Dubovision 1

## Dubovision #01

Dublajul a fost realizat de Zone Studio Oradea.

## 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.

### Winning song

 Slovenia - **The Boy That I Secretly Love** (Miraculous Ladybug)

## Editions

Previous: Pilot 2022
Next: Ljubljana 2

**Dubovision #1** is the actual inaugural edition of the Dubovision Song Contest, following the cancelled 2022 edition. It was held in Oradea,  Romania. On February 7, 2023, it was announced on the YouTube channel that the Dubovision contest would be revived. Confirmations for entry picking closed on March 4.

The contest was won by Nika Krmec, representing  Slovenia with the Slovene dub of "The Boy That I Secretly Love" from *Miraculous Ladybug*. They scored 219 points, finishing 42 points ahead of the  Netherlands and 52 ahead of  Iran.

## Format

The **Dubovision Song Contest** is a contest in which the competitors are pre-existing official dubs from around the world. Unlike Dubovision 2022, the voting process from here on out 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 56 countries entered the competition, instead of 80 like last edition, due to the new system. Originally it was 58, but two countries were disqualified.

The first semi included 26 countries, and the second included 25 countries, with the respective ten qualifying out of each semi-final, joining the five automatic qualifiers in the final.

### YouTube presence

Unlike Dubovision 2022, this competition did not continue its main presence on YouTube (although various advertisements were made under the "Community" tab). Instead, voting took place on ScoreWiz, and participants had to be active on the Discord server of the competition. It is not certain if anything will change next edition, but a YouTube video recapping the events of this edition is planned to be made after the competition has finished.

Not all entries were manually uploaded by the juries to the official YouTube channel, either. Instead, it was an option for those who picked their entries to upload it themselves. Still, a generous offer was made for the juries to upload any entries which could not be uploaded by those who picked theirs.

## Participants

### Returning Artists

* Croatia - The Croatian opening to *Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures*, sung by Andrea Čubrić, re-entered in the competition from Dubovision 2022.
* Italy - Cristina D'Avena sung for Italy's entry (the opening for *Kirby: Right Back at Ya!*) in Dubovision 2022 as well.
* Kazakhstan - Nazerke Serikbolova and Şah-Mūrat Ordabaev both sang in Kazakhstan's Dubovision 2022 entry ("Some Things Never Change" from *Frozen II*).
* Slovakia - Lenka Debnárová sung solo for Slovakia's entry in Dubovision 2022, both being from the same film (*Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe*).
* Sri Lanka - The singer for the 2014 *Lassie* opening also sang for the 2022 entry, which was the Sinhala *Miraculous Ladybug* opening, Ishara Kalpani.
* Taiwan - Plans to use the song "Who's Got the Power?" from the 2016 *Powerpuff Girls* reboot to represent Taiwan (alongside Australia, using the same song) were scrapped in Dubovision 2022. The song enters the competition in this edition.

### Semi-Final 1

This semi took place March 21, 2023. Voting was initiated on March 19.

### Semi-Final 2

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

### Grand Final

This semi took place March 25, 2023. Voting was initiated on March 23; All participants of the Grand Final voted in time, meaning no deducting of points were made.

## Other Countries

* Argentina - The HOD for Argentina went unresponsive, so the country went unused.
* France - Initially, the HOD for France went unresponsive. Someone else later claimed the country, but submitted a song that was not a dub ("La Seine" from *A Monster in Paris* in French). Since no other submission was made, the country went unused.
* Indonesia - The HOD of Indonesia was disqualified from entering the contest. Their entry was originally the Indonesian dub of "Doubutsuen wa Taihen da" from *Crayon Shin-chan*.
* Pakistan - The HOD of Pakistan was disqualified from entering the contest. Their entry was originally the Urdu dub of *Shimmer and Shine'*s opening theme.

## National Finals

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

## Notes

* Many songs were naturally re-used for this edition (of course, being dubbed in different countries and in different languages).
* The thumbnail style used for videos uploaded in Dubovision 2022 was revamped completely starting this edition.

### Footnotes

1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Twelve points were deducted due to the HOD not voting.