AINVision 2012

AINVision 2012 was the 5th Semi-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 Beyoncé with the song Love On Top while the New Brunton came 2nd and Corraile the hosts placing 3rd while the last place was awarded to the Karasem with 8 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.

Graphic Design
The graphics design was minimalist with little to no graphics in both shows. The main show only contained the logo with the flag of Corraile in the heart V that is the signature of AINVision. then with a view of the stadium hosting before going right into the contest with each country having the song linked to YouTube only by a link and not embedded, but also the country was noted below the link which contained of the same unique font of the AINVision logo with the county name being typed in it as well as the heart V contained the flag of the participating country that the act was part of being to the left of the country name.

The results themselves were slightly more graphics based with a list of the participating countries descending in running order in the show but also alphabetically, which the running order was based on. Each cell in the table was black with the AINVision font announcing the country and also the same heart V flags for all countries again to the left.

Voting and Result Showing
The voting commenced after the main show on April the 9th and stopped before the result show on the 15th of April. Because of the 16 participants, the voting style in this contest meant that 8 countries got 0 points from one select country, while 8 countries gain points between 1-8 for one countries vote, while the top 2 got 10 and 12. The votes were submitted via Private Message to Kevin. Countries could not vote for their own entry but bloc voting was permitted.

The result show contained no alluding to the votes of each country and only showed the final results. But evidence showed that this form was intended as the request for voting contained.

 So, an example of your vote, including your own commentary would look like this: ''Hello, this is Centreburg calling. Here is the Corrailite vote:''

The results were shown in 3 tables, the first showing all the acts with the placement in the 2nd column and points in the 3rd, but 5 acts had no points or placement which were elaborated in a 2nd table which listed the top 5 acts, and then continued the same style to show a 3rd table to reveal the winner out of the 2 highest scorers.

Hosts
For the 2nd year in a row, the AIN representative to the country was the host of the contest and was Kevin Chua. In the actual show and following results his presence was not alluded to as he was the poster of the contest threads.

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.

Final
1) Corraile was also host and so also shows the purple banner of being host. 2) The entire song was an instrumental using classic Hoshisora instruments.