Edition 13

Edition 13 was the thirteenth edition of Festivali I Globe Contest. It was hosted in Kyoto, Japan, after their win in Edition 12 with "Alcohol-Free" by TWICE. The winner was Wales, with "Venus Fly Trap" by MARINA, which scored 252 points, breaking the record for highest amount of points scored.

18 countries participated, making it the joint highest participation for an edition, joint with Edition 5.

Art
The artwork showed "FIGC" with "Kyoto 13" underneath, glowing in pink, infront of an image of Kyoto. A circular flag of Japan is shown to the top left corner of the text, breaking the streak of the Eurovision 2021 design of flags being used.

Host city
The Japanese delegation compiled a list of two potential cities, Tokyo and Kyoto. Tokyo was ruled out due to the ongoing Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, making Kyoto the host city.

Kyoto
After winning the vote, Kyoto became the host of the contest.

Grand Final
18 countries participated at the contest. The winner was "Venus Fly Trap" by MARINA, representing Wales. This was Wales' first win, however the third time a part of the United Kingdom had won. Peru and Japan both failed to submit their votes; this ordinarily would've caused both of them to have half of their points deducted, however an exception was made due to unreleased reasons.

For the first time in a number of editions, ties were not split before the results. Ordinarily, the televotes would be adjusted by around one or two points in order to prevent ties. This lead to North Korea and Sweden tying with 98 points, and San Marino and Thailand tying with 74 points. Ties are split in the official results as well as shown below, however their points remain exactly the same.

Tiebreaks
Due to tiebreaks not being split by televotes like they usually would be, the ties were split post results, with the tied countrys' points not being altered.

The format for splitting ties is as follows:


 * The tied countrys will be compared based on who has the most 12s. If they both have the same amount of 12 points, then it goes to 10s, then 8s, then 7s, et cetera.
 * If they both have the same amount of each points 12-1, then the country with the most jury points wins the tiebreak.
 * If this is also a tie, the country that came earliest in the running order wins the tiebreak.

Controversies
Below is a list of controversies that occured during this edition. The list is sorted in alphabetical order of the title.

French rule-breaking
The contest hosts faced a number of complaints due to the French submission, which technically broke the rule that no entry from the Eurovision Song Contest can participate. The reason this was allowed is because the YouTube playlist showed 3 songs in one video, one of which being a Eurovision entry, however the Spotify playlist, and official charts and results, showed the French submission as "Le jour se lève" (one of the songs in the 3 song video). The contest hosts responded by announcing their apologies, and stating that they would not allow something like this to happen again, however they would not be disqualifying France. France eventually came 7th place with 98 points.

Israeli participation and delegate fight during results
Disclaimer

The contest hosts faced several complaints when the participants started being announced of the participation of Israel, due to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These escalated during the results of the contest, where after the Turkish delegate commented on the Italian votes to Israel, the Israeli and Sammarinese delegates made remarks about the Turkish delegate about their ethnicity, and a visitor present at the results (who was later announced to be Canada's Edition 14 delegate) accusing the Turkish delegate of being "angry over a country". This lead to the South Korean, Turkish and English delegates arguing points that Israel should not be allowed to participate. The contest hosts later stated that they will not be disallowing Israel's participation in future editions, however Israel later confirmed that they would not be returning in Edition 14. Despite nothing being done in the end, the contest hosts were reportedly discussing banning several delegates from participating under any country in the future, and also discussing postponing or even cancelling Edition 14, however decided against both of these options.

Japanese and Peruvian points not being deducted
Japan and Peru, participants of the contest, failed to submit their votes. Ordinarily, this would've resulted in half of their points being deducted from their final scores, however this did not happen. When asked about this, the contest hosts stated that Peru had fair reasons for not voting, so decided that it would be unfair to deduct their points, and also not deduct Japan's points as it would be unfair to take away points from one country but not the other. This was received poorly, with multiple delegates complaining that this affected their positions, and that it would be more fair to take away Japan's points but not Peru's. The contest hosts responded by saying that this was likely the only time this would happen, and that they apologise to all of the countries whos scores were affected by this.

Televote system
The contest hosts reportedly received complaints that the televote system was unfair and should receive a revamp, citing the televotes pushing countries like San Marino and Italy much higher than their jury result, and pushing countries like United States and Finland much lower than their jury results. A similar, yet much more extreme occurance happened in Edition 6, where San Marino was pushed from 12th to 3rd via televotes, causing a minor rework to be done to the televote system. The contest hosts later reported that they would be considering once again reworking this system, however would likely keep the same one in the upcoming editions.