UVSC 12

## UnitedVision Song Contest February 2022

**UnitedVision Song Contest 12**, often referred as **UnitedVision Song Contest February 2022**, was the twelfth edition of the UnitedVision Song Contest.

The event was held in the Robert Frost Auditorium in Culver City, California on February 19, 2022. The show was hosted by Advisko.

Six States took part in the contest; Texas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Georgia, California, Tennessee. One state, Tennessee debuted in this edition. No states withdrew or returned.

The contest was organized by the UBU. The contest was going to have a Jury Show but due to plans having it on the week of the "Super Bowl LVI", the UBU canceled the Jury Show and provided a regular Song Preview, which only played 20 seconds of each song for the states to vote.

California's representative, "**Kep1er**" with their song *"**WA DA DA**"* turned out to be the winners of the contest with 63 points. They won the contest with the most points ever given to a state and also California broke a recorded of winning 3 times. Kep1er was the thirteenth winners of UnitedVision and California planned to host the next edition in April 2022.

## **Location**

### **Host City**

**Culver City**, soaked in moviemaking history, features a buzzing dining and nightlife scene, which includes globally inspired eateries, gastropubs and cozy cocktail bars. Occupying the MGM lot, which dates back to 1924, Sony Pictures Studios offers behind-the-scenes tours of its legendary soundstages. Other cultural highlights include spare but sophisticated art galleries, playhouses and the storied Culver Hotel.

## Format

### Visual design

The contest's slogan, "Be A Star!". The official logo and branding was revealed on January 31, 2022; designed by Advisko. The text logo spelled "UnitedVision Song Contest". The official logo was a 3 color layered star. The background had the similar colors as the logo part.

### **Voting**

Each state had to present their points; 0, 4, 7, 9, 12 points. Each point had to be given to each state. The televote had people give out 3 amount of points to each state instead of just 1 amount. The televote points included 1, 3, 5 Points. Each point had to be given to different states and couldn't be all given to 1 state.

### Opening and interval acts

The Opening Interval Act was the winners from last edition, "TWICE" performing their winning song "The Feels". The Ending Interval Act that was last editions runner-up "Griff" with her song "One Night".

### Jury Show

The UBU had plans to keep the Jury Show for more editions due to its positive feedback.

The Jury Show gave 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. Every state that signed up for UVSC had to come to these Jury Shows because there wasn't going to be a little song preview.

The UBU said on February 4th, 2022 that the Jury Show would return after positive feedback and it would be on February 12th & 13th.

On February 12th, the UBU announced that the Jury Show would be canceled after people couldn't make it to the events due to the Super Bowl 2022 event on February 13th, 2022. The UBU announced that they would be using Song Previews instead of having a Jury Show.

The UBU didn't announce if the Jury Show will return for the 13th edition.

### Stage design

The stage was decorated with different shades of green for the event and also 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 800 guests inside, compared to the original size of 1,250 due to the rise of the Omicron Covid-19 Variant.

## Participants

### Participating states

The UBU announced on February 8th, that the applications closed and that 6 states would be participating in the twelfth edition of the UnitedVision Song Contest and they were California, Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Tennessee. The UBU also announced that the songs and the artists will be revealed at the Jury Show on February 12th. Later announced by the UBU, the Jury Show would be canceled and the songs were released on February 13th.