Worldvision Q1-2023

From IECO - International Eurofan's Countries Organisation
Worldvision Q1-2023
Beyond Limits
Dates
Final25 January 2023
Host
VenueAO Arena
Manchester, United Kingdom
Directed by Igor Kapsharin
Executive supervisor Mark Nightingale
Host broadcaster BBC
Participants
Number of entries24
Debuting countries Canada
China
Croatia
Denmark
Greece
Israel
Lebanon
Netherlands
North Macedonia
Serbia
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. As well as votes from international observers in are aggregated and awarded as one set of points.
Winning song San Marino
"Bellissima"
Worldvision Q1-2023

The Worldvision Song Contest Quarter 1 - 2023 was the 2nd edition of the WorldVision Song Contest. It took place in Manchester, United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the WorldVision Song Contest Q4-2022 contest with the song "Rise" by Calum Scott. Organised by the International Eurofan's Countries Organisation (IECO) and host broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The contest was held at the AO Arena, and was consisted a final on 25 January 2023.

Twenty four countries participated in the contest (fourteen european countries and ten from rest of the world). Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, Greece, Israel, Lebanon, the Netherlands, North Macedonia, Serbia and the United States participated for the first time.

The winner was San Marino with the song "Bellissima", performed by Annalisa. Australia (best result), Japan (best result), Spain and Israel rounded out the top five. Further down the table, Montenegro achieved its best result, finishing thirteenth. This was the first time that the host country, the United Kingdom, had finished in last place after winning the previous competition.

Location

AO Arena, host venue of the Q1-2023 contest.

The Q1-2023 contest took place in Manchester, the United Kingdom, following the country's victory at the Q4-2022 edition. It was the first time that the United Kingdom hosts the contest. The selected venue is the 21.000-seat Manchester Arena, currently referred to as the AO Arena for sponsorship reasons, is an indoor arena.

Format

Entries

For the Q1-2023 season, songs released on the YouTube platform no earlier than 1 October 2021 are eligible. It is planned that starting from this season, the participating countries will be able to request a special permission (quota), which will allow them to submit an entry in another language that is not provided for by the rules of the competition as being allowed to be used. One specific country will be able to use the quota once every five seasons.

Voting changes

The voting in the final consisted of the sum of votes from twenty four participating countries, which in turn gave two sets of points: the first set of points from the curators themselves (the jury), and the second set of points from the IECO observers (TV viewers). Each voter had a set of 10 Eurosystem points: 12, 10, 8, 7-1 points. However, this season, each participating country could itself appoint a voting viewer. An additional slot of points from the rest of the voters was also added.

Allocation draw

The format of the draw for this season has been changed. So along with the random selection of the number of the host country of the season (the United Kingdom, the speakers under #1 and #24 (last number) were determined. The rest of the countries were divided into two parts, after which the order of performance was determined by the organizers of the competition. The results of the draw became known on January 13, 2023.

Participating Countries

On December 14, 2022, it was published that 23 countries will take part in the upcoming competition. However, on December 28, 2022, the contest organizers officially announced that Israel would join the other 23 participating countries.

Final

The final voting took place on 14-18 January 2023. Twenty-four countries participated in the final, which were announced on 25 January 2023.

# Country Artist Song Language(s) Place Points
01 Norway Muse Won't Stand Down English 20 88
02 Sweden Mimi Webb Good Without English 7 143
03 Serbia Tom Grennan Don’t Break The Heart English 11 113
04 San Marino Annalisa Bellissima Italian 1 235
05 Denmark Vera Blue Temper English 19 96
06 China Sam Smith & Kim Petras Unholy English 9 120
07 Hungary Faouzia Puppet English 12 111
08 South Korea Jung Kook Dreamers English, Arabic 16 103
09 Portugal Joel Corry & Mabel I Wish English 17 101
10 North Macedonia Millie Turner Eye Of The Storm English 21 71
11 Greece Paramore This Is Why English 22 59
12 Spain Tom Gregory Footprints English 4 164
13 Israel Lana Lubany The Snake English, Arabic 5 158
14 United Kingdom The 1975 Oh Caroline English 24 34
15 Japan Natumi Parts Japanese, English 3 169
16 Canada Bella Poarch Living Hell English 6 156
17 Thailand Lemony Aow Yang Ah Thai 23 37
18 Australia Cxloe New Trick English 2 218
19 Croatia Doja Cat Get Into It English 18 100
20 Kazakhstan Ayau Sybyrlaiyn Kazakh 15 103
21 United States Magnet Brain Sunmandana English 13 106
22 Netherlands Naaz Azadî Kurdish 14 104
23 Montenegro David Guetta & Bebe Rexha I'm Good (Blue) English 8 136
24 Lebanon Todrick Hall Pre-Madonna English 10 117

