Globalvision Season 22

The 22nd season of the Globalvision Song Contest, named as "The Globalvision Nightmare", kicked off on November 20th 2022, with some preparations for the selection of countries happening during the week previous of the official beginning.

Despite the increase of interest in the contest showned in the previous season, this one is the first one since season 10 to attract more less than 30 participants, although the number of jury members increased thanks to it, as some participants of season 21 joined the jury panel instead of participating. With a lower number of participants, the host decided to bring back the old voting system of top 10 favorite entries instead of the top 13 used since season 12, beaing once again 12 points the maximum amount of points awarded by each participant.

Participating countries
Belgium was shortly meant to participate as it was @Florian's second option submitted, but when he found out he didn't get France, his first choice, he decided to quit instead of playing with Belgium.

Canada was also meant to appear, it was even drawn at 2nd place but its representant, @Maria Brink, failed to submit an entry on time.

Returning artists
Initially it was stated by the host that around 30% of the entries of this season were coming from artists that already participated previously in the contest. Already in the first day of reveals a bunch of them showed up, starting with Magdalena Bay, the duo already appeared in season 19 sparking some controversy. Marina Satti is the next one to return after her season 7 appearance, becoming the 5th Greek artist to participate more than once in the contest. BESS participates for the second time in the game after representing her native country in season 15.

Season 13 jury winners, Время и Стекло, return to the game although brought by a different participant this time. Sara Jo, the highest peaking Serbian artist in the game, returns after representing the country in season 10 previously, also brought by another participant than the original one, just the same case for Froukje, who appeared in season 19 previously.

Uniqueness Award
For the full list of recipients of the award, see Uniqueness Award

Other participants

 * @Vandalain announced he would leave Globalvision completely during the early stages of the 2nd World Cup held long before the 22nd season. Reasons remain unclear.


 * @doraemon expressed interest in joining the jury panel instead of participating directly in the contest. Much later it was also confirmed that @kvnrp, @Juanlittlem and @Franch Toast would also be part of the jury panel for this season.


 * @ororo munroe confirmed he would drop out for this season a few days before starting with the contest.


 * @Florian initially was meant to participate, but as he didn't get his first choice, France, he decided to skip the season.


 * @Maria Brink was meant to debut representing Canada but failed to submit an entry on time.

Denmark/Wales same artist submission
On the day after the official start of the season, a link to submit entries was provided to all participants. Instantly Denmark and Wales submitted theirs and it turned out to be the same artist. Something like this never happened before and it led the host @TeenIdle to even ask other participants to switch countries with @DiamondKing, who was the one who had Wales by that time. The host specially focused on @DeluluSwine who got to represent South Korea, the most demanded country of the season, as he had Wales as his second option and @DiamondKing had South Korea as first, but wasn't quick enough to earn it. The host tried to bribe @DeluluSwine with a customized draw spot and a blind item to solve the issue quickly, but it didn't take long to get a negative answer to that offer.

The situation went messy to the point the artist in question had been found by other participants, although @Dutch, the participant who played with Denmark, the country that got the right to send the artist in cuestion; pretended that he was actually sending a different artist and even made it look that the song chosen leaked. It was also confirmed by the host that despite trying to send the same artists, different songs were chosen.

After this, @DiamondKing agreed to switch Wales with Russia, although later he changed Russia for Ukraine.