing in a language other than their native tongue, English or French
- Perform through the medium of rap: slurp
- Wink at camera
- Drop to their knees
- Flick their hair; if they flick non-existent hair:
chug
- Make a victory/peace V sign
- Wave their arms above their heads whilst singing
- Punch the air
- Put excessive emotion into their singing
- Sing out of tune
- Emit high and loud obnoxious noises
- Play or mime along with musicians during instrumentals; if they play
badly: slurp
- Resemble someone you know
- Resemble another famous person
- if that person is present in the audience:
slurp
- if the camera zooms in and lingers on that person:
chug
- Flirt with the camera after finishing
Dancers and musicians
- Play an ethnic instrument (includes panpipes)
- Play piano while standing
- Ethnic dancing
- Hip-hop style dancing: slurp
- Dancing that detracts from the performance
- Dancing that surpasses belief and credibility
- Pretend fighting: if martial arts, chug
- Contortionist: chug
Television coverage and venue
- Transmission goes a bit wonky
- Preview video is completely pointless
- Preview video is full of gormless smiles
- National symbols are seen somewhere
- Helicopter shots
- Sped up or slowed down film
- Prolonged video mixes
- Colour replacement effects
- Any special effect better than the songs
Judging
- Bad time delays during video/audio link
- Host/Hostess overlap with voter during video/audio link because of the
bad delay
- Host/Hostess have to hurry a voter for wasting time with pointless
wittering
- The Commentator's predictions come true (one sip
each)
- The Commentator is genuinely surprised by a decision
- Bad acts receive high (8+) points due to attractiveness of lead
singer
- The Commentator makes a snide comment about regional voting (see
below for the usual offenders).
Bonus sips for any of the following phrases:
- block voting
- mutual voting society
- still getting used to democracy
- vote for your neighbour contest
- There's a discussion why Israel is involved
- Reference made to Norway having null
points
- Norway gives points to
Sweden but Sweden does not
give any to Norway
- Norway does not give
Sweden any points at all:
chug
- Cyprus gives Greece 12
points or vice versa
- France does not give United
Kingdom any points
- Monaco gives France 12
points
- Germany gives any points at all to
Austria: chug
- Greece gives any points at all to
Turkey: chug
- United Kingdom gives
Ireland 12 points or vice versa
- United Kingdom comes second or last
- Ireland win yet again
- Acts are on their mobile phone to their family during voting
- If the winning country declines to hold the event for any or all of the
following: chug
- Financial reasons
- Political reasons
- Personal reasons
- Moral reasons
Optional extras
- Begin each act with a shot of a drink native to that country
- Choose a country to support and
- if it receives 1 to 7 points on any given vote:
sip
- if it receives 8, 10 or 12 points: slurp
- if it wins: chug throughout the reprise
Regional voting
Here are some of the alleged "mutual voting societies" to look out for at the Contest:
- British Isles: Ireland, Malta (ish), United Kingdom.
- Western Mediterranean: Andorra, Morocco, Portugal, Spain.
- Scandanavian area: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland.
- Baltics: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.
- Former Soviet Union: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine (and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan).
- Balkans: Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Moldova (ish), Romania (ish), Turkey, and the former Yugoslav states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia.
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