Globalvision Season 6

The 6th season of the Globalvision Song Contest (also stylized as GV6, Globalvision VI, globalviSIØn or s6) that strated on the 3rd of May in 2018, with the final being held on the 31st of the same month, being this the first season to finish within the same month it started. 27 countries were meant to participate in first place, but 2 got disqualified before the final, making 25 the official number of participants, a record of participants for that time.

This season brought many new participants, 9 were initially confirmed to make their first appearance in the contest, but 2 of them got disqualified. The debuting participants were: @NNES, @Bazaar and @Yemeni Feed, who brought 3 new countries to the game, Switzerland, Ukraine and United Arab Emirates respectively; @DiegoMonster and @soneresc, both bringing back countries that were absent in the previous season, those being Portugal and Canada; and @Blue Madonna and @hausofcy who participated with Norway and Greece respectively. There were another 4 debuting countries in this season, those were Turkey, Brazil, Dominican Republic and Zimbabwe, brought respectively by @loathereality, @Johnny Wayne (currently known as @Sharpay), @Rafr88 and @Ruthy, who came back after 4 seasons without participating.

The winner of the season was @benKo, who claimed his first victory representing Germany. The artist and song he chose were Lena with Traffic Lights.

Theme
As it was the first anniversary of the game, the theme of this season was birthday party. For the 5th anniversary all logos for early seasons had a revamp, including this one.

Final
The final took place on the 31st of May. 2 countries got disqualified, the United Kingdom and Belize, a country that was going to officially debut in this season.

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

 * @Bloody was rumored to participate representing Greece, but went missing after season 5 ended. He finally withdrew due to personal issues, as he didn't have enough time to be active on the game.


 * @datlastfam withdrew after representing Malaysia on the last three seasons for unknown reasons.


 * @darkpaw and @A Hybrid were both meant to debut in this season representing Belize and the United Kingdom respectively, but got disqualified for not sending their votes on time.

Cyprus & Eleni Foureira
One of most controversial moments of this season was protagonised by the newbie @hausofcy who wanted to represent Cyprus with Eleni Foureira who was participating in the Eurovision Song Contest representing this country by that time. The host didn't realise that Eleni has greek and albanian nationality, meaning that she isn't allowed to represent Cyprus under the current rules of the game. Somehow, he even didn't realise that she already participated in the previous season. When this entry was announced on the thread of the season, it received a big backlash, first for the wrong country and secondly for the second participation in a row. Luckily, Greece was free as his previous owner withdrew in this season, meaning that @hausofcy could represent Greece instead of Cyprus and keep his entry, but still the fact that it was the same artist for two seasons in a row didn't please a few participants, but it was still granted as it was sent by two different participants.