Dubovision 2

## Results

### Vote

The countries entering each semi, alongside other members interested in the competition, give 12, 10, 8-1 points to their top ten favourite songs.12 points are deducted for the countries of each relevant semi who did not vote.

## Editions

Previous: Oradea 1
Next: Warsaw 3

**Dubovision #2** is the second edition of the Dubovision Song Contest. This edition was held in Ljubljana,  Slovenia, following Nika Krmec's victory with her song "The Boy That I Secretly Love" in the Slovenian dub of the series *Miraculous Ladybug*. This edition was unveiled on May 1, 2023, with confirmations for entry picking closed on May 15.

The contest was won by Daria Zawiałow, representing  Poland with the Polish dub of "Lend Me Your Voice" from 2021 anime film *Belle*. She scored 235 points, finishing 32 points ahead of  Kazakhstan and 53 ahead of  Italy.

## Format

The **Dubovision Song Contest** is a contest in which the competitors are pre-existing official dubs from around the world. The voting process involves one country being picked by those who enter the contest. The person who picked that country must chose what dub they feel should represent their pick for the contest.

Once it is time to vote for the top 10 favorite entries for each semi, that country will be required to vote for the semi relevant to them, or else 12 points will be deducted. Other members, including those not involved with the contest, are encouraged to vote as well.

The winner of the contest will represent the next edition. As well, they will have to stick with the country that they chose in that edition.

### Edition

A total of 60 countries initially signed up to enter the competition (4 more than the first edition), with 2 of them hosting a national final to decide which dub should be chosen. Once confirmations closed, a running order was chosen, and the competing countries were split into two semi-finals, with a remaining few comprising of the automatic qualifiers.

The first semi and second semis both included 27 countries, with the respective ten qualifying out of each semi-final, joining the six automatic qualifiers in the final.

However, due to unfortunate circumstances elaborated on below, a total of 5 countries were disqualified due to cheating. Because of this, 3 entries in the first semi and 2 entries in the second semi were automatically disqualified, and could not be voted for.

### Voting

Following Flopovision 1, the voting process was changed from last edition, as the competitors could claim what countries they would like to take on a sign-up sheet. Although as always, the first day was chaotic, as alongside the sheet the competitors were also expected to use a Google Form to specify what media they would like to claim. This confused people as they would put the media that they have claimed on the sheet instead of the form. During the middle of the day it was decided to stick to using the sheet, and the form was subsequently closed.

In future editions, the voting process will change so that only the sign-up sheet will be used, with the competitors being expected to say the words "I submitted" with an emoji of the country they are representing, to prevent such preposterous scandals.

### GF results

Unlike the previous edition, this Dubovision the Grand Final results were gradually revealed through a colorful gay scoreboard. Users had access to view the scoreboard live as points were being revealed through a Discord voice chat. Producer jemibuni would read out which HoD gave points to which country during the voice chat; The televoters would be revealed near the end, eventually revealing to all who won the contest. This would lead to a lot of suspense as the results were slowly being revealed; At one point,  Israel,  Kazakhstan, and  Poland were all tied with 95 points, only for this to completely fall apart only 3 minutes later. Insane.

At one point in the voice call, people kept spamming soundboards which was honestly the funniest Ohio shit ever. Also in the voice call, jemibuni gave voice to many iconic characters who showed up to reveal the points, such as Dora the Explorer representing Mexico, and Raul Stănulescu representing Romania. This resulted in a lot of funny hijinks, you simply had to be there (I wasn't, screw work).

It has not been revealed whether or not this practice will continue throughout Dubovision history, but a lot who attended the call thought it was the most fun experience ever, so who knows!

## Participants

### Returning Artists

* France - France's entry in Dubovision 2, the opening theme to *Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot* in French, was originally entered in the cancelled 2022 edition of the competition. However, it was representing Belgium, which is not correct as although the dub was produced there, its opening theme was not.

### Semi-Final 1

This semi took place May 23, 2023. Voting was initiated on May 21.

### Semi-Final 2

This semi took place May 25, 2023. Voting was initiated on May 23.

### Grand Final

This semi took place May 27, 2023. Voting was initiated on May 25.

## National Finals

See *here* for all of the national finals that were hosted in the contest.

## Notes

* The  Netherlands HoD originally picked the song "You're Welcome" from Moana in Hollandic Dutch, sung by René van Kooten. However, they had originally promised someone else that they could claim that country. A compromise was made as a different HoD was chosen, and the one who originally picked  Netherlands went for  Lithuania instead.

### Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 All points were automatically deducted due to the HOD cheating. Yay!
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Twelve points were deducted due to the HOD not voting.