Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 14

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 14 was the fourteenth edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. Malta hosted this edition in Marsa. It was the second time that Malta hosted this contest.

Russia won with 217 points. They won both the jury-vote and the online voting. It was the fourth Russian victory in the contest. Armenia followed at the second place while Israel finished at the third place.

16 countries took part in this edition. It was the highest number of participants in the history of the contest. Denmark took part for the very first time while Belgium, Cyprus and Greece returned to the contest. Some days after the official deadline, the EBU announced that Poland would join the list of participating countries. Australia deciced to withdraw from the competition. Later on, it was clear that the Serbian broadcaster was interested to return.

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

Later on, it was clear that the contest would take place in Marsa. They announced that the contest would take place in Malta Shipbuilding. It has a capacity of 4500 people.

Number of participants
For the first edition, the EBU announced that they invited some countries to participate in the contest. For the next edition, countries could sign in, with a maximum of 15 countries from the second edition until the thirteenth edition. this was increased to 18 countries in the fourteenth edition.

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

From the first edition until the thirteenth, the countries were divided in to groups (first- and second half). This happened fully random. Afterwords, a team will create a running order. Since the fourteenth edition, only the first, last place and the spot of the host country have been drawn.

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 professional jury of each country awards a set of 12, 10, 8-1 points to 10 songs. Viewers around the world vote for 3 songs, and their votes are distributed proportionally. The votes of the jury and the audience make up 50% of all votes.

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 who received the most points from the online voting will be ranked higher. In case that is the same, the country that received points from the most nations, will be ranked higher. If that is also the same, then the country with most of the 12 points will finish at a higher place, when the countries received from the same amount of countries this highest mark, the nation with the most of 10 points, ... will be ranked higher.

Voting
https://scorewiz.eu/scoreboard/view/509878/junior-euromusic-song-contest-14---marsa

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

Debuting countries

 * Denmark.jpg Denmark - When the EBU announced that the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest would return after a break, the Danish broadcaster announced that they were interested to take part. Later on, when the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that the nation would tGeorgia, Russia, Ukraineake part in this edition.

Returning countries

 * Belgium.jpg Belgium - When the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that the Flemish broadcaster, VRT, would take part in this edition.
 * Cyprus.jpg Cyprus - The national broadcaster announced some days before the deadline that they would participate in the contest.
 * Greece.jpg Greece - When the EBU announced that the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest would return after a break, the Greek broadcaster announced that they were interested to take part. Later on, when the EBU published the official list of participating countries, it was clear that the Greece would take part in this edition.
 * Poland.jpg Poland - Some days after the official deadline, the EBU announced that Poland would join the list of participating countries.

Withdrawing countries

 * Australia.jpg Australia - The broadcaster announced that the country would not take part in this edition. They stated later on that they made this decision because of the COVID-19 situation in the country. Beside that, because of the contests break, the interests of the Australian people declined.