Vha Mehlodhivestoile 2023

Vha Mehlodhivestoile 2023
Dates
Semi Final 1	1 April 2022
Semi Final 2	8 April 2022
Semi Final 3	15 April 2022
Battle Stages	22 April 2022
Grand Final	6 May 2022
Hosts
Presenters	Matt Evans Lena Hayhurst Josh Martense
Broadcaster	Brityunik Vefecosoin Cairkovoin [BVC]
Participants
Number of Participants	25
Number of Participants (GF)	10
Vote
Winning Song	TBA 6 May
Runner Up	TBA 6 May
Recent Editions
← 2022 • Vha Mehlodhivestoile • 2024 →

Vha Mehlodhivestoile 2023 (also known as MEHVEH 2023, VM2023) is the eighth edition of the music contest, which selected the Britonish act for the 107th Worldvision Song Contest and the 70th World Hit Festival. The competition is organised by Brityunik Vefecosoin Cairkovoin [BVC], Britonisea's public broadcaster which focuses on home-grown talent. The competition took place between the 1st April to the 6th May, the latest Vha Mehlodhivestoile to date. The reason for the later Vha Mehlodhivestoile was due to Britonisea winning the 68th World Hit Festival in Achaean Republic and thus were responsible for hosting the 69th edition of the World Hit Festival which took place in late March - when Vha Mehlodhivestoile usually begins. The winner of Vha Mehlodhivestoile 2023 will earn a place to represent Britonisea at the 107th WorldVision Song Contest under BITC who provides financial support to the contest. Finalists will be considered for upcoming editions of the World Hit Festival from the 71st edition onwards.

Format

Vha Mehlodhivestoile will continue in its usual structure with there being three semi-finals, a battle stage and a grand final. The first semi-final will happen on the 1st April 2022 with the grand final on the 6th May 2022. Each semi-final will consist of eight (8) artists, with the Britonish votes accounting for 50% of the overall total. This year, there will be eight (8) voting areas per Semi-Final, including the usual six televoting areas (North, Central, East, City, Capital and Aloquirbe). The seventh group will be a demoscopic jury made of 620 people representing the 62 million people in Britonisea who will watch the show's rehearsal the day before along with the final group - The Professionals. At the end of each show, the top two artists will qualify for the grand final in Burgendore (six overall) with third and fourth place qualifying to the battle stage which will take place in Zelmerlow. The battles will be judged by Aenglide, Kalosia and Llalta.

10 acts will make it to the Grand Final, similar to 2016, 2018 and 2019 - 6 direct qualifiers, 3 from the battle stage and TOULOUSE - who received the right to come bak after Charlotte's Party decided not to return to Vha Mehlodhivestoile. For the Grand Final, international juries will vote in the Worldvision point system [12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] and will be joined by a Britonish Jury. Around 33% of the final vote will be from the Britonish televote. Regardless of the number of international juries, the Britonish televote will be giving out no less than 348 points. A minute after the recap, voting lines will freeze with the results of the international jury being announced one by one. The lines will be reopened during an interval act and then closed again. Britonish nationals who vote via the app will be allowed to receive all their votes allocated to them again. The winner will be chosen using a combination of the International Jury and Britonish Televote.

The number of participants in Vha Mehlodhivestoile 2023 will be 25.

Bidding & Campaigning

Similarly to last year, there were a pre-determined decision on the cities that would be chosen to host Vha Mehlodhivestoile. The cities were chosen to make sure Vha Mehlodhivestoile is being held in a wide range of places. The reason for picking certain cities is to celebrate the Best of Britonish. All locations would welcome 10,000 people during the Semi-Finals.

The arenas that have been chosen for the 2023 contest, in general, are smaller than usual. For the first time ever Alosable and Aronyk will be hosting - with them undertaking the first and second semi-final, with the former city marking the second time only Aloquirbe has hosted Vha Mehlodhivestoile in eight years. Machievelihe will be hosting for the first time since 2019, though in the Central Exhibition Hall instead of the Gyron Arena which hosted the VM2019 final and WorldVision Song Contest 57. Zelmerlow will be hosting for the first time since 2018, once again in Estadoyn de Zelmerlow. Zelmerlow will be home to the Battle Stage as it was back in 2018. Burgendore will host for the first time since 2019 as well in the VEFEKOM Arena but this time it will play home to the Grand Final. With 18,000 tickets for the Grand Final, it will be the smallest Vha Mehlodhivestoile final, but similar to the capaicty of the 2020 edition and most of Britonisea's WorldVision and World Hit Festival hostings.

Competition Schedule					Qualifiers to Finals
Show	Date	City	Arena	Full Capacity (for VM2023)
Semi Final 1	1 April 2023	Alosable	Alosable Convention Centre	8,000 (7,600)	2
Semi Final 2	8 April 2023	Aronyk	Arena Aronyk	30,000 (10,500)	2
Semi Final 3	15 April 2023	Machievelihe	Central Exhibition Centre	14,220 (10,500)	2
Battle Stages	22 April 2023	Zelmerlow	Estadoyn de Zelmerlow	11,000 (10,500)	3
Grand Final	6 May 2023	Burgendore	VEFEKOM Arena	18,000 (18,000)	1

Competing Entries

The competing entries for the 8th Vha Mehlodhivestoile are expected to be revealed weekly on the 12th, 19th and 26th of March 2023.

