Redditvision Song Contest 23

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Redditvision Song Contest 23
Illuminate!
"Illuminate!"
Dates
Country claiming 15 – 17 November 2018
Song submission 18 – 24 November 2018
Semi-finals 25 November – 1 December 2018
Final 1 – 8 December 2018
Live show 8 – 12 December 2018
Host
Host city Ålesund, Norway
Host u/jimbaux
Participants
Number of entries 57
Debuting countries Bangladesh
Iraq
Mauritius
Sierra Leone
Uzbekistan
Vote
Voting system Each country awards 12, 10, then 8 through 1 points to their 10 favorite songs.
Winning song "Beautiful Ones"
Scotland
Redditvision Song Contest
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Redditvision Song Contest 23 was the twenty-third ordinary and twenty-fifth overall edition of the Redditvision Song Contest. It was hosted by u/jimbaux in Ålesund, Norway after their win in the previous edition, with the song "Tyynysotaa" by Vilma Alina, Nelli Matula, Sini Yasemin & Ida Paul.

The winner was Scotland with the song "Beautiful Ones" by Hurts.

Format

For the first time since edition 13, a major change to the contest format was being tested. While in every previous edition, people were only allowed to vote in the semi-final they were allocated to vote in, the new trial opened up for the possibility to vote in other semi-finals.

Crossvoting system

The mods posted an interest survey on Reddit on October 28th 2018 regarding the possibility of a cross-voting system, which later led to the announcement of that there will be a trial crossvoting system implemented on Edition 23. Crossvoting will be voluntary.

The system is as noted a trial system and it does not mean it will be permanent. Depending on how many that do crossvote in Edition 23 it might be implemented on future editions as well.

This is the part of the announcement on how the system will work:

"The way this is going to work is that all the allocated voters in a semi are going to cast their votes as normal. The host will then first tally up their votes without the crossvotes added. The six leading entries at that point will be locked in as qualifiers, and cannot be pushed out of the final by the crossvotes.

After that the total crossvote scores are going to be converted into a percentage, and those percentages will then be applied to half of the amount of points the regular semi voters give out to calculate how many points the crossvoters give to each song. This means that for the trial, the crossvote will stand for 33% of the points in the semi. The only way this will be less is if we get a very small amount of people actually crossvoting, so again, if you wanna support it, vote!

The final crossvoting scores will then be added back onto the original scores, and the top two entries that did not qualify as part of the first six will be the last two qualifiers to the grand final. I realize that this sounds a bit complicated, so hopefully this example makes it a little bit easier to understand: Example sheet of cross voting.

For this first edition, regular votes are going to be sent to the host, as always, while the crossvotes will be sent to RedditvisionMod. We will also ask that you for this edition submit a full ranking of your semi votes (not just a top 15) so that we easily can apply the votes to any other crossvoting system to see what impact they would have on the final results."

Pots

Pot 1 Pot 2 Pot 3 Pot 4
Pot 5 Pot 6 Pot 7 Pot 8

Participants

58 participants signed up for the edition, but the user who was representing Seychelles did not submit a song in time, bringing the number of participants down to 57.

u/leRandomThing, u/Traffia and u/Zxnth made their Redditvision debuts this edition, while u/I_WANT_PATATA, u/j_tennant, u/estoniass, u/Tiko_Yates, u/oneleek, u/jq8678 and u/ChocolateDonut1 made a return to the contest.

The edition also saw some notable withdrawals. u/IdahoSciGuy withdrew from this contest, having participated 19 times since their debut in Edition 6 and having won twice, in editions 11 and 12 respectively. u/Azzbestos withdrew from this edition, having participated 17 times since their debut in Edition 7 and having won once, in Edition 10. Six users were disqualified in edition 22, this includes former winner u/Wierdmeansawesome, who won edition 2. u/HungryPill and u/mysadsacklife withdrew. Other disqualifications included u/gavjen, u/tabita_surge, u/ApostolisKKK, u/unfittingquotes and u/Notorious_Park.

