Worldvision Q4-2022: Difference between revisions

| name = Worldvision

| final = 22 November 2022

| year = Q4-2022

| logo = [[File:Q4-22.png|300px]]

| host = [[File:Esp-icon.png|20px]] [[Spain|TVE]]

| presenters =  

| director = [[File:Esp-icon.png|20px]] [[Spain|Sergey Ladysev]]

| exproducer = [[File:Jpn-icon.png|20px]] [[Japan|Pasha Kulik]]

| exsupervisor = [[File:Aus-icon.png|20px]] [[Australia|Mark Nightingale]]

| winner = {{GBR}}<br>"Rise"

| entries = 13

| debut = {{AUS}}<br>{{HUN}}<br>{{JPN}}<br>{{KAZ}}<br>{{MNE}}<br>{{NOR}}<br>{{PRT}}<br>{{SMR}}<br>{{KOR}}<br>{{ESP}}<br>{{SWE}}<br>{{THA}}<br>{{GBR}}

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The <strong>Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 4 - 2022</strong> - was the 1st edition of the [[Worldvision Song Contest]] that has been ever made. It took place in [[:en:Barcelona|Barcelona]], [[Spain]]. Organised by the [[Main Page|International Eurofan's Countries Organisation]] (IECO) and host broadcaster [[:en:Televisión Española|Televisión Española]] (TVE), the contest was held at the [[:en:Palau Sant Jordi|Palau Sant Jordi Arena]], and was consisted a final on 22 November 2022.

This was the first time that Spain hosts the contest. Thirteen countries participated in the contest (eight european countries and five from rest of the world).

 

The winner was the [[United Kingdom]] with the song "Rise", performed by [[:en:Calum Scott|Calum Scott]]. [[Portugal]], [[Sweden]], [[Spain]] and [[Hungary]] rounded out the top five.  

The Q4-2022 contest took place in [[:en:Barcelona|Barcelona]], [[Spain]]. It was the first time that Spain had hosted the contest. The selected venue is the 18.000-seat Palau Sant Jordi Arena, is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose indoor arena.

The logo and slogan of the contest were announced on 1 June 2022. The logo is an orange fan on a traditional Spanish mosaic background. The slogan of the competition was the phrase "Binding Melodies".

== <strong>Format</strong> ==

===Entries===

===Voting===

The voting in the final consisted of the sum of votes from thirteen participating countries, which in turn gave two sets of points: the first set of points from the curators themselves (the jury), and the second set of points from the IECO observers (TV viewers). Each voter had a set of 10 Eurosystem points: 12, 10, 8, 7-1 points.

[[Spain]] as the host country of the competition was randomly generated with two serial numbers to choose from. The rest of the countries went through a complete draw in order of magnitude. The competition was opened by [[San Marino]] and closed by [[Thailand]].

As of 1 May 2022, twenty-nine countries have confirmed their intention to participate in the Summer 2022 edition (later renamed Q4-2022), but only sixteen have been required to qualify for the grand final. On May 18, 2022, the organizers of the competition decided to automatically admit [[Australia]] and [[Japan]] to the final (to the host country Spain already there). These countries were recognized as founding countries of the contest (however this was abolished before the Q1-2023 contest). It was also announced that the final would be increased from 16 to 18 participating countries. On June 8, 2022, it was announced that [[Germany]] would not enter the competition without explanation. A little later on 11 July 2022, it became known that [[South Korea]] did not contact the organizers of the contest, which led to the country's automatic withdrawal from participation.

|Countries that ultimately did not participate in the competition.

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|Parents' House

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|[[:en:Nessa Barrett|Nessa Barrett]]

|Dying On The Inside

|English

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|[[:en:Laura Pausini|Laura Pausini]]

|Italian

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|[[:en:Purple Disco Machine|Purple Disco Machine]], [[:en:Sophie and the Giants|Sophie & the Giants]]

|In The Dark

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|Zacier

|30 Złotych

|Polish

|[[:en:Gryffin|Gryffin]] & Kyle Reynolds

|English

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|[[:en:Shortparis|Shortparis]]

|Moscow Is Speaking

|Russian

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|Iraida

|Supernova

|English

|[[:en:Empress Of|Empress Of]]

|Save Me

|English

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|Only Trust

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|[[:en:Suzan & Freek|Suzan & Freek]]

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|[[:en:Florence and the Machine|Florence + The Machine]]

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The final voting took place on 16-21 November 2022. Thirteen countries participated in the final, which were announced on 22 November 2022.

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! scope="row" style="background: #f2f2f2;" | Thailand

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! colspan="7" |Split results (Grand Final)

! rowspan="2" scope="col" |Place

! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | '''1'''

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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 9

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| {{KOR}}

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! scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 13

 

! scope="col" |Countries giving 12 points

| scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 3

| rowspan="5" scope="row" style="text-align:center;" | 1

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|+ 12 points awarded by the televoting

! scope="col" |Countries giving 12 points

| {{KAZ}}

 

=== Public voting representatives of participating countries ===

 

This was the first season for the participation of viewers from [[:en:Australia|Australia]], [[:en:Austria|Austria]], [[:en:Colombia|Colombia]], [[:en:France|France]], [[:en:India|India]], [[:en:Malta|Malta]], [[:en:Poland|Poland]] and [[:en:Russia|Russia]].

