Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 6

The Junior EuroMusic Song Contest 6 was the sixth edition of the Junior EuroMusic Song Contest. This edition took place in Nicosia, Cyprus.

Russia won this edition with the song "Dreamer". It was already their third victory in the contest. Cyprus achieved their best result by finishing at the second place. Top-favorite: The Netherlands, finished at 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.

Cyprus, The Netherlands and Sweden announced that they would like to organise the contest.

Host city

The EBU announced that Cyprus was chosen as host country. The same venue was chosen to host the second 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/355950/junior-euromusic-song-contest-06--nicosia

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

Debuting countries

 * Albania.jpg Albania - When the EBU published the list of participants, it was clear that Albania would take part in this edition.
 * Belarus.jpg Belarus - The Belarusian broadcaster announced that they were interesting to take part in this edition. Later, they officialy announced that they would take part in this edition.

Withdrawinng countries

 * United Kingdom.jpg United Kingdom - The BBC decided to withdraw because the broadcaster wanted to focus more on national singing competitions.