Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 11

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 11 was the eleventh edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. The Bulgarian broadcaster was selected to host this edition. They chosed the city Varna to host this edition.

Malta won this edition with 115 points. It was their first victory in this contest. Runner-up was returning country Israel. Bulgaria, who hosted this edition, finished at the third place for the second edition in a row.

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.

The Bulgarian broadcaster was the first to announce their interests in hosting this edition. Later on, also Netherlands and Italy selected a candidate venue and city.

Host city

The EBU announced that Bulgaria was chosen t$as host of the 11th edition. It wasn't the first time that Bulgaria hosted an EuroMusic-event. Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, hosted the twenty-first edition of the EuroMusic Song Contest.

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/364732/junior-euromusic-song-contest-11--varna

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

Returning countries

 * Israel.jpg Israel

Withdrawing countries

 * Albania.jpg Albania
 * North Macedonia.jpg North Macedonia