Worldvision Second Chance Q1-2023

Worldvision Second Chance Q1-2023
Dates
Final	2 June 2023
Host
Venue	An Online Competition
Executive supervisor	Mark Nightingale
Host broadcaster	contest of United Kingdom
Participants
Number of entries	11
Debuting countries	China Lebanon Portugal Thailand
Returning Countries	None
Non-returning Countries	Kazakhstan Netherlands
Participation map
Vote
Voting system	Each country awarded 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point(s) to their 7 favourite songs
Winning song	South Korea "POP!"

The Worldvision Second Chance Q1-2023 - was the 2nd edition of the Worldvision Second Chance that has been ever made. The contest took place on 2 June 2023.

Eleven countries held their open national selections and two countries organized consultations to select an application from their shortlist for participation in Worldvision Q1-2023. China, Lebanon, Portugal and Thailand joined, while Kazakhstan and the Netherlands withdrew. The United States was originally supposed to debut as well, but due to the refusal to vote in the main competition, the country was withdrawn from participation in the second chance.

The winner was the South Korea with the song "POP!", performed by Nayeon. Australia, Japan, Sweden and Spain rounded out the top five.

Location

The competition was held in an online version and did not assume a host country.

Format

On February 10, 2023, it became known that ten countries were able to fully conduct their selections for Worldvision Q1-2023. According to the rules of the competition, all these countries qualify for the second chance competition. Later, Hungary was added to this list of countries. The competition was held in the format of one final.

Entries

Eligibility to the countries was provided based on the presence of the national selection or if they have made a short-list or a decision to change the song.

Participating Countries

The countries listed below are eligible to participate after an open selection or the publication of a shortlist of applications for participation. Eleven countries were allowed to participate in the second chance.

Final

#	Country	Artist	Song	Language(s)	Place	Points
01	Sweden	Aiko	Daughter of the Sun	English	4	54
02	Spain	Nick Jonas	This Is Heaven	English	5	46
03	South Korea	Nayeon	POP!	Korean	1	74
04	Australia	Azure Ryder	Some Kind Of Love	English	2	68
05	Hungary	Olivia Adams	Fool Me Once	English	11	21
06	China	Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa	Sweetest Pie	English	10	22
07	Japan	Rina Sawayama	This Hell	English	3	56
08	Thailand	Matcha	Just One Night	English, Thai	6	36
09	Portugal	Coldplay	Higher Power	English	9	30
10	Lebanon	Rose Gray	Promise Me	English	8	33
11	United Kingdom	Hamzaa and Miraa May	In Between	English	7	33

Other Countries

• United States - has made national selection as per the rules and eligible to participate, however due to the breach of the rules while participating at the main contest - has been disqualified from participation at Worldvision Second Chance Q1-2023
  

Voting

Each country had a jury who awarded 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 point(s) to their top seven songs.

Grand Final voting results

		Total score	Sweden	Spain	South Korea	Australia	Hungary	China	Japan	Thailand	Portugal	Lebanon	United Kingdom
Contestants	Sweden	54			12	12	2	1	8	1	12	4	2
	Spain	46	10		8		10		6	2	10
	South Korea	74		8		8		12	10	6	8	10	12
	Australia	68	8	4	6		12	10	12	8	4		4
	Hungary	21	6	1				6				8
	China	22	4	6							6	6
	Japan	56		12		4	8	8		12	1	1	10
	Thailand	36		10	2	1		2	1		2	12	6
	Portugal	30	1		10	2	4		2	10			1
	Lebanon	33	2		4	10	1	4	4				8
	United Kingdom	33	12	2	1	6	6			4		2

12 Points

12 points awarded by the countries

#	Recipient	Countries giving 12 points
3	Sweden	Australia, Portugal, South Korea
2	South Korea	China, United Kingdom
	Australia	Hungary, Japan
	Japan	Spain, Thailand
1	Thailand	Lebanon
	United Kingdom	Sweden

Incidents

• China - China's second place of the national selection has been taken by Montenegro to compete at the main contest. This leaves China with no choice but to send the entry that finished 3rd at the national selection. If the third would be also taken by someone, the rules would have not allow China to choose 4th place and participate.
• Hungary - The country has made a shortlist with no proper national selection, and granted with participation after requesting to do so. However, many contestants shared their views that this was not a proper national selection, hence the country is not eligible to participate. The decision was not revoked, but the participant was informed that the selection rules has to be revised inside the country