Worldvision Q3-2024

Worldvision Q3-2024
We Write The Story
Dates
Semi-final 1	14 December 2024
Semi-final 2	15 December 2024
Final	27 December 2024
Host
Venue	Quần Ngựa Sports Palace, Hanoi, Vietnam
Executive supervisor	Mark Solovyov
Executive producer	Denis Nikitin
Host broadcaster	VTV
Participants
Number of entries	37
Debuting countries	Azerbaijan Belgium Brazil Russia
Returning Countries	New Zealand North Macedonia Poland
Non-returning Countries	China Finland Greece Malta
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.
Winning song	Israel "Ruin Me"

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 3 - 2024 was the 8th edition of the Worldvision Song Contest. It is set to take place in Hanoi, Vietnam, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q2-2024 contest with the song "Wonders" by Michael Patrick Kelly featuring Rakim. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster VTV. The contest was held Quần Ngựa Sports Palace, and consisted of a semi-finals on 14 and 15 December 2024, and a final on 27 December 2024.

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.

The winner was Israel with the song "Ruin Me", performed by Elevator Boys. Norway, France, Germany and Poland (best result) rounded out the top five. The following countries improved their results: Iceland and North Macedonia. Azerbaijan, Belgium and Brazil qualified for the final for the first time. It was the first time that Japan, Spain and Russia (the debuting country) failed to make it to the final.

Location

The Q3-2024 contest took place in Hanoi, Vietnam. This was the first time the competition was held in Southeast Asia. The venue chosen for the competition was an Quần Ngựa Sports Palace with a capacity of up to 5,500 spectators.

Production

Slogan and Visual Design

An official slogan (motto) becoming permanent from Q3-2024 edition

Format

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.

Voting changes

On December 5, 2024, changes were announced to the rules for voting in the semi-finals, as well as in the audience voting.

Voting in the semi-finals

In the semi-finals, both the audience and the jury of the countries participating in the semi-finals could now vote equally in a 50% to 50% ratio. Previously, only the audience of the countries participating in the semi-finals and auto-finals could vote in the semi-finals.

Audience voting

Since this season, the format of the viewer voting has been simplified. Due to the fact that not every competing country could provide viewer voting from itself, the organizers of the competition decided to simplify the viewer voting. So each country was not obliged to conduct viewer voting from itself, and also, if desired, to have up to two viewers from its country. Now viewers from their countries could vote for the country from which they were nominated, that is, now viewers were not completely burdened with voting.

The number of voting viewers did not necessarily have to be equal to the number of countries participating in the voting in the semi-finals and final. Now the final vote of the viewers for each participating application was translated proportionally to the final points, the sum of which had to be equal to the total number of points given to the jury.

Artificial intelligence

This was the first time that an artificial intelligence was allowed to vote as one of the viewers in all the shows of the season.

Expanding the finale

The final was now expanded from 24 to 26 participating countries. The top-5 finalists of the previous season automatically qualified for the final, and the sixth auto-finalist was the country leading in the total number of points scored.

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.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4	Pot 5
Belgium Brazil Denmark Germany Lebanon New Zealand Switzerland	Albania Armenia Azerbaijan France Iceland Italy	Australia Croatia Hungary Kazakhstan Poland Sweden	Canada Cyprus Netherlands Norway Russia San Marino	Japan North Macedonia Portugal Spain United Kingdom United States

Participating Countries

Thirty-six countries have confirmed participation this season. Azerbaijan, Belgium, Brazil and Russia was set to participate for the very first time this edition, while Poland and North Macedonia has announced its returned after a one- and five-episodes absence, China, Finland, Greece and Malta has not appear in the final list of the participants broadcaster.

The withdrawal of the Greek broadcaster was due to sanctions from IECO due to the low interest of the Greek broadcaster in participating and the delays in voting (in other cases, not sending the vote of its jury). IECO said that the suspension of Greece will only be for one season, after which the Greek broadcaster.

On December 2, the contest organisers announced that New Zealand would join the competition in Hanoi, becoming the thirty-seventh participating country.

