Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 5

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 5 was the fifth edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. This edition took place in Antwerp, Belgium.

Poland was the surprising winner of this edition. The favorite: North Macedonia, finished at the second place. Sweden ended at the third place.

Location
Different as in the adult version, the previous winners isn't automatically the next hosting country. All participating countries were able to send a bid for host this edition.

Sweden, who won the previous edition, announced that they where not interesting in organising this edition.

Antwerp, London and The Hague were the only citties who sended a bid to the EBU. For Antwerp, it was the second time they were trying to host the contest.

Host city

The EBU announced that Antwerp was chosen as host city for the fifth edition. It was the first time that a non-capital city was chosen as host city.

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. The song has to be in one of the 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/355165/junior-euromusic-song-contest-05--antwerp

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

Debuting countries

 * Serbia.jpg Serbia - When the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that Serbia would debuts in this edition.

Withdrawing countries

 * Switzerland.jpg Switzerland - The Swiss broadcaster announced that they would withdraw from the contest. The disappointing results were the main factor of their decision.