Globalvision Season 14

The 14th season of the Globalvision Song Contest (also stylized as GV14 or Globalvision XIV) that started on the 12th of November 2019, on the first anniversary of the mod intervention on Globalvision often referred as Tapatalk Mess. As in the previous season, the reservation of countries and change negotiations started days before of that date and even some newbies could confirm their initial participation due to high interest in the new season. Initially 40 countries were expected to participate, but two had to withdraw after the reveal of songs and one got disqualified for not submitting their votes on time, leaving the number of participants at 37, one more than in the previous season.

The final took place on December 13th of the same year, as usual, one month after the official beginning of the season. 6 new countries debuted in this season, 2 of them being Scotland and England due to the official split of the United Kingdom from this season onwards, the remaining debuting countries were Angola, Barbados, Hong Kong and Singapore. Also 7 users made their debut in this season, could have been 8 without the disqualification of @Anveeroy who was also meant to debut with a new country, Bangladesh. The debutants of this season were: @HighRoad, @Smith, @RadioIsOurs, @JennyWayne, @VenusHooker, @DiamondKing and @BLACKPINK. There were also some returning participants, those were @Bazaar and @Blue Madonna, the first one appearing for the first time since season 10 and the other one after a season skipped.

For the second time it was Norway the country that took the trophy (also this was the second scandinavian victory in a row), but this time under a different representant, @DesertWolf, who won for the very first time, becoming the 8th winner of the contest. He represented the nordic country with "The Seed" by the singer AURORA.

Theme
The theme of the season seems like a followup to the previous one, cinema, with this time going with a precise animated story, which is Alice in Wonderland. The visuals used for the reveals of the countries remind of a spiral like the one seen in the movie when Alice falls into the rabbit hole. Meanwhile, for the votes, a magical nocturne background is used with the points divided in drops that come out of a teapot. For the last result reveal, due to lack of time, the visuals weren't adjusted to the theme of the season, being just geographical images of the participating countries.



Returning artists
K3 represented Belgium in season 9, where they ended last. AURORA has appeared before in season 3 representing also Norway, her comeback broke the record of the longest gap between participations with 10 seasons in between of her first and second participation; a record that was broken 3 days later with the reveal of the last 10 songs, when it was revealed that Bad Gyal made a comeback after participating for the first time in season 2 representing Spain, having a gap of 11 seasons between her participations.

Final
3 countries withdrew or were disqualified before the final took place, those were Romania, Bangladesh and Indonesia, drawn at 23rd, 27th and 28th positions respectively. This would have been the first appearance of Bangladesh on the game.

Uniqueness Award
For the first time ever, there was a tie in the voting for the award, but one of the votes was invalid as one user voted for himself, breaking the tie and giving the award to @loathereality who represented the Netherlands with Sevdaliza and her song Human, being this the third Uniqueness Award received by this user.

Other participants
Both @Marvsnr and @ExMachina decided to withdraw from s14 due to lack of time to invest on the game, but instead joined the jury panel.

@SamanthaC announced her withdrawal before even the ceremony of s13 took place, mostly due to lack of time to keep up with the contest.

@Flooo and @DelusionalGaga withdrew from the game without an official statement.

@Debithius appeared on the thread and confirmed an initial comeback, but on the time of the final draw, he hadn't even had a country chosen, this leading to his disqualification.

@FfFfFfFF announced his withdrawal one day before the voting deadline due to lack of time to take care of his votes. This is his first absence on the game since his debut in season 3 and also the first one for the country he has been representing so far, Romania. He sent Lidia Buble and her song "Sub Apa" to represent the country.

@RAMROD announced on different thread on GGD that he would be taking some time out of the forum due to personal issues and that making him unable to send his votes for gv. He was representing Indonesia with Isyana Sarasvati and her song "Keep Being You".

@Anveeroy was meant to debut with a brand new country in the game, Bangladesh. He chose Xefer and her song "Somebody" to represent the country, but as he failed to send his votes before the deadline he was disqualified.

Jury voting system change
At the beginning of the season it was announced that jury votes would be no longer doubled, except for the host votes. Due to some negative reactions towards the announcement, the system change was determined by a voting where both juries and participants could cast their vote. Over 75% of the votes went in favor of changing the jury system and lowering the jury points to the normal values instead of having them doubled. This change was inmediately applied on the voting for this season and is expected to remain for next seasons.

GGD crashing during the final
Many users were experiencing trouble while refreshing the thread, which was loading slowly specially during the top 5 reveal making the final moments even more confusing and tough to follow, but got fixed just for the winner announcement. The reason of this remains unknown, but we can't exclude the possibility of globalvision participants making it crash due to the large ammount of posts coming from the main thread.

UK split
Although it has been already discussed a few times in the past that it was possibly going to happen, this was the first season when the United Kingdom didn't appear as a whole country but with split entries, being England and Scotland the only two countries that participated from the kingdom. This measure was supposedly present from the beginning of the game just in case more than one participant wanted the country and had artists from different regions, so then the demand of this country could be lowered fast. It will probably remain like this for future seasons, meaning that the UK won't longer appear in the contest and England will take all credit of previous results of the country, no matter if the past singers were from other regions of the kingdom.

Votes mistake
Days after the ceremony took place, it was revealed that a few mistakes were made during the vote reveal and some votes were either missing or went to a wrong country. This had some impact on the result, mostly in the top 20 spots, like Scotland getting 3 spots higher due to an uncounted 11 jury points, or Ukraine getting 2 spots higher because the 6 points it got from Russia were mistakenly assigned to Ireland which was side by side of Ukraine in the draw, making the latter fall 2 spots. These results were checked a few times just to make sure no other mistake was made, being the results posted on this wikipage the valid ones as stated in the announcement made by the host.