Worldvision Q4-2022

Worldvision Summer 2022
Binding Melodies
File:S2022-logo.png
Dates
Final	23 July 2022
Host
Venue	Palau Sant Jordi Barcelona, Spain
Presenter(s)	T.B.A
Directed by	Sergey Ladysev
Executive supervisor	Mark Nightingale
Executive producer	Pasha Kulik
Host broadcaster	TVE
Participants
Number of entries	29
Debuting countries	Australia Belarus Canada China Croatia Denmark Germany Greece Hungary Italy Japan Kazakhstan Kenya North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Russia San Marino Serbia South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Netherlands Ukraine United Kingdom United States
Returning Countries	None
Non-returning Countries	None
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs: the first from a professional jury, the second from viewers.
Nul points in final	N/A
Winning song	T.B.A.

The Worldvision Song Contest Summer 2022 - is set to be the 1st edition of the Worldvision Song Contest that has been ever made. It is set to take place in Barcelona, Spain. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE), the contest will be held at the Palau Sant Jordi Arena, and will consist of a final on 23 July 2022.

This will be the first time that Spain hosts the contest. Twenty nine countries will take part in the contest (twenty european countries and nine from rest of the world), but only eighteen of them will pass through the screening stage by rating-odds.

Location

The summer'22 contest will take place in Barcelona, Spain. It will be the first time that Spain hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 18.000-seat Palau Sant Jordi Arena, is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose indoor arena.

Bidding phase

Main article: Bids for the Worldvision Summer 2022

IECO has announced the call for applications for the competition, which will be accepted from 2 to 3 May 2022. On the evening of May 3, after considering the applications, the referent group published four official candidates for the right to accept the competition:

Summer 2022 host city election – ballot results

Bid	Capacity		Round 1	Round 2
Spain, Barcelona; Palau Sant Jordi Arena	18.000		5	9
South Korea, Gangneung; Gangneung Ice Arena	12.000		3	5
United Kingdom, London; O2 Arena	20.000		3	3
United States, Tulsa; BOK Center	19.200		1	—
Total ballots			12	17

Bidding took place using two rounds of voting. After the first round, the bid from the United States left the bidding race. In the second round of voting, Spain's bid won the majority of the votes, which eliminated the need for a third round of voting.

Production

Visual design

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".

An official slogan (motto) for the Summer 2022 edition

Presenters

The hosts of the contest will be announced by 10 June 2022.

Format

The competition will be held in one sub-stage of qualification (stage of rating bets) and final, in which eighteen countries will take part. Spain, as the host country of the season, was automatically eligible to participate in the final. On 18 May 2022, it became known that the organizers of the contest decided to give Australia and Japan (hereinafter referred to as the "founding countries") the right to permanent automatic participation in the final of the contest for their great contribution to the development and holding of the contest. The remaining 15 locations will be named on 20 June 2022.

Entries

For the Summer 2022 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 January 2021 are eligible. Quotas, which could be requested by the participating countries in order to be able to exhibit a composition in a language other than the main language of the country, will not be distributed in the debut season.

Voting

The voting in the final will consist of the sum of the votes of the facilitators of the eighteen participating countries (jury) and the remaining eighteen facilitators (whose countries did not qualify for the final part of the season) and IECO observers. Each voter will have a set of 10 "euro-system" scores: 12, 10, 8, 7-1 points.

Allocation draw

The draw to determine the participating countries' final will place on 26 Juny 2022. 18 countries will be divided into two parts of 9 countries by random selection. On June 3, it became known that Spain will perform under the 13th serial number, while Australia and Japan will perform in the first part of the final.

The order of performance of the finalists will be known on 1 July 2022. The order will be determined by the organizers of the competition.

Participating Countries

As of 1 May 2022, twenty nine countries have confirmed their intention to participate in the Summer 2022 edition, but only sixteen will promotion to the grand final. On 18 May 2022, the organizers of the competition decided to automatically admit Australia and Japan to the final. These countries were recognized as the founding countries of the competition. It was also announced that the final will be increased from 16 to 18 participating countries.

