Globalvision Season 5

The 5th season of the Globalvision Song Contest that strated on March 8th 2018 with the final held on April 11th. 21 countries were going to participate in first place, but 2 got disqualified before the final, making it 19 countries participating.

For the first time, there were no new users participating, just a few comebacks and a few withdrawals. Among the returning participants we can find @DelusionalGaga and @Maic, who were jury members in the previous season, and @Noah, who came back after participating in the first season and brought the first african country to the contest, that being Cameroon. The other debuting country in this season was Italy, brought by @DesertWolf.

The contest was won by @Bellatrix, being this his second victory. He won once again representing Sweden, this time with Mariette and her song "A Million Years".

Final
The final took place on April 11th at around 8PM CEST. 2 countries were disqualified for not sending their votes before the deadline, those were Portugal and Philippines that were drawn 7th and 18th respectively.

Uniqueness Award
For the full list of recipients 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
@Sharpay was going to participate representing Portugal but got disqualified for not sending his votes on time. He chose Amália Hoje to represent the country with her song "A Gaivota".

@DAMN was meant to come back to the contest representing Philippines, but got disqualified, being this the second consecutive disqualification of the country. He wanted to send the band IV OF SPADES, that participated in season 3, this time with the song "Ilaw Sa Daan".

@LonaDelery withdrew after debuting in season 4, but the reasons of this are still unknown.

@littlepotter went missing after season 4, having participated in all the previous contest. He may have been banned from the forum, as he appeared months later in another season with a post or two, but didn't come back to participate again until years later in All Stars 1.