Globalvision Season 22

The 22nd season of the Globalvision Song Contest, named as "The Globalvision Nightmare", kicked off on November 20th 2022, with some preparations for the selection of countries happening during the week previous of the official beginning.

Despite the increase of interest in the contest showned in the previous season, this one is the first one since season 10 to attract more less than 30 participants, although the number of jury members increased thanks to it, as some participants of season 21 joined the jury panel instead of participating. With a lower number of participants, the host decided to bring back the old voting system of top 10 favorite entries instead of the top 13 used since season 12, beaing once again 12 points the maximum amount of points awarded by each participant.

Due to these numbers of participants and jury members, the host, @TeenIdle, chose to finally debut as a participant in the game. He made the announcement of its participation by dropping his entry as the last entry of the season.

Theme
Horror movies.

Location
Avicii Arena, Stockholm

Participating countries
Belgium was shortly meant to participate as it was @Florian's second option submitted, but when he found out he didn't get France, his first choice, he decided to quit instead of playing with Belgium.

Canada was also meant to appear, it was even drawn at 2nd place but its representant, @Maria Brink, failed to submit an entry on time. Spain was also disqualified, just a few days before the final ceremony, caused by the lack of votes sent by its representant @Johnny Wayne. It was drawn at 22nd place after ther removal of Canada and according to the host it was meant to get a 17th placement in the final, without counting the missing Spanish votes.

Returning artists
Initially it was stated by the host that around 30% of the entries of this season were coming from artists that already participated previously in the contest. Already in the first day of reveals a bunch of them showed up, starting with Magdalena Bay, the duo already appeared in season 19 sparking some controversy. Marina Satti is the next one to return after her season 7 appearance, becoming the 5th Greek artist to participate more than once in the contest. BESS participates for the second time in the game after representing her native country in season 15.

Season 13 jury winners, Время и Стекло, return to the game although brought by a different participant this time. Sara Jo, the highest peaking Serbian artist in the game, returns after representing the country in season 10 previously, also brought by another participant than the original one, just the same case for Froukje, who appeared in season 19 previously.

ABIR was meant to appear representing Morocco in season 20, although her participation was cancelled due to the lack of votes from her representant. Technically her come back would break the rules for returning artists, but due to the fact she didn't manage to remain until the end of the season, it was allowed to send her. VICTORIA made a surprise come back as Bulgaria wasn't revealed to be taking part of the game until the last minute. She already appeared in season 19 and her participation back then remains as the only top 10 score for her country.

Uniqueness Award
For the full list of recipients of the award, see Uniqueness Award

The Uniqueness Award of season 22 went to the brazilian artist Chico Buarque and his song Construção chosen by @NicoB to participate in the contest, becoming this his first Uniqueness Award. The song received around 48% of the votes, followed by the entries of Peru and Japan which were tied at 2nd place with slightly more than a 16% of votes each.

Other participants

 * @Vandalain announced he would leave Globalvision completely during the early stages of the 2nd World Cup held long before the 22nd season. Reasons remain unclear.


 * @doraemon expressed interest in joining the jury panel instead of participating directly in the contest. Much later it was also confirmed that @kvnrp, @Juanlittlem and @Franch Toast would also be part of the jury panel for this season.


 * @ororo munroe confirmed he would drop out for this season a few days before starting with the contest.


 * @Florian initially was meant to participate, but as he didn't get his first choice, France, he decided to skip the season.


 * @Maria Brink was meant to debut representing Canada but failed to submit an entry on time.


 * @Johnny Wayne was disqualified a few days before the final as he failed to deliver his votes on time. He was representing Spain and chose Chanel with her song "Toke" to represent the country.

Denmark/Wales same artist submission
On the day after the official start of the season, a link to submit entries was provided to all participants. Instantly Denmark and Wales submitted theirs and it turned out to be the same artist. Something like this never happened before and it led the host @TeenIdle to even ask other participants to switch countries with @DiamondKing, who was the one who had Wales by that time. The host specially focused on @DeluluSwine who got to represent South Korea, the most demanded country of the season, as he had Wales as his second option and @DiamondKing had South Korea as first, but wasn't quick enough to earn it. The host tried to bribe @DeluluSwine with a customized draw spot and a blind item to solve the issue quickly, but it didn't take long to get a negative answer to that offer.

The situation went messy to the point the artist in question had been found by other participants, although @Dutch, the participant who played with Denmark, the country that got the right to send the artist in question; pretended that he was actually sending a different artist and even made it look that the song chosen leaked. It was also confirmed by the host that despite trying to send the same artists, different songs were chosen.

After this, @DiamondKing agreed to switch Wales with Russia, although later he changed Russia for Ukraine.