Worldvision Q4-2022

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The Worldvision Song Contest Summer 2022 - is set to be the 1st edition of the Worldvision Song Contest that has been ever made. It is set to take place in Barcelona, Spain. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster Televisión Española (TVE), the contest will be held at the Palau Sant Jordi Arena, and will consist of a final on 23 July 2022.

Worldvision Summer 2022
Binding Melodies
File:S2022-logo.png
Dates
Final23 July 2022
Host
VenuePalau Sant Jordi
Barcelona, Spain
Presenter(s)T.B.A
Directed by Sergey Ladysev
Executive supervisor Mark Nightingale
Executive producer Pasha Kulik
Host broadcaster TVE
Participants
Number of entries29
Debuting countries Australia
Belarus
Canada
China
Denmark
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
North Macedonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Netherlands
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Returning CountriesNone
Non-returning CountriesNone
Participation map
Vote
Voting systemEach country awards two sets of 12, 10, 8–1 points to 10 songs: the first from a professional jury, the second from viewers.
Nul points in finalN/A
Winning songT.B.A.
Worldvision Summer 2022

This will be the first time that Spain hosts the contest. Twenty nine countries will take part in the contest (twenty one european countries and eight from rest of the world), but only eighteen of them will pass through the screening stage by rating-odds.

Location

The summer'22 contest will take place in Barcelona, Spain. It will be the first time that Spain hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 18.000-seat Palau Sant Jordi Arena, is an indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose indoor arena.

Bidding phase

Main article: Bids for the Worldvision Summer 2022

IECO has announced the call for applications for the competition, which will be accepted from 2 to 3 May 2022. On the evening of May 3, after considering the applications, the referent group published four official candidates for the right to accept the competition:

Summer 2022 host city election – ballot results
Bid Capacity Round 1 Round 2
  Spain, Barcelona; Palau Sant Jordi Arena 18.000 5 9
  South Korea, Gangneung; Gangneung Ice Arena 12.000 3 5
  United Kingdom, London; O2 Arena 20.000 3 3
  United States, Tulsa; BOK Center 19.200 1
Total ballots 12 17

Bidding took place using two rounds of voting. After the first round, the bid from the United States left the bidding race. In the second round of voting, Spain's bid won the majority of the votes, which eliminated the need for a third round of voting.

Production

Visual design

The logo and slogan of the contest were announced on 1 June 2022.

 
An official slogan (motto) for the Summer 2022 edition

Presenters

Opening and interval acts

Format

Entries

For the Summer 2022 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 July 2021 are eligible. Quotas, which could be requested by the participating countries in order to be able to exhibit a composition in a language other than the main language of the country, will not be distributed in the debut season.

Allocation draw

The draw to determine the participating countries' final will place on 26 Juny 2022. 16 countries will be divided into two parts of 8 countries by random selection.

The order of performance of the finalists will be known on 1 July 2022. The order will be determined by the organizers of the competition.

Participating Countries

As of 1 May 2022, twenty nine countries have confirmed their intention to participate in the Summer 2022 edition, but only sixteen will promotion to the grand final. On 18 May 2022, the organizers of the competition decided to automatically admit Australia and Japan to the final. These countries were recognized as the founding countries of the competition. It was also announced that the final will be increased from 16 to 18 participating countries.

The Odds stage

Winning Odds will be annonce on 20 June 2022.

Rank Country Artist Song Language(s) Winning Odds
TBD 20 June 2022   Belarus TBD 20 June 2022
  Canada Aurora Giving In To The Love English
  China Layla May Sea In Your Eyes English
  Denmark TBD 4 June 2022
  Germany
  Greece Hatchie Quicksand English
  Hungary Adele Oh My God English
  Ireland
  Italy
  Kazakhstan Polnalyubvi Your Eyes Russian
  Kenya Sabrina Carpenter Fast Times English
  North Macedonia TBD 3 June 2022
  Norway OneRepublic Someday English
  Poland
  Portugal TBD 4 June 2022
  Russia
  San Marino Siames No Lullaby English
  Serbia
  South Korea TBD 10 June 2022
  Sweden
  Switzerland Imagine Dragons & JID Enemy English
  Thailand Slot Machine PhiangWaichai Thai
  Netherlands TBD 7 June 2022
  Ukraine Tucha It's Your Fault Ukrainian
  United Kingdom TBD 10 June 2022
  United States Emmi Drum English

Final

The final will take place on 23 July 2022. Eighteen countries will participate in the final, which will be announced on 20 June 2022.