Semi Finals

Semi Final One

Semi-Final 1 took place in the Alosable Convention Centre, Alosable on the 1st April 2023. Seven nations voted in this Semi-Final; Natanya, Llalta, Besen, Todlichebujoku, StrayaRoos, Aenglide and Estogium with 560 points being distributed. There were 1.42 unique Britonish voters contributing to a total of 10.64 million casted votes.

Draw	Artist(s)	Song	Votes			Result
			Intl.	Brit.	Total
1	Vhe Qi	Leave Me Alone	14	41	55	6th
2	Amarae Levy	Losing My Head	43	13	56	5th
3	Zohan Ayad	Corghvaike [Heartache]	10	25	35	8th
4	Mya Richardson	Trust Me	27	17	44	7th
5	Martina Hacer + Rodrigo Babel	Ahora que estás aquí [Now that you're here]	X	X	X	1/2
6	Esther Winterbourne	Beltane	X	X	X	3/4
7	Jordan Samuels	Miss You	X	X	X	3/4
8	Leyla Bellisario	Don't Stop	X	X	X	1/2

Semi Final Two

Draw	Artist(s)	Song	Votes			Result
			Intl.	Brit.	Total
1	Novel Lennox	The Good Old Days	23	16	39	8th
2	Alex Lindgren	Emptiness	X	X	X	1/2
3	Ella Lockwood	Hypnotised	X	X	X	1/2
4	Martin Esposito	Evolve	33	41	74	6th
5	Rose Halifax	Mind Games	X	X	X	3/4
6	GIRL4CE	Yummy	34	20	54	7th
7	Raph and Nathan	Lost Control	14	61	75	5th
8	UPRISING	Eternal Sins	X	X	X	3/4

Semi Final Three

Draw	Artist(s)	Song	Votes			Result
			Intl.	Brit.	Total
1	Rhiannon Stephens	Someone New	45	22	67	6th
2	Reece and Jayden	Foras œ requoile [Back and forth]	X	X	X	3/4
3	Demi Blake	Zero to Hero	32	26	58	7th
4	Joel Romero	Torture	19	31	50	8th
5	Zoe Wilkinson	Solution	X	X	X	1/2
6	Xavier Benchek	Inhibitions	X	X	X	1/2
7	Gabriella Bianchi	Little Miss Toxic	X	X	X	3/4
8	Samuel Garrison	Fight	20	55	75	5th

Battle Stage

Similarly to 2022, the Battle Stage will be judged by one international jury as opposed to three. Three people who are within the WorldVision Song Contest or World Hit Festival sphere, or has an extensive background in popular music, per nation will join the jury and vote for their favourite performance of the two per battle. This year, the international jury will be made by professionals from Kalosia, Llalta and Aenglide.

The International Jury was made up of Eva Renati (WV64, WV100 participant), Regina Tonic (WHF69 participant) and Marko Tošini (WHF58 songwriter) from Kalosia; Lina Letlen, Ritta-Marie Viaaken and Markus Olavssen from Aenglide; June Summerfields, Pingu and Chiara Albanthia (Winner of WHF47) from Llalta.

Battle One: Reece + Jayden v Samuels

Battle One
Song 1	6-3	Song 2
Reece & Jayden Foras œ requoile [Back and Forth]		Jordan Samuels Miss You
Jurors that voted for this song: Ritta-Marie Viaaken Chiara Albanthia (H) June Summerfields Pingu Eva Renati (H) Marko Tošini		Jurors that voted for this song: Lina Letlen (H) Markus Olavssen Regina Tonic

Battle Two: Winterbourne v Halifax

Battle Two
Song 1	7-2	Song 2
Esther Winterbourne Beltane		Rose Halifax Mind Games
Jurors that voted for this song: Ritta-Marie Viaaken Markus Olavssen Chiara Albanthia (H) June Summerfields Pingu Regina Tonic Marko Tošini		Jurors that voted for this song: Lina Letlen (H) Eva Renati (H)

Battle Three: UPRISING v Bianchi

Battle Three
Song 1	6-3	Song 2
UPRISING Eternal Sins		Gabriella Bianchi Little Miss Toxic
Jurors that voted for this song: Lina Letlen (H) Ritta-Marie Viaaken June Summerfields Pingu Eva Renati (H) Marko Tošini		Jurors that voted for this song: Markus Olavssen Chiara Albanthia (H) Regina Tonic

Grand Final

The Grand Final is set to take place in The VEFEKOM Burgen Arena in Burgendore, Ghiezland with 18,000 attending the show live.

Draw	Artist(s)	Song	Votes			Result
			Intl.	Brit.	Total
01	UPRISING	Eternal Sins	X	X	X	TBA
02	Petre Lemetre	Don't Fret	X	X	X	TBA
03	Esther Winterbourne	Beltane	X	X	X	TBA
04	Ella Lockwood	Hypnotised	X	X	X	TBA
05	Martina Hacer + Rodrigo Babel	Ahora que estás aquí [Now that you're here]	X	X	X	TBA
06	Xavier Benchek	Inhibitions	X	X	X	TBA
07	Leyla Bellisario	Don't Stop	X	X	X	TBA
08	Reece and Jayden	Foras œ requoile [Back and forth]	X	X	X	TBA
09	Axel Lindgren	Emptiness	X	X	X	TBA
10	Zoe Wilkinson	Solution	X	X	X	TBA