LiuVision 1

Basic information
The first edition of the LiuVision Song Contest was hosted in the Žalgiris Arena, located in Kaunas, Lithuania on the 19th of August, 2022.

Run by Abe, Baddy and Amity, 13 countries participated, each represented by a separate Head of Delegation (HoD).

Hosting
Likely based on the organisers' fan mini-contest "Who is the Most Tasteful?" (of which the winner was Sonya), the idea of the hosting of another fan contest within the server that was larger and more based around Eurovision was born on the 1st of August 2022.

By the 8th of August, bidding for the first ever LiuVision host city began. Multiple bids were suggested.

Romania was the first to announce their bid to host, bidding with the central Transylvanian city of Sibiu. Israel posed a country-wide bid, however this was disqualified due to a lack of interest in participating in the LiuVision contest.

When bidding began, eight countries/cities presented their bid to host the contest, listed below. Sibiu, Romania

 Wigland-Kaunas, Lithuania

Crumlin, Ireland

Hull, England

Brussels, Belgium

Australia

Greece

Veneto, Italy Eventually, the bids from Italy, Australia and Greece were dropped for various reasons, leaving only 5 bids.

Ultimately, late at night on the 8th of August, 2022, Wigland-Kaunas was selected as the host city for the first LiuVision Song Contest, with the formal host city being Kaunas.

Preparations for the show began almost immediately, and the host venue was selected as the Žalgiris Arena at a later point in time.

Production and Format
The show's production utilised a Discord VC (Voice Channel) and ScoreWiz (Eurovision-style scoreboard creation website).

The show began much the same way as Eurovision, with the track Te Deum, an opening, and announcement of hosts.

After the opening, the songs of Belgium,  Sweden,  Australia and  Italy were played, before an interval intermission.

After the intermission, the songs of Lithuania,  Germany,  Romania and  Estonia were played, before a secondary intermission.

After the intermission, the songs of Morocco,  England,  Greece,  Norway and  Ireland were played.

Once the final song had been played, voting was announced to have begun, and a recap played.

An interval act from Solo Ansamblis took place, followed by a final recap, and the announcement of voting closing.

The voting sequence took place on ScoreWiz, before the announcement of the winner: Italy, receiving 118 points.

The winning song replayed, and credits were shown, concluding the broadcast.