Claudio Baglioni has taken over from Carlo Conti and quite a few things in Sanremo will change, but not the link to Eurovision. The rules again say the winner of the Big category is the first choice for Eurovision song contest for Italy, if he/she/they only want to. So far the only one not accepting the job has been Stadio, who gladly handed the opportunity to runner up Francesca Michielin.
Things that change include the dropping of the eliminations. All 20 Big, and 8 Govani aka Newcomers will reach the final. Also the Friday night's cover special is gone. Instead it's back to the Duets, already used previously. The Big can invited other artists to duet with their entries and rearrange the whole song.
The Italians fans doen't seem to be very optimistic in Baglioni's capacity of finding Eurovision worthy artists and songs, and are pretty afraid it'll be something very old and dated instead.... We'll see.
Here's how the nights will be and the voting:
Tuesday, February 6:
20 Big present their songs
Voting: 40% televote, 30% demoscopic jury, 30% accredited press
Wednesday, February 7:
10 Big + 4 Giovani
Voting: 40% televote, 30% demoscopic jury, 30% accredited press
Thursday, February 8:
10 Big + 4 Giovani
Voting: 40% televote, 30% demoscopic jury, 30% accredited press
* The ranking for the Big will be calculated based on the first three nights and revealed*
Friday, February 9:
20 Big Duets + 8 Giovani Duets
Voting: 50% televote, 30% Accredited press, 20% experts
* Ranking revealed based on the two previous nights for the Big *
* Ranking for the Giovani revealed, and the Winner *
Saturday, February 10:
20 Big
Voting: 50% televote, 30% accredited press, 20% experts
* Ranking revealed based on the four previous nights *
Top-3 will reperform and revoted by the same system
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