AstroVision Song Festival Wiki

The **AstroVision Song Festival**, often shortened **AVSF**, is a fan contest held on Discord and YouTube. It is originally a European fan contest, however it also has two spin-offs : the **AstroVision America Song Festival**, a spin-off held on the American continent and in the Caribbean ; and the **AstroVision Retro Song Festival**, a worldwide spin-off with only songs released between 1980 and 2009 competiting. This contest is the reboot of the former AstroVision Song Contest which closed on August ,8 2022 after the 25th, and last, edition got cancelled on May, 25 2022.

The AVSF held six editions so far. The opening of the contest took place on April 24, 2023.

## History

After a few complicated editions to organise for the supervisor, the 25th edition of the AstroVision Song Contest caused an end to the contest, with the edition getting cancelled before the final got released. The lack of time from the supervising team hold the AVBU on hiatus before a closing for an undefinite amount of time pronounced on August, 8 2022, after a bit more than 3 years of existence (the former AVSC was created on May, 30 2019).

On March 29, 2023, the AVBU released a first teasing image, showing the AstroVision official font on a black background, teasing a potential return of the AstroVision franchise, though without any official announcement. Followed, four teasers, released during a week's time, and teasing respectively glimpses of the new AstroVision Broadcasting Union logo, of the new AstroVision Retro Song Festival spin-off (originating from a special-themed edition of the former AVSC held in Summer 2021 which had an unexpected success among the community), of the new AstroVision America Song Festival and of the regular European variant of the contest, along with the numbers 2, 4, 0, 4, teasing the official reopening date of the AVBU community server on April 24, 2023 (24/04).

## Editions Turnover

The newly rebooted AstroVision franchise gathers three different variations :

- **AstroVision Song Festival** : the regular format of the contest, inheriting from the original AstroVision Song Contest formula, European-based only, with one international Guest Country allowed to enter per edition,

- **AstroVision America Song Festival** : a fresh variant of the contest, which doesn't inherit from any past contest, it is the American-based spin-off of the AVSF, with only American countries as well as several isles from the Caribbean allowed to take part,

- **AstroVision Retro Song Festival** : a retro spin-off of the AVSF, which inherits from the former AstroVision Song Contest RETRO Special Edition. It establishes itself as a celebration of worldwide hits from 1980 to 2009, with countries from all around the world allowed to take part in this wayback-machinesque variant.

Each variant of the contest is held according to a 3-edition turnover, with every edition seeing a different variant hosted.

## Editions Summary

To this day, the AstroVision Broadcasting Union planned a total of 8 contests.

## AVBU Community Members

To this day, the AstroVision Broadcasting Union counts a total of 35 participants taking part at least once to one of its contests.

 Took part to an edition

 Did not take part to an edition

 Won an edition

 Finished second an edition

 Finished third an edition