AINVision 2012

AINVision 2012 was the 5th Bi-Annual AINVision Song Contest. Following the win of Sara Bareilles at the 2010 Contest at Colbitz, Illu'a the contest was released to be held at Centreburg, Corraile. The show was held on the 9th of April and the results shown on the 16th after days of voting. 16 countries participated in AINVision that year.

The logo of the contest stuck to the tradition of keeping the same logo but changing the flag shown in the heart taking place where the V would be, this version having the Corraile flag and the voting consisted of the usual 1-12 point votes with the top 2 scores being given 10 and 12 points, with non-participating countries being allowed to vote as well. The votes were closed on the 15th. The contest was won by Sara Bareilles with the song Uncharted while the Atlantic Federation came 2nd and Cattala placing 3rd while the last place was awarded to the Onubis Federation with 23 points.

Location
The original hosting of AINVision 2012 was to be in the winter of 2011, being around December to January, but was postponed until it's start in the Summer of 2012 because of the move of forums. In records of the previous forum it was announced on the 9th December 2011, in a listing before the website move, that 17 nations were planned to be in the contest.

It was revealed in the actual show to be Centreburg in Corraile in the Hartsfield Square Arena that would be the hosting arena for the contest.

Participating Countries
In 2012, because of the ever expanding union, a new rule was created for this contest which required everybody to apply to participate in the contest. The application included 1 picture of the applying country in the application thread, a national representative with optional picture, and the actual artist and song which had to be in the national language in the same application thread. Participation application started on March the 13th, to March the 31st with a total of 16 countries joining in that time.