Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 13

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 13 was the thirteenth edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. Ireland hosted this edition in Dublin. It was the first time that Ireland hosted this contest.

12 countries took part in this edition. Normally the United States would also participate, but they withdrew for unknown reasons. Ukraine won this edition. This was the first time in the history of the contest that a country won the festival in two consecutive editions.

Location
Different as in the adult version, the previous winners isn't automatically the next hosting country. However in all the previous editions, there was a selection to select a host country. For this edition, the EBU internnaly selected the Irish broadcatser as host.

Later on, it was clear that the contest would take place in Dublin. The announced that the contest would take place in the National Indoor Athletic Training Centre. It has a capacity of 4.000 people.

Number of participants
For the first edition, the EBU announced that they invited some countries to participate in the contest. The maximum of countries is 15.

Running order
There are specific rules about how a country gets his running order.

The countries will be split in to groups (first- and second half). This will happen fully random. After, a team will create a running order.

Song
Each country sends one song to the contest. There was a change in the rules for this edition. The song has to be for more than 50% in official languages of the country. The song also can't be longer than five minutes.

Voting rules
After that all the participating countries have sang their song, each single country awards a set of points. The country who gets the most amount of points wins the contest. If two or more countries receive the same number of points, the country that received from the mst countries points, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country who have the highest rank of a country, will be ranked higher.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/459480/junior-euromusic-song-contest-12---dublin

12 points
Below is a summary of all 12 points received:

Debuting countries

 * Georgia.jpg Georgia - The Georgian broadcaster announced that they would make their début at the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. This news was later on by the EBU.

Withdrawing countries

 * Bulgaria.jpg Bulgaria - The broadcaster announced that the country would not take part anymore in the contest. They gave no specific information.


 * Italy.jpg Italy - This country wasn't named at the official list of participating countries.