National finals

Returning artists

Country Artist Song Previous appearances
Estonia Fall Out Boy "Champion" #13 (for United States)
#17 (for Wales)
Palau Alessio Bernabei "Ti ricordi di me?" SE1 (for Italy)
#17 (for Italy)
Sweden Heize "Don't Know You" (널 너무 모르고) #13 (for South Korea)
#19 (for South Korea, as the main artist)
Saint Lucia Aquilo "Who Are You" #19 (for Iran)
Chile Jorja Smith "On Your Own" #20 (for The Bahamas)
South Korea K/DA ft. (G)I-DLE, Maddison Beer & Jaira Burns "POP/STARS" #14 (for Netherlands, Jaira Burns as the main artist)
#20 (for Cyprus, Jaira Burns as the main artist)
Norway Florence + The Machine "What Kind of Man" #11 (for Denmark)
Georgia Ryn Weaver "The Fool" #8 (for United States)
Monaco Yelle "OMG!!" #16 (for France)
Panama Isador "Demons" #20 (for England)
Cook Islands Electric Light Orchestra "Rockaria" #21 (for Cook Islands)

Semi-finals

Seychelles was going to participate in the edition but failed to submit an entry in time.

Semi-final 1

Monaco and Norway voted in this semi-final.

Draw Country User Language Artist Song Place Points
01 Azerbaijan u/ZwissDa2nd English Sundara Karma "Flame" 1 164
02 Samoa u/Taro_Milk_Tea English Opia "Four Winds" 11 85
03 Wales u/throwawayravenclaw Welsh GWENNO "Paetrirachaeth" 15 55
04 Estonia u/theofficialruar English Fall Out Boy "Champion" 17 37
05 South Africa u/I_WANT_PATATA English Goldfish (ft. Morning Parade) "Washing Over Me" 12 80
06 Luxembourg u/TonyCannelloni English Against The Current "Voices" 6 117
07 United States u/AwesomeJoshua English Gallant "Weight in Gold" 4 130
08 Japan u/SeptimiaZenobia Japanese Kenshi Yonezu "Loser" 13 70
09 Palau u/qyzxf Italian Alessio Bernabei "Ti ricordi di me?" 8 110
10 The Bahamas u/Kaylaboe English NAO "Bad Blood" 3 135
11 Sweden u/Dugly_Uckling Korean Heize "Don't Know You" (널 너무 모르고) 7 112
12 Canada u/estoniass French Alex Nevsky "On Leur a Fait Croire" 10 92
13 Finland u/19MartiN95 English Amaranthe "The Nexus" 16 39
14 Netherlands u/alleenmaarliefde English Will and the People "Salamander" 14 65
15 Iraq u/alexkaragaya English Stereo Honey "The Bay" 9 99
16 Tanzania u/Zxnth English Jungle "Busy Earnin'" 2 137
17 Uzbekistan u/Traffia English Giant Rooks "New Estate" 5 127

Semi-final 2

Panama and Saint Kitts and Nevis voted in this semi-final.

Draw Country User Language Artist Song Place Points
01 Equatorial Guinea u/DepStrider English Mattis "Into the Night" 15 55
02 Botswana u/Vital_Grace English Kyan Palmer "Burn Mona Lisa" 16 37
03 Saint Lucia u/Spooky_Squid English Aquilo "Who Are You" 6 120
04 Malaysia u/ShellEase English Lights "Skydiving" 13 59
05 Bahrain u/-MaxK- English, Spanish INNA "Nirvana" 9 100
06 England u/Foobibby English Weezer "Feels Like Summer" 2 137
07 Slovakia u/Tiko_Yates English Celeste Buckingham "Run Run Run" 12 75
08 China u/sonamoo Korean Fei "Fantasy" (괜찮아 괜찮아) 7 116
09 Honduras u/ChocolateDonut1 English A Lot Like Birds "For Shelly" 14 59
10 Iceland u/bvsil Icelandic Friðrik Dór "Hringd'í mig" 1 186
11 Tajikistan u/Amyesc English IDA KUDO "JINX" 4 126
12 Nauru u/Jamie_on_Reddit English Spencer Sutherland "Tell Me" 5 124
13 Tonga u/Kastenbrot2 English tiLLie "Save Yourself" 3 134
14 Haiti u/oneleek English Dawn Richard "Renegades" 10 96
15 Fiji u/Effy-Was-Taken Spanish, English The Marías "Cariño" 8 108
16 Burundi u/DylanSlayChallenge English Liv Dawson "Good Intentions" 11 78
17 Brazil u/therealmatthewlam English Tancred "The Ring" 17 33

Semi-final 3

Barbados and Georgia voted in this semi-final.

Draw Country User Language Artist Song Place Points
01 Slovenia u/leRandomThing Slovenian Gaja Prestor "To Je Kar Imam" 13 66
02 France u/Phoenix963 English Fjokra "Get Amongst It" 12 74
03 Ireland u/Ruairiwx English The Relay Company "Marco Polo" 9 79
04 Chile u/Sam_Esc English Jorja Smith "On Your Own" 10 79
05 Australia u/Awsumsminion English Moontower "Long Hair" 16 33
06 Taiwan u/DarkCartoon Japanese tofubeats "RIVER" 17 31
07 Sierra Leone u/EmiliaLily English Tishmal "Underneath" 3 158
08 Belgium u/Fingrpaint English Laura Welsh "Break the Fall" 2 162
09 Turkey u/getdeezcookies English Let's Eat Grandma "Hot Pink" 11 78
10 Costa Rica u/Franky494 English AUTOGRAPHIC "Pacific" 8 107
11 South Korea u/stardust112 Korean, English K/DA (ft. (G)I-DLE, Maddison Beer & Jaira Burns) "POP/STARS" 5 132
12 New Zealand u/jq8678 English Akine "No Gold" 7 121
13 Germany u/201- English lilly among clouds "Wasting My Time" 4 137
14 Scotland u/ani_shira English Hurts "Beautiful Ones" 1 186
15 Cook Islands u/TrueHrafninn English Electric Light Orchestra "Rockaria" 14 46
16 Bangladesh u/9spaceking English Carly Rae Jepsen "Run Away with Me" 6 121
17 Mauritius u/j_tennant English Jaakko Eino Kalevi (ft. Farao) "Everything Nice" 15 43

Grand final

Burundi, Canada, Haiti and Slovenia were disqualified for not voting in time.

Draw Country User Language Artist Song Place Points
01 Barbados u/Bongo9911 English Jason Zhang "Perfume" 13 104
02 Monaco u/GThing64 French Yelle "OMG!!" 30 51
03 Iceland u/bvsil Icelandic Friðrik Dór "Hringd'í mig" 2 171
04 Tanzania u/Zxnth English Jungle "Busy Earnin'" 11 107
05 China u/sonamoo Korean Fei "Fantasy" (괜찮아 괜찮아) 28 52
06 The Bahamas u/Kaylaboe English NAO "Bad Blood" 15 102
07 Saint Kitts and Nevis u/BiPolarBear17 Korean, English Red Velvet "Automatic" 26 70
08 Costa Rica u/Franky494 English AUTOGRAPHIC "Pacific" 9 116
09 Sweden u/Dugly_Uckling Korean Heize "Don't Know You" (널 너무 모르고) 19 90
10 Uzbekistan u/Traffia English Giant Rooks "New Estate" 14 103
11 Azerbaijan u/ZwissDa2nd English Sundara Karma "Flame" 5 138
12 Panama u/Bowman3058 English Isador "Demons" 17 92
13 Tajikistan u/Amyesc English IDA KUDO "JINX" 16 99
14 Sierra Leone u/EmiliaLily English Tishmal "Underneath" 4 139
15 Georgia u/FlohNumba1 English Ryn Weaver "The Fool" 23 81
16 Palau u/qyzxf Italian Alessio Bernabei "Ti ricordi di me?" 22 84
17 Nauru u/Jamie_on_Reddit English Spencer Sutherland "Tell Me" 12 106
18 England u/Foobibby English Weezer "Feels Like Summer" 21 85
19 Fiji u/Effy-Was-Taken Spanish, English The Marías "Cariño" 24 80
20 Bangladesh u/9spaceking English Carly Rae Jepsen "Run Away with Me" 6 131
21 United States u/AwesomeJoshua English Gallant "Weight in Gold" 27 62
22 Scotland u/ani_shira English Hurts "Beautiful Ones" 1 213
23 Luxembourg u/TonyCannelloni English Against The Current "Voices" 18 90
24 Belgium u/Fingrpaint English Laura Welsh "Break the Fall" 20 88
25 Norway u/jimbaux English Florence + The Machine "What Kind of Man" 8 117
26 Saint Lucia u/Spooky_Squid English Aquilo "Who Are You" 7 119
27 New Zealand u/jq8678 English Akine "No Gold" 29 52
28 Tonga u/Kastenbrot2 English tiLLie "Save Yourself" 25 73
29 Germany u/201- English lilly among clouds "Wasting My Time" 10 112
30 South Korea u/stardust112 Korean, English K/DA (ft. (G)I-DLE, Maddison Beer & Jaira Burns) "POP/STARS" 3 147

