Eurovision Asia 2026 airs in the Philippines at 9:30pm on Saturday 14 November, on A2Z, ALLTV, Kapamilya Channel, iWant and Kapamilya Online Live, and free worldwide on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel. CARMELLE sings sixth of eleven with “Sobra-Sobra (Too Much)”. Filipinos can vote online once the live show starts, but anyone voting from the Philippines cannot vote for her: the rules bar viewers from voting for the country they live in. Below are the time, every channel, how to vote step by step, and what that rule means for Filipinos abroad.
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Key takeaways
- Time: Saturday 14 November 2026, 9:30pm Philippine time (13:30 UTC), live from the One Bangkok Forum in Bangkok.
- Channels: A2Z and ALLTV are the official Philippine broadcasters; ABS-CBN also carries the show on Kapamilya Channel, iWant and Kapamilya Online Live. The Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel streams it free.
- Voting: web only, at eurovisionasia.com/vote, 18 and over, sign in with Google, Apple or Privy. Eight free votes, spread across at least three countries.
- The catch: voters in the Philippines cannot vote for CARMELLE. The rule follows where you live, not your passport, which is why the Filipino diaspora matters.
- The odds: on 11 November Polymarket made the Philippines second favourite, at 29.5% to win behind Malaysia, and second in every one of its four main books.
What’s on this page
What time it starts · Where to watch · How to vote · Filipinos abroad · CARMELLE and “Sobra-Sobra” · The odds · FAQ · Sources
What time is Eurovision Asia in the Philippines?
The Eurovision Asia Grand Final starts at 9:30pm Philippine time on Saturday 14 November 2026. That is 8:30pm in Bangkok and 13:30 UTC, and the organisers give the same start on their how-to-watch page, the event page, the ticketing system and the countdown on the voting page. There is no semi-final: all eleven countries go straight to this one show.
The night before, Friday 13 November, the same venue holds a ticketed Preview Show at the same hour. Eurovoix describes it as a full run-through of the show as it will appear on Saturday’s broadcast. It is not on the organisers’ list of broadcasts, and nobody is eliminated in it.
| What | Date | Philippine time | UTC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preview Show (ticket holders, One Bangkok Forum) | Friday 13 November | 9:30pm | 13:30 |
| Grand Final, live | Saturday 14 November | 9:30pm | 13:30 |
| Voting opens | Saturday 14 November | During the live show | From 13:30 |
| Voting closes | Saturday 14 November | Announced on air | Not yet published |
CARMELLE is sixth in the running order, after Bhutan’s Nyendra and before Bangladesh’s Beatmosphere, so five songs come before hers. The organisers have not published a minute-by-minute schedule, so do not expect her on stage at 9:30 sharp. The full order, with what each slot has historically meant, is in our running order analysis.
Where to watch Eurovision Asia 2026 in the Philippines
The organisers’ official how-to-watch page lists ALLTV and A2Z, from ABS-CBN, as the Philippine broadcasters, at 21:30 local time. Philstar’s report of 3 November gives the full ABS-CBN line-up: the contest airs live at 9:30pm on “iWant, ALLTV2, A2Z, Kapamilya Channel and Kapamilya Online Live”.
- Free-to-air TV: A2Z and ALLTV (Philstar lists it as ALLTV2).
- Cable and satellite: Kapamilya Channel.
- Streaming in the Philippines: iWant and Kapamilya Online Live.
- Anywhere, free: the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel. The organisers say the live stream “will be open to viewers all over the world”.
For Filipinos abroad the YouTube stream is the simplest option, and in most countries the only one. Australia is the exception with a local broadcaster: SBS shows the final live on SBS On Demand at 12:30am on Sunday, with Courtney Act commentating, and repeats it on SBS2 on Sunday evening.
How to vote in Eurovision Asia from the Philippines
Voting is online only. There is no SMS or phone line, and voting does not work inside the Zoop apps that sell the tickets. The official Voting Terms, last updated on 28 August 2026, set out the steps:
- Open eurovisionasia.com/vote in a web browser once the live show has started. The voting page says voting “will open during the Live Show”, and its countdown runs to the 13:30 UTC start. The closing time is announced on air; it had not been published on 11 November.
