Globalvision Season 10

The 10th season of the Globalvision Song Contest (also stylized as GV10 or Globalvision X) that strated officially on February 5th, 2019 with the finale being held on March 3rd. This season marked the comeback of Globalvision to GagaDaily, after the season 9 mess that lead the game to move to TapaTalk.

29 countries were meant to participate in first place, but in the end only 23 made it to the final due to disqualifications for not sending their songs or votes on time. Three participants debuted in this season, one of them was @Varys who chose to represent Belgium, the second one was @GAGASEXUAL who represented Turkey and the third one @lupuselectro who brought back Poland to the game. Also there was one country that partipated for the very first time, Armenia brought by @Dutch.

After a pretty tight race, the United Kingdom represented by @DeluluSwine won the contest, with Foxes and her song "Body Talk" reaching 168 points. This was the first victory for the country and the second one for @DeluluSwine.

Theme
The theme used for this season was zodiac signs. Before the reveal of songs, participants were asked through a survey which zodiac signs they belong to in order to establish the official draw of the season. Capricorn was the first sign to be revealed followed by the rest ones in their chronological order, having a few of them released on the same day in cases of low number of participantes under one sign. Each sign was also attached to a nature element. The final votes where divided in two images, the one for the lower scores was based on astrological circle calendars, while the one for the higher votes was a square divided in two parts with the same color patterns as the ones used for the lower points.



Returning artists
Irina Rimes, Ana Malhoa, Emina and Franka Batelić were the only returning artists in this season. The first one making her third appereance representing Romania.

Final
The final took place on March 3rd, around 7PM CET. Two countries were disqualified for not sending their votes on time, Germany and Cabo Verde, that would have been 14th and 20th in the official draw if they weren't disqualified. This would have been the first participation of Cabo Verde.

Uniqueness award
For the full list of recepients of the award, see Uniqueness Award The award was given during the final results, just before the first top 15 ranks. The winner was Canada, represented by Weaves and Tanya Tagaq, chosen by @loathereality, being this her first Uniqueness Award. With this victory, Canada became the first non-european country to win this award.

Other participants
@benKo was meant to participate representing Germany, he even chose Alice Merton with her song "Speak Your Mind", but withdrew before the finale due to personal reasons.

@Rafr88 who chose to represent Cabo Verde with Mayra Andrade and her song "Afeto", didn't make it on time with the votes, which led to his disqualification. It would have been the first participation for Cabo Verde.

@Florian was going to remain with France but as he couldn't find a suitable song to represent his country he chose to participate as a jury member.

@Infinity Wave was in the participation list during the reveal of songs, but before his song and country were announced, he decided to quit due to his studies and lack of time for the game. He probably chose to represent Italy, the country he represented in season 9, as it was in the initial list of participating countries.

@darkpaw and @Bloody were tagged a few times before the reveal of the first songs, but never confirmed their participation officially.

Random porn images
A few days after the beginning of the season, one user called @ThankUNext jumped to the thread where the game was held and posted random porn images. A few participants witnessed the crime but fortunately mods came fast, banned the user and deleted all images.

Alice Merton
She caught attention for having participated 2 times before, with some users complaining the lack of diversity in German entries, specially after having participated with 2 songs from the same album. In the end, the participant that chose her to represent Germany, @benKo, withdrew from the game so her third participation ended in a failure.

5 seasons rule
A new rule was introduced before the reveal of the songs. It stated that no artist could be sent more than once for every 5 seasons. This was officially formalized in season 11, as already artists for season 10 were already chosen by the time this rule was mentioned. Initially it was also stated that artists would be allowed to participate 3 times maximally, but it was reverted as many new participants would come in the future and, with the rule forbidding more than 3 participations, they would not have been able to hear those artists that already participated 3 times in the contest. Also with this rule, artists won't appear as soon as a year after their last participation, meaning that they can comeback with a different sound rather than with songs from the same album.