Scoreboard

Semi-final 1

A total of 15 countries from the other semi-finals voted in semi-final 1. These votes are collected in the external votes, which was given half the power of the internal votes. The 15 votes were therefore scaled down to represent the total score of 9.5 voters, exactly half of the 19 internal voters in the semi-final.

As per the rules, the top 6 in the internal results are 'locked-in', and are automatically through should they fall below 8th place after the external votes have been added to the scores.

Semi-final 1
Place Internal Points External Points
1 Azerbaijan 103 Azerbaijan 61
2 Uzbekistan 89 Tanzania 54
3 Palau 88 Luxembourg 51
4 The Bahamas 86 The Bahamas 49
5 United States 85 United States 45
6 Tanzania 83 Iraq 42
7 Sweden 78 South Africa 40
8 Canada 71 Uzbekistan 38
9 Luxembourg 66 Sweden 34
10 Samoa 58 Samoa 27
11 Iraq 57 Japan 23
12 Netherlands 51 Palau 22
13 Wales 48 Canada 21
14 Japan 47 Finland 16
15 South Africa 40 Netherlands 14
16 Estonia 29 Estonia 8
17 Finland 23 Wales 7

Semi-final 2

13 countries from the other semi-finals voted in semi-final 2. These votes are collected in the external votes, which was given half the power of the internal votes. The 13 votes were therefore scaled down to represent the total score of 9.5 voters, exactly half of the 19 internal voters in the semi-final.

Semi-final 1
Place Internal Points External Points
1 Iceland 133 Fiji 63
2 England 103 Iceland 53
3 Tonga 94 Nauru 42
4 Tajikistan 86 Tonga 40
5 Nauru 82 Bahrain 40
6 Saint Lucia 81 Tajikistan 40
7 China 77 China 39
8 Burundi 61 Saint Lucia 39
9 Haiti 61 Haiti 35
10 Bahrain 60 England 34
11 Fiji 45 Slovakia 31
12 Slovakia 44 Honduras 23
13 Malaysia 40 Equatorial Guinea 20
14 Honduras 36 Malaysia 19
15 Equatorial Guinea 35 Burundi 17
16 Botswana 30 Brazil 7
17 Brazil 26 Botswana 7

Semi-final 3

17 countries from the other semi-finals crossvoted in semi-final 3. These votes are collected in the external votes, which was given half the power of the internal votes. The 17 votes were therefore scaled down to represent the total score of 9.5 voters, exactly half of the 19 internal voters in the semi-final.

Semi-final 1
Place Internal Points External Points
1 Scotland 130 Sierra Leone 61
2 Belgium 109 Scotland 56
3 Sierra Leone 97 Belgium 53
4 Germany 92 Costa Rica 50
5 South Korea 91 Germany 45
6 Bangladesh 89 South Korea 41
7 New Zealand 81 New Zealand 40
8 Costa Rica 57 Chile 40
9 Ireland 57 Bangladesh 32
10 Slovenia 49 France 32
11 Turkey 47 Turkey 31
12 France 42 Ireland 22
13 Mauritius 40 Slovenia 17
14 Chile 39 Australia 15
15 Cook Islands 39 Cook Islands 7
16 Taiwan 27 Mauritius 6
17 Australia 15 Taiwan 4

