Worldvision Q2-2024

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation
Worldvision Q2-2024
Woven Grooves
Dates
Semi-final 1TBD June 2024
Semi-final 2TBD June 2024
FinalTBD June 2024
Host
VenueMultiusos de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal
Executive supervisor Mark Solovyov
Executive producer Denis Vorobyov
Host broadcaster RTP
Participants
Number of entries34
Debuting countries Iceland
Returning Countries United States
Non-returning Countries Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Participation map
Vote
Voting systemEach country awards one set in the semi-finals, and two sets in the final, of 12, 10, 8–1 points to ten songs.
Five international observers are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.
Q1-24Worldvision Q2-2024Q3-24

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 2 - 2024 was the 7th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in TBA, Portugal, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q1-2024 contest with the song "Darkside" by Neoni. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster RTP. The contest was held TBA arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on XX and XX June, and a final on XX June.

Thirty-four countries will participate in the contest, with United States returning 4 episodes gap after its last participation in Q1-2023, while Iceland are so to debut in this edition. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan announced that they would not be taking part.

Location

The Q2-2024 contest took place in Guimarães, Portugal, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It was the first time that Portugal hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 3,000-seat Multiusos de Guimarães.

City bidding process

Despite the quick and swift decision on the location, behind the doors of IECO negotiations with the broadcaster there were multiple different cities presented into discussion. IECO has advised that the capital city of Lisbon would be most probably the perfect and only way to make the show organized well on a high level. However, the RTP and Portugal has decided to invest more into developing infrastructure outside of the capital in order to boost local economy, hence the city of Lisbon has been eliminated at the very beginning of the bidding phase, even though it was advised as the most suitable selection.

Key:

Host city
* Shortlisted
^ Submitted a bid
City Venue Notes
Lisbon* Any Proposed by IECO as the most suitable option.
Guimarães Multiusos de Guimarães Chosen by the broadcaster

Production

Slogan and Visual Design

Format

Two semi-finals has stayed with the same rules in this episode. However, the juries were invited to voted in semi-finals for the first time in order to keep them as a backup of televoting and in order to research differences between the televote and the jury votes.

Changes with Semi-Final Voting

IECO has decided that all the juries are mandatory to vote in the Semi-Finals as part of the reserved voting. This means, that the Juries will vote in the Semi-Final for the first time, however their voting will not determine the finalists. It will be used only for difference comparison and as a back-up if something goes wrong with the televote representative.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The amount of the participants has stayed at the same level comparing to the previous episode, which means that no changes in competition format or allocation draw has been made. Thirty semi-finalists were divided over five pots, based on historical voting patterns, with the purpose of reducing the chance of bloc voting and increasing suspense in the semi-finals. As usually, The draw also determined which semi-final each of the four automatic qualifiers – host country Portugal and "Top-4" countries from the previous edition (Israel, Japan & Sweden) – would vote in and be required to broadcast.

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4 Pot 5

Participating Countries

Thirty-four countries have confirmed participation this season. Iceland was set to participate for the very first time this edition, while United States has announced its returned after a four-year absence with a new broadcaster. In the meanwhile, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has not appear in the final list of the participants. The Uzbekistan broadcaster has decided to leave the IECO due to its shifted views on music and focusing more on sports and will no longer participate with at least with the current broadcaster. It was also brought to attention that Uzbekistan constantly struggle with meeting contests deadlines in the past and lack in activity, as well as showing low results at the competitions. As for the Kazakhstan, it was mentioned that it will only skip this edition due to heavy schedules in broadcasting and has promised to return in the future.

Semi-Finals

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
Albania Marlena Red Flags English
Armenia
Australia Tones And I I Get High English
Canada Henry Moodie You Were There For Me English
China
Croatia
Cyprus
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany Alba August Lights English
Greece
Hungary ECHOS Carousel English
Iceland Bad Omens & Poppy V.A.N. English
Ireland Robin Schulz, Topic & Oaks One By One English
Italy
Lebanon Bade Fragile English
Malta
Netherlands Naaz Uproot English
Norway Night Club Barbwire Kiss English
Poland
San Marino Irama Aura Capitolo XII Italian
Serbia
South Korea
Spain
Switzerland
Thailand MATCHA Complicated English, Thai
United Kingdom
United States
Vietnam Michael Patrick Kelly ft. Rakim Wonders English

Final

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
Israel Odelly Mon Demon French
Japan Stray Kids & Lisa Social Path English, Korean
Portugal Jim Yosef, Electro-Light, Anna Yvette, Deaf Kev & Tobu Destiny
Sweden

Public voting representatives of participating countries

The viewers of the participating countries could be other members of the organization or other invited persons.
Each public voting member was invited by it's country, however when the participant was not able to do so, the public voting was assigned to each country as per the most possible compatibility of points with the Jury Member. The Rest Of The World

This was the first season for the participation of viewers from Belize.

Country Full Name & Origin IECO Membership
Albania Diana Pie Sissy Observer
Armenia Vladislav Efremov Observer
Australia Timothy Algheren Observer
Canada Ilya Seleznyov Observer
China Darya Kudentsova Observer
Croatia Stevan Petkovich Observer
Cyprus Oleksandr Albertyan Observer
Denmark Elizabeth Ivanchenko Observer
Finland Vahid Sharifov Observer
France TBA Observer
Germany Polyna Synevich Observer
Greece Artsiom Chalapa Observer
Hungary Artyom Frolov Observer
Iceland TBA Observer
Ireland Katerina Faroupou Observer
Israel Evgeniya Talantseva Observer
Italy Sokratis Lakrindis Observer
Japan Misha Charny Observer (Former North Macedonia)
Lebanon Ivan Erofeev Observer
Malta Omur Hunerli Observer
Netherlands Anna Abramova Observer
Norway Ekateryna Brunt Observer
Poland Aleks Pagels Observer
Portugal Andrey Gruzdev Observer
San Marino Andrey Zhidenko Observer
Serbia Kiran Sebastian Observer
South Korea Oleg Sharunenko Observer
Spain Angelina Koledina Observer
Sweden Roman Dombaem Observer
Switzerland Javier Gutierrez Observer
Thailand Juliya Savelyeva Observer
United Kingdom Robin Bray Observer
United States TBA Observer
Vietnam TBA Observer
The Rest Of The World Jimmy Mardigras Observers
Adrien Alonso-Dussel
Valeria Guzheva
Alan Assonov
Israel Kalyango

Incidents

Possible withdrawal of Poland and South Korea

On June 4, 2024, it became publicly known that participation in the season of Poland and South Korea was disrupted. The Polish delegation determined the likelihood of missing the competition due to personal problems during this period, and the South Korean delegation did not go online at all for more than two weeks. As of June 9, 2024, it is not yet clear whether these countries will take part in the competition.

Reducing politics in competition life

On June 8, 2024, the delegation of the Netherlands presented its representative at the competition. She turned out to be a Dutch performer with Kurdish roots, Naaz. At the end of the announcement, the hashtag “freepalestine” was indicated. The next day, June 9, the Japanese delegation requested that the Reference Group reduce political messages and slogans to a minimum, limiting them to news publications only.

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