- Sign in with Google, Apple or Privy. You must be at least 18. You accept the voting consent and pass an automated check that you are a real person, which can mean typing in a one-time code sent to your email. A full Zoop account is optional.
- Use your eight free votes, spread across at least three different countries’ entries. Put them all on one or two countries and none of them count.
- Leave out the country you live in. Under §3.3 you “may not vote for the entry representing the territory in which you are resident”.
- Booster packs are optional. One pack of ten paid votes per show takes you to a maximum of 18 votes, with no more than 16 on any one entry. Paid votes carry exactly the same weight as free ones and are processed by Stripe. The Booster Pack Terms say the Grand Final price will be published before voting opens; it had not been on 11 November.
For comparison, a booster pack for the national selections cost ₱90. Do not vote through a VPN: §7.1 bans voting through a VPN, proxy or spoofed location. Our full voting guide walks through the sign-in screens, and how the 252 points work explains what happens to your votes once you cast them.
So how can the Philippines help CARMELLE?
Not with votes cast from the Philippines. The Philippine public vote still matters — it hands out 12, 10, 8 and on down to 1 point across the other ten entries — but CARMELLE’s own public points have to come from voters in the ten other countries and from the Rest of World vote. Each of those eleven public votes can give her at most 12 points, for a public maximum of 132, alongside up to 120 from the ten national juries. The result is 50% jury and 50% public within each competing country. That is where the Filipino diaspora comes in.
Filipinos abroad: where you vote, and whether CARMELLE is on your list
The rule is written around where you live, not your nationality: you cannot vote for “the entry representing the territory in which you are resident”. Read literally, that leaves Filipinos abroad two routes to CARMELLE. This is our reading of §3 and §3.3; the organisers have not published how the voting system decides where a voter is resident.
- In one of the other ten competing countries — Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Vietnam and the rest — you vote in that country’s public vote, and the Philippines is not that country’s entry.
- Anywhere else — the Gulf, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Europe, North America, Australia — you are in the Rest of World vote, which is public only and has no entry of its own.
| Where you live | Local start | Your vote counts in | CARMELLE on your list? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 9:30pm Sat | Philippine public vote | No |
| Riyadh, Jeddah, Doha | 4:30pm Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| Dubai, Abu Dhabi | 5:30pm Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei | 9:30pm Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| Kuala Lumpur | 9:30pm Sat | Malaysian public vote | Yes |
| Bangkok | 8:30pm Sat | Thai public vote | Yes |
| Seoul | 10:30pm Sat | South Korean public vote | Yes |
| Tokyo | 10:30pm Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| London | 1:30pm Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| Rome, Milan | 2:30pm Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| New York, Toronto | 8:30am Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| Los Angeles, Vancouver | 5:30am Sat | Rest of World | Yes |
| Sydney, Melbourne | 12:30am Sun | Rest of World | Yes |
How much a diaspora can move the result is the subject of our piece on voting blocs and diaspora votes. The arithmetic is simple: the Rest of World vote is one of eleven public votes and can give any song at most 12 points, so diaspora voters can decide who tops it, and can add points inside the other competing countries’ votes, but cannot carry a song on their own.
CARMELLE and “Sobra-Sobra (Too Much)”
CARMELLE — Carmelle Allyza San Juan Collado, 19, from Sipocot in Camarines Sur, a Star Magic artist since 2025 — won Pili, Pinas!: Philippine Selection Night at the New Frontier Theater in Quezon City on 30 August 2026. Saga finished second with “Broken Beyond Repair” and JM dela Cerna & Marielle Montellano third with “Mapadama (Make You Feel)”. Vice Ganda, Darren Espanto and Alexa Ilacad hosted, and the result came from the 40% jury, 40% Philippine public and 20% rest-of-world split used at every national selection.