 

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| {{AUS}} || [[File:Aut-icon.png|20px]] Lukas Mariehamn || Observer

| {{HUN}} || [[File:Rus-icon.png|20px]] Alina Efanova || {{CHN}}

| {{JPN}} || [[File:Mlt-icon.png|20px]] Franklyn Baldacchino || Observer

| {{KAZ}} || [[File:Aus-icon.png|20px]] Jimmy Mardigras || Observer

| {{MNE}} || [[File:Pol-icon.png|20px]] Artsiom Chalapa || Observer

| {{NOR}} || [[File:Aus-icon.png|20px]] Timothy Ahlgren || Observer

| {{PRT}} || [[File:Rus-icon.png|20px]] Sergey Silkin || {{HRV}}

| {{SMR}} || [[File:Rus-icon.png|20px]] Zhan Isakoff || {{NLD}}

| {{KOR}} || [[File:Col-icon.png|20px]] Alexander Pabon || Observer

| {{ESP}} || [[File:Rus-icon.png|20px]] Vladislav Korshunov || {{USA}}

| {{SWE}} || [[File:Ind-icon.png|20px]] Kiran Sebastian || Observer

| {{THA}} || [[File:Fra-icon.png|20px]] Adrien Alonso-Dussel || Observer

| {{GBR}} || [[File:Rus-icon.png|20px]] Alexander Sivak || {{GRC}}

On 18 May 2022, Alexander Kustov, curator of [[Kenya]], announced his refusal to participate in the competition in the future. The reason for this, as it turned out later, was the political views on the military events in Ukraine in 2022, which were fundamentally opposite to the main number of curators of the competition and low scores at the odds stage due to inactivity. On May 19, competition supervisor Mark Nightingale announced that [[Kenya]] was not officially removed from the competition and still can possibly participate. However, on 26 May, the curator of the country returned to full participation.

 

 

On June 2, 2022, after the morning update of the competition rates, it turned out that the competition composition from [[Ukraine]] moved to the first line of the rating, which displeased a number of participating curators from [[Canada]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Hungary]], [[Greece]], [[China]], [[North Macedonia]]. The fact is that in a separate survey of each announced application, the participants noticed the fact that Ukraine's application was rated worse than the others and it is very illogical to observe the country in first place in the rates. The curator of [[Japan]] confirmed that back in May 2022, he requested a scheme and formula for calculating the rating for each participating country, but no answer was received, which led to big questions. The curator of China called the finding of Ukraine in the first place as a "show of compassion", and the curator of Hungary threatened to withdraw the country from participating in the competition if no explanations were received from the organizers of the competition. In the evening, a table was announced with data analysis based on the results of each poll of announced applications, and it turned out that, according to data reconciliation, Ukraine's application was located on the penultimate of 13 announced compositions. It is noteworthy that China, which was placed in 7th place in the rating rates, turned out to be the absolute favorite in the poll. On the evening of June 2, 2022, the curator of Australia reported that the data from the poll of the Ukrainian application was not taken into account for the calculation of rating rates, which re-introduced the dissatisfaction of the curators of Canada, China and Hungary. The curators of Japan, Kazakhstan and the [[Netherlands]] expressed mild dissatisfaction about this.

On June 4, 2022, was announced the representative of Belarus, the Drozdy group, which was selected internally with the song "Hata Batkou". The choice of the artist caused outrage from Canada, which accused the song of having political overtones. Different opinions were shared about making the contest political from other participants. However, the Belarusian broadcaster - BTRC and its representative have stated that there is no any political message in the selected entry and asked not to find or create them. Belarusian entry was not being asked to be replaced and was accepted.

On June 7, 2022, Poland have selected internally a song called "30 Zlotych" by a polish band Zacier with its lead singer Miroslav. The meaning of the song is to showcase the bad influence of capitalism to the different groups of the society and to send a message about young generation to be lazy and arrogant. The entry was submitted according to the rules of the contest and didn't found any support or resistance from other broadcasters, hence was accepted.

On June 10, 2022, Russia have selected a song called "CoCoCo / The Structures Don't Go To The Streets" which had a clear political statement about the internal protests from previously selected group called Shortparis. It was expected, since the selected Broadcaster has several restrictions in Russia. Later, the IECO administration requested to change the song due to it's published date, which was out of range of the rules. The entry has been exchanged to a collab of Shortparis with the Veteran Choir of the World War II. New submitted entry was as well not accepted, since the Choir can't represent the country due to the Worldvision policy and the broadcaster was requested to submit an entry again. After all, the selected representative have presented another new song called "Moscow Is Speaking" which as well had a political background. The song however was accepted since having no rules break and compiled with the IECO/Worldvision policies. None of the other participants had extended any statetments except Kazakhstan broadcaster had shown support and asked the Choir to be allowed as an exception.