Globalvision Season 19

The 19th season of the Globalvision Song Contest, also known as "The Globalvision Burnbook", started on the 5th of September 2021 with its final ceremony held on the 3rd of October, coinciding with the "Mean Girls Day".

Initially 39 GGD users were meant to participate, but one of them was eliminated for not sending his entry on time. Only 2 countries debuted in this season, Palestine and Ivory Coast. Also 3 new participants made their first appearance during this season, those were @doraemon, @ororo munroe and @Sofianer.

For the first time Romania won the contest, becoming the 11th country to do so. It was also the first victory for @Marges who chose Minelli and her song "Rampampam" to represent the country. It's also the first winning entry to not receive a single a point from jury members, making it also the winning entry with the least amount of points since the voting system change introduced in season 12.

Theme
This season's visuals were inspired by the movie "Mean Girls", specially in the Burn Book that appears in the movie.

Location
The contest is going to be held in the country that won the previous season, which was the Netherlands. On the 4th of September, a day before the season formally began, it was confirmed by @Dutch, the previous winner, that the contest would be held in Rotterdam, precisely in its iconic venue, Rotterdam Ahoy arena, which already hosted the 2021 Eurovision Song Contest in May.

Participating countries
The draw reveal occurred on the 10th of September, although, in the previous two days, some users got the privilege of choosing their position in the running order as a prize in the GVBB Board Game.

Returning artists
The chinese representant Yuqi appeared already in season 14 representing South Korea as part of the girl group G-(IDLE).

Minelli came back to represent Romania after appearing in season 15.

Both Robin Packalen and Alex Mattson returned to Globalvision to represent Finland after appearing separately in seasons 9 and 11 respectively.

The icelandic group Vök has previously appeared in season 14.

Marco Mengoni returned to represent Italy for a second time after representing this country in season 11 previously.

Edita previously appeared in season 13 representing Serbia.

Final
Initially 39 countries were meant to take part in the final, but Portugal was disqualified before the reveal of the first entries as its representant didn't send his entry on time. It was meant to appear in 10th place in the running order.

Another 3 countries were meant to participate in the competition, but they got replaced before the deadline for submissions ended. That was the case for Latvia, New Zealand and Philippines. .

Uniqueness Award
For the full list of recipients of the award, see Uniqueness Award The Uniqueness Award went to @Varys for the first time. He chose to compete with the song "Darda" performed by the iranian artist Mohsen Namjoo, one of the longest entries in Globalvision history with 7 minutes and 37 seconds of duration.

Other participants

 * @Johnny Wayne was meant to participate representing Portugal but as he didn't send his entry on time he was disqualified.


 * @DiegoMonster came back to the game as a jury member.

Australian Entry Disqualification
The last day of reveals brought the first controversy of the season. The Australian entry caught special attention because of its easily recognisible sound. The entry selected was "Kiss Kiss" sang by Holly Valance, which was a cover of a big european hit "Şımarık" by Tarkan. That lead to heavy criticism coming from participants that recognised the song instantly. Shortly after the reveal of the last song, an open poll was made to decide whether the original Australian entry should get disqualified or not. After a day of voting, the Australian entry was disqualified and @loathereality was forced to send a different song which was revealed hours after the elimination of the previous entry.