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The <strong>Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 3 - 2024</strong> was the 8th edition of the [[Worldvision Song Contest]]. It is set to take place in [[:en:Hanoi|Hanoi]], [[Vietnam]], following the country's victory at the [[Worldvision Q2-2024|WorldVision Song Contest Q2-2024]] contest with the song "Wonders" by [[:en:Michael Patrick Kelly|Michael Patrick Kelly]] featuring [[:en:Rakim|Rakim]]. Organised by the [[Main Page|International Eurofan's Countries Organisation]] (IECO) and host broadcaster [[:en:Vietnam Television|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-~~six~~ countries will participate in the contest, with [[Azerbaijan]], [[Belgium]], [[Brazil]] and [[Russia]] participating for the first time. [[Poland]] and [[North Macedonia]] returning after one- and five-episodes absences respectively. [[China]], [[Finland]], [[Greece]] and [[Malta]] announced that they would not be taking part.

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 ==

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== 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~~.

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.

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