Worldvision Q2-2024

Worldvision Q2-2024
Woven Grooves
Dates
Semi-final 1	TBD July 2024
Semi-final 2	TBD July 2024
Final	TBD July 2024
Host
Venue	Multiusos de Guimarães, Guimarães, Portugal
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Denis Vorobyov
Host broadcaster	RTP
Participants
Number of entries	34
Debuting countries	Iceland
Returning Countries	United States
Non-returning Countries	Poland 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 2 - 2024 was the 7th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in TBA, Portugal, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q1-2024 contest with the song "Darkside" by Neoni. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster RTP. The contest was held TBA arena, and consisted of a semi-finals on XX and XX July, and a final on XX July.

Thirty-four countries will participate in the contest, with United States returning 4 episodes gap after its last participation in Q1-2023, while Iceland are so to debut in this edition. Poland and Uzbekistan announced that they would not be taking part.

Location

The Q2-2024 contest took place in Guimarães, Portugal, which received the right to host after its victory in the previous competition. It was the first time that Portugal hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 3,000-seat Multiusos de Guimarães.

City bidding process

Despite the quick and swift decision on the location, behind the doors of IECO negotiations with the broadcaster there were multiple different cities presented into discussion. IECO has advised that the capital city of Lisbon would be most probably the perfect and only way to make the show organized well on a high level. However, the RTP and Portugal has decided to invest more into developing infrastructure outside of the capital in order to boost local economy, hence the city of Lisbon has been eliminated at the very beginning of the bidding phase, even though it was advised as the most suitable selection.

Key:

†	Host city
*	Shortlisted
^	Submitted a bid

City	Venue	Notes
Lisbon*	Any	Proposed by IECO as the most suitable option.
Guimarães†	Multiusos de Guimarães	Chosen by the broadcaster

Format

Two semi-finals has stayed with the same rules in this episode. However, the juries were invited to voted in semi-finals for the first time in order to keep them as a backup of televoting and in order to research differences between the televote and the jury votes.

Changes with Semi-Final Voting

IECO has decided that all the juries are mandatory to vote in the Semi-Finals as part of the reserved voting. This means, that the Juries will vote in the Semi-Final for the first time, however their voting will not determine the finalists. It will be used only for difference comparison and as a back-up if something goes wrong with the televote representative.

Semi-Final Allocation Draw

The amount of the participants has stayed at the same level comparing to the previous episode, which means that no changes in competition format or allocation draw has been made. 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. As usually, The draw also determined which semi-final each of the four automatic qualifiers – host country Portugal and "Top-4" countries from the previous edition (Israel, Japan & Sweden) – would vote in and be required to broadcast.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
China Denmark Finland Germany Lebanon Switzerland	Australia Croatia Greece Hungary Spain United States	Armenia Canada France Iceland Serbia United Kingdom	Albania Ireland Kazakhstan Malta Netherlands Thailand	Cyprus Italy Norway San Marino South Korea Vietnam

Participating Countries

Thirty-four countries have confirmed participation this season. Iceland was set to participate for the very first time this edition, while United States has announced its returned after a four-year absence with a new broadcaster. In the meanwhile, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has not appear in the final list of the participants. The Uzbekistan broadcaster has decided to leave the IECO due to its shifted views on music and focusing more on sports and will no longer participate with at least with the current broadcaster. It was also brought to attention that Uzbekistan constantly struggle with meeting contests deadlines in the past and lack in activity, as well as showing low results at the competitions. As for the Kazakhstan, it was mentioned that it will only skip this edition due to heavy schedules in broadcasting and has promised to return in the future.

On June 21, it became known that South Korea would not take part in the competition this season, which forced the organizers to re-send an invitation to the Kazakh broadcaster to participate. On the same day it became known that Kazakhstan will replace the place of South Korea, which will miss this season. Later, on June 24 it was announced that Poland won't take place in the participation due to low results and inability to find a promising performance. The next day, the South Korean broadcaster still announced its intention to take part in the season. On July 26, the organizers of the competition finally confirmed that 34 countries would take part in the competition in Portugal.

