Worldvision Q1-2024

Worldvision Q1-2024
Evolution
Dates
Semi-final 1	XX February 2024
Semi-final 2	XX February 2024
Final	XX February 2024
Host
Venue	Beirut Seaside Arena, Beirut, Lebanon
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Anton Desyatov
Host broadcaster	Tele-Liban
Participants
Number of entries	34
Debuting countries	Armenia Finland Ireland
Returning Countries	San Marino Uzbekistan
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 1 - 2024 was the 6th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Beirut, Lebanon, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q4-2023 contest with the song "Butterfly Dance" by Sasha Lopez & AMI. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster of Lebanon, the contest will be held in Beirut Seaside Arena, and will consist of two semi-finals on XX and XX February, and a final on XX February.

Thirty-four countries will participate in the contest, with San Marino returning 1 episode gap after its last participation in Q3-2023, while Armenia, Finland and Ireland are so to debut in this edition. No countries are opted not to participate this time.

Location

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Bidding phase

On The next day after the victory of Lebanon was announced, January 7th, the IECO has confirmed that it will suggest only one city for the hosting of the upcoming competition - Beirut, Lebanon.

Participating Countries

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Other Countries

On February 9^th, It was decided to revoke its membership from the New Zealand broadcaster due to its inactivity and non-participation. The country didn't intend to participate in this edition and withdrew the proposal to participate in the previous edition as well.

Format

Worldvision Q1-2024 became the first edition where two semi-finals were introduced.

Proposed Changes

For the Q1-2024 contest it was questioned by some of the participants with the fairness of the auto-qualification process. The advisory committee of the IECO has started negotiations to implement changes to allocating automatic spots in the Grand Final. As of now, no changes has be announced or brought to the competition

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The 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. The draw also determined which semi-final each of the four automatic qualifiers – host country Lebanon and "Top-4" countries from the previous edition (Australia, France & the United Kingdom) – would vote in and be required to broadcast.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
China Cyprus Denmark Germany Spain Switzerland	Armenia Croatia Greece Hungary Netherlands Norway	Japan Israel Portugal Serbia South Korea Thailand	Albania Finland Ireland Malta Poland Uzbekistan	Canada Italy Kazakhstan San Marino Sweden Vietnam

Entries

Thirty-four countries has confirmed their participation.Armenia, Finland and Ireland debut at the competition. San Marino and Uzbekistan has announced its returning after non-participation in the previous episode.

Contest Overview

Semi-Finals

Confirmed semi-finalists

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
	Albania
	Armenia
	Canada
	China
	Croatia
	Cyprus
	Denmark	Selin	Lovers Hurricane	English
	Finland
	Germany	Deutsches Lied
	Greece
	Hungary	Magyar Nationala
	Ireland
	Israel	TBA National Selection
	Italy
	Japan
	Kazakhstan
	Malta
	Netherlands	Nationaal Songfestival van Nederland
	Norway	TBD 16 February
	Poland	Bazzi	Heaven	English
	Portugal	Neoni	Selecting Song For Beirut
	San Marino
	Serbia
	South Korea	Share The Moment
	Spain	Bella Amor Festival
	Sweden
	Switzerland	TBA National Selection
	Thailand	Thai Next Star
	Uzbekistan	Muhammadziyo	Tabibim	Uzbek
	Vietnam

Semi-Final 1

The first semi-final will take place on XX February 2024. Fifteen countries will participate in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Unknown Country and Unknown Country, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points

Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final will take place on XX February 2024. Fifteen countries will participate in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Unknown Country and Unknown Country, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points

Final

The final will take place on XX February. Twenty-four countries will participate in the final, composed of the host country Lebanon, another three countries with its best result from the previous edition, and the ten best-ranked entries of each of the two semi-finals. All thirty-four participating countries with jury and televote, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in the final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
	Australia	Australia Decides
	France
	Lebanon	Lebanese National Selection
	United Kingdom	Worldvision You Decide
	TBD; 10 best ranked of semi-final 1
	TBD; 10 best ranked of semi-final 2

Voting

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