Welcome to ranked.be! The main purpose of this website is to help people rank all the contests available on FixedBot, a Discord bot for ranking any contest related to Eurovision.
FixedBot started at the tail end of 2017 / early 2018 as an experiment on the Eurovision Discord server. Originally, the bot mainly had commands related to Eurovision voting behaviour. However, once a ranking submission functionality was added, things got... quite out of hand and the bot now has about a dozen commands specifically for rankings. As can seen on this site, every single edition of the (Junior) Eurovision Song Contest can be ranked, along with every single national selection without lost media. To top things off, there are a few other (spin-off) contests available for ranking, such as Regio Songfestival and Kënga Magjike. All in all, there are over 1500 rankables to rank!
Implementing all of this functionality through a Discord bot of course introduced some challenges. One such example is entry codes. As everything is text-based, a system had to be devised to make ranking national selections possible. This was done by assigning every entry a code, that people could then use to refer to a specific entry. Although workarounds were possible for many other commands as well, it was quite hard to implement a sorter in Discord. Too hard, it appeared, without doing some ridiculous user-unfriendly actions such as sending a message for every single preference they have to express. Instead, the conclusion was that to support a sorter, a site would be needed. Ergo, this site was born :)
Please note: Although FixedBot is on the ESC Discord server, this site, the bot and its data are editorially independent from ESC Discord. This means that any changes to this website (or bot) and its data do not necessarily reflect the views of ESC Discord and vice versa.
You can try the bot in the #rankings and #bot_overflow channels of the Eurovision Discord server: https://discord.gg/eurovision
The main contributors to the code side of things are:
@halfwayblues on Discord and @16psyche.bsky.social on Bluesky).The data is curated and maintained through a private community, with about a dozen regular contributors. To reach out to them directly, please check anyone with the "Can update data in FixedBot" role on the server.
Feel free to reach out to any of us in case of issues with this site, its data, or any other feedback. Although we try to respond as quickly as possible, note that we cannot make any guarantees about changes or response time.