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## UnitedVision Song Contest June 2022

**UnitedVision Song Contest 14**, often referred as **UnitedVision Song Contest June 2022**, was the fourteenth edition of the UnitedVision Song Contest.

The event will be held at the Allen Performing Arts Center in Allen, Texas on June 26, 2022. The show was hosted by Advisko.

The show was originally scheduled for June 25, 2022 but was postponed till the next day due to "Personal IRL Reasons" with the Founder.

8 States took part in the contest. This is the first ever contest to have more than 6 states. The states that took part in this contest were Minnesota, Massachusetts, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, California, Texas, and Tennessee. 1 state returned, Massachusetts, which hasn't taken part in the contest since April 2021. 1 state debuted, Florida.

The contest was organized by the UBU. The event was sponsored by UNICEF.

## **Location**

### **Host City**

**Allen** is a city in Collin County in the U.S. state of Texas, and a northern suburb of Dallas. According to the 2020 U.S. census its population was 104,627, up from 84,246 in 2010. Allen is located approximately twenty miles north of downtown Dallas and is a part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.

## Format

### Visual design

The contest's slogan, "Grow Bright". The official logo and branding was revealed on June 1, 2022; designed by Advisko. The text logo spelled "UnitedVision Song Contest". The official logo was a yellow spirit tree. The background had the similar colors as the logo part. The UBU said "The design is based on the winner of the 13th edition, Jamala. The tree is to represent *rebirth and resurrection*."

### **Voting**

Each state had to present their points; 0, 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 points. Each point had to be given to each state. The televote had people give out 3 amount of points; which included 1, 3, 5 Points. Each point had to be given to different states and couldn't be all given to 1 state. This was the biggest vote change in months. This is the first time the contest had 7 different amount of points.

### Opening and interval acts

The Opening Interval Act was the winners from last edition, "Jamala" performing her winning song "1944". The Ending Interval Act that was last editions runner-up "GFRIEND" with their song "MAGO".

### Jury Show

The UBU kept the Jury Show, because they thought it was a great way to showcase all the songs from each edition. The Jury Show will give each state to perform their full song in front of the states before voting. The UBU felt like this would give each state a better chance at winning. We will not have the little song previews, meaning that everyone participating must be at the Jury Show in order to compete.

The Jury Show took place on June 17th & 18th. The UBU gave participants the choice to see it two times for their voting decision and just incase their busy.

### Stage design

The stage was decorated with the colors from the logo and also had tree graphics on the wall for the event and had a screen for the points and televote. Each state that participated this month, came up to the stage and sung there songs with the background visuals/props behind them on the stage. UBU still allowed people at the contest, but only if people proved a negative Covid-19 test in the past 24 hours, All guests still had to wear face coverings. The show only had 1000 guests inside, compared to the original size of 1,500 due to Covid-19.

## Participants

### Participating states

The UBU announced on June 3rd, that the applications opened for the fourteenth edition of the UnitedVision Song Contest. The UBU closed the applications on June 10th and the states that will participate are Minnesota, Massachusetts, Georgia, North Carolina, Florida, California, Texas, and Tennessee. The UBU also announced that the songs and the artists will be revealed at the Jury Show on June 17th.

This is the first contest to have more than 6 states. Florida is the first state to send a song with Profanity. *(the profanity was edited out, due to rules)*