Voting

Grand Final Voting

Grand Final voting results (jury vote)
Total score
Televoting score
Norway
Sweden
Serbia
San Marino
Denmark
China
Hungary
South Korea
Portugal
North Macedonia
Greece
Spain
Israel
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
Thailand
Australia
Croatia
Kazakhstan
United States
Netherlands
Montenegro
Lebanon
Contestants
Norway 88 45
Sweden 143 89
Serbia 113 53
San Marino 235 116
Denmark 96 59
China 120 57
Hungary 111 54
South Korea 103 57
Portugal 101 57
North Macedonia 71 35
Greece 59 28
Spain 164 86
Israel 158 94
United Kingdom 34 10
Japan 169 58
Canada 156 78
Thailand 37 12
Australia 218 98
Croatia 100 54
Kazakhstan 103 43
United States 106 49
Netherlands 104 47
Montenegro 136 111
Lebanon 117 60
Grand Final voting results (televote)
Total score
Jury score
Norway
Sweden
Serbia
San Marino
Denmark
China
Hungary
South Korea
Portugal
North Macedonia
Greece
Spain
Israel
United Kingdom
Japan
Canada
Thailand
Australia
Croatia
Kazakhstan
United States
Netherlands
Montenegro
Lebanon
Rest of the World
Contestants
Norway 88 43
Sweden 143 54 8
Serbia 113 60
San Marino 235 119 12
Denmark 96 37 5
China 120 63
Hungary 111 57
South Korea 103 46
Portugal 101 44
North Macedonia 71 36 7
Greece 59 31 10
Spain 164 78 3
Israel 158 64 6
United Kingdom 34 24
Japan 169 111 4
Canada 156 78 1
Thailand 37 25
Australia 218 120 2
Croatia 100 46
Kazakhstan 103 60
United States 106 57
Netherlands 104 57
Montenegro 136 25
Lebanon 117 57

Split Results

Split results (Grand Final)
Place Combined Jury Televoting
Country Points Country Points Country Points
1 San Marino 235 Australia 120 San Marino 116
2 Australia 218 San Marino 119 Montenegro 111
3 Japan 169 Japan 111 Australia 98
4 Spain 164 Spain 78 Israel 94
5 Israel 158 Canada 78 Sweden 89
6 Canada 156 Israel 64 Spain 86
7 Sweden 143 China 63 Canada 78
8 Montenegro 136 Serbia 60 Lebanon 60
9 China 120 Kazakhstan 60 Denmark 59
10 Lebanon 117 Lebanon 57 Japan 58
11 Serbia 113 Hungary 57 China 57
12 Hungary 111 United States 57 South Korea 57
13 United States 106 Netherlands 57 Portugal 57
14 Netherlands 104 Sweden 54 Hungary 54
15 Kazakhstan 103 South Korea 46 Croatia 54
16 South Korea 103 Croatia 46 Serbia 53
17 Portugal 101 Portugal 44 United States 49
18 Croatia 100 Norway 43 Netherlands 47
19 Denmark 96 Denmark 37 Norway 45
20 Norway 88 North Macedonia 36 Kazakhstan 43
21 North Macedonia 71 Greece 31 North Macedonia 35
22 Greece 59 Montenegro 25 Greece 28
23 Thailand 37 Thailand 25 Thailand 12
24 United Kingdom 34 United Kingdom 24 United Kingdom 10

