Globalvision Season 12

The 12th season of the Globalvision Song Contest (also stylized as GV12 or Globalvision XII) started on 16 of June 2019, 2 days ahead of the scheduled day due to high expectation for the start of the season. The reservation of countries started days earlier on June 11, with many country changes that led to negotiations between participants, with the host as mediator in some cases, to grant each participant a favorable country for him or her.

The final ceremony was held on Juky 17th, around 9PM CEST. For the first time since season 7, all countries passed to the final, meaning that all participants sent their votes on time. The number of participants broke the previous record, with 40 participants.

4 countries debuted in this season, those were: Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Papua New Guinea and India, which actually was meant to debut in season 11 but didn't make to the final. They were brought by @Antonio, @Artx, @loathereality and @Saint Gaga respectively. Among participants, there were some debuting ones, those were @Adarsh, @Marvsnr and the already mentioned @Saint Gaga. Also there were a few come backs, @Antonio, who had been absent since season 2, @Maic, who came back after skipping one season, and @homomo (known before as @Interstellar), who had been absent for two seasons, due to a temporal ban on the forum.

The winner of this season was @Dutch representing again the Netherlands, giving the country its third victory and achieving his 4th victory overall, expanding his record number of victories. He chose Amy Miyú and Rochelle to represent the country with their song "All Good", which actually became the song with the most points in the contest, thanks to the voting system change.

Theme
The main theme of the season was confirmed in mid May, with fruits as the main concept. This was inspired by the performance of "Nana Banana" by Eurovision winner Netta. The logo contains images of fruits with vibrant colors and images of the past 11 winners with one spot left with a silhouette of a man that represents the winner of this season.

For the first time, spokespersons were used for each country. Participants were ask to submit their national celebrities to introduce the votes of their country as can be seen in the images below:



Returning artists
The first returning artist to be announced was Lights who represented Canada in season 7, she came back this time as a featured artist on the canadian entry. Rochelle participated in season 6 and in season 1 too, representing the Netherlands in both ocasions. Raiven came back to the contest representing Slovenia, after having done that in season 2. Broods also appeared in season 7 and came back to represent New Zealand once again. SEREBRO, the russian representants, already have participated in season 2. Shy'm came back to the competition after participating in season 4.

Final
The final draw was selected on the same day the season started. Initially, 40 countries were drawn, with one spot not filled yet, left for a new or returning participant, being it the 19th position. That spot was later occupied by @Marvsnr participating with Bulgaria. The reveal of songs started on the 20th of June. The final was held on July 17, with all 40 countries participating.

Uniqueness Award
Awarded during the final, on the 17th of July, right after the 11th place was revealed. The winner of the award was the rock band BUCK-TICK with their song 「BABEL」 chosen by @Glittertinks to represented Japan. It is the first award won by this country and this user. The song achieved the 26% of the votes.

Other participants
@DelusionalGaga was going to participate representing Russia first, but, after the initial country list was revealed, he switched countries with the newbie @Queenofpeace, taking Italy. Nevertheless, on the 16th of June, the host announced that @DelusionalGaga was withdrawing from season 12 because of lack of time due to exams and other university stuff, this being confirmed by him a few posts later.

Queenofpeace
@Queenofpeace was a new member that was going to debut in this season, but, his behaviour in the thread became quite suspicious and the fact that he joined the forum just a few days before the season started, led to think a few participants that he was @theAlpha with a different account again. After a long research provided mostly by one user, it was revealed that it was indeed someone else's account, but this time it was from someone who wasn't attached to the game before, a user called @HOEGa. @Haroon was informed immediately in order to avoid any issues for the game and banned the user.

Mod "pre-warning"
On the 17th of June, the thread went out of control and some partipants took the conversation on the thread way too far with the meme of the saber-toothed cat from Ice Age, Diego. Someone thought it would be funny to create a prank thread with this meme and another participant took it seriously and did it. This caught the attention of the mod @Haroon, who came to the GV thread and "pre-warned" participants to stop trolling around the whole forum, otherwise the thread of the season 12 would get closed. After the confusion that this generated, participants calmed down and lowered their level of messiness to normal.

Voting system change
At the end of June, @Dutch proposed to expand the current voting system to vote for at least 12 songs, a few users were in favor for the change and proposed a slightly higher number like 13 or 15. The idea was to impulse the number of points since in season 11 the averages were low, so this was proposed to bring more fair results. The host agreed to changed to the top 13 format, but still a voting was going to be held to showcase the opinion of every participant.

The voting had 5 options, one of them being remain with top 10. After a few hours it showed that there a few participants supporting the remain with the top 10 option. That caused a bit of controversy and led to a few arguments, as it was confusing to see people wanting to give less votes. In the end the main voted option was top 13 and was accepted to be applied on this season.

Discord server & spam controversy
Days before the final the member @Blue Madonna suggested to make Globalvision's own discord server as the other platform used to have voice live parties, Rabb.it, announced that it would close soon. This was welcome with mixed comments, but still mostly positive ones. Some participants expressed their wish to keep the main thread of Globalvision with less spamming or random talks (@Glittertinks among them, there you go sweetie) and leave those things for discord, so it would be easier to follow the main thread for less active participants. This comments led to a few arguments between participants, as many enjoyed the game as it was currently. As the ceremony was close, the thread went back to a normal atmosphere.