Semi-Final 1

The second semi-final took place on 14 December 2024. Fifteen countries took part in the first semi-final. Those countries plus Ireland, Israel and Vietnam will vote in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Hungary	Loi	Bad Idea	English	12	99
02	Cyprus	Ummet Ozcan	Xanadu	Imaginary	14	32
03	Belgium	Nour	Vers Le Haut	French	3	204
04	New Zealand	Blake Roman, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg	Poison	English	6	153
05	Armenia	Sejla Zonic	Dert	Serbian	10	128
06	North Macedonia	Barbara Argyrou	Ukulele	English	5	182
07	Norway	CHUNG HA	I'm ready	English, Korean	1	246
08	Iceland	Demi The Daredevil	Withering Heights	English	7	150
09	Kazakhstan	LSP	Diamonds (Бриллианты)	Russian	15	29
10	United Kingdom	Jacqueline Fernandez	Stormrider	English	9	141
11	Netherlands	Flemming	Onweer In M'n Hoofd	Dutch	13	86
12	Germany	Rondé	Undecided	English	4	186
13	Portugal	Crash Adams	Give Me A Kiss	English	8	143
14	Italy	Giorgia	Niente di male	Italian	11	104
15	Sweden	Winona Oak	Radio	English	2	205

Voting in the 1st Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All 15 countries competing in the first semi-final voted, alongside Ireland, Israel and Vietnam. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

The 1st Semi-Final voting results Total score Televoting score Hungary Cyprus Belgium New Zealand Armenia North Macedonia Norway Iceland Kazakhstan United Kingdom Netherlands Germany Portugal Italy Sweden Israel Vietnam Ireland Contestants Hungary 99 26 2 5 6 7 1 5 7 6 5 2 1 4 8 8 6 Cyprus 32 11 4 6 7 1 3 Belgium 204 99 12 1 3 1 4 3 7 12 5 12 7 1 10 7 12 8 New Zealand 153 99 2 3 5 10 2 2 1 8 3 6 3 5 4 Armenia 128 58 3 6 3 1 12 5 6 8 3 3 12 2 6 North Macedonia 182 69 8 12 7 10 12 8 4 7 10 4 7 8 12 2 2 Norway 246 135 4 6 5 8 8 10 2 12 1 12 12 6 12 10 3 Iceland 150 80 4 6 7 7 2 8 5 8 10 6 7 Kazakhstan 29 7 6 10 5 1 United Kingdom 141 77 1 7 1 4 12 10 4 1 2 6 7 2 7 Netherlands 86 29 10 7 3 4 3 3 3 3 5 4 12 Germany 186 113 5 5 2 8 2 5 8 12 10 5 1 10 Portugal 143 66 4 10 12 3 1 8 7 4 4 4 5 10 5 Italy 104 29 6 8 12 2 6 2 5 10 10 6 3 1 4 Sweden 205 146 7 10 8 10 4 1 6 2 8 2 1

Split results (First Semi-Final) Place Combined Jury Televoting Country Points Country Points Country Points 1 NOR 246 MKD 113 SWE 146 2 SWE 205 NOR 111 NOR 35 3 BEL 204 BEL 105 DEU 113 4 DEU 186 PRT 77 BEL 99 5 MKD 182 ITA 75 NZL 99 6 NZL 153 HUN 73 ISL 80 7 ISL 150 DEU 73 GBR 77 8 PRT 143 ARM 70 MKD 69 9 GBR 141 ISL 70 PRT 66 10 ARM 128 GBR 64 ARM 58 11 ITA 104 SWE 59 NLD 29 12 HUN 99 NLD 57 ITA 29 13 NLD 86 NZL 54 HUN 26 14 CYP 32 KAZ 22 CYP 11 15 KAZ 29 CYP 21 KAZ 7

12 points

12 points awarded by the jury

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
4	Norway	Germany, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom
	Belgium	Hungary, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Vietnam
3	North Macedonia	Cyprus, Israel, Norway
2	Armenia	Italy, North Macedonia
1	Germany	Iceland
	Portugal	New Zealand
	United Kingdom	Armenia
	Italy	Belgium
	Netherlands	Ireland

Semi-Final 2

The second semi-final took place on 15 December 2024. Sixteen countries took part in the second semi-final. Those countries plus Serbia, South Korea and Thailand will vote in this semi-final.

