Globalvision Song Contest

The Globalvision Song Contest (or simply Globalvision or GV) began in May 2017, right after the end of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017. It was brought to life by @TeenIdle, who became the host of the game and one of the jury members.

The format is similar to the Eurovision system, but is adapted to online context and to just a reduced number of people. Every participant has to choose a country (not only from Europe) and then send a song to represent it. Then the host reveals the countries and their songs in different days, following a randomly generated draw. After the last country is posted the voting begins, every participant has to vote on his or hers most favorite songs with the top 10 of each participant getting a certain ammount of points depending on their position in the top 10 of that participant (The most favorite song of the participant gets 12 points, the 2nd 10, the 3rd 8, the 4th 7 and so on to the 10th one that gets 1 point). In some cases, countries get disqualified, usually for not sending their votes on time, meaning that the top 10s already sent by other participants may get altered if they had voted for a disqualified country, for that cases in season 2 there were introduced replacement countries, so since then, each participant has to send his or her top 10 and 3 or 5 extra replecement countries, that may get points in case of a disqualification of one of the countries that appear among the first 10. A few days after the deadline for submitting votes, the final ceremony is held, with those few days in between destined to prepare the visuals by the host. The ceremony usually consists of two parts (except in season 3 where the first half was skipped); the first one consists on the reveal of the top 10 votes by each participant, while the second one consists on the reveal of the total results starting from last place to first one, with the jury vote added to the participant total revealed in the first part.

Juries have the same voting system as the participants, they don't have a country nor a entry, but their votes count double (24, 20, 16, 14, 12... 2) and usually their top 10 votes are kept in secret as participants get only to see the total of jury points they receive.

The voting system was expanded in season 12, since then all participants have to vote for their top 13 songs, being 15 points the highest amount possible, followed by 13 and from 11 to 1 point. Jury votes where still doubled until season 14 where a voting was held to decide to diminish jury power, making their votes normal, except for the ones of the host.

So far, only 8 participants won the contest at least once, with 3 of them winning more than once. Those participants are @Dutch, @Bellatrix and @DeluluSwine, being the first one the only one to win actually 5 times. Over 70 persons have participated in the contest so far, many of them kept participating after their debut or at least came back after a few seasons. In season 11 many new participants appeared and the number of entries was close to 40 at one moment, with 35 making their way to the final. In that season it was decided that no more than 40 entries will be able to participate, discarding the possibility of making semifinals. That number was reached in the season that followed.

Participating countries
There are no country restrictions in the contest, only independient nations can participate, but there where some exceptions that led to the participation of not fully sovereign or not fully recognized countries or regions, such as Kosovo, Faroe Islands, Hong Kong and split participations by the United Kingdom. Despite the fact that every country can participate, Europe had always gained the most attention, winning in 14 different occasions, with also the majority of the entries coming from this continent in each season.

Only North America won once, with Africa, Asia, South America and Oceania still waiting to do so, with Asia being the only continent to not achieve a single top 5 entry yet.

A full list of participating nations can be found here:

Failed attempts
There were also countries that were meant to debut in the past, but due to disqualifications or withdrawals have yet to debut in the contest.

Flag of Bangladesh.svg Bangladesh
Meant to debut in season 14 by the hands of @Anveeroy, who was also meant to debut in that season. Bangladesh sadly got disqualified for not sending the votes on time. The country was going to be represented by Xefer and her song "Somebody". At the beginning of season 15, the participant showed interest in trying to participate for a second time in further seasons, leaving the possibility of a debut for his country anytime soon.

Flag of Belize.svg Belize
The central american country was meant to debut in season 6 thanks to a debuting participant @darkpaw. Belize was meant to be represented by Tanya Carter and her song "Mr DJ Boy". Sadly its representant didn't appear to send its votes on time, leading to the disqualification of the country, leaving its debut on hold. Since then no one has even shown any interest in representing the country.

Flag of Cape Verde.svg Cabo Verde
This island nation was meant to debut in season 10 by the hands of @Rafr88. He chose Mayra Andrade and her song "Afeto" but sadly failed to send his votes on time, leading to a disqualification of this entry. Mayra made her Globalvision debut a few seasons later (in season 13), but this time as a featured artist representing Portugal, leaving Cabo Verde unrepresented yet.

Flag of Cyprus.svg Cyprus
This country probably has the most funny situation for its failed debut. It was meant to appear in season 6 by the hands of @hausofcy who was also debuting in that season. Everything went fine until the release of the cypriot entry, which broke many rules at that time. The artist representing the country, Eleni Foureira, was not cypriot in first place, she didn't even reside in the country despite her being meant to represent the country in Eurovision, meaning she was completely ineligible too represent Cyprus in Globalvision. Secondly, she already appeared in season 5 representing Greece, the rules of that time banned the possibility of sending the same artist twice, but as she was chosen by another representant before, this rule had been ignored. Still she couldn't represent Cyprus, so as Greece wasn't participating for that season, the participant was able to change its country. Sadly, since then no one showed interest on bringing the mediterranean country to the contest.

Flag of Egypt.svg Egypt
This african country was mentioned a few times by participants that never made its official debut, in this case it never even managed to pass to the reveal of artists stage. The country was meant to participate at least once in season 11 by the hands of @nicolasrumet (may not be accurate as some info of that thread got edited), who dissapeared early before the reveal of songs. The interest in this country has been rising recently, so a debut could happen anytime soon.

Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia
The only Baltic country missing in the contest. It was actually meant to debut earlier than Latvia, in season 4 actually, but got disqualified for not sending votes on time. It was going to be represented by @Citrine who chose Kerli and her song "Love Is Dead" for the debut of the country. No one had shown any interest in representing the country since then.

Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia
Mentioned a few times in recent seasons. Was close to be represented by @loathereality in season 15, but in the end chose to represent Singapore instead.

Flag of Malta.svg Malta
Malta brought some controversy in season 15 due to the duo that was representing the country. It was @homomo who decided to participate with The Ting Tings and their song "Hands". The duo is actually british and only one of the artists has a maltese parent, so that sparked criticism from other participants that have been denied representing a country in much more favorable conditions. In the end, @homomo withdrew due to other motives not related with the controversy, and Malta is yet to appear in the contest officially.

Flag of South Africa.svg South Africa
The southernmost african country was meant to debut in season 13 by the hands of the debutant @Jadeykins. The country was going to be represented by Zahara and her song "Loliwe", but got disqualified for not sending the votes on time.

Uniqueness Award
The Uniqueness Award was introduced in season 8, an idea proposed by @Dutch, to recognize the riskiest choices of each season, taking in mind their quality and originality among the other entries of each season. The voting for the award for the first 7 seasons started before season 12 took place, but the after the season 4 award was announced, the host decided to put on hold the voting for the remaining 3 seasons, as the interest in the voting was lower with each one and also because of a triple tie in the voting in season 4, that after a tie break went to a song that caused controversy because it wasn't considered deserving of the award.

Here's a list of recipients of the award.

Memorable entries
In some ocasions entries that didn't earn good results but gained a good status as a meme or just an iconic entry. In the next table only appear those entries that became quite famous for different reasons. Winners are not included as they already appear on the previous section, even though Eva Simons should be mentioned here as her appearance was one of the most memorable ones, with many jokes about her name, nationality or hair.