Onigirivision

Onigirivision International Song Contest (Japanese; おにぎりビジョン国際・ ソング ・ コンテスト), otherwise simplified to Onigirivision is an international song contest founded in 2016 in Tokyo, Japan. The objective of Onigirivision is to promote new and upcoming bands from all over the world. While originally Onigirivision was only open for Australasian countries, these plans were scrapped in 2018 with the entry of Canada. The contest was originally based on Eurovision, a European song competition founded in 1956. The show is broadcast in English, but has a commentator who speaks in the native language.
The rules are that every single participating country must submit a song, which will first be judged in the first vote round, where one song will be eliminated. This is the same with every round up to the fourth round. The fifth round is the quarter final and two songs will be eliminated, and the sixth round is the semi final, where three songs will be eliminated, meaning that 9 songs get eliminated before the final. At the final, the public votes for who they want to win.
==History of Competitors==
Year 	Debuting Countries
Tokyo 2016 	Japan, South Korea, China, Philippines, Palau, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Malaysia
Almaty 2017 	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Myanmar
Seoul 2018 	Australia, Bangladesh, Singapore, Canada, Nepal
Hanoi 2019 	Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan
Singapore 2020 	India, Iran
Vancouver 2021 	Sultanate of Brunei, Russia, Finland
Beijing 2022 	Fiji, France, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Lithuania
Manila 2023 	United States of America, Mexico, Belarus
Guadalajara 2024 	Guatemala, Pakistan, Croatia
Kobe 2025 	United Arab Emirates
Paris 2026 	Iraq, Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, New Zealand, Qatar, Switzerland, Austria, Maldives
Male 2027 	Cambodia, Laos
Honolulu 2028 	Federated States of Micronesia
Kuala Lumpur 2029	Egypt
Seoul 2030 	Kyrgyzstan, Chile, Peru
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