Altervision Song Contest

*For the most recent edition, see Altervision Song Contest 14.
For the upcoming edition, see Altervision Song Contest 15.*

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The **Altervision Song Contest**, often shortened to **ASC** or **Altervision**, was an online music competition held on Discord and formerly performed on the Sims 4, from May 2020 until September 2022, based on the Eurovision Song Contest. The first edition was held in Prague, Czech Republic. The executive supervisor was Nathan by the time the contest was cancelled, who was assisted by fellow moderators Bea, Dalmatin, Luna, LS, Mathieu, Sylta andTim.

Each country's head of delegation got to select an entry for each edition either by internal or national selection. Every country in the world recognized by the United Nations or being listed as an exception is permitted to participate in the contest, which has been the case since the fifth edition. Still, the majority of countries that have participated in the contest are from Europe, however some countries outside of Europe.

Twelve countries have won the contest: Albania, Andorra, Australia, Croatia, Denmark, Fiji, Hungary, Japan, Sweden, New Zealand, North Macedonia and the United Kingdom, while the Czech Republic has hosted it but has not won. Andorra, despite winning the third edition, did not host the next contest due to budget cuts and no suitable venue to do so, and also withdrew from the contest. The runner-up, the UK, hosted the fourth contest instead. Sweden was the first country in the contest to win the contest more than once, and the only country to have won the contest more than once. Sweden has won Altervision a total of 3 times.

On September 14th 2022, the Altervision Broadcasting Union, responsible for the organisation of the contest, released a statement regarding the cancellation of the contest, citing a lack of work force and the ongoing economic and energy crisis as the reason for having done so.

## History

On 6th April 2020, Dalmatin, a former executive supervisor of the Altervision Broadcasting Union have decided to launch an international music contest, in which every full member of the ABU can take a chance to promote their national stars, and in which the broadcasters send a song which will compete to get the trophy in the end. The contest was later named "Altervision Song Contest". The name was inspired by how an alternative of the well-known Eurovision Song Contest was this contest.

The first ever Altervision Song Contest took place on 10th May 2020 in Prague, Czech Republic. Eventually 16 nations and their broadcasters signed up for the competition with each of them providing one song to be performed live. Each country awarded 12 points to their favorite, 10 points to their second favourite and then 8 points to 1 point for the rest. People all across the world were able to vote via an online poll.

The first country to ever win the contest was Albania with the song "No Maybes" performed by lkay Sencan, Era Istrefi and Arash. The trio managed to gather 206 points in the final, 89 points from the juries and 117 points from the online voting. Ever since then the winner country was awarded to host the following edition with the only exception being the 4th edition which was hosted by the United Kingdom due to the withdrawal of Andorra who won the 3rd edition.

From the first to the fourth edition, only countries in the European Broadcasting Area (with a few exceptions, namely Australia, Canada, South Korea and the United States) were permitted to compete. However, for the fifth edition of the contest, it was announced any country recognised by the United Nations or listed as an exception was allowed to participate, regardless of their location.

Prior to the sixth edition, every participating country qualified for the final as the maximum countries at the contest was twenty-two, at the third edition. However, a large influx of new countries debuted at the sixth edition and thus a semi-final system was implemented to keep the number of countries in the final low enough to be maintainable. A second semi-final was enabled in the eighth edition due to the same reasons. In the 10th edition, a pre-qualification round was held for the same purpose.

## Records

The following list includes the records of the Altervision Song Contest, accurate as of the tenth edition:

 **Smallest margin between top 2** | "Ruin" and "Discoteka" (9pts)

The following records have not been updated since the 5th edition:

**Highest average position:** Albania, 2nd

**Lowest average position:** Algeria 22nd

**Highest total amount of points:** 884, United Kingdom

**Lowest total amount of points:** 22, Japan

**Highest average amount of points:** 176.8, United Kingdom

**Lowest average amount of points:** 22, Japan

## Executive supervisors of the contest

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