1 | Rules for the Series/EurovisionSongContest drinking game: |
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3 | * Rules during the singing: |
4 | ** Drink whenever there is a [[TruckDriversGearChange key]] or tempo change |
5 | ** Drink whenever there is a use of pyrotechnics/wind machine |
6 | ** Drink whenever there is someone on stage of questionable gender. |
7 | ** Drink whenever the projections are incorporated into the performance. (Thank Sweden 2015 for making this popular in 2016). |
8 | * Rules during the scoring: |
9 | ** When the scores start to come in, someone has to call out which country they think will get 12 points from the current one; if correct, everyone but the caller takes a shot. |
10 | ** Drink for every ''nul points''. |
11 | *** Enjoy 2021's contest as you finish your drink. |
12 | ** Down your drink if an automatic finalist[[note]]France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom or the defending champion[[/note]] wins. |
13 | ** Take two sips if France’s spokesperson has a backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. |
14 | *** Double if the French spokesperson speaks ''English'' at any point (Eiffel Tower or not). |
15 | ** Drink when Greece and Cyprus give each other 12 points (assuming that it's possible; don't do it if one qualified and the other didn't). Down the entire bottle when they DON'T do that. |
16 | ** Drink each time the spokesperson congratulates the hosts for a "fantastic" show. |
17 | * Rules for the Interval acts: |
18 | ** Drink if a previous winner appears. |
19 | *** Double if its Måns. |
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23 | Alternate rules from Finnish magazine City: |
24 | * Whenever a song contains more than one language, take a sip. |
25 | ** If one of those languages is pronounced badly by the singer, take another sip for every badly pronounced language. |
26 | * Whenever a song is about world peace or friendship that unites nations, take a sip. (e.g. Israel's ''There Must Be Another Way'' from 2009, Georgia's ''Peace Will Come'' from 2008, Moldova's "Trenuletul" from 2022) |
27 | * If the song panders to the gay audience, take a sip. |
28 | ** If the song could end up in a drag queen's performance repertoire, take another sip. (Sweden's ''Invincible'' from 2006, Austria's "Halo" from 2022) |
29 | *** If the song is performed by an actual drag queen, take a third sip. |
30 | * If the song is a joke or a "protest", take a sip. |
31 | ** If you're not sure, take a sip anyway. |
32 | * If the song is a copy of last year's winning song, take a sip. |
33 | ** If the song resembles ABBA, take an additional sip. |
34 | * If the song's title does not have actual words in it, take a sip. (Sweden's ''Diggi-loo, Diggi-ley'' from 1984, the Netherlands' ''Ding dinge dong'' from 1975, Germany's ''Wadde Hadde Dudde Da'' from 2000.) |
35 | * If the performer changes outfits during the performance, take a sip. (Things like tearing away part of a dress or growing wings like Lordi in 2006 count.) |
36 | * If the last chorus goes up a key, take a sip. |
37 | * If the performer has a mustache or manly stubble, take a sip. |
38 | ** Take an additional sip if said performer is a woman. |
39 | * If the dancers are in national costume, take a sip. |
40 | ** If the performance resembles a tourism ad, take an additional sip. (Moldova's ''"Hora Din Moldova'' from 2009.) |
41 | * If the song contains an "ethnic" instrument, take a sip. Accordion and pan flute count as ethnic instruments. |
42 | * If the performance contains excessive amounts of wind machine use, take a sip. (Sweden's ''Invincible'' and Albania's ''Zemren E Lame Peng'' from 2006, Azerbaijan's ''Always'' and Croatia's ''Lijepa Tena'' from 2009.) |
43 | * If the female singer's eyebrows are noticeably darker than her hair, take a sip. |
44 | * If the singer has whitened teeth, take a sip. |
45 | * Whenever the hosts have changed outfits between performances, take a sip. |
46 | * If Ireland performs a ballad, take a sip. |
47 | * If Malta performs a power ballad, take a sip. (''The One That I Love'' from 1998, ''Angel'' from 2005, ''What If We'' from 2009.) |
48 | * If a song from a country that was formerly part of Yugoslavia is melancholy, take a sip. |
49 | * If a song from a country in the Balkans contains the word "Balkan", take a sip. (Macedonia's ''Mojot Svet'' from 2007, Romania's ''The Balkan Girls'' from 2009, Serbia's ''Ovo Je Balkan'' from 2010.) |
50 | * If a Greek male performer or dancer shows off large amounts of pectoral muscle, take a sip. (''Shake It'' from 2004, ''My Number One'' from 2005, ''This Is Our Night'' from 2009, ''Opa!'' from 2010...) |
51 | ** If said Greek performer or dancer has massive chest hair, take another sip. |
52 | * If a country gives another country 12 points for geographical or political reasons, take a sip. |
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54 | |
55 | Additional Rules by the British: |
56 | * If you're fairly confident the song is in English but can't understand a thing, drink until you can. |
57 | ** If you're not sure, do it anyway. |
58 | * If a country's "postcard" is cringeworthy and/or your national commentator says yours is so much better, take a sip. |
59 | ** If you've been to the place in the postcard, take two sips. |
60 | * Drink every time you see your country's flag. |
61 | * Take a sip for every point the United Kingdom get. |
62 | ** Pass out as 2022's votes are announced. |
63 | ** Or Azerbaijan, if you actually want a drink. |
64 | ** Or for how many places you are above UK or below Azerbaijan. |
65 | ** How many places the UK are above Germany (and France). |
66 | * A sip for every terrible joke and/or allusion to host country's failure/success. |
67 | * Drink whenever The War is strategically avoided being mentioned (you will notice when this happens). |
68 | * If you can guess who Spain and Moldova will give points to, everyone else drinks. |
69 | * Sip whenever you notice the British really aren't taking this whole thing seriously. |
70 | ** Down the thing if ''the hosts'' notice the British aren't taking it seriously. |
71 | * Sip when Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus give each other top points. |
72 | ** Or when they don't, if you plan to re-watch 2014's. |
73 | ** When Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Holland give each other top points. |
74 | * Drink when someone (including in the room with you) boos at who gets points. |
75 | * Sip for each song more reliant on performance than song. |
76 | ** And each song that sounds weirdly familiar. |
77 | ** And each that puts a kid in the room to sleep. |
78 | * Finish your drink if you hate the song that's favourite to win. |
79 | ** And again if it wins. |
80 | ** Or if you hate the song which wins. |
81 | * Celebratory drinks if your country wins. |
82 | ** Congratulatory drinks if the UK wins! |
83 | *** If watching [[CueTheFlyingPigs the 2022 contest]] live, down your drink with every BigWhat and BigOMG. |
84 | * A country ends with ''nul points''. |
85 | ** Twice if it's not France/Germany/Spain/UK. |
86 | * Sip each time you think a country's giving top points to UK, but they're saying 'Ukraine'. |
87 | ** Drink twice if you think they're giving 12 points Ukraine and they're actually giving them to the UK. |
88 | *** Prepare to be extremely drunk if you are watching the 2022 show, or do neither if you actually value your liver. |
89 | * Drink every time your country sends in an act suspiciously similar to a previous winning song from your country. |
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