Worldvision Q3-2024

Worldvision Q3-2024
We Write The Story
Dates
Semi-final 1	TBD December 2024
Semi-final 2	TBD December 2024
Final	TBD December 2024
Host
Venue	TBA, Hanoi, Vietnam
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Denis Nikitin
Host broadcaster	VTV
Participants
Number of entries	37
Debuting countries	Azerbaijan Belgium Brazil Russia
Returning Countries	New Zealand North Macedonia Poland
Non-returning Countries	China Finland Greece Malta
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each 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.

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 3 - 2024 was the 8th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q2-2024 contest with the song "Wonders" by Michael Patrick Kelly featuring Rakim. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster VTV. The contest was held TBA arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on TBD and TBD December 2024, and a final on TBD December 2024.

Thirty-seven countries will participate in the contest, with Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil and Russia participating for the first time. Poland, New Zealand and North Macedonia returning after one-, four and five-episodes absences respectively. China, Finland, Greece and Malta announced that they would not be taking part.

Location

The Q3-2024 contest took place in Hanoi, Vietnam. This was the first time the competition was held in Southeast Asia.

Production

Slogan and Visual Design

An official slogan (motto) becoming permanent from Q3-2024 edition

Format

This season, jury voting had the same value as the audience vote as in previous seasons, which added another set of scores to each country's vote. Six countries now automatically qualified for the final: the top five from the previous season, plus one country with the highest overall score from the past seasons. The rest competed for the remaining 20 spots in two semi-finals.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

On December 3, the organizers of the contest announced the baskets for the draw of countries for the semi-finals. This season, 31 countries were divided into 5 baskets with 6 countries in baskets #2-5 and 7 countries in basket #1. The draw divides the participating countries into two semi-finals: 15 countries in the first semi-final and 16 countries in the second semi-final.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Belgium Brazil Denmark Germany Lebanon New Zealand Switzerland	Albania Armenia Azerbaijan France Iceland Italy	Australia Croatia Hungary Kazakhstan Poland Sweden	Canada Cyprus Netherlands Norway Russia San Marino	Japan North Macedonia Portugal Spain United Kingdom United States

Participating Countries

Thirty-six countries have confirmed participation this season. Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil and Russia was set to participate for the very first time this edition, while Poland and North Macedonia has announced its returned after a one- and five-episodes absence, China, Finland, Greece and Malta has not appear in the final list of the participants broadcaster.

The withdrawal of the Greek broadcaster was due to sanctions from IECO due to the low interest of the Greek broadcaster in participating and the delays in voting (in other cases, not sending the vote of its jury). IECO said that the suspension of Greece will only be for one season, after which the Greek broadcaster.

On December 2, the contest organisers announced that New Zealand would join the competition in Hanoi, becoming the thirty-seventh participating country.

Semi-Finals

Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)
Albania	Tayna	Obsesion	Albanian
Armenia	Sejla Zonic	Dert	Serbian
Australia	Cloudy June	Big Girls Don't Cry	English
Azerbaijan	Zeynep Bastik	Ara	Turkish
Belgium	Nour	Vers Le Haut	French
Brazil	Alexia Evellyn	Savage Daughters	English
Canada	Tina Arena	Church	English
Croatia	Tea Tairović	Da Si Najbolji	Serbian
Cyprus	Ummet Ozcan	Xanadu	Gibberish
Denmark	Ofenbach, Salem Ilese	Feelings Don't Lie	English
France	Naomi Scott	Blood On White Satin	English
Germany	Rondé	Undecided	English
Hungary	Loi	Bad Idea	English
Iceland	Demi The Daredevil	Withering Heights	English
Italy	Giorgia	Niente di male	Italian
Japan	Babymetal ft. Electric Callboy‬	Ratatata	English, Japanese
Kazakhstan	LSP	Brillianty (Бриллианты)	Russian
Lebanon	Elyanna	Al Sham (الشام)	Arabic, English
Netherlands	Flemming	Onweer In M'n Hoofd	Dutch
New Zealand	Blake Roman, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg	Poison	English
North Macedonia	Barbara Argyrou	Ukulele	English
Norway	CHUNG HA	I'm ready	English, Korean
Poland	Carolina Deslandes	Eu Deixei	Portuguese
Portugal	Crash Adams	Give Me A Kiss	English
Russia	Lolita	Merlin (Мерлин)	Russian
San Marino	M-22, Ella Henderson	Heartstrings	English
Spain	Ava Max	EveryTime I Cry	English
Sweden	Winona Oak	Radio	English
Switzerland	&Team	Under the skin	English, Japanese
United Kingdom	Jacqueline Fernandez	Stormrider	English
United States	Tate McRae	What Would You Do?	English

