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## UnitedVision Song Contest October 2022

**UnitedVision Song Contest 18**, often referred as **UnitedVision Song Contest October 2022**, was the eighteenth edition of the UnitedVision Song Contest.

The event was held at the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, California on October 22, 2022. The show was hosted by Advisko.

7 States took part in the contest. Tennessee, Texas, Minnesota, Florida, Massachusetts, Georgia, and California. No states debuted or withdrew from the contest, but Tennessee returned after not competing in 17th edition of the contest.

The contest was organized by the UBU.

## **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 was "Re-Inventing Light". The official logo and branding was revealed on October 2, 2022; designed by Advisko. The generic logo spelled "UnitedVision Song Contest" with the host state and edition number at the bottom right. The official logo was a orange geometric shaped heart. The background had purple and a light orange, as well as lines leading towards the heart shaped logo. The UBU said "The heart in the logo is being re-invented because it feels like people have forgotten what love is. Love comes in many shapes, that's why the heart is in a geometric shape."

### **Voting**

Each state had to present their points; 1, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 points. Each point had to be given to each state. The televote had people give out 3 amount of points; which included 1, 3, 5 Points. Each point had to be given to different states and couldn't be all given to 1 state.

### Opening and interval acts

Usually the Opening Interval Acts are both the Winner and Runner-Up from last edition, but UBU has not decided on that for the upcoming events.

### Stage design

The stage was decorated with the colors from the logo, there were no 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. Everyone that went to the contest in person had to have a negative Covid-19 test in the past 48 hours. The show had limited it's seating due to Covid-19 Pandemic.

## Participants

### Participating states

The UBU announced on September 30 that the applications would open on October 4 and close on October 9, only giving each state less than a week to send in their entry. On October 10, it was revealed that 7 states would take part in the 18th edition of the contest; Tennessee, Texas, Minnesota, Florida, Massachusetts, Georgia, and California. Tennessee returned after not participating in the 17th edition of the contest.

When the artists were revealed, almost half of the artists were comeback artists that previously were in the contest before. This included Alex Sampson, which has represented Massachusetts for the past 3 editions. Allie X, which has represented Massachusetts back in the first edition of the contest in March 2021.

Minnesota, got 6 points from all of the Juries and 0 points from the Public (televote), which is the worst result any state has done in the contest since edition 1.