Worldvision Q2-2024

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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 July, and a final on XX July.

Worldvision Q2-2024
Woven Grooves
Dates
Semi-final 1TBD July 2024
Semi-final 2TBD July 2024
FinalTBD July 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 Poland
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

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. Poland 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.

On June 21, it became known that South Korea would not take part in the competition this season, which forced the organizers to re-send an invitation to the Kazakh broadcaster to participate. On the same day it became known that Kazakhstan will replace the place of South Korea, which will miss this season. Later, on June 24 it was announced that Poland won't take place in the participation due to low results and inability to find a promising performance. The next day, the South Korean broadcaster still announced its intention to take part in the season. On July 26, the organizers of the competition finally confirmed that 34 countries would take part in the competition in Portugal.

Semi-Final 1

The first semi-final took place on XXX. Fourteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus   Israel and   Japan, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final. For the first time, the juries will also vote in the contest. Their points will be used as a backup for any force-majors with televotes and to research the differences of the televote and juries votes and how this impacts on the finalist qualification.

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
01   Croatia Clara Luciani Respire Encore French
02   San Marino Irama Aura Capitolo XII Italian
03   Ireland Robin Schulz, Topic & Oaks One By One English
04   Lebanon Bade Fragile English, Turkish
05   Vietnam Michael Patrick Kelly ft. Rakim Wonders English
06   Albania Marlena Red Flags Spanish
07   France Doda Mama English
08   Armenia Lucky Love J'veux d'la Tendresse French
09   Netherlands Naaz Uproot English
10   Hungary ECHOS Carousel English
11   Finland Jaakko Kulta Norjalaista Puuta Finnish
12   Greece So Below Hush English
13   Canada Henry Moodie You Were There For Me English
14   China Zior Park Christian English
15   South Korea Griff Miss Me Too English

Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final took place on XXX. Fifteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus   Unknown Country and   Unknown Country, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final. For the first time, the juries will also vote in the contest. Their points will be used as a backup for any force-majors with televotes and to research the differences of the televote and juries votes and how this impacts on the finalist qualification.

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
First Half
Second Half

Yet to be drawn into Semi-Finals

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points


  Australia Tones And I I Get High English
  Cyprus Ella Henderson & Rudimental Alibi English
  Denmark Dara Thunder English


  Germany Alba August Lights English


  Iceland Bad Omens & Poppy V.A.N. English
  Italy Elodie Black Nirvana Italian
  Kazakhstan IC3PEAK Kiss of Death English, Russian
  Malta Aidan Juliette Maltese
  Norway Night Club Barbwire Kiss English
  Serbia NF Happy English
  Spain Michael Buble Higher English
  Switzerland Soyou Gotta Go English, Korean
  Thailand MATCHA Complicated English, Thai
  United Kingdom Emily Mei Venom English
  United States Galantis, David Guetta & 5SOS Lighter 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 English
  Sweden Raye Genesis English

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)
  Kazakhstan   Margarita Domalevskaya Observer
  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
  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

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. The Executive Supervisor, Australia has informed the Reference Group that YouTube as a platform already do censorship and if the clip exists on YouTube platform, then it is good to participate, which means that the IECO will not censor delegation choices, since they do not influence on the real political situation.

South Korea & Poland's Participation

It was confirmed by delegation of South Korea and Poland to have intentions to participate, however, South Korea was not in touch for more than one month and missed all deadlines, while Poland remained uncertain of their participation till the very last day: the county has decided to withdraw mainly because of absence of a "good fit" to represent the country and has no choices. Eventually, both countries didn't appear in the final list.

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