what could a "worldvision" look like?

[suyana]

since some eurovision-adjacent contest may or may not take place in the asian continent/asia-pacific region, i started to think what a worldwide version of the competition would look like, and i wanted opinions on what the forum would like to see that competition look like.

MY IDEA:

since the ebu is a member of the world broadcasting unions, with other members serving other regions of the world, i thought regional contests would occur and be headed by each of the broadcasting unions, making a total of 5 competitions:

• eurovision song contest (ebu: europe)
• africavision song contest (aub: africa)
• asiavision/abu/eurovision asia song contest (abu: asia-pacific, asbu: arab states)
• caribbean song contest (cbu: caribbean)
• americavision song contest (naba: north america, iab: central and south america)

in the case of countries like australia, azerbaijan, etc., they'd have to pick ONE competition to participate in.

the worldwide contest would occur every four years. prior to the worldwide contest, a qualifying round would occur in which the top 5 of each year (e.g. 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019) + the best result of each of the "big five" or whatever equivalent for each region, if their best result isn't already there, would compete for spots in the worldwide competition, proportionate to the competition's size. 

• eurovision gets 10 spots
• africavision gets 7 spots
• the asian version receives 15 spots
• caribbean song contest gets 5 spots
• americavision gets 8 spots

the first place entry of each qualifying round would automatically qualify to the worldwide competition's final. there is only one qualifying spot per country (e.g. robin bengtsson and john lundvik can't both qualify. only the best of the two would), so in the chance that two or more entries from one country make the top 10, the next entry form a country that doesn't have a qualifying entry is selected.

these qualifying rounds occur the january after the last competition (in this case january 2020), and the worldwide competition would occur in march-april. in europe's case, january's competitors would be:

• jamala -1944
• dami im - sound of silence
• sergey lazarev - you are the only one
• poli genova - if love was a crime
• frans - if i were sorry
• salvador sobral - amor pelos dois
• kristian kostov - beautiful mess
• sunstroke project - hey mamma !
• blanche - city lights
• robin bengtsson - i cant go on
• netta - toy
• eleni foureira - fuego
• cesar sampson - nobody but you
• michael schulte - you let me walk alone
• ermal meta & fabrizio moro - non mi avete fatto niente
• duncan laurence - arcade
• mahmood - soldi
• sergey lazarev - scream
• luca hanni - she got me
• john lundvik - too late for love
• lucie jones - never give up on you
• amir - j'ai cherche
• barei - say yay !

possible winners in bold.

what do you think? how would a worldvision song contest look like to you? do you even want one?

[Þórir]

I think it would be the same, except the but without the qualifying rounds as such, so instead just the Top few of each year automatically feature
The exception would be if a country had two spots, in which case they must national final between the two songs, and the best scoring 3rd place of the period qualifies instead

As in the case of the Eurovision were it to be held this year:

QUALIFIED COUNTRIES:
Netherlands (Duncan Laurence - Arcade)
Italy (Mahmood - Soldi)
Israel (Netta - Toy)
Cyprus (Eleni Foureira - Fuego)
Portugal (Salvador Sobral - Amar Pelos Dois)
Bulgaria (Kristian Kostov - Beautiful Mess)
Ukraine (Jamala - 1944)
Australia (Dami Im - Sound of Silence)*
Sweden (Mans Zelmerlöw - Heroes)
Russia (Sergey Lazarev - You Are The Only One)

If Australia was deemed not eligible to represent Europe then its spot would go to Moldova (SunStroke Project - Hey Mamma) as the highest scoring 3rd place that hadn't already secured a spot in the contest

[rifkialq]

well, I've shared my ideal concept of Worldvision. you can see it here.

[-♡a trick of the moo♡-]

Editions would happen every 2 years, and it would be along these lines:

Every country submits an original song for review.

All four "continent groups" (Americas, Europe**, Africa, Australasia*) place each of their songs in a pre-qualifier where spectators have a chance to vote online for their faves.

The top 12 from each continent group are placed in the semis.

Three semis, 16 songs each. Top 6 from each qualify.

Top 8 of the preceding edition become the "big Eight" and the final has 26 songs.

*-Middle East, Asia, and Oceania
**-every country (except Australia and Morocco) to have participated in Eurovision proper