UVAS 2023

## UnitedVision Award Show 2023

**UnitedVision Award Show 2023** is the second annual award show. The event was organized by the UBU.

The event was held in Texas on March 25, 2023. The show was hosted by Advisko.

The event awarded songs, states, and even graphics from each edition. The event had 14 categories and 59 nominees, each category had mainly 4 nominees but 1 category had more than 4, which was the "Favorite State Award".

## **Location**

### **Host City**

**Austin** is the state capital of Texas, an inland city bordering the Hill Country region. Home to the University of Texas flagship campus, Austin is known for its eclectic live-music scene centered around country, blues and rock. Its many parks and lakes are popular for hiking, biking, swimming and boating. South of the city, Formula One's Circuit of the Americas raceway has hosted the United States Grand Prix.

## Format

### Visual design

The contest's slogan, "Relive The History". The official generic logo was revealed on March 2, 2023, but the official branding wasn't revealed until March 4, 2023; 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 different shades of blue.

### **Voting**

Every delegation and viewer could vote at least 3 times. This was changed from last editions voting system due to people basically getting their votes higher than anyone else.

### Opening and interval acts

The Interval Acts were 3 passed winners of the song contest. Arctic Monkeys from Illinois, Miki Nunez from North Carolina, and Yamy from California all preformed their winning songs. The UBU said in the announcement that they chose these artists because of their contributions and greatness in shaping UnitedVision into what it is today, and qoute said *"Arctic Monkeys paved the way for artists to express their musical genres. Miki changed the way any language could win UnitedVision, and Yamy demonstrated that you can come from a difficult background and still win. Every four categories, an Interval Act will be performed."*

### Award Nominations

Each state that have participated 3 or more times in 2022 was chosen for an award. The top 3 states that had the most nominations were Minnesota, Texas, and California. The state that won the most awards was Texas, winning 5 out of their 9 nominated categories (55%). The states that didn't win any awards were Tennessee, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Ohio. There was a total of 59 nominees and 14 categories filled with mostly 4 nominees in each category.

### Stage design

The stage was decorated with the colors from the logo, there were decorations at the auditorium, the event did have 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. This was the first show to have no restrictions for COVID-19.

## Participants

The UBU picked each category and nominees for each category. The UBU felt like this would be better than letting everyone vote from over 100+ things. The UBU didn't have a biased on any of the nominees or categories. The votes for the awards were decided not to be revealed by the UBU.