Semi-Final 1

The second semi-final took place on 18 August 2024. Fifteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus {{}} and {{}}, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final.

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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 TBA countries competing in the second semi-final voted, alongside TBA, TBA 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 Rest of the World Contestants

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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 18 August 2024. Sixteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus {{}} and {{}}, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final.

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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 16 countries competing in the second semi-final voted, alongside TBA, TBA 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 Rest of the World Contestants

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12 points

12 points awarded by the televoting

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Final

Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)
Ireland	Nanul	Tu	Armenian
Israel	Elevator Boys	Ruins Me	English
Serbia	Florrie	Kissing in the Cold	English
South Korea	Thorsteinn Einarsson	Hotel Heartache	English
Thailand	BUS	Liar	English
Vietnam	Kaeyra	Sour	English

Voting in the Grand Final

Grand Final voting results (jury)

		Total score	Televoting score
Contestants

Grand Final voting results (televote)

		Total score	Jury score																																					Rest of the World
Contestants

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final)
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International Jury Voting

International viewers were introduced last year, they award an additional one set of points based on the average places of their rating. They are invited by IECO from around the world, whoever is interested to be involved and consist of five members.

Detailed vote from the rest of the world
Place	Country	Points		TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
1	{{}}	12
2	{{}}	10
3	{{}}	8
4	{{}}	7
5	{{}}	6
6	{{}}	5
7	{{}}	4
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12 points

12 points awarded by the juries # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 4 3 2 1

12 points awarded by the televoting # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 3 2 1

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 XXX.

Country	Full Name & Origin	IECO Membership
Albania	Diana Pie Sissy	Observer
Armenia	Vladislav Efremov	Observer
Australia	Timothy Algheren	Observer
Azerbaijan	TBA	Observer
Belgium	TBA	Observer
Brazil	TBA	Observer
Canada	Ilya Seleznyov	Observer
Croatia	Stevan Petkovich	Observer
Cyprus	Oleksandr Albertyan	Observer
Denmark	Jose Pablo Florez Ramirez	Observer
France	Danylo Baryshnyk	Observer
Germany	Polyna Synevich	Observer
Hungary	Artyom Frolov	Observer
Iceland	Wladyslaw Sukhyi	Observer
Ireland	Katerina Faroupou	Observer
Israel	Evgeniya Talantseva	Observer
Italy	TBA
Japan	TBA
Kazakhstan	Margarita Domalevskaya	Observer
Lebanon	Vladislav ...	Observer
Netherlands	Anna Abramova	Observer
New Zealand	TBA	Observer
North Macedonia	TBA	Observer
Norway	Ekateryna Brunt	Observer
Poland	TBA	Observer
Portugal	Mikhail Gorbunov	Observer
Russia	TBA	Observer
San Marino	Andrey Zhidenko	Observer
Serbia	Kiran Sebastian	Observer
South Korea	Oleg Sharunenko	Observer
Spain	Angelina Koledina	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Switzerland	TBA	Observer
Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva	Observer
United Kingdom	Mateusz Bluszcz	Observer
United States	Kevin Kiley	Observer
Vietnam	Aleks Pagels	Observer
The Rest Of The World	Hussein Al-Araf	Observers
	Jimmy Mardigras
	Valeria Guzheva
	Julius Fountain
	William Butler