¡Hola Benidorm! Spanish broadcaster has revealed the Benidorm Fest stage design, along with the show’s complex voting system. If you thought you knew what Eurodrama was, wait until you see the three rounds of voting of Benidorm Fest.
Yes, you read that right: three rounds of voting: jury (50% of the vote), demoscopic jury (25%) and televote (25%). They even made a diagram so you can understand it:
Así funcionará el voto en el #BenidormFest
— Luis Fuster (@luisgfuster) January 18, 2022
– Por puntos
– Primero se anuncia el voto conjunto del jurado
– Luego el demoscópico
– Por último, el televoto
? El documento entero, aquí: https://t.co/I9Z9OTUFox pic.twitter.com/7w8jAbokfi
First up, each member of the jury will vote. The five professionals in the panel will award 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 points to each song in the semi-finals, and 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 to the eight songs competing in the final.
Then, the demoscopic jury will award 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 25 and 30 votes to each song, and finally, the televote will award those same votes. In the final, both will also award five points to their less favourite song.
Hexagonal fantasy: the stage of Benidorm Fest
The Benidorm Fest stage recreates the contest’s logo. It will have several hexagonal platforms and LED screens on the walls and the floor. 14 cameras will be used to shoot the show.
Así será el escenario del #BenidormFest:
— Eurovisión RTVE (@eurovision_tve) January 18, 2022
?El escenario recrea el logo del festival
?Habrá varias plataformas hexagonales
?Pantallas LED verticales y en la superficie
?Realizado con 14 cámaras#ElFestivalQueQuiereshttps://t.co/mrwtaf2zY9
The Palau l’Illa arena will also feature a secondary stage, also made of hexagonal platforms, where the jury and contestants will sit.
The main stage measures 450m2, with spinning panels on three sides. There will be LED screens and light columns behind it.
The Green Room, the jury set and the space for the hosts will be on the opposite side of the hall. 300m2 all made of hexagons. Between both platforms will be the audience standing area, while the rest of the audience will be seated at the sides.
Do you like the Benidorm Fest stage? What do you think about the voting system? Share your thoughts in the comment section below!
If they choose Ay Mama, Spaniards can just blame themselves for last place in May! Haha, so bad! Benidorm Fest will become FlopFest!
I am so glad that they seem to take Eurovision more seriously this year! It’s always good to see that countries actually make some effort. All Spanish songs are different and I’m really curious how they will be staged.
Spain please send Luna Ki or Terra
I’m excited for Benidorm Fest and I think they’re doing a great work so far, but I fear having just 5 jurors deciding half of the result is a little dangerous. I hope at least they picked the right people for the job.
A small jury selecting entries for live shows is not unusual. If I’m not mistaken, the Spanish comission that selected Benidorm entries was a small group of people and they did a great job. The problem of having a small group of people voting to decide the winner of a national final is that those people are under a lot of pressure and their vote has a lot of weight. For example: imagine if the demoscopic put Tanxugueiras 1st and Rigoberta 2nd and the televote does the exact opposite. A very possible outcome, by the way. Then 5 people would… Read more »
I would say there’s normally 2 types of approach when countries use the jurors to comment during the shows. The first one is to explain why they voted that way (Pabandon is Naujo, for example) and this indeed helps with transparency, even if it can lead to uncomfortable situations. In other cases like the French shows, I guess it’s more for entertainment purposes. You give the audience some familiar faces to say good things about the acts and make people stay tuned and get excited to vote for their favorite.
The jury is necessary in Spain to avoid certain audiences to unite and decide to send to Esc something weird and shameful as it already happened twice in past years.
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough, but I’m in favor of the presence of a jury, I just think it could be bigger. Like at least 5 local and 5 international, you know? Or even 10 Spaniards voting. I just fear that the result gets too close and the jurors become easy targets for that. Since RTVE apparently took some inspiration from Sanremo (the demoscopic jury), I would even consider adding a press room voting in the near future. But I guess first Benidorm Fest has to become a big stable event, so more news outlets will cover it and then… Read more »
Yes but you never know with Spaniards.