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	San Marino	M-22, Ella Henderson	Heartstrings	English	9	141
02	United States	Tate McRae	What Would You Do?	English	11	113
03	Russia	Lolita	Marlen (Марлен)	Russian	12	112
04	Spain	Ava Max	EveryTime I Cry	English	13	112
05	Croatia	Tea Tairović	Da Si Najbolji	Serbian	16	55
06	Australia	Cloudy June	Big Girls Don't Cry	English	5	161
07	Albania	Tayna	Obsesion	Albanian	8	149
08	Brazil	Alexia Evellyn	Savage Daughters	English	3	185
09	Denmark	Ofenbach, Salem Ilese	Feelings Don't Lie	English	2	191
10	Azerbaijan	Zeynep Bastik	Ara	Turkish	6	158
11	France	Naomi Scott	Blood On White Satin	English	1	216
12	Poland	Carolina Deslandes	Eu Deixei	Portuguese	7	157
13	Japan	Babymetal ft. Electric Callboy‬	Ratatata	English, Japanese	15	78
14	Lebanon	Elyanna	Al Sham (الشام)	Arabic, English	4	166
15	Canada	Tina Arena	Church	English	10	125
16	Switzerland	&Team	Under the skin	English, Japanese	14	85

Voting in the 2nd Semi-Final

Each country had a televoting who awarded 12, 10, 8 - 1 point(s) to their top seven songs. All 16 countries competing in the second semi-final voted, alongside Serbia, South Korea and Thailand. The ten qualifying countries were announced in no particular order, and the full results of how each country voted was published after the final had been held.

The 2nd Semi-Final voting results Total score Televoting score San Marino United States Russia Spain Croatia Australia Albania Brasil Denmark Azerbaijan France Poland Japan Lebanon Canada Switzerland Serbia South Korea Thailand Contestants San Marino 141 65 2 4 5 2 3 1 6 12 7 3 3 5 7 8 8 United States 113 65 Russia 112 65 Spain 112 42 Croatia 55 10 Australia 161 49 Albania 149 85 Brazil 185 85 Denmark 191 114 Azerbaijan 158 82 France 216 130 Poland 157 88 Japan 78 49 Lebanon 166 59 Canada 125 91 Switzerland 85 23

Split results (Second Semi-Final) Place Combined Jury Televoting Country Points Country Points Country Points 1 FRA 216 AUS 112 FRA 130 2 DNK 191 LBN 107 DNK 114 3 BRA 185 BRA 100 CAN 91 4 LBN 166 FRA 86 POL 88 5 AUS 161 DNK 77 ALB 85 6 AZE 158 SMR 76 BRA 85 7 POL 157 AZE 76 AZE 82 8 ALB 149 ESP 70 SMR 65 9 SMR 141 POL 69 USA 65 10 CAN 125 ALB 64 RUS 65 11 USA 113 CHE 62 LBN 59 12 RUS 112 USA 48 AUS 49 13 ESP 112 RUS 47 JPN 49 14 CHE 85 HRV 45 ESP 42 15 JPN 78 CAN 34 CHE 23 16 HRV 55 JPN 29 HRV 10

