Globalvision Season 4

The 4th season of the Globalvision Song Contest (also stylized as GV4 or Globalvision IV) that strated officially on December 14th 2017 with the finale being held on January 17th 2018, just one month later. This season will always be remembered as the one where the newbie @crisjackd (currently @DesertWolf) revealed the winner before even the top 5 was announced thanks to his matematical skills, taking away the fun of the final reveal.

6 new participants appeared for the first time during this season: @DesertWolf, already mentioned before, who represented Greece; @Florian, who initially was going to participate in season 1 but didn't make it to the final, now oficially debuted representing France; @Rafr88 who debuted with 'Venezuela, making it also the first participation of the country; @Aleks, who debuted with Serbia, another country that debuted in this season, even though it was mentioned to participate before; @Lona Delery who appeared only in this season and represented Norway; and @Bloody who represented Belgium, bring it back after @Dutch left the country in season 3. Apart of those 2 debuting couuntries mentioned before, Poland also appeared for the first time by the hands of @surejan, leaving Slovenia for one season. Israel and Australia made a return to the contest after being one season absent, while Philippines, Mexico and Denmark withdrew. Two participants returned to the contest after a one season abstention, those were @Flooo and @DelusionalGaga, who actually came back as a jury member. On the other hand, many participants that debuted in season 3 didn't participate in this season and also another participant decided to participate as a jury member.

In the end 19 countries made it to the final, while initially 23 were going to participate with Estonia being close to debut.

This season was the first one that didn't have a brand new winner, becoming @Dutch the first participant to win twice. He won representing the Netherlands this time, with the song "Verdovend Middel" performed by Roxeanne Hazes, being this the first victory of the country.

Final
The ceremony was held on January 17th 2018. 4 countries got disqualified or withdrew before it took place, those were Canada, Lithuania, Philippines and Estonia.

Scoreboard
The votes of the United Kingdom, Poland and Serbia are incomplete due to disqualification of a few countries that were in the top 10 of these two participants and both didn't provide any replacement country on time, leaving their lower points unassigned.

Uniqueness award
As the Uniqueness Award was introduced in season 8, the one for season 4 was voted afterwards with different participants. The vote happened during the wait for season 12, around the second half of May with the winner being announced on May 27 2019. The results were really tight with 4 songs being tied on first place before the last vote was counted, giving finally the award to @Sharpay, who represented Portugal with the song "Someone That Cannot Love" by David Fonseca. With this victory, he became the second participant to win this award twice.

These results caused a bit of controversy, 4 songs were tied at first place before the tiebreak and a few participants complained about the lack of uniqueness in the portuguese entry, finding it not winner worthy. Also this tight result happened because of the low participation in the voting, as many participants were not so active in the thread during the wait for the next season. For that reason the vote on the Uniqueness Award for the remaining three seasons got delayed.

Other participants
@StefaniGaga, @Robagaga, @DAMN and @tthen withdrew after debuting in season 3. Only @DAMN made a comeback afterwards.

@Maic decided to participate as a jury member, he would eventually participate again in season 5. Also @DelusionalGaga appeared as a jury member in this season, coming back after skipping season 3.

@hausofbrice, @Scent, @DaddyFranco and @Plastique Tiara were meant to debut during this season, representing Canada, Estonia, Lithuania and Philippines respectively, but they got disqualified for not submitting their votes on time. It would have been the first appearence of Estonia in the contest.

Early winner reveal
A day before the final ceremony, the host @teenidle revealed that the winner had than 215 points, the second highest number of points received ever. Having this in mind and the fact that there 4 jury members that season, it was easy to calculate the winner just after the last participant votes where posted. No one noticed that until @crisjackd actually revealed that the winner was the Netherlands before even the top 5 was announced. Sweden who was second in the participant vote had 114 points, that meant that it needed 101 points to reach 215, a number that was impossible to get with 4 juries as the maximum of points they could give was 96. That way it was obvious that the Netherlands was the only country possible to achieve that number as it needed 92 points, which was the final ammount of jury points it received. This reveal killed the expectation for the final announcement and it was the last time that the number of points of the winner was announced before the finale.