“Sobra-Sobra (Too Much)” is a bilingual Filipino and English dance-pop song with a rap section and Filipino ethnic percussion, the kulintang and the kubing. Nica del Rosario and Mat Olavides of FlipMusic wrote it, and Olavides produced and mixed it. ABS-CBN’s Star Music released the official visualizer on 28 August. Philstar’s headline on 3 November summed up her pitch: to make OPM resonate globally at the first Eurovision Asia.
Her full profile is on our Philippines at Eurovision Asia 2026 page, which also carries the live prices and, from Saturday night, her place and points.
Eurovision Asia odds: where the Philippines stands
No fixed-odds bookmaker prices Eurovision Asia. Two prediction markets do, and both rate the Philippines second. Read at 02:08 UTC on 11 November 2026, Polymarket’s books had the Philippines here, as the midpoint between the best bid and the best offer:
| Polymarket book | Philippines | Rank | Bid / offer | Malaysia |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| To win | 29.5% | 2nd of 11 | 27c / 32c | 56.5% |
| Top 3 | 72% | 2nd | 70c / 74c | 82% |
| Wins the jury vote | 14% | 2nd | 13c / 15c | 66% |
| Wins the public vote | 34% | 2nd | 27c / 41c | 42.5% |
| Finishes second | 33% | 1st | 21c / 45c | 32.5% |
The shape matters more than the headline. With the juries Malaysia leads by 52 points; with the public by eight and a half, on a Philippine quote 14 cents wide. The Philippines’ route to a win runs through the public vote, which is the half Filipinos at home cannot help with directly and Filipinos abroad can. On Kalshi, the CFTC-regulated US exchange, the Philippines is one of only two contracts carrying a live bid, 24c against a 42c offer.
Our longer read is Can CARMELLE win Eurovision Asia?, and every country’s prices sit side by side on the Eurovision Asia hub. Prices move, and every figure here is dated to the moment it was read.
FAQ
What time is Eurovision Asia in the Philippines?
9:30pm on Saturday 14 November 2026 (13:30 UTC). The Preview Show at the same venue on Friday 13 November, also at 9:30pm, is for ticket holders and is not a competition.
What channel is Eurovision Asia on in the Philippines?
A2Z and ALLTV are the official broadcasters, and ABS-CBN also carries it on Kapamilya Channel, iWant and Kapamilya Online Live. It streams free on the Eurovision Song Contest YouTube channel.
Can I vote for CARMELLE from the Philippines?
No. You cannot vote for the entry of the territory you live in, so voters in the Philippines choose from the other ten countries, spreading their eight free votes across at least three of them.
Is voting in Eurovision Asia free?
Yes. Every voter gets eight free votes. Paid booster packs add up to ten more; they are optional and count the same as free votes.
Can OFWs vote for CARMELLE?
On the wording of the rules, yes: the ban covers the entry of the territory you live in. Filipinos living in another competing country vote in that country’s public vote, and Filipinos elsewhere vote in the Rest of World vote. The organisers have not published how residence is determined.
Where is CARMELLE in the running order?
Sixth of eleven, after Bhutan and before Bangladesh. Malaysia’s Aina Abdul, the favourite, closes the show.
Sources
- Start time, Philippine broadcasters and the worldwide stream: eurovisionasia.com/how-to-watch, checked 11 November 2026.
- Voting rules: Eurovision Asia Voting Terms, last updated 28 August 2026 (§3, §3.3, §4, §6, §7.1); Booster Pack Terms §5.2; voting page eurovisionasia.com/vote, checked 11 November.
- ABS-CBN channels and CARMELLE’s aims: Philstar, 3 November 2026.
- Australia: SBS, How to watch Eurovision Asia.
- Preview Show: the official ticketing listing; Eurovoix, 21 September 2026.
- Prices: Polymarket Gamma API, read 02:08 UTC on 11 November 2026, the eleven competing countries only; Kalshi KXEUROVISIONASIA, read the same hour.
Prices move, and a midpoint on a thin book is not a probability. 18+; prediction markets are not available in every territory.