Worldvision Q2-2024

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation
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

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.

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

Voting in the 1st Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All fifteen countries competing in the first semi-final voted, alongside Israel, Japan and the aggregated Rest of the World vote. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

The 1st Semi-Final voting results
Total score
Croatia
San Marino
Ireland
Lebanon
Vietnam
Albania
France
Armenia
Netherlands
Hungary
Finland
Greece
Canada
China
South Korea
Israel
Japan
Rest of the World
Contestants
Croatia
San Marino
Ireland
Lebanon
Vietnam
Albania
France
Armenia
Netherlands
Hungary
Finland
Greece
Canada
China
South Korea
Detailed vote from the rest of the world
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12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting
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Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final took place on XXX. Fifteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Portugal and Sweden, 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 United Kingdom Emily Mei Venom English
02 Australia Tones And I I Get High English
03 Switzerland Conor Maynard Late Drives English
04 Cyprus Ella Henderson & Rudimental Alibi English
05 United States Galantis, David Guetta & 5SOS Lighter English
06 Thailand MATCHA Complicated English, Thai
07 Germany Alba August Lights English
08 Serbia NF Happy English
09 Italy Elodie Black Nirvana Italian
10 Iceland Bad Omens & Poppy V.A.N. English
11 Denmark Dara Thunder English
12 Malta Aidan Juliette Maltese
13 Kazakhstan IC3PEAK Kiss of Death English, Russian
14 Norway Night Club Barbwire Kiss English
15 Spain Michael Buble Higher English

Voting in the 2nd Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All fifteen countries competing in the second semi-final voted, alongside Portugal, Sweden and the aggregated Rest of the World vote. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

The 2nd Semi-Final voting results
Total score
United Kingdom
Australia
Switzerland
Cyprus
United States
Thailand
Germany
Serbia
Italy
Iceland
Denmark
Malta
Kazakhstan
Norway
Spain
Portugal
Sweden
Rest of the World
Contestants
United Kingdom
Australia
Switzerland
Cyprus
United States
Thailand
Germany
Serbia
Italy
Iceland
Denmark
Malta
Kazakhstan
Norway
Spain
Detailed vote from the rest of the world
Place Country Points
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2 {{}} 10 TBD
3 {{}} 8 TBD
4 {{}} 7 TBD
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10 {{}} 1 TBD
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14 {{}} TBD
15 {{}} TBD

12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting
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Final

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
Israel Odelly Mon Demon French
Japan Stray Kids & Lisa Social Path English, Korean
06 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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