Draw Country Artist Song Language(s)
TBD 1 July 2022   Australia Meg Mac Is It Worth Being Sad English
  Japan TBD 10 June 2022
  Spain TBD 1-10 June 2022
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Incidents

French artist

On 17 May 2022, the organizers of the competition announced the possible withdrawal of France from the competition. As is well known later that day, the French delegation was greatly offended by the ridicule of a possible representative of the country. The clip of a possible representative, in the opinion of the contest supervisor, did not have a full competitive look. In response to the non-admission of the entry, the head of the French delegation said that he wanted to switch to the curation of Argentina, as he expressed a desire to submit Latin-American compositions to the competition, which would not be allowed to be curated by France due to the presence of quotas for languages ​​in the competition. On May 18, at an extraordinary meeting of the members of the organizational group of the competition, they decided to satisfy the initial request of Nikita Likhanov to curate Monaco, which was not initially included in the lists for participation.

Withdrawal of Kenya

On 18 May 2022, Alexander Kustov, curator of Kenya, announced his refusal to participate in the competition in the future. The reason for this, as it turned out later, was the political views on the military events in Ukraine in 2022, which were fundamentally opposite to the main number of curators of the competition. On May 19, competition supervisor Mark Nightingale announced that Kenya was not officially removed from the competition. However, on 26 May, the curator of the country returned to full participation.

Withdrawal of Japan, Monaco and New Zealand

Prior to the situation with the curators of Japan, New Zealand and Monaco, a chatbot was installed in the contest chat to calculate activity. Australia did not like the very active set of activities of the curator of Japan, after which he accused Japan of deliberately cheating the rating. As a result of the disputes, the Japan Curator, along with the New Zealand and Monaco Curators (who supported the Japanese Curator's side), were excluded from the chat. However, on May 30, after two-sided negotiations between the curators of Australia and Japan, a compromise was reached, according to which Japan returns to participate in the competition with the following concessions: the date for announcing the representative of the country will be shifted to May 15, 2022 (due to shifts in the selection dates due to the impossibility of announcing the participants in the selection 26 and May 28) and a free choice of a part of the final. The curators of New Zealand and Monaco were not returned before the competition and were automatically removed from it.

Rating rates of Ukraine

On June 2, 2022, after the morning update of the competition rates, it turned out that the competition composition from Ukraine moved to the first line of the rating, which displeased a number of participating curators from Canada, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Greece, China, North Macedonia. The fact is that in a separate survey of each announced application, the participants noticed the fact that Ukraine's application was rated worse than the others and it is very illogical to observe the country in first place in the rates. The curator of Japan confirmed that back in May 2022, he requested a scheme and formula for calculating the rating for each participating country, but no answer was received, which led to big questions. The curator of China called the finding of Ukraine in the first place as a "show of compassion", and the curator of Hungary threatened to withdraw the country from participating in the competition if no explanations were received from the organizers of the competition. In the evening, a table was announced with data analysis based on the results of each poll of announced applications, and it turned out that, according to data reconciliation, Ukraine's application was located on the penultimate of 13 announced compositions. It is noteworthy that China, which was placed in 7th place in the rating rates, turned out to be the absolute favorite in the poll. On the evening of June 2, 2022, the curator of Australia reported that the data from the poll of the Ukrainian application was not taken into account for the calculation of rating rates, which re-introduced the dissatisfaction of the curators of Canada, China and Hungary. The curators of Japan, Kazakhstan and the Netherlands expressed mild dissatisfaction about this.

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