Grand final

Total Place
Barbados 5 2 1 6 2 2 10 10 5 1 12 2 10 1 12 1 12 10 104 13
Monaco 7 5 4 7 5 12 1 2 8 51 30
Iceland 7 1 1 7 4 12 3 3 6 3 4 8 10 12 4 2 10 3 1 10 10 1 12 8 4 8 2 3 12 171 2
Tanzania 3 3 5 2 2 3 6 2 7 8 1 10 3 12 8 10 4 3 3 10 2 107 11
China 12 3 6 1 2 4 2 3 7 7 5 52 28
The Bahamas 7 5 5 4 6 1 7 7 1 8 12 2 8 2 7 7 2 10 1 102 15
Saint Kitts and Nevis 6 6 8 2 8 2 8 7 4 7 6 6 70 26
Costa Rica 6 4 6 12 12 6 3 5 8 6 10 12 6 4 12 4 116 9
Sweden 3 7 7 7 1 10 6 12 2 2 6 10 4 1 7 5 90 19
Uzbekistan 6 7 5 10 5 6 5 7 7 1 6 7 12 12 7 103 14
Azerbaijan 5 2 4 8 10 3 7 1 4 10 1 12 10 4 4 6 6 10 5 1 2 3 7 12 1 138 5
Panama 10 7 2 2 3 6 7 7 2 1 8 5 10 5 4 5 8 92 17
Tajikistan 12 8 7 3 10 1 3 4 4 3 12 6 6 5 2 5 8 99 16
Sierra Leone 12 5 6 5 8 4 8 1 6 5 5 5 8 5 6 7 3 4 10 5 8 3 10 139 4
Georgia 10 3 1 1 10 7 2 3 2 3 3 4 12 10 7 3 81 23
Palau 10 3 10 8 5 5 12 1 3 5 5 8 8 1 84 22
Nauru 4 2 6 7 12 4 7 8 6 1 1 7 4 2 4 6 10 2 2 3 8 106 12
England 2 2 8 10 10 8 3 7 8 3 1 3 10 6 4 85 21
Fiji 8 6 1 5 4 10 3 4 6 5 2 12 4 4 1 2 3 80 24
Bangladesh 1 12 8 10 8 8 10 8 12 12 7 2 5 2 5 1 6 2 12 131 6
United States 2 2 10 1 4 3 1 5 8 4 3 8 6 5 62 27
Scotland 4 5 12 12 6 5 1 7 12 12 8 12 10 12 12 12 12 2 4 5 6 7 3 8 6 7 4 7 213 1
Luxembourg 4 4 1 1 8 4 1 4 3 7 7 4 10 12 7 3 2 8 90 18
Belgium 1 4 3 7 3 5 7 4 7 6 6 10 1 2 6 1 6 3 6 88 20
Norway 10 8 10 8 10 8 12 5 4 6 4 3 6 6 1 3 4 5 2 2 117 8
Saint Lucia 5 2 5 5 3 12 5 3 10 12 10 12 3 5 10 5 12 119 7
New Zealand 3 2 1 1 6 12 8 1 8 1 5 4 52 29
Tonga 2 1 4 8 8 12 10 7 8 6 7 73 25
Germany 12 3 6 4 3 10 2 8 8 8 7 2 4 2 5 3 5 10 10 112 10
South Korea 7 8 10 12 10 1 5 7 12 6 6 12 8 1 2 1 4 12 6 4 6 7 147 3

12 points

Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country:

N. Contestant Nation(s) giving 12 points
9 Scotland Estonia, Finland, Malaysia, Monaco, Netherlands, Sierra Leone, South Korea, United States, Wales
4 Bangladesh New Zealand, Norway, Saint Lucia, Samoa
Costa Rica Chile, Mauritius, Nauru, Tajikistan
Iceland Belgium, China, Fiji, Tanzania
Saint Lucia Costa Rica, Equatorial Guinea, Germany, Honduras
South Korea Bahrain, Barbados, Georgia, Ireland
3 Barbados Bangladesh, Brazil, Luxembourg
2 Azerbaijan England, Turkey
Tajikistan Palau, Slovakia
Uzbekistan Cook Islands, Japan
1 The Bahamas Panama
China Saint Kitts and Nevis
Fiji Sweden
Georgia Tonga
Germany Uzbekistan
Luxembourg France
Monaco Iceland
Nauru Iraq
New Zealand Taiwan
Norway The Bahamas
Palau South Africa
Sierra Leone Scotland
Sweden Azerbaijan
Tanzania Australia
Tonga Botswana

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