The Odds stage

Winning Odds will be annonce on 20 June 2022.

Rank	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Winning Odds
TBD 20 June 2022	Belarus	Drozdy	Parents' House	Belarusian	TBD 20 June 2022
	Canada	Aurora	Giving In To The Love	English
	China	Layla May	Sea In Your Eyes	English
	Croatia	TBD 9 June 2022
	Denmark	Nessa Barrett	Dying On The Inside	English
	Greece	Hatchie	Quicksand	English
	Hungary	Adele	Oh My God	English
	Italy	Laura Pausini	TBD 9 June 2022
	Kazakhstan	Polnalyubvi	Your Eyes	Russian
	Kenya	Sabrina Carpenter	Fast Times	English
	North Macedonia	TBD 9 June 2022		Macedonian
	Norway	OneRepublic	Someday	English
	Poland	Zacier	30 Złotych	Polish
	Portugal	Gryffin & Kyle Reynolds	Best Is Yet To Come	English
	Russia	Shortparis	TBD 10 June 2022	Russian
	San Marino	Siames	No Lullaby	English
	Serbia	TBD 9 June 2022
	South Korea	TBD 10 June 2022
	Sweden	Empress Of	Save Me	English
	Switzerland	Imagine Dragons & JID	Enemy	English
	Thailand	Slot Machine	Only Trust	Thai
	Netherlands	Suzan & Freek	Goud	Dutch
	Ukraine	Tucha	It's Your Fault	Ukrainian
	United Kingdom	TBD 12 June 2022		English
	United States	Emmi	Drum	English

Final

The final will take place on 23 July 2022. Eighteen countries will participate in the final, which will be announced on 20 June 2022.

Draw	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)
1st half	Australia	Meg Mac	Is It Worth Being Sad	English
	Japan	TBD 10 June 2022
13	Spain	TBD 11 June 2022		Spanish
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Incidents

French artist

On 17 May 2022, the organizers of the competition announced the possible withdrawal of France from the competition. As is well known later that day, the French delegation was greatly offended by the ridicule of a possible representative of the country. The clip of a possible representative, in the opinion of the contest supervisor, did not have a full competitive look. In response to the non-admission of the entry, the head of the French delegation said that he wanted to switch to the curation of Argentina, as he expressed a desire to submit Latin-American compositions to the competition, which would not be allowed to be curated by France due to the presence of quotas for languages ​​in the competition. On May 18, at an extraordinary meeting of the members of the organizational group of the competition, they decided to satisfy the initial request of Nikita Likhanov to curate Monaco, which was not initially included in the lists for participation.

Withdrawal of Kenya

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.

Withdrawal of Japan, Monaco and New Zealand

Prior to the situation with the curators of Japan, New Zealand and Monaco, a chatbot was installed in the contest chat to calculate activity. The IECO Administration did not like the irregular activity pattern of the curator of the Japan and others including Ireland and Kazakhstan, after which they accused Japan of deliberately cheating on the rating due to having twice as much as any others result. As a result of the disputes, the Japan Curator, along with the New Zealand and Monaco Curators (who supported the Japanese Curator's side), were excluded from the chat. However, on May 30, after two-sided negotiations between the curators of Australia and Japan, a compromise was reached, according to which Japan returns to participate in the competition with the following concessions: the date for announcing the representative of the country will be shifted to May 15, 2022 (due to shifts in the selection dates due to the impossibility of announcing the participants in the selection 26 and May 28) and a conservative view with full administration discussions on the chat disqualifications. The curators of New Zealand and Monaco were also accused in the unprofessional behavior and being rude to the adminstration, hence that New Zealand was not allowed to return due to breach of the conduct and Monaco did not returned voluntarily, which leaded to theier non-participation and they were automatically removed from it.

Rating rates of Ukraine

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.

Representative of Belarus

On June 4, 2022, the representative of Belarus, the Drozdy group, was announced with the song "Hata Batkou", which caused outrage from the curator of Canada, who accused the song of having political overtones.