ESCOdds 2025

ESCOdds 2025 2025
ESCOdds 2025 2025
Dates
Final	1-17 May 2025
Host
Executive supervisor	Mark Nightingale
Participants
Number of entries	26
Debuting countries	Albania; Bosnia & Herzegovina; China; Cuba; Poland
Returning Countries	Kazakhstan; Serbia; Vietnam
Non-returning Countries	None
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The ESCOdds 2025 - was the 3rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest Odds and 5th of the ESCOdds ever. That has been ever made and was held from 1 to 17 May 2025.

Twenty-six countries participated in the fifth odds (and third ESC odds), along with debuting Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cuba, Poland and returning Kazakhstan, Serbia and Vietnam.

Format

Semi-Final rules

Each participant had to submit their predicted top ten finalists for each of the two semi-finals of the competition. The participant had the right to change and / or supplement his bet before the broadcast of each of the semi-finals.

Points were awarded for each specified finalist country individually and depended on the number of mentions of a particular finalist country in all bets of all participants. So if the same finalist country was mentioned in all bets, all participants received 5 points each. Further, the less often the finalist country was mentioned in all bets, the value for it increased by 10 points until the moment when the finalist country was mentioned only in one of the twenty-six bets - you could get upto 130 points for it.

As a result, all points for the guessed countries were summed up and gave a total for each of the semi-finals.

Grand Final rules

The opportunity to leave your predictions for the final became available from May 4, 2023 and lasted until the broadcast of the final on May 13, 2023.

In the final, each of the participants had to indicate the top forecast of 26 positions, placing the finalist countries in it. In the forecast, the finalist country should not have been repeated.

Points were awarded for each finalist country in the bet as follows:

24 points for a full hit of the occupied place by the finalist country, or 48 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
22 points for an error of +/-1 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 44 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
20 points for an error of +/-2 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 40 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
18 points for an error of +/-3 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 36 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
16 points for an error of +/-4 of the place taken by the finalist country, or 32 points for guessing the position of the country in the top 5;
14 points for an error of +/-5 of the place taken by the finalist country;
12 points for an error of +/-6 of the place taken by the finalist country;
10 points for an error of +/-7 of the place taken by the finalist country;
8 points for an error of +/-8 of the place taken by the finalist country;
7 points for an error of +/-9 of the place taken by the finalist country;
6 points for an error of +/-10 of the place taken by the finalist country;
5 points for an error of +/-11 of the place taken by the finalist country;
4 points for an error of +/-12 of the place taken by the finalist country;
3 points for an error of +/-13 of the place taken by the finalist country;
2 points for an error of +/-14 of the place taken by the finalist country;
1 point for an error of +/-15 of the place taken by the finalist country;
0 points for an error of +/-16 or more from the place taken by the finalist country;

As a result, all the points received were summed up with each other and gave a total for the final.

Summing up and resolving disputed positions

After the results of the final, all the points scored by the participants for the two semi-finals and the final were added together and gave the final final result. During the comparison of points, the winner was revealed.

If two or more participants had equal points, then to determine the strongest of them, the one who scored the most points in the final was determined. If this criterion did not reveal the strongest, then the number of guessed countries for both semi-finals together was compared (not including their value). In case of equality and in this criterion, the strongest was the participant who sent his bet-forecast for the final earlier than his opponents.

Participating Countries

Results

Country	Place	Points
Albania, Vangelis Tarambolas	7	190
Australia, Mark Solovyov	7	190
Bosnia & Herzegovina, Urosh Popov	5	230
China, Xxx Domchenko	22	110
Croatia, Sergey Silkin	11	180
Cuba, Xxx Nowicki	19	165
Denmark, Nikita Belonogov	22	110
Germany, Egor Tarashkevich	6	225
Hungary, Roman Dudarev	22	110
Israel, Nikolay Serb	22	110
Italy, Artyom Alekseyonok	11	180
Japan, Pasha Kulik	19	165
Kazakhstan, Egor Semenov	2	280
Lebanon, Anton Desyatov	7	190
Netherlands, Jean Isaac	22	110
North Macedonia, Misha Charny	7	190
Norway, Aleksei Komarov	11	180
Poland, Lukas Mariehamn	3	260
Portugal, Denis Vorobyov	11	180
San Marino, Nikita Likhanov	1	315
Serbia, Evgenii Smykov	21	160
South Korea, Denis Leonenko	17	175
Spain, Sergey Ladysev	11	180
Thailand, Maksim Bogomolov	11	180
United Kingdom, Igor Kapsharin	17	175
Vietnam, Denis Nikitin	4	260

Split Results by each show

First Semi-Final			Second Semi-Final	Grand Final
1	Likhanov	315	1	1
2	Semyonov	280	2	2
3	Mariehamn	260	3	3
4	Nikitin	230	4	4
4	Popov	230	5	5
6	Tarashkevich	225	6	6
7	Charny	190	7	7
	Desyatov	190	8	8
	Solovyov	190	9	9
	Tarambolas	190	10	10
11	Alexeyonok	180	11	11
	Bogomolov	180	12	12
	Komarov	180	13	13
	Ladysev	180	14	14
	Silkin	180	15	15
	Vorobyov	180	16	16
17	Kapsharin	175	17	17
17	Leonenko	175	18	18
19	Kulik	165	19	19
19	Nowicki	165	20	20
21	Smykov	160	21	21
22	Belonogov	110	22	22
	Domchenko	110	23	23
	Dudarev	110	24	24
	Isaak	110	25	25
	Serb	110	26	26