Globalvision Season 7

The 7th season of the Globalvision Song Contest (also stylized as GV7 or Globalvision VII) that started on June 28th 2018, while the final took place on July 24th. One of the very few seasons where there wasn't any disqualificiation, just a few withdrawals that lowered the initial number of participants from 24 to 22.

Only one participant debuted in this season and it was @Interstellar who debuted representing Canada. Meanwhile, there were three debuting countries, those were Iran. New Zealand and Colombia brought respectively by @loathereality, @Blue Madonna and @Rafr88.

The winner of this season was @Dutch who got his third victory, a record number of wins. He represented the Netherlands, with Eva Simons and her song Guaya.

Theme
The main theme of this season was travelling. The images that introduced each country were shaped like postcards, with one monument of the country one side and the profile pic of the participant as a postage stamp. Meanwhile the votes were distributed as a map, with a small track to follow each point awarded; all that on a background that reminds the sky and clouds. The first image corresponds to Iran, to showcase its debut, but the other two display the votes of Spain, the first country in the running order.



Final
The final took place on July 24th, around 8PM CEST.

Uniqueness Award
For the full list of recepients of the award, see Uniqueness Award As the Uniqueness Award was introduced in season 8, it couldn't take place during the running of this season. Nevertheless, the voting for this one is expected to take place is somewhere in the future, although it was already scheduled to take place before season 12 started, but has been postponed due to small numbers of voters.

Other participants
@Soneresc went missing after confirming initial participation. During the voting week, he appeared on the thread and revealed that he couldn't appear earlier because he didn't have internet connection.

@Maic withdrew after initially confirming his participation, due to personal issues.

@Ruthy and @Yemeni Feed participated in the previous season but didn't apply to participate in this one.

"Eva Simons is Dutch?"
Many participants were surprised by the dutch entry, some of them mostly because they weren't aware of the nationality of the chosen artist Eva Simons, others because the song hit them unexpectedly. The first reaction that was posted right after the entry was revealed was "Eva Simons is Dutch? Say whaaat (with a gif of Hillary Clinton shocked)", that reaction led to many jokes and it became a huge meme that survived for a long time, even after the season ended.

Alice Merton
Another artist that caught attention was Alice Merton, who actually participated before in season 5. This time it was her song that actually got all the attention, specially the line "hard to hold this fire inside me" which actually a user misheard as "hard to hold this fart inside me" and started a meme out of it.