12 points

12 points awarded by the jury

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Final

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Brazil	Alexia Evellyn	Savage Daughters	English	6	191
02	Sweden	Winona Oak	Radio	English	8	183
03	Lebanon	Elyanna	Al Sham (الشام)	Arabic, English	10	179
04	Israel	Elevator Boys	Ruin Me	English	1	276
05	San Marino	M-22, Ella Henderson	Heartstrings	English	7	185
06	Belgium	Nour	Vers Le Haut	French	20	133
07	Germany	Rondé	Undecided	English	4	234
08	Thailand	BUS	Liar	Thai	26	58
09	Denmark	Ofenbach, Salem Ilese	Feelings Don't Lie	English	9	181
10	Serbia	Florrie	Kissing in the Cold	English	21	127
11	Vietnam	Kaeyra	Sour	English	15	150
12	New Zealand	Blake Roman, Sam Haft & Andrew Underberg	Poison	English	18	136
13	Azerbaijan	Zeynep Bastik	Ara	Turkish	25	106
14	Australia	Cloudy June	Big Girls Don't Cry	English	13	166
15	Poland	Carolina Deslandes	Eu Deixei	Portuguese	5	209
16	South Korea	Thorsteinn Einarsson	Hotel Heartache	English	12	169
17	Norway	CHUNG HA	I'm ready	English, Korean	2	268
18	Canada	Tina Arena	Church	English	23	114
19	France	Naomi Scott	Blood On White Satin	English	3	240
20	Albania	Tayna	Obsesion	Albanian	24	114
21	Portugal	Crash Adams	Give Me A Kiss	English	22	121
22	United Kingdom	Jacqueline Fernandez	Stormrider	English	17	138
23	Ireland	Nanul	Tu	Armenian	16	139
24	Iceland	Demi The Daredevil	Withering Heights	English	11	177
25	North Macedonia	Barbara Argyrou	Ukulele	English	14	162
26	Armenia	Sejla Zonic	Dert	Serbian	19	136

Voting in the Grand Final

Grand Final voting results (jury)

		Total score	Televoting score	Brazil	Sweden	Lebanon	Israel	San Marino	Belgium	Germany	Thailand	Denmark	Serbia	Vietnam	New Zealand	Azerbaijan	Australia	Poland	South Korea	Norway	Canada	France	Albania	Portugal	United Kingdom	Ireland	Iceland	North Macedonia	Armenia
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	Sweden
	Lebanon
	Israel
	San Marino
	Belgium
	Germany
	Thailand
	Denmark
	Serbia
	Vietnam
	New Zealand
	Azerbaijan
	Australia
	Poland
	South Korea
	Norway
	Canada
	France
	Albania
	Portugal
	United Kingdom
	Ireland
	Iceland
	North Macedonia
	Armenia

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12 points

12 points awarded by the juries # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 4 3 2 1

12 points awarded by the televoting # Recipient Countries giving 12 points 3 2 1

Public voting representatives of participating countries

The viewers of the participating countries could be other members of the organization or other invited persons. Each competing participating country could invite up to two spectators.

This was the first season for the participation of viewers from Ethiopia and Philippines.

Grand Final (20)		First Semi-Final (11)		Second Semi-Final (12)
Country	Name & Origin	Country	Name & Origin	Country	Name & Origin
ROTW	Valeria Guzheva	ROTW	Valeria Guzheva	ROTW	Valeria Guzheva
	Jimmy Mardigras		Jimmy Mardigras		Jimmy Mardigras
	Gemechis Biranu Merga		Gemechis Biranu Merga		Gemechis Biranu Merga
	Kiran Sebastian		Kiran Sebastian		Kiran Sebastian
	Isindra Joy		Isindra Joy		Isindra Joy
	AI (GPT-4o)		AI (GPT-4o)		AI (GPT-4o)
Albania	Diana Pie Sissy	Norway	Ekateryna Brunt	France	Danylo Baryshnyk
Armenia	Marina Demyanik	Ireland	Katerina Faroupou		Jakub Plewiński
Azerbaijan	Vahid Sharifov	Armenia	Marina Demyanik	Albania	Diana Pie Sissy
Australia	Timothy Algheren	Germany	Polyna Synevich	Thailand	Juliya Savelyeva
Germany	Polyna Synevich	Iceland	Ruslana Savchenko	Australia	Timothy Algheren
Israel	Televote Name			Azerbaijan	Vahid Sharifov
France	Danylo Baryshnyk
	Jakub Plewiński
Norway	Ekateryna Brunt
	Televote Name
Netherlands	Televote Name
Iceland	Ruslana Savchenko
Ireland	Katerina Faroupou
South Korea	Televote Name
United States	Televote Name