Iberiavision Song Contest

The Iberiavision Song Contest, often simply called Iberiavision, is an international song competition held between the members of the Mediterranean Broadcasting Union that are on the Iberian Peninsula with the addition of Algeria and Morocco. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner. At least 7 countries are eligible to compete.

The most recent winners are Sigala, Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor and French Montana from Morocco who won the first edition with the song "Just Got Paid".

History
On the 16 August 2020, Aris Odi, the executive supervisor of the MBU, created the Iberiavision Song Contest, a spin-off of the Mediterraneanvision Song Contest that would be held between the members of the MBU that are on the Iberian Peninsula with the addition of Morocco. Algeria was also eligible to compete starting from the.

Format
The format of the contest has changed over the years, though the basic tenets have always been thus: participant countries submit original songs, performed live on a television programme broadcast across the Mediterraneanvision Network by the MBU simultaneously to all countries. A "country" as a participant is represented by one television broadcaster from that country: typically, but not always, that country's national public broadcasting organisation. The programme is hosted by one of the participant countries, and the programme is broadcast from the auditorium in the host city. During this programme, after all the songs have been performed, the countries then proceed to cast votes for the other countries' songs: nations are not allowed to vote for their own song. At the end of the programme, the song with the most points is declared as the winner. The winner receives, simply, the prestige of having won—although it is usual for a trophy to be awarded to the winning songwriters, and the winning country is formally invited to host the event the following edition.

The programme is invariably opened by one or more presenters, welcoming viewers to the show. Between the songs and the announcement of the voting, an interval act is performed.

As national broadcasters join and leave the Iberiavision feed transmitted by the MBU, the MBU and Iberiavision logos are displayed.

Participation
Any full member of the MBU that are on the Iberian Peninsula with the addition of Algeria and Morocco, is allowed to send an entry to the Iberiavision Song Contest. The following countries are eligible to participate:

Host country
After the first contest was hosted by Spain, it was decided that henceforth the winning country would host the contest the next edition.

Iberiavision logo and theme
The logo, which was created by Aris Odi, was introduced in the first edition already. The logo features the name "Iberiavision", below that the words "Song Contest" and below that, the name of the host city appears along with the number of the edition. The word "Iberiavision" is formed in the font "Forte" while the letter "v" has been replaced by a heart where the flag of the host country appears. The logo heavily resembles the logo of the Mediterraneanvision Song Contest.

Slogans
Since the first edition already, slogans were used for the contest. In each edition, the host broadcaster is in charge to decide on the slogan of the edition and based on it, develop the contest's theme and visual design.

Rules
The rules are mostly the same as the rules of the Mediterraneanvision Song Contest. The only different rule is that entries that have participated in previous Mediterraneanvision editions are not allowed to participate in Iberiavision. Entries that have entered Iberiavision are also not allowed to participate in further Mediterraneanvision editions.

Voting
So far, the voting system has remained the same since the. Each country's professional jury awarded 12, 10, 8, 6 and 3 points to their 5 favourite songs.

Presentation of votes
Since the first edition, all the participating countries have been voting in the final.

The order of the voting nations is often made randomly. After the interval act is over, when all the points have been calculated, the presenter(s) of the show call upon each voting country, in turn, to invite them to announce the results of their professional jury's vote. Often the opportunity is taken by each country to show their spokesperson standing in front of a backdrop which includes a famous place in that country. Traditionally, the scoreboard has taken a different format each edition. Firstly, points 1–8 and 10 are shown together and the spokesperson continues with the highest point, 12. The song which receives the 12 from the country is usually played along with a bar below showing the top 3 at that moment.

Nul points and ties
So far, no country has received 0 points overall.

Under the current rules, in the event of more than one country scoring the same total number of points, a count is made of the numbers of countries who awarded points to each of the tied countries, and the one who received points from the most countries is declared the winner. If the numbers are still tied, it is counted how many sets of maximum points (12 points) each country received. If there is still a tie, the numbers of 10-point scores awarded are compared—and then the numbers of 8-point scores, all the way down the list. In the extremely unlikely event of there then still being a tie for first place, the song performed earliest in the running order is declared the winner.