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Contests with public voting in February in Greece: dates and organisers

Contests in February in Greece with public voting have one dated case in the reports: Sing for Greece 2026, the Greek Eurovision national final, whose semi-finals fell on 11 and 13 February 2026 with online public voting. Tovima reported in February 2026 that the final's combined result gives 50% to the public vote, 25% to a Greek jury and 25% to an international jury. What the reports leave open is the closing day of the voting window.

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Rechecked on 22 October 2026.

February contests with public voting in Greece rest on one dated case

The reports give one dated February contest in Greece with public voting. Sing for Greece 2026 is the Greek national final for the Eurovision Song Contest, and its semi-finals fell on 11 and 13 February 2026. The public vote was added online, and the official voting platform was open to people both inside and outside Greece. That is the whole dated record on this page, and one case cannot show how February contests in Greece are run as a group.

A national final is a special case, because one organiser sets the whole structure: semi-finals, a jury, a public share and a platform, all in one published system. A local photo contest or a shop's award can look nothing like it. The reports here cover one national final and no smaller February contest, so the smaller contests that fill a local calendar stay outside this page.

Reading the national final as a model has a limit. Its combined result is set by the organiser of that one selection, and no other Greek contest in the reports adopts the same weights. This page therefore describes that single system and does not carry its weights over to any other contest.

  • Sing for Greece 2026 is the one dated February case in the reports.
  • The national final's semi-finals fell on 11 and 13 February 2026.
  • The reports cover one national final and no smaller February contest.
  • One organiser sets a national final's structure, so that structure does not transfer.
  • The weights of one selection are not the weights of any other Greek contest.

The public share in the national final is half the result

In the reports, the public vote is one half of the combined result. Tovima reported in February 2026 that the public share sits alongside 25% from a Greek jury and 25% from an international jury. Those three shares add up to the whole. A reader who sees only the public percentage misses that the two jury shares carry the other half.

A combined system like this one is judged on its published weights, not on the raw count of ballots alone. The organiser can print the weights in the rules, and a reader can check them against the stated result. This page cannot check the result itself, because the reports give no per-stage totals and no breakdown between the jury and the public.

The public share is half of the result, so public ballots alone cannot make up more than half of it, and the two jury shares decide the remainder. That arithmetic is the one thing a reader can state with confidence from the reports. It says nothing about how many people voted or how the public ballots split between the finalists.

  • Tovima reported that the public vote carries 50% of the combined result.
  • A Greek jury and an international jury each carry 25% in that system.
  • Public ballots alone cannot make up more than half of the national final's result.
  • Weights are a published term of the contest, so the organiser's rules state them.
  • The reports give no per-stage totals, so the result cannot be re-counted from this page.

Platform rules and organiser rules are separate layers

Kontra Agency's February 2019 guide says that Instagram contest rules must state that Instagram will not help run the contest. The guide reports that rule for Instagram contests in general, and the reports here quote no Instagram term of its own. A rule of that kind sits beside the organiser's rules rather than replacing them, so an entrant needs both.

The reports quote no platform rule for the national final's online vote, and this page does not invent one. The final ran its public vote online, so a viewer or entrant should read the organiser's voting terms directly. Three documents can apply to one contest: the platform's terms, the organiser's rules and the broadcaster's schedule, and each one answers a different question.

Disqualification is the rule that costs an entrant most, and the reports say nothing specific about it for an online vote. A rule that removes an entry for breaking platform terms belongs in the contest's own text. A reader should look for that clause before entering, and should treat its absence as an open question rather than as permission.

  • The guide reports that Instagram contest rules must say Instagram will not help run the contest.
  • The reports quote no platform term for the national final's online vote.
  • The reports say nothing specific about disqualification for an online vote.
  • Platform terms and organiser rules are separate documents, and both bind the entrant.
  • Read the organiser's voting terms directly rather than a guide written for another kind of contest.

Contest deadlines in February: the dates the reports leave open

The reports date the national final's semi-finals, 11 and 13 February 2026, but they give no closing day for the public vote. A semi-final is an event day, not a deadline for voting. A reader who needs the voting window has to read the organiser's notice, since the reports stop at the semi-finals.

Entry dates are missing for the national final as well. Nothing in the reports gives an opening date for entries, a closing date for entries or the day an entrant must submit a file. A page that filled those gaps would be inventing them, so this page leaves them open and says so.

The reports show one sequence: semi-finals in February, and nothing after them. Whether a public vote in another Greek contest opens before, during or after its own event stage is not something this page can settle. Each contest's own rules set that order.

  • The reports date the semi-finals on 11 and 13 February 2026.
  • No closing day for the public vote is in the reports.
  • Entry opening and entry deadline dates are missing for the national final.
  • A semi-final date is an event day, not a deadline for voting.
  • Each contest's own rules set the order of its voting window and its entry step.

Legality and prize rules are outside what the reports settle

The legality of a contest is the first question many readers bring, and the reports do not answer it for Greece. None of the three sources quotes a Greek rule on how a prize contest must be run, who can enter, or what a winner owes. This page therefore states no legal position, and a reader who needs one should take the question to the organiser, since the reports name no Greek body that rules on it.

Eligibility and age are a separate question from legality, and the reports say little about either for a Greek contest. The Instagram guide covers how a platform contest is worded, not who can enter it. A reader cannot take the guide's wording as a Greek rule, because it was written about a platform's terms and not about Greek promotions.

Prize tax belongs in the same gap. The reports state no tax treatment for a prize in any Greek contest, and this page offers none. Delivery is open too: the reports say nothing about how a prize reaches a winner, so a reader should ask the organiser before counting on a delivery date or a tax position.

  • The reports name no Greek body that rules on prize contests.
  • The Instagram guide describes platform wording, not Greek eligibility.
  • No tax treatment of a prize is stated for any Greek contest in the reports.
  • The reports say nothing about how a prize reaches a winner.
  • Questions of legality go to the organiser, because this page states no legal position.

Rules that apply

Each dated claim on this page was checked against the report cited for it, and the page was reviewed on 22 October 2026. The sources are a Greek broadcaster's report on its own national final, a Greek news report from February 2026 and an agency's guide dated February 2019. Where a source gives a share, a date or a rule, the page repeats that figure and no other. Where a source is silent, the page says so and does not fill the gap from memory or from a contest in another country. Each figure stays beside its own contest, so a national final's weights are never attributed to a platform's rule.

What we decline

Dates beyond the national final's February 2026 semi-finals are not on this page, because the reports give none. The page does not name winners or their announcement days, does not state Greek prize, tax or eligibility rules, and does not say whether any contest is lawful to enter. Organisers alone set the weights and the voting window, and this page cannot change a share or a deadline that an organiser has published.

Questions and answers

The reports name one February contest in Greece with public voting: Sing for Greece 2026, the Greek Eurovision national final. Its online public vote was added for the semi-finals on 11 and 13 February 2026. No other Greek contest in the reports opens public voting in February, so this page cannot list more.

The reports give no closing day for any February contest in Greece. The national final's semi-finals on 11 and 13 February 2026 are its only dated February events, and the reports do not say the public vote ended with them. This page therefore cannot name a Greek contest that closes its voting in February.

The reports state no voting length for any Greek contest. The one dated pair of events is the semi-finals on 11 and 13 February 2026, and the reports do not turn those two days into a voting period. A reader who needs a length has to take it from the organiser's voting terms, which this page does not quote.

The reports give no announcement date for any winner. For the national final, the only dated items are the semi-finals in February 2026, and nothing says when a winner is named after them. The organiser sets that date, and this page does not estimate it.

The reports give no entry opening date and no entry deadline for any Greek contest, so this page cannot say how early to enter. The national final is dated only by its semi-finals. An entrant should get the entry notice from the organiser and count back from the first dated event, rather than rely on the calendar month.

Start by reading the organiser's rules for four items: the entry deadline, the voting window, the public share of the result and the platform terms that apply. The national final shows why each one matters, since its public vote is half the result and the organiser sets its voting terms. Preparation built on the month alone will miss the day a window closes.