International Jury Voting

Detailed vote from the rest of the world
Place Country Points
AP

LM

JM

JG

FK
1 San Marino 12 2.8 1 4 4 3 2
2 Greece 10 6.2 2 8 15 2 4
3 Sweden 8 7.0 7 11 10 4 3
4 North Macedonia 7 7.2 4 2 13 6 11
5 Israel 6 8.8 11 14 17 1 1
6 Denmark 5 9.0 10 3 14 11 7
7 Japan 4 10.0 3 23 8 8 8
8 Spain 3 10.2 14 6 1 15 15
9 Australia 2 10.8 6 16 2 10 20
10 Canada 1 11.8 16 18 9 7 9
11 Serbia 12.2 19 1 6 17 18
12 Hungary 12.2 12 12 3 13 21
13 Norway 12.2 8 13 21 9 10
14 Portugal 13.0 17 20 11 12 5
15 United States 13.4 15 15 5 16 16
16 Netherlands 13.8 9 17 19 5 19
17 Montenegro 14.2 23 5 7 14 22
18 Thailand 14.8 5 21 16 18 14
19 South Korea 15.6 18 22 12 20 6
20 Kazakhstan 16.6 22 7 20 21 13
21 United Kingdom 17.0 13 19 22 19 12
22 Croatia 17.2 20 9 18 22 17
23 China 21.0 24 10 24 24 23
24 Lebanon 23.0 21 24 23 23 24

12 points

12 points awarded by the juries
# Recipient Countries giving 12 points
4 San Marino Australia, China, Norway, United States
3 Canada Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Montenegro
2 Australia South Korea, Sweden
Spain Portugal, Thailand
Lebanon North Macedonia, San Marino
Netherlands Hungary, Israel
1 Israel United Kingdom
Sweden Japan
China Serbia
Serbia Canada
Kazakhstan Netherlands
Portugal Spain
Norway Greece
North Macedonia Denmark
Greece Croatia
12 points awarded by the televoting
# Recipient Countries giving 12 points
3 San Marino Montenegro, South Korea, the Rest of the World
Australia Canada, Israel, Norway
Israel Australia, Netherlands, United States
South Korea Japan, San Marino, Serbia
2 Montenegro Croatia, Thailand
Serbia Hungary, Sweden
1 Spain North Macedonia
Sweden Denmark
China Spain
Lebanon Kazakhstan
Hungary China
Portugal Lebanon
Croatia Portugal
Norway Greece
Thailand United Kingdom

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 compatability of points with the Jury Member. International viewers were introduced this year, they award an additional one set of points based on the average places of theit rating. They are invited by IECO from around the world, whoever is interested to be involved and consist of five members.

Country Full Name & Origin IECO Membership
Australia Timothy Ahlgren Observer
Canada Bahdan Hrymalyuk Observer
China Dmitri Lubyanov Observer
Croatia Ilya Pashnin Observer
Denmark Viktor Pevchev Observer
Greece Artsiom Chalapa Observer
Hungary Franklyn Baldacchino Observer
Israel Zhenya Talantseva Observer
Japan Zied Kurbanov Uzbekistan
Kazakhstan Margarita Domalevskaya Observer
Lebanon Egor Tarashkevich Observer
Montenegro Ivan Balokha Observer
Netherlands Anna Abramova Observer
North Macedonia Sasha Rimsky Observer
Norway Artyom Frolov Observer
Portugal Anastasia Demakina Observer
San Marino Denis Nikitin Vietnam
Serbia Kiran Sebastian Observer
South Korea Andrey Nikitin Observer
Spain Diana Nizamova Observer
Sweden Roman Dombaem Observer
Thailand Juliya Savelyeva Observer
United Kingdom Igor Slon Observer
United States Ilya Rezvanov Observer
Template:XXW Alexander Pabon
Jimmy Mardigras
Joeri Groen
Observers
Lukas Mariehamn Poland
Fyodor Kotlyarov Cyprus

Incidents

the United States voting

Irregular voting patterns during TV Voting

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