Semi-Final 1

The first semi-final took place on XXX. Fourteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Israel and Japan, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final. For the first time, the juries will also vote in the contest. Their points will be used as a backup for any force-majors with televotes and to research the differences of the televote and juries votes and how this impacts on the finalist qualification.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Croatia	Clara Luciani	Respire Encore	French
02	San Marino	Irama	Aura Capitolo XII	Italian
03	Ireland	Robin Schulz, Topic & Oaks	One By One	English
04	Lebanon	Bade	Fragile	English, Turkish
05	Vietnam	Michael Patrick Kelly ft. Rakim	Wonders	English
06	Albania	Marlena	Red Flags	Spanish
07	France	Doda	Mama	English
08	Armenia	Lucky Love	J'veux d'la Tendresse	French
09	Netherlands	Naaz	Uproot	English
10	Hungary	ECHOS	Carousel	English
11	Finland	Jaakko Kulta	Norjalaista Puuta	Finnish
12	Greece	So Below	Hush	English
13	Canada	Henry Moodie	You Were There For Me	English
14	China	Zior Park	Christian	English
15	South Korea	Griff	Miss Me Too	English

Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final took place on XXX. Fifteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Portugal and Sweden, as well as the international observers under an aggregated vote as "Rest of the World", will vote in this semi-final. For the first time, the juries will also vote in the contest. Their points will be used as a backup for any force-majors with televotes and to research the differences of the televote and juries votes and how this impacts on the finalist qualification.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
First Half
Second Half

Final

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
	Israel	Odelly	Mon Demon	French
	Japan	Stray Kids & Lisa	Social Path	English, Korean
	Portugal	Jim Yosef, Electro-Light, Anna Yvette, Deaf Kev & Tobu	Destiny	English
	Sweden	Raye	Genesis	English

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 Belize.

Country	Full Name & Origin	IECO Membership
Albania	Diana Pie Sissy	Observer
Armenia	Vladislav Efremov	Observer
Australia	Timothy Algheren	Observer
Canada	Ilya Seleznyov	Observer
China	Darya Kudentsova	Observer
Croatia	Stevan Petkovich	Observer
Cyprus	Oleksandr Albertyan	Observer
Denmark	Elizabeth Ivanchenko	Observer
Finland	Vahid Sharifov	Observer
France	TBA	Observer
Germany	Polyna Synevich	Observer
Greece	Artsiom Chalapa	Observer
Hungary	Artyom Frolov	Observer
Iceland	TBA	Observer
Ireland	Katerina Faroupou	Observer
Israel	Evgeniya Talantseva	Observer
Italy	Sokratis Lakrindis	Observer
Japan	Misha Charny	Observer (Former North Macedonia)
Kazakhstan	Margarita Domalevskaya	Observer
Lebanon	Ivan Erofeev	Observer
Malta	Omur Hunerli	Observer
Netherlands	Anna Abramova	Observer
Norway	Ekateryna Brunt	Observer
Poland	Aleks Pagels	Observer
Portugal	Andrey Gruzdev	Observer
San Marino	Andrey Zhidenko	Observer
Serbia	Kiran Sebastian	Observer
Spain	Angelina Koledina	Observer
Sweden	Roman Dombaem	Observer
Switzerland	Javier Gutierrez	Observer
Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva	Observer
United Kingdom	Robin Bray	Observer
United States	TBA	Observer
Vietnam	TBA	Observer
The Rest Of The World	Jimmy Mardigras	Observers
	Adrien Alonso-Dussel
	Valeria Guzheva
	Alan Assonov
	Israel Kalyango

Incidents

Reducing politics in competition life

On June 8, 2024, the delegation of the Netherlands presented its representative at the competition. She turned out to be a Dutch performer with Kurdish roots, Naaz. At the end of the announcement, the hashtag “freepalestine” was indicated. The next day, June 9, the Japanese delegation requested that the Reference Group reduce political messages and slogans to a minimum, limiting them to news publications only. The Executive Supervisor, Australia has informed the Reference Group that YouTube as a platform already do censorship and if the clip exists on YouTube platform, then it is good to participate, which means that the IECO will not censor delegation choices, since they do not influence on the real political situation.

South Korea & Poland's Participation

It was confirmed by delegation of South Korea and Poland to have intentions to participate, however, South Korea was not in touch for more than one month and missed all deadlines, while Poland remained uncertain of their participation till the very last day: the county has decided to withdraw mainly because of absence of a "good fit" to represent the country and has no choices. Eventually, both countries didn't appear in the final list.