Redditvision Song Contest 24

Redditvision Song Contest 24 was the twenty-fourth ordinary and twenty-sixth overall edition of the Redditvision Song Contest. It was hosted by u/ani_shira in Edinburgh, Scotland after their win in the previous edition, with the song "Beautiful Ones" by Hurts.

The winner was England with the song "Keeping Your Head Up" by Birdy.

This was the latest edition of Redditvision to have a tiebreak for first place, with England prevailing over Zambia to win after both received 152 points.

Participants
58 users signed up for the edition, but Australia, Fiji, Hungary, Seychelles and Singapore all failed to submit an entry, bringing the number of participants down to 53.

San Marino failed to vote in time in the semi-finals. Botswana withdrew in the grand final due to not having time to vote. Iraq and Ireland were disqualified for not voting in time.

u/az4521, u/SergeyJorjaStan, u/SilverLine109 and u/The_Placemourner made their debuts this edition.

National finals

 * See also: National Finals in Redditvision Song Contest 24

Semi-final 1
Dominica and Scotland voted in this semi-final.

Semi-final 2
Central African Republic and Tunisia voted in this semi-final.

Semi-final 3
Japan and Canada voted in this semi-final.

Grand final
Botswana withdrew due to time constraints. Iraq and Ireland were disqualified for not voting in time.

Semi-final 1
A total of 18 countries from the other semi-finals voted in semi-final 1. These votes are collected in the external votes, which was given half the power of the internal votes. The 18 votes were therefore scaled down to represent an equivalent score to 8 voters, exactly half of the 16 internal voters in the semi-final.

As per the rules, the top 6 in the internal results are 'locked-in', and are automatically qualified even if they should fall below 8th place after the external votes have been added to the scores.

San Marino were disqualified for not voting. Prior to reallocation, their entry had ranked 12th in the external votes.

12 points
Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country:

Semi-final 2
A total of 17 countries from the other semi-finals voted in semi-final 2. These votes are collected in the external votes, which was given half the power of the internal votes. The 17 votes were therefore scaled down to represent an equivalent score to 9 voters, exactly half of the 18 internal voters in the semi-final.

As per the rules, the top 6 in the internal results are 'locked-in', and are automatically qualified even if they should fall below 8th place after the external votes have been added to the scores.

12 points
Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country. Crossvoting countries are shown in italics.

Semi-final 3
A total of 17 countries from the other semi-finals voted in semi-final 3. These votes are collected in the external votes, which was given half the power of the internal votes. The 17 votes were therefore scaled down to represent an equivalent score to 9 voters, exactly half of the 18 internal voters in the semi-final.

As per the rules, the top 6 in the internal results are 'locked-in', and are automatically qualified even if they should fall below 8th place after the external votes have been added to the scores.

12 points
Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country:

12 points
Below is a summary of the maximum 12 points awarded by each country: