Worldvision Q4-2022: Difference between revisions

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

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. On 8 June 2022, it was announced that [[Germany]] would not enter the contest without giving a reason. 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. As a result, the number of participating countries was reduced to twenty-seven.

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.