Not gonna lie, it looks like Northern Ireland’s UTV news room.
bit like a classic StarTrek set.lol
Hmm, the staging seems simple but good. Each act is going to be so different. Wow, the voting seems complicated, but what can I do? I don’t even live in Europe, so I can’t vote. But look at Germany’s voting this year, it seems that German people can start voting from February itself. Well, anyway, back to Spain. I think RTVE is finally taking Eurovision seriously, I hope Benidorm fest is gonna be successful!
The voting system is not complicated at all…
That’s the ugliest stage i’ve ever seen.
Wow, you must have seen exactly one stage in your entire life.
To enjoy songs and music not much is needed or are you the kind who needs lots of special effects and lights to enjoy ESC?
Who cares, Azerbaijan will win Eurovision 2022!
What the-
Oh no. Did Azerbaijan again buy people to spam in the comment sections of everything Eurovision related thing :/
Azerbaijan should invest in better crafted entries or more local sounds instead of bots if they want to win Eurovision again
I didn’t expect a great stage from Spain, but this is quite nice and seems to fit the venue perfectly
Who thought it was a good idea that the show starts at 22:40
Southern people are weird. They eat dinner at northern european bed time.
Come on! Here in Latin America is the same. We are not the weirds, you are the weirds hahaha (kidding)
I actually believe northern people are weird. They sleep when it’s normal dinner time. 😀
AT 10.00 pm in summer time in Spain enjoying the sea and 23 degrees in a terraza nobody want to go to bed but enjoy life with friends having a drink and eating..They are not weird
They may have shows in their schedule that they couldn’t preempt and that’s actually very typical in many countries where most special programming are scheduled at a later time.
That’s standard Spanish prime time these days. For some reason.
Which time zone? Unfortunately, I live in Asia, so I watch Eurovision at 12:30 am. Watching the grand final last year was so hard, I had to be awake the whole night….
You think that’s bad? Sanremo rolls on to about 3 in the morning. Lol
I wonder if it’s a Latino thing to have dinner later than in most countries. But he thing is that depending on where you live, if you leave work at 6pm, you won’t be able to get dinner before 8 even if you want to. For example, in a big Latin American city it’s not unusual to find people who needs more than one hour just to make the way back home. In Brazil, for example, the “8pm soap opera”, traditionally a primetime show, now starts around 9:30pm. But there’s still older people calling it the 8pm soap opera to… Read more »
Ouch! It looks a bit cheap, simple and uninspiring. Feels like a rushed idea just to have a stage ready. Sorry to all people who like the stage. And this choice of colours they chose to present in the photo does not do anything for me either. But luckily those are easily adapted to the theme of the song. Sorry, but I don’t like it. 🙁
You should have added the picture of the full stage. Not only the main one.
So, we gonna get 2017 Spain scenario? ?
Nice looking stage to be honest. Usually, the Spanish NF stage looked very lackluster, but this is beautiful. It is as if RTVE is ready to host Eurovision next year.
Y’all crazy, it’s three led screens and 10 strobe lights. It looks very cheap. Benidorm Fest participants deserve more, i know Spain can do better.
A stage doesn’t need to have over the top stuff to look beautiful. There might not be much, but you can easily see RTVE acually cares to make the stage look nice.
“It looks cheap.” So what? Something doesn’t need to look expensive to look good.
For those who dislike the “Something doesn’t need to look expensive to look good” comment, just look at UMK 2021. That looked cheap, but was very beautiful.
And if we don’t look at stages, but at props of a Eurovision performance: Duncan Laurence’s piano was expensive, looked beautiful, but also looked cheap. Something doesn’t need to look expensive to look beautiful. Eurovision and certain national finals proved that throughout time.
It is all about how you present it.
Are you serious? UMK 2021 stage was slick and modern. Also had much more going on than 10 strobe lights. It’s basic. If you like it, it’s fine with me, but don’t pretend like it’s some masterpiece.