Line #74 DrinkingGame/EurovisionSongContest


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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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.

Context DrinkingGame / EurovisionSongContest