UVAS 2022

## UnitedVision Award Show 2022

**UnitedVision Award Show 2022** is the first edition of the annual award show. The event was organized by the UBU.

The event was held in California on March 19, 2022. The show was hosted by Advisko.

The event awarded songs, states, and even graphics from each edition. The event had over **15 categories** with **68 nominees** divided among those categories, each category receiving **4-7 nominees**. *(each category had a different amount of nominees.)*

## **Location**

### **Host City**

**Los Angeles** is a sprawling Southern California city and the center of the nation’s film and television industry. Near its iconic Hollywood sign, studios such as Paramount Pictures, Universal and Warner Brothers offer behind-the-scenes tours. On Hollywood Boulevard, TCL Chinese Theatre displays celebrities’ hand- and footprints, the Walk of Fame honors thousands of luminaries and vendors sell maps to stars’ homes.

## Format

### Visual design

The contest's slogan, "Fast Forward Through The Past". The official generic logo was revealed on January 25, 2022, but the official branding wasn't revealed until February 28, 2022; designed by Advisko. The text logo spelled "UnitedVision Award Show". There wasn't a official logo but only the generic logo. The background was consisted of purple/pinkish, blue, and green.

### **Voting**

Each state and viewer could vote and they could vote up to as many times as they would like. The UBU asked viewers and states to at least vote up to 3 times and to swap their votes up a little on each vote so it wouldn't be the same amount of votes.

### Opening and interval acts

The Interval Acts were placed after every 5 awards. The first Interval Act was Junior UnitedVision star Viki Gabor with her song "Superhero". The second Interval Act was another Junior UnitedVision star, Darina Krasnovetska with her song "Say Love".

In each Interval Act there were links to donate to United Nations Children's Fund to help children and families in Ukraine during the war between Russia and Ukraine.

### Award Nominations

Each state that have participated more than 3 times were chosen for an award. This wasn't the case for Massachusetts and Tennessee which were nominated for only 1 award due to the category.

The states that were nominated were *Texas, California, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Tennessee, North Carolina, Illinois, Georgia, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Tennessee.*

The state with the most nominations was North Carolina with 13 nominations out of the 15 categories, that's 86% of the nominations. The state with the least amount of nominations was New Hampshire with only 6 nominees, that's only 40% of the nominations. The state that won the most awards was Texas, with a total of 5 out of the 12 that they were nominated for, Minnesota was nominated for 11 awards but didn't win any awards in the show.

### Stage design

The stage was decorated with purple/pinkish, blue, and green for the event and also had a screen for the points. The nominees of each category had their song played before giving out the result. The show also was partnered by the United Nations Children's Fund. UBU still allowed people at the award show, 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 200 guests inside, compared to the original size of 500.

## Participants

The UBU picked each state and songs and graphic style for the award show. The UBU felt like this would be better than letting everyone vote from over 150 things. The UBU didn't have a biased on any of the songs or artists or graphic styles. The Nominees were revealed on March 4